Mid Week Update

Well I'm on day 3 of my husband being gone, so far so good. I'm alittle out of sorts and now I've caught my son's cold so they may be contributing to it but over all ok. The kids helped make dinner last night and they will be going shopping with me tonight, I think this will be a good time for them to step up alittle and become more responsible.

In other news - I am now on day 22 of no smoking. Still taking Chantix and just ordered my next 4 week supply. It's expensive, actually more per month then what it was costing me to smoke! But I know this is short term and once I'm through with the 3 - 6 months I won't be spending anything and this will pay for itself in terms of my health. I honestly don't know how people quit smoking cold turkey. Maybe some of us have that more addicted "gene" or something because even with Chantix (which is making this quit a million times easier than when I tried cold turkey) I still find myself longing for a smoke. And edgy and sometimes just restless and some days just thinking of smoking most of the day! But this is the longest I have been ever without smoking and I would like this quit to stick! So I'm faithfully taking Chantix each day and will continue to struggle through this.

As to our finances well not much to report yet, my goal is to get our business taxes done this week or next, I've been putting it off but it needs to be done, I can't complete our personal taxes without it, and I would really don't like the stress of not knowing how much we owe over with. For me it's much better to just face it and see how much we need to pay the IRS. So this needs to become priority #1!

After that I need a new updated plan for the rest of the year. With all this doom and gloom news I want some $ in savings and some saved up so we can see my sister in laws wedding this year back east. I want to enjoy life not let the news get me down. Cleaning up the rest of our mess will ease my mind, but this still takes time and I'm not prepared to stop everything to get completely out of debt this minute. But I will make a revised plan, start stockpiling cash and continue to shop frugually, and watch our spending.