Had to miss a fucking day of work, now I'll need to go in tomorrow or Sunday to make up for it. The wife has to work tomorrow and Sunday so that means taking the kids to mother-in-laws and then having to fucking pay her. Some grandmother. She doesn't want us to take the kids to anyone else because she doesn't trust them, and then charges us to watch her own fucking grandkids. Well, this is something I don't really want to get started on.

Sad news is that the account is overdrawn. I deposited just over ½ of my paycheck because I had to keep out $300 to pay for the repair ($207 and change) and we needed gas and groceries. The bank wouldn't let my wife cash her itty bitty paycheck, even after I deposited mine, because the account is in the negative. Well, at least we got food and the car back. Shitty deal is, after the second mortgage goes through and the $150 check to the check cashing store finally clears, we'll be near broke again. And I was wanting to keep enough money out to make that $1000 mortgage payment next month. Well, I guess if I cross my fingers and hope real hard things will work out. Yeah, right.

The wife and I had a little "discussion" tonight when we got home. I don't want her to work full time, because I want her to be able to spend time with the kids. She doesn't really want to go back full time right now either. Since she's off the medical plan now, my paychecks will increase so it will kind of make up for what we lose with her only working part time. Unfortunately, since she's not working, we're not taking the kids to her mothers so her mother isn't making any money. Her mother has some kind of problem where she can't really leave the house and go any great distance. She's not agoraphobic, she goes outside all the time and actually goes a few blocks from home. The bad part is, a few blocks is about the limit of her travel. If she gets in a car and starts to drive away, she'll start getting nervous and have to go to the bathroom. Because of this, she basically made her living babysitting for us. We paid her $70 a week. This wasn't too bad because day care would have been about $75-90. Shitty thing is, last year we had to pay on our income taxes because we couldn't claim the $3,000+ that we paid her for the year in child care on our taxes. To claim it, we would need her Social Security number and she wouldn't give it to us because if we claimed the money, then she would too and probably have to pay and heaven for fucking bid. So, instead of getting around $200 back, which I admit isn't that much, but would have been to us, we ended up paying $277. Needless to say, that soured me toward her for a while. ANYWAY, we're over at her house waiting for the car to get repaired and she's sitting here telling my wife "You need to go back to work!" I almost said, "You want her to go back to work so we'll bring the kids back here and you can get more money." Hell, she'd probably charge us more since Icebear Jr. arrived. Her husband works his ass off and she uses his money to pay the bills and stuff and since she doesn't work, they don't have much money to spend on other stuff. So, he's bitching at her that she needs to get a job and stuff and she starts bitching at us that the wife needs to go back to work. Sorry, nana, but we've got financial trouble of our own. My poor wife, she's caught in the middle. She's pissed at her mom for basically using us as her sole source of income and not bothering to look for a decent job, but at the same time, she feels bad that she doesn't have the income that she used to. Money is such a pain in the ass.

Well, I'm whipped after all the shit today and the wife has to go to work tomorrow (we both missed a day today) so I'd best hit the sack.

"Adults are just children with bills..."

Icebear