My OperaWhere are your pills?
Sunday, August 20, 2006 6:03:33 PM
It is 12:00 noon. I just looked at my electric bill and noticed that it was a large as a car payment. I don’t understand how the electric company can legally get away with charging customers this price for electricity. In this blog I have written before on
how ridiculous the price of utilities are. Recently, our water bill went up about 10 dollars a month because of the extra taxes that the city put into it to pay for a reverse osmosis plant that they built last year. I didn’t ask for this disgusting water treatment plant to be built so why do I have to pay for it. Someone voted on this, I am sure, or it was the leaders of the town…..who by the way received a raise in pay…..
Where is our raise in pay?
How do we continue to live and pay for the lifestyle that America has built for us? I just don’t get it. Dreams are on the television everyday of how we are supposed to live. This concept is being fed to us in spoonfuls every day of our life from the time we are babies. You must have a white picket fence with 2.5 kids and a dog. But is this dream attainable? I think not. BASTARDS. Every drop of our paycheck is going into utilities and the rising cost of groceries to feed our 4 girls. It can be done, yes I know. We have been doing it, but it is difficult and almost impossible some months. I live in a ‘safe’ neighborhood, therefore I have to pay for it….but it is worth the cost. That is something that we will not compromise on, the safety of our children. When they want to go for a bike ride or take the ball into the front yard, they should not be afraid of getting shot from idiot teenager that can’t control his emotions. Yes, that does happen in the other neighborhoods in this city.
I feel as if life is a lie, mothers doing drugs to stay happy, everyone on some sort of antidepressant and for what? Is the whole world on antidepressants and what do they do without them??? The men of America are coming home to women who are tired from working all day, therefore not able to cook dinner for the family. “Let’s get take-out.” I can just hear the words echoing in my head. They get take-out, they get fat. How did they afford the takeout? By the money that they worked for the whole day, only to be tired, only to resort to eating out a processed food that has entirely too much sugar and salt so that their family can have high blood pressure and GET FATTER because they are addicted to this garbage that is being fed to us.
Being a stay at home mother, I cook dinner every night for my family. Yes, we do have to plan meals for 2 weeks before we go to the grocery store to insure that we have a meal for each night and breakfast on the weekend. I have coffee for breakfast and nothing for lunch while the kids are in school and husband is at work. If I do have lunch it will consist of soup or some kind of left over. (I happen to hate leftovers, would rather have water) I feel privileged to be able to greet the girls when they arrive home from school. But I am counting the days down to when I will work full time outside the house. Everyday I am thinking, “This will not last, this will one day end.” But I try not to let it bother me and I continue with the laundry and vacuuming…………
God has blessed us so far, let it continue………..Amen.
Sarah
I still appreciate his work, the world would not be the same without it.
how ridiculous the price of utilities are. Recently, our water bill went up about 10 dollars a month because of the extra taxes that the city put into it to pay for a reverse osmosis plant that they built last year. I didn’t ask for this disgusting water treatment plant to be built so why do I have to pay for it. Someone voted on this, I am sure, or it was the leaders of the town…..who by the way received a raise in pay…..Where is our raise in pay?
How do we continue to live and pay for the lifestyle that America has built for us? I just don’t get it. Dreams are on the television everyday of how we are supposed to live. This concept is being fed to us in spoonfuls every day of our life from the time we are babies. You must have a white picket fence with 2.5 kids and a dog. But is this dream attainable? I think not. BASTARDS. Every drop of our paycheck is going into utilities and the rising cost of groceries to feed our 4 girls. It can be done, yes I know. We have been doing it, but it is difficult and almost impossible some months. I live in a ‘safe’ neighborhood, therefore I have to pay for it….but it is worth the cost. That is something that we will not compromise on, the safety of our children. When they want to go for a bike ride or take the ball into the front yard, they should not be afraid of getting shot from idiot teenager that can’t control his emotions. Yes, that does happen in the other neighborhoods in this city.
I feel as if life is a lie, mothers doing drugs to stay happy, everyone on some sort of antidepressant and for what? Is the whole world on antidepressants and what do they do without them??? The men of America are coming home to women who are tired from working all day, therefore not able to cook dinner for the family. “Let’s get take-out.” I can just hear the words echoing in my head. They get take-out, they get fat. How did they afford the takeout? By the money that they worked for the whole day, only to be tired, only to resort to eating out a processed food that has entirely too much sugar and salt so that their family can have high blood pressure and GET FATTER because they are addicted to this garbage that is being fed to us. Being a stay at home mother, I cook dinner every night for my family. Yes, we do have to plan meals for 2 weeks before we go to the grocery store to insure that we have a meal for each night and breakfast on the weekend. I have coffee for breakfast and nothing for lunch while the kids are in school and husband is at work. If I do have lunch it will consist of soup or some kind of left over. (I happen to hate leftovers, would rather have water) I feel privileged to be able to greet the girls when they arrive home from school. But I am counting the days down to when I will work full time outside the house. Everyday I am thinking, “This will not last, this will one day end.” But I try not to let it bother me and I continue with the laundry and vacuuming…………
God has blessed us so far, let it continue………..Amen.
Sarah
I still appreciate his work, the world would not be the same without it.
