Nothing like ending the year in a big way...like by handing in a resignation letter to your job (career!) of 10+ years. I don't have a new job lined up, other than the--as a friend put it--"double time" job of staying home with the girls full-time. Give me a few months non-stop with twins in the Terrible Twos, and I just might be looking for a job that's not only full-time, but maybe with something along the lines of 80% travel.
We plan to see how it goes for six months or so, while I stay home with the girls and maybe try to go back to school for the few classes I need to be certified as a school media specialist. I also plan on writing to try to bring in a bit of extra money. We've cut back on expenses, but know we have a long way to go before we can survive on one salary...and we have three weeks to get there. I'm starting to see why we ate odd things for dinner when I was a kid. They never seemed odd as a kid; only later as an adult did I start to wonder why we sometimes had toast with gravy (and a bit of roast beef) or oyster stew (can you find a cheaper meal than a can of oysters and some milk and butter?!). I'm sure my parents were thrilled to find out that I didn't actually like the oysters, but was content to drink the milk part (not realizing it was milk, which I hated as a kid). At any rate, I'm now (as I consider our cheaper meal and grocery options) discovering that I like what the most frugal would consider "extras" in my food--veggies in my eggs, for example. I read cookbooks with disapproval when the ingredient list is long and includes things that are not only infrequently used in the kitchen but pricey, too.
My other New Year's resolution is to be more positive in my outlook and my actions. We'll see how that goes after a week of ramen, gravy and toast, and plain old eggs ;)
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Happy New Year! I'm betting when you made your decision to resign a great weight was lifted from you. Congratulations!
We're broke as well (as per usual!) and are having great fun with a cookbook called "Saved by Soup" - you can't get much cheaper than soup, and we've resolved to make at least half the recipes by summer. So far, 10 down and they are all fantastic. Of course, we're replacing the (few) 'fancy' ingredients with cheaper substitutions, and they're still fantastic. We also ate [anything] on toast as kids...usually stuff we grew or caught, smothered in a can of soup. None the worse for wear.
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