53% or 47%

I have lived below the poverty line.

I have also lived above the poverty line.

I have had years where I haven't paid income tax.

I have had years where I have paid income tax.

My husband and I met and married while we were in college. We lived so far below the poverty line, looking back I don't know how we paid for rent and groceries.

We both earned bachelor's degrees and graduated together.

We both got jobs completely unrelated to our degrees so that we could support ourselves - my husband as a roofer and myself as a part-time teller.

No one handed us jobs. No one gave us jobs that fit our degrees.

We have worked hard to find better jobs, but neither of us are working at jobs that fit our degrees. We are still applying for jobs we studied for. But in the mean time, we're not sitting on our bums collecting unemployement and waiting for our ideal jobs.

When we first graduated, we lived in a 5th Wheel Home-Sweet-Trailerhome so that we could save money and pay back debts. We are now living in an apartment with cheap rent. We don't travel extensively. We don't live extravegantly. We try to keep our shopping to a minimum and buy what we need.

When we graduated, we had credit card debt and student loan debt. We got jobs so that we could pay back our debt, but it has not been easy. We have had to buckle down and live frugally to pay back our debts. We still have debt, but we are making conscious efforts to pay off our debts and be debt free.

I would love to have a job in the theatre field. D would love to have a job as a firefighter. We would love to be making more money. We would love not to have debt. We would love to not have to worry about finances.

But, no one is entitled to a job.

You make choices and there are inevitably consequences. If you choose not to work while you wait for your ideal job, there are consequences. If you choose to work at a job that is less than ideal, there are consequences.

Nothing is going to be accomplished by crying about how things aren't going the way you expect.

No one is entitled to anything so get up and go work for the life you "deserve."

Happy Halloween!

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Perfect Day

D and I both had the day off.

We slept in.
Ate breakfast together.
Went to Apple Hill and spent the afternoon wandering around.
We ate caramel apples and pulled pork, bought delicious apple, apple pie, and apple cider.
We laughed and talked and thoroughly enjoyed our lazy time together.

When we came home, and puppy needed some loving so we took a walk to the park and played for hours. Much more laughing.

And now, we're laughing and talking more at home.

I love that we have had this day off together!!
These days don't happen nearly often enough.
We decided we need to make them happen much more often.

No Surprise

My dog is currently laying on my couch chewing on a plastic Coke bottle.

It's her favorite toy.

Some Cheer This Week

BYU won yesterday.
Sure, the third quarter was a joke. At least until they pulled Heaps and put in Nelson.
I love me some college football season!

This week we purchased the second seasons of both Community and Modern Family.
If you have not experienced the happiness from these shows, I suggest you stop what you're doing and (since you're on you're computer anyway) google one/both of the shows and watch. Enjoy. Repeat.

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In some less than joyous news, our upstairs neighbors are obnoxiously body slamming each other into the floor or something. Weirdos.