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We weigh in tomorrow, but I've been bad LOL Oh well. Whatever happens happens.
I finally found a ten speed bike on craigslist that is dirt cheap and ready to ride. It's a Huffy 314 with pink pleather handlebars and a pink seat. I had to drive all the way to Katy to get it from a guy who charged me $50 for it. Maybe I should have haggled, but I was just happy to have found a bike I could actually ride. Do you know how hard it is to find a ten-speed bike for short people?
Pat screamed at me when I asked if I could borrow the $50 from her and pay her back Friday. She's going to be short the next two weeks because of all the trips to the emergency room, the hospital stay, and then these follow-ups. I told her nevermind, but she ended up lending me the money anyway, and she said if she overdrafts on Friday, she's going to kick my butt.
Maybe I should be more concerned about our money situation, but I give Pat $200 every two weeks, I pay for our cell phones, and I do all the groceries. She's in charge of electric, water, cable, and internet. I told her we'd forego the cleaning lady this week, and that I'd give her $300 this time. I didn't tell her that this left me almost nothing for groceries or my gas money, but I try not to complain to her even when I sometimes don't even know what I'm going to do to pay for stuff like my lunch.
Things always work out, though. On days when I think I'm down to $2 in my checking, something always comes up where I can make a few extra dollars. Last week one of my co-teachers asked when I was going to make banana nut bread again so they could buy some. This week, I went through my jewelry box, found my old wedding ring, and I thought to myself that I really don't care to keep this old thing.
Very few people know I had been married before, but not in the United States. I was married in Oslo, Norway. And I try to forget those worst five years of my life because at the end, I don't think a long distance marriage really is a marriage anyway... especially if you're cheated on only a week after you say, "I do." You should have seen those photos -- I looked like deer in headlights during the ceremony. The lessons I learned from that: don't be a dumba**. But what's done is done. The best thing I got from the experience was that I got to go to places like Norway, Sweden and Denmark. And this week, I got $41 for the gold band that used to be a symbol of my ball and chain. Hmph.
I put it on before I drove to the gold buyer, too. It didn't even fit because apparently, even my fingers have lost weight. Oh well. Good riddance. :)
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