Lunch: Two all beef hot dogs from Omaha Steaks (thanks Grandma!) with a little bit of ketchup and mustard. No bread. Chris made fun of me and called it little kid food, but I don't care, hot dogs are awesome. Then I intended on eating leftover carrot soup, but instead ate cheese nachos with salsa that Chris made because it was there. Not great.
Dinner: Ground turkey crunchy tacos (ground turkey is my new best friend) with lettuce, salsa, olives, refried beans and a little bit of cheese. All in all pretty healthy, except that I ate three when I should have stopped at two. Oh, and a glass of red wine. Gotta get those antioxidants. I'll also probably have some vanilla yogurt later as dessert.
As you can see, documenting meals isn't very interesting or fun, and sometimes it sucks to read when I've gone overboard. When you don't write it down, somehow it almost seems as if it didn't happen. But it did, and when I'm done writing this I'm going to do some free weight exercises and crunches and jumping jacks to make up for it. I promise.
Tonight was another lovely evening spent with a good friend, one that I don't get to see very often. The main topic of the night mostly revolved around money. We came to the conclusion that adulthood is hard and frustrating and everything would just be easier if we all won the lottery. But that's not gonna happen, so we have to deal with it in the meantime.
Relationship-wise, marriage has been great. Financially, though ... not so much. In less than a year, we've had to deal with Chris being out of work and trying to find a job, being behind on utility bills, owing money to loans and hospital bills and credit cards, moving to a new place that was more affordable for us, being behind on MORE utility bills, and figuring out what to do about two vehicles that have one tire in the junkyard.
(Get it? One foot in the grave? I was really proud of myself when I wrote that.)
I am eternally thankful that both of us now have jobs that pay the bills and that we actually enjoy, but it's still hard slogging through each month living paycheck to paycheck and hoping we'll make it to the next week. We aren't reckless with money, but we have no idea how to manage it properly or make a budget. Because of this, we're contemplating going through a Dave Ramsey course. I've heard pros and cons about his particular approach, but mostly what Chris and I need are structure and self discipline, and we've finally come to the conclusion that we don't have any on our own. We need help figuring things out.
Through a lot of hard work and restless nights, we've somehow made it this far. We take comfort in the fact that every young married couple goes through the same problems, and it won't always be like this. We'll see where this new adventure takes us, but in the meantime I'll try to enjoy the ride and just hope it doesn't crash. If all else fails, I'll hold Dave Ramsey personally responsible for my financial misfortunes and ask him to donate some of those millions he's saved that he always talks about to us poor unfortunate souls. That seems like a solid plan.
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