First of all let me say I’m sorry I didn’t stop in to wish all of my fellow Americans a Happy Independence Day. Our weekend was rather busy with us running from one celebration to another.

By the time we got to our final cookout last night I was beat. We put Ellie in the lake for the first time ever, and after she played for a few minutes I retreated to the dock to sit and relax. Hubby swam and rode the knee board while I sat there talking to my aunt about disability insurance. Yeah, it was a pretty boring conversation that had me wanting to crawl into bed as soon as possible. Unfortunately we were 45 minutes away from home, Ellie was no where near ready to go to sleep, and we still had fireworks to watch. Other than the fact that I was about to fall over from being so tired we had an enjoyable weekend and evening at the lake yesterday.

Today I was happy to spend most of the day at home just relaxing. I was really glad I’d decided to do that when a horrible tension headache hit me this afternoon. It’s been coming and going in waves, and I’m still battling it. Hopefully I can get myself into bed soon and make it go away.

Before I can make it to bed I need to try to work out a new budget, though. Hubby’s boss decided to up and change his pay schedule. He normally is paid weekly with the exception of a couple of times when they were paid bi-weekly because of the job they were currently on.

Now his boss has decided to start paying him bi-weekly for good, and it’s thrown my budget for a loop. The way it works out Hubby got a check Friday, and he won’t be getting another one for 2 weeks. Going 3 weeks on his paycheck is pretty tough when after paying bills we’re already down to $150. We still have to factor gas and groceries for 3 weeks into that.

I just wish his boss had notified him of the change before we paid bills. I went ahead and paid the bike insurance in full, and I could have held off on doing that as well as waited to pay a couple bills that aren’t due until next month. I’ll make it work somehow as I do have a bit of cash I can pull out of savings, and if all else fails I’ll roll change as I have two huge mason jars that are slap full. It’s just one more thing I have to worry about over the next couple of weeks.

The budget won’t change as far as the amount of cash we have each month, but I do have to adjust when I’m paying certain things. I want to make sure some of the critical stuff that can’t ever be late like the bike and truck payments get paid on time. Once I get all that straightened out I’ll adjust to the new pay schedule no problem. Honestly I kind of like it better because even though it’s the same amount of cash it makes me feel like I’m doing a better job with the budget when I can drop such a large chunk on bills all at once.

Anywho, I better get to that so I can get my butt in bed before I fall asleep on my netbook!