My Single Mom Life

I'm wide awake now that my head stopped pounding, so I paid all my bills for this month, figured out a budget for school supplies, and have just been goofing off on line.

Sebastian has his orientation for his freshman year Thursday at 3:30, so hopefully they will give me a supply list.
Last year, we didn't get any supply lists till the day school started.
That was a huge pain in the ass
I want to go school shopping once, not twice.
The good news is that the school finally smartened up and now provide the expensive T-180 calculators the kids need. So many parents complained about the high cost, the school is finally going to provide them.
But.
There's always a but isn't there?
You can't have a good without a bad.
This year, they are making students, I mean parents, buy the textbooks or some kind of book, because so many books were being destroyed or not returned.
Mark tells me the cost is $10 each.
I have 2 students in school with 5 classes each, each quarter.
That's $100 I will have to pay for books 4 times a year.
$400 dollars folks.
Plus consumables for the teachers, plus all the pens, notebooks, locker fees, reams of paper, graph paper, composition books etc etc.
I certainly hope they have some kind of scholarship program, because that is something I cannot afford.
No way.
I do not make enough money, not even with all the on line work I do, to afford $400 a year plus all that other stuff.
I started panicking as soon as Mark told me about the book thing.
I just cannot afford it.
I'd have to do a ton of paid posts every single day, just to cover the book fees and other supplies.
I would end up writing all kinds of crap on here about hair transplants and mortgages, when I obviously don't need a hair transplant, nor do I own my home to write about mortgages.
I refuse to take those kinds of jobs because honestly, they don't fit my blog or who I am.
It would be stupid.
So on Thursday, I am going to find out about it, and hope they aren't really doing that, and if they are, find out if there's some kind of financial aid I can apply for.

Well, I'm hoping tomorrow will be a better day for my head, so I can get things done, catch up with everyone, and do the things I need to do.
I need to go to the store and buy cat food, cat litter, tp, all that kind of stuff.
Later days.