Yes, today is officially my 20th birthday! YAY! I’ll be sure to write more later….

I feel that I am a little too young to be going through this. Although when I was very much younger and didn’t have a job, my mom went through this and all I could was sit and watch, but now that I’m older, have a job, and can actually manage money, I can understand all the stress she has gone through my whole life.

Sad to say it, but yes, right now we are in a major slump. With everything rising in price, even our rent, and our jobs not doing much about it, its hard. Right now we are looking for a smaller apartment to possible move to, but everything we find is practically the same price we are paying for here in a house! Not only that, but I’m debating whether or not to just get a place of my own. My number one question; “Am I ready for it?”.

I feel like I could do it, but I also want to go back to school and am wondering if I would have the right amount of time to keep a stable job, go to school, and still be able to pay the rent and amenities that come with it? On top of that, I have two cats, and for those of you with pet family members know how expensive some of their things can cost. I’m not necessarily complaining, I love my babies and would do anything for them, I just have to be a little more realistic and think about them when deciding what I will be doing, or I’ll just be setting myself up for failure if I don’t.

Ugh and then there is the whole school thing. YUP, I’m still trying to figure out where to go. My choices at the moment:

The ever expensive Full Sail University (yes, they are an accredited university now)
The somewhat lacking University of Central Florida
The you-must-be-a-first-year-to-get-in-the-film-school of Florida State University
The not really in the mood to get just my AA at Valencia Community College

Sounds exciting, no? Yea, I don’t know…>_>

Not that it really never was, but my gawd, with gas and food prices going up every day, I can hardly pay for bills anymore!

Gas around here is now at the fabulous price of $3.56+ (last time I checked, it changes during the day) and the cost of bread, milk, and even rice has gone up by a dollar! It’s terrible. Just last week, I went to buy just a couple of foods to last us the week, spent $60 dollars buying practically nothing! I bought all the essentials, milk, ham & cheese, bread, chicken, beef (which were both on sale for less then $4 bucks), juice, eggs, and a few more things, that I tried making sure were under the $5 dollar range, but no, in the end it all adds up to $60 dollars!

I put gas in my car this weekend, almost full tank, $35 dollars! Usually I can fill my tank with some leaking out at like $30. This is really sad and already its almost gone, I have like a quarter tank left and have to wait till tomorrow to get my check. Horrible!

Yea, this is basically a rant and rave blog post, just wanted to write out my frustrations and what not…lol. So how are things in your neck of the woods?