With vacation behind me I’ve turned my attention to the upcoming autumn and eventually winter season. Heating oil is on my mind. It weighs. It preys. It mystifies. I have NO idea how I can possibly afford to heat my house. I can barely afford gas for my car.
The price of fuel oil in this area is more per gallon than the price of gas. I have kids I need to consider. True, they’re not babies anymore but they still deserve to have a semi-warm place to call home. Soon I will have to feed them and warm them and I can ill-afford either.
I’ve gotten away with making them sweat all summer. I insist, despite their protests to the contrary, that air conditioning is NOT a necessity but a luxury, and one I can’t afford. How do I explain to them that they’ll have to freeze all winter?
I’m trying to look on the bright side. Maybe they’ll actually be glad to go to school because there they’ll be warm!
It’s so hard to make ends meet with the cost of food, fuel, utilities, etc. I wonder how other people do it. I’ve been applying for jobs since I returned from vacation. Something to add to the 40 hours I currently work. I may end up working 7 days a week just to try and get by – knowing getting ahead is a pipe dream.
I know other folks are even worse off than I am. My heart goes out to them. I wonder how they find a bright side. I wonder why they even bother looking. I wonder why I do.
I’m starting out in a house but might end up in a refridgerator box down by the tracks.
Precarious! I’m walking that fine line – on tiptoe!
FYI – the view sucks!
