First it was the unexpected additional school cost for me, followed by the phone calls to 900 numbers by the twins, added to the damage done to the bathroom door and finally the inadvertent breaking of my cell phone which have racked up almost a grand in unexpected dollars. The icing on the cake? The kids had their school orientations yesterday, and with all the trivial little costs for school like ASB cards, PE uniforms, lab fees and a half a dozen other little things have resulted in almost $500 worth of additional school costs for the kids I hadn’t anticipated and now have to figure out which bills next month don’t really need to be paid…
The biggest saving grace has been some unexpected money sent to us by my folks. We were beyond grateful for this windfall!
As a result of the last couple months of unexpected financial obstacles, I’ve been online the past couple days sending out my resume and applying for jobs online. My job search varies widely from part time retail positions (which hopefully will let me be home before and after school with the kids, but will hopefully be just enough of a drop in the bucket to let us recoup recent costs and cover monthly costs a little more easily) to higher paying full time jobs with a couple local companies which I will consider if the money, location and position is right.
I’m leaning towards the latter jobs, as getting into one of these hopefully will put me in a position to move up in that company after finishing my degree. While I would rather work part time at this point, my bank account is begging me to find something full time so it can stop screaming the week or so preceding every payday.
Weighing on top of all of this is the knowledge that my GI Bill runs out in November of 2007. While I don't think this will be a problem, if the courses I need aren't offered over the next 6 terms of school, I won't be graduating before then. While my GI Bill doesn't cover all of my costs at my current school, it does cover most of them. I've only been paying about $200 out of pocket for each class. Not bad for a college education eh? Still, I'm really hoping that I can finish school before the end of next year. I'm to the point where I'm sick of going to school.
As for the broken cell phone, the cost of that will be going onto the debt that #2 owes me from the aforementioned phone calls and bathroom door.