Struggles in life

Well as you may know I am married to a wonderful person and we will be celebrating our first anniversary on May 14, 2011.

Before we were married just months before we got a nice two bedroom apartment in American Fork. He was working as a inventory clerk for a company that does pipes for oil drills. He started in Feb. 2010, he worked there for seven months working us butt of getting them caught up. He took a lot of bull crap from them and in September 2010, while we were running his mom around he gets a phone call from the temporary service saying that he is no longer working for the company.

You see we were relying on this job so we can get his Jeep up and running, but as it seems we are unable to do so. His parents are nice to let us use their their truck (Thanks so much for letting us use the truck). But sadly we are struggling cause the truck uses diesel fuel and as of right now its $3.71 a gal for diesel. So you can imagine what that can cause. He is on unemployment but he only gets $260 a week and we constantly putting gas in the truck. We had to get our bishop's help to pay our rent.

We celebrated Christmas with my family and on December 27, 2010 we received a letter from our landlord say that they tried to contact us, but due to no money our phones were turned off so we had to go through a different phone company. In the letter they they said that they tried to contact cause they heard us laughing and coughing. According to the landlord husband he is from LA that we were smoking majuania. We tried to explain that Cj my husband has bad asthma and he is on a new inhaler with cleanse his lungs and I had a cold which caused the coughing, and as for the laughing when either of us are down in the dumps we try to make each other laugh. But they wouldn't listen and wanted us out by January 2, 2010. But you see they throw false accusation, we told them we would do a drug test, and get the police involved with the K-9 to search the apartment. Again the landlord husband didn't want to listen and he kept saying he is from LA and he knows what he is talking about.

So know we are staying with my family, which is a complete struggle of itself. But it is better than the street. You see my husband and I are trying to go through the temple, we were almost getting close at our old church but with this it throughs us off schedule. I have to keep faith and be strong and continue to move along. He has been applying every where and get a couple of interviews but to no avail. We are keeping our chin up and hoping and praying for something to come along.  And thanks to those who have helped or helping us through this tough time (you know who you are).

But with this hard time we are going through has only brought us closer. Yeah we still have some disagreement but hey who doesn't. People sit there and cry about how they don't have money to get things anymore or can't have fun. They make it to be "oh lets feel sorry for them" HELLO I know how it is 5 months with out any income and only income we have is unemployment. But you don't see me crying about it. Yeah I vent about it, but I never ask anyone to pay for me to get things. All that matters to me is what is important like food, shelter. Everything else can come when we have a better income coming in. I say screw it with lets keep up with the joneses. Save your money instead of waste for stupid things that you can always get later.

I hate going shopping at place cause I have no money, but one thing I do like about it is like when I go to the mall and I see something I want. I know I can't have cause I don't have the money and it isn't really that important. But I look at the thing I want and say when I get the money when I can afford it after all the important things are paid off such as bills, rent, etc... Then what is left over I can get it. I believe get the needs first before the wants. Videos games or systems, clothes, shoes, or just to keep up with the Joneses can wait.

But I got a surprise for my birthday even though my birthday isn't until March 25, My husband had saved money from his unemployment check after paying bills and what is left over he put aside. The surprise that he got me was a Mini Pincher. Which was sweet of him, he didn't have to get the dog for me but he felt bad cause I had to give our Chocolate Lab away. We had discussed about getting another dog when we get into a place of our own again and when we can afford it. But he went head and got the puppy and we named him Diego Hades Snow and he is also papered but we have to work on that and send them in.

If  you anyone is going through a hard time. I know how it can be, but keep strong and don't give up you can do it.