Fudge Muffins

It would seem that I did not accept my compulsive spending and move to curb it soon enough. In order to pay this month's credit card bill I will have to completely wipe out our savings and we will have $400 for two weeks. I, of course, feel horrible. My man hasn't once told me it's all my fault, or any other negative thing. He helped me come up with some ways to save money over the next couple weeks like doing burgers instead of ribs for my birthday party. He even offered to take money out of his personal money market account to tide us over. I really hope it doesn't come to that. I'm now in damage control mode. Maybe this is what I needed to scare myself straight, I don't know. I'm posting everything I can get rid of on Craigslist. Here too. This is what I have, if you're interested:

Twin size captain's bed with 3 drawers - $100

Apevia computer tower/case, not working - $25

19" LCD monitor - $50

Set of computer speakers - $10

Glass top computer desk - $50

I'm also sending back my defective power supply that I was supposed to take care of like two weeks ago. Hopefully they'll credit me for it, although it takes 3 weeks to process. I'm also waiting for a $500 from my FSA account. And as soon as I get my PE I can submit my reimbursement claim for $2,500. Not that any of that is going to help me in the next two-three weeks, but it's something. I should also be getting a check for my most recent jewelry commission. I'm going to spend every moment of my spare time making stock to sell with the supplies I have on hand. So if anybody out there wants some jewelry...

Brian had to cancel our appointment again today. I'm not too tore up about it because my man dragged me out of bed at 4am this morning to go get an hour workout in before work. I have two more appointments with Brian that I've already paid for. I told him that after that I'm going to have to wait a couple weeks to see if I can afford more appointments. Peggy is considering joining my gym so we can do some of the classes together on the weekends, that will help. And if I start going to the gym before work I can walk Pepper after. Or maybe, considering this retched heat wave, I'll walk her in the morning and go to the gym in the evening... I'll figure it out. 

Work has been very up-and-down so far this week. I was able to get the last facility's buy-in on my process improvement. I now have a budget of 100 hours to put what I'm calling Phase 2 into action. I've been absorbed with converting pages of data into my new format. It may seem tedious, but it's not bad and it makes the time fly. The down side is that my immediate supervisor suddenly went from 3 months of not giving a shit what I do, to being a total shit. He says he never approved me to work on this project, or to work in town. And of course I don't have anything in writing that says otherwise. And my lead, who wanted me to work in town, is out of the office until the 26th. Also, my annual review is due at the end of the month and my supervisor is the one signing it. Never mind that I've only worked for him for a couple months. Everybody else that I've worked for is gone now. If it weren't for my AR, I totally would go over his head to one of the two other people my lead talked to and got approval to pull me in town. But I'm worried that he would take it out on me by giving me a bad grade which directly impacts my ability to get a transfer or a raise. So I have to suck it up and try to figure out what shoved a stick up his ass. *sigh* I hate workplace politics!

Slightly better news, I'm meeting with my new Chief tomorrow (was s'posed to be today, but I got confused on where it was and totally goofed). I'm going to ask him to send me to one of two seminars coming up in September. And I'm going to ask about possible reimbursement for starting on my Masters. Wish me luck!

Anyway I'm going to clean up a bit and try to pass out. I had a hard time falling asleep last night and *somebody* dragged me out of bed at 4am! Goodnight world.

Here's a picture of Pepper with her head stuck in an ice cream container: