Posts Tagged ‘family’

Working Like Crazy

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Content by Sol Rosales

I’ve been working about 60 hours a week for the last year, so that has been tough on me. When I’m not working I try to spend most of my time catching up with my husband, who also has a very busy schedule at work. Sometimes we both work so much it feels like we are just roommates who see each other in passing instead of spouses. Because both of us work so hard, a lot of our home life is disorganized and crazy. We have a hard time fitting in our friends and family, and forget about taking care of bills. Sometimes we discuss making adjustments at home, like changing wireless internet providers, but then we just forget and it never gets done. I’m grateful that we at least have a maid who comes in once every other week to pick up after us, because if it wasn’t for her our house would probably look like a science experiment gone bad. I really don’t think that we can go on like this for much longer. I hope work slows down soon so we can spend some time together and get organized.

His broken teeth

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

Ever since my husband and I have been together, he has been having trouble with his teeth. One of the reasons I agreed to marry him was so he could have access to my dental plan as my spouse, and medical benefits as well. Of course, love had something to do with it too, but at our ages we weren’t getting married to raise a family, we weren’t going to have any children. As far as I’m concerned, if you’re not going to have children, then the only reason to tie the knot is so that the couple can share in some sort of financial security. That probably sounds very cold, but that is the practical Virgo in me coming out!

Over the past couple of years he has really been having trouble – he needs a couple of root canals, a couple of his teeth have broken, and a couple have fallen out. I have a really hard time to understand how and why this is happening to him; I haven’t even had a cavity in over thirty years! I’ve bought a water-pik for him to use, but he won’t use it, and when we moved down here I don’t even remember unpacking it, so it may still be packed up in a box in the basement somewhere.

I feel badly for him because of his teeth, they cause him a lot of pain, and unfortunately our dental plan does not cover it all, and we can’t afford to spend the money that needs to be spent to save his teeth. I’m afraid he will have to have them pulled. And I’m afraid we will not be able to afford dentures.

The Clock is Ticking Folks

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Well it seems that my sister may be the only one in the family that will really get what she wants for this Christmas since no one is responding to my email that I sent out weeks ago asking for gift suggestions, except my kid sister who didn’t waste any time sending me request for all cotton scrubs for her to wear at work. She even sent me the direct link to site that has a ton of medical uniforms at http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/Original-Scrubs/ that she has used before and is thrilled with the prices, the quality and the various styles that they offer there.

It just drives me crazy to have to wait until the last minute to have to find all the presents that are required of me to purchase for our ever growing family. With Christmas less than two months away there really isn’t a whole lot of time left especially since I do most of my shopping online and you have to wait for your purchase to be delivered, which of course takes time.