Today I’m linking up with Just Jennifer for the TGIF, the whole point is to end your week on a positive note by writing about something good that happened this week.Something good….. something good……
My husband is laid off this week, he has worked for the same company for almost 39 years, and because of the housing market, the mill where he works has been operating a week on a week off since 2008-ish. This month has been especially tight, and I have decided to put us on a very strict budget that we almost managed to stick to.
The good thing here is that he hates his job, and he’s a much much happier husband when he doesn’t have to go to work. He’s been teaching himself to play guitar for the last 7 or so years, and every day when I get home from work, he has learned a new song that I get to guess, I’m usually right, can anybody say WINNING. And he cleans the house so I don’t have to do it when I get home. I like coming home to a happy husband, and a clean house, and when I got home the other night, he was just about to light the first fire of the season in the fireplace. Nothing warms a house like a nice fire.
We have also decided to go “on the wagon” to allow our livers to heal a little, and we haven’t touched a drop since November 1st, it’s amazing how much better I’m sleeping without a little help from my friend Ambien.
Well done, Madge! Perfect way to focus on the positive! Being tight on money sucks, I know, but the perks of a serenade and clean house are pretty cool!
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ReplyDeleteI agree all the way around :)
ReplyDeleteyeah, I'm madgehoos, but I don't know how to find or use the messenger, I looked the other day, but gave up.
ReplyDeleteAwww I love this because even though it's tight and many people would FREAK out you guys are enjoying your time. It's so good to see positive from a not so perfect situation. Well done!
ReplyDeleteI'd be happy living in a van down by the river with him, money and stuff is just money and stuff when it all boils down.
ReplyDeleteNot since November 1st?
ReplyDeleteThat's really good... and because you want to, even better.
Thanks IT, our short term goal is to make it until Christmas, but we'll probably go farther than that. I did have a dream about drinking some really good whisky the other night. I learned that as long as I have a beverage to drink, it doesn't have to be alcoholic, diet pop is just as good as anything.
ReplyDeleteI've been laid off for two years now...I'm starting to like it, too.
ReplyDeleteI would like it for a month or so, but then I would have to go get a job at a latte stand or something.
ReplyDeleteI have a "househusband" too - and he's fantastic at cooking and cleaning, and so much happier at the end of the day than he was at his job. I wouldn't rather have it any other way!
ReplyDeleteI am so ready to downsize and be the only one working. I can get a 2 bedroom appartment in downtown Portland for half of what my house payment is I could live like that.
ReplyDeleteAlex took a year off after being deployed in the Middle East. His company was moving to Canada and they laid him off about a week after he got home after being gone for a year. He was really concerned, but it was okay because I as working. He started his Masters degree and was a house husband for a year. I would have liked it better if he was a good house husband, but he's a lazy guy and did next to nothing around the house. He needed a break. Now it's my turn.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I love how much you love your husband!
ReplyDeleteAnd second of all, I told you I would give you twitter lessons...you were supposed to let me know when. I thought you just didn't want to do it.
A househusband? And he cleans?! Um, can I borrow Steve for a while?
ReplyDeleteI figure as long as one of us has a full time job we'll be fine, we've talked about what he would want to do instead, he's still young enough to do something else, he just doesn't know what that would be.
ReplyDeleteWith every ounce of who I am.
ReplyDeleteI know you said you'd school me, I just have to have a few minutes to be on the phone and computer at same time. :)
I'm sure he wouldn't mind hanging with you Nicky, you're a hottie. He doesn't cook though, so you'll have to do that.
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