RANT:

How is it that Duane and I make SO much money, seriously we pull in $4000 a month take home and we still don't have enough money to make ends meet! SERIOUSLY HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN???

Monthly Bills
Mortgage $1200
Cell Phones $100
Cable, Land line & Internet $100
Diapers & Formula $300
Hydro $30
Groceries $400
SUV Payment $560
Personal Loan $230 (For a f'ing car I don't even have anymore grrrrrr
Car Insurance (Both Vehicles) $288
Gas & Misc (aka D's smoking) $400
Bank Fees and Interest on loans & CC $100
Strata $270

TOTAL: $3978

Okay so EVERY LAST CENT is pretty much accounted for BUT now my concern is HOW do we get ahead when we have 2 lines of credit and a Credit card to pay off? Plus when I go back to work (by the way we aren't pulling that much in while I am on mat leave so how are we even covering our bills???) there will be DAYCARE as well.

And I really want to go back to school and take medical transcription so I can work from home! Where are we going to get $5200 for tuition for the online course (not to mention the 28 hours a week required to take the course to complete it in a year)?

I feel like there is no end to our financial woes...We owe the government $350 for some BULLSHIT back pay for GST cheques they shouldn't have paid us, our strata usually wants $$$ once a year to do some repairs (what the F*** is a contingency fund for then???) and who knows what's going to happen with our taxes this year! Here's to hoping something goes our way and we get a REFUND this year, hopefully enough to pay off our Credit card and the $350 we owe the government. Wouldn't that be swell? But probably won't be happening. At the very least I hope we don't owe them more...that may be the straw the broke the camels back (me being the camel and the tax man being the straw and the back being my sanity).

I know I should be thankful, with the economy being SHIT, D and I both have jobs, we still have our home and D junior is happy & healthy, I have a wonderful friend (my sis-in-law) willing to do my daycare starting in July for a discount (and I trust her so that's an added bonus).

Maybe the solution is that D and I can eat Mac & Cheese for dinner every night. That could work, but it would have to be KD because if it had to be that no name stuff life wouldn't be worth living anymore, and I would have to have heinz ketchup to put on top!

And as a side rant...WHO DECIDED THAT FORMULA SHOULD BE SO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!!! Since we have had Devon the brand of formula we used has gone up $10 a tin! Seriously! If Devon wasn't used to the lactose free stuff and didn't get stomach pains every time we try the other stuff he would be using the $13 stuff from Costco instead of the $28.99 name brand stuff (it's not like its macaroni & cheese or ketchup :) ). AND DIAPERS....It's retarded that something that is a necessity of sorts (I know that there are other options) is SO expensive! I feel for those low income single moms out there! At least I have the ability to buy the stuff even if I have to cut back a little elsewhere, but how in the world would a single low income mom be able to cut back enough to buy formula & diapers!

End of rant!