With what we have

I've taught the last few days in Oakdale for a teacher. The classroom had Smartboards, a TV fell on someone's head, and one student - when taking attendance, instead of saying "here!" said "hot dogs!" which I thought was really funny. That's the recap of my day.

Tolga and are testing a new theory - holding out for the better paying jobs. It's not that dramatic, actually, it's just ten dollars. But ten dollars every day is fifty, and fifty for at least two weeks is one hundred. And one hundred is how much I'm not making at my volunteer position. So we're holding out.

Not really.

But we are trying to make better choices. I'm not sure how you make better choices when it doesn't seem that you don't have many choices, but we are. We have taken minimum wage jobs that will cut into the holidays and family time, and I'm tempted to find three more jobs to fill all my spare time with one goal of paying off debt. But this isn't our life goal either - so we try to juggle our sanity and choices for the now.