I have been working most of the summer so far. Trying to make some extra money to help us pay off a few bills we have. We have both been working on raising our credit scores in order to put us in a better position to buy another house once we move. Something we are thinking about doing in the next year.
Why move? I wish I could say something frivalous like: we have the itch to move. We want the experience for our children. We want to be closer to family. Something like that. However, reality is we love our house. We are the only family to ever live in it. We built the house we wanted. We love the nice plot of land that it sits on. What we don't like it the attitude of the area we live in. As a couple we are nonexistent here. K can only get health insurance through the university she is a student at right now because I am not allowed to put her on mine, even though we are married. We want to go somewhere where we are more acceptable as a couple.
So I am working a little in the summer to make some extra cash to pay a few things off. We picked up a few low limit credit cards to improve our scores, joined a credit monitoring system, and a credit forum to learn how to battle the scores. Its starting to work.
My vacation starts after the 18th. that is the last day of summer work for me. Well paid work LOL. I know after that I will be doing a few things around the house and yard.
Teachers return to work on the 14th of August. I have the option of returning a couple of days early to make some more money and get some extra training. Going back to work early makes me look good and gives us some extra money - but it is cutting my free days by about 3.
Yesterday was my birthday. It was nice. I got to spend it with the family here at home. They got me some nice presents and K made an awesome dinner and cake. She surprised me at work with some presents she picked up from the education store here. She brought them to me at lunch. It was cool. I never get to be surprised at work for my birthday because of it being in the middle of summer, so this was new.
I have been taking the extra time I have at work to prep for the fall. There are definite down times when my tutoring students don't show that I am putting to good use. I have prepared almost the few 9 weeks of bell ringers for the fall. They are short assignments the students will do the first 8 minutes they are in class. Gets them into a routine, settles them down, and gives me a chance to take roll without students not doing anything. Students not engaged in learning will engage themselves in misbehavior. Problems I do not want to deal with.
I am trying to get myself organized for the year. If all works well I will only have 2 different subjects this year. That is downsizing some from last year's three. It gives me a chance to prepare. Hell know where I am going to be and what I am teaching gives me a chance to prepare.
We are heading to SA to drop off the older two at their Dad's house. They have to finish their summer incarceration - I mean visit. This is the last year he will have all three of them. The oldest is up their now, being paid to do little to nothing more that gofer. Go-fer this and go-fer that. Does some of their grocery shopping even. Dad throws money at him. We won't do it.
K and I have one issue - and its the oldest. i wish we could figure out a way to work it out. I thought it had been better and I guess I was wrong. I had been trying to keep my mouth shut, stay out of the way and conversations when he is around. Just let her handle it. Its what she wants. However, I guess I am still too vocal. Not sure what the hell I am suppose to do.
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