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Adventures in Extreme Poverty, Part 12.1

So daughter had a loose tooth. And being the wicked mom I am, was helping her to 'wiggle it'....  My nails are longer and so I was using the tip of my nail to move the top of the tooth around. And then MUCH to both of our surprise..........it simply......popped out. Any by popped out......I mean…

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Adventures in Extreme Poverty, Part 12

Its a bad day. A very bad day. Its Tuesday. Between yesterday and today I have sent out 35 resumes, gotten 17 rejection letters from resumes, applications and interviews from the last three weeks and pretty much.......... feeling very very low. I contacted Catholic Charities (again) for some…

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Adventures in Extreme Poverty, Part 11

So I sucked it up, got myself worked up and ready to call the IRS to work out a payment plan, and in the mean time (yesterday) got to work refiguring my taxes on the OFF chance that I could somehow work my deductions creatively enough to eliminate what I owed. And guess what happened??? I Didn't need…

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Adventures in Extreme Poverty, Part 10

So. I was supposed to be on my way to a job interview right now. But I'm not. And do we KNOW why I'm not??? Because I have no gas. And I have no money to get gas.  And WHY don't I have money to get gas??? Because they shut my freaking phone off and I had to pay that. Today they shut of my internet,…

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Adventures in Extreme Poverty, Part 9.3

Oh my goodness I am so confused right now. For all the progress we've made wtih Justin, tongiht.......has been a difficult night. And I don't know what happened. He told his sister to put her dirty clothes in the laundry...........and then he snapped. Tears, and anger and lashing out at me..........and…

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