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So, we might be moving to Alabama later on this year. We don't know yet.

Josh has been working freelance as an artist for this little game company called Blue Street Studios. They've promised to give him forty hours of work a week. The downside is that they are really crappy about getting work too him-- he waited for almost two weeks for the last batch, which isn't really convenient for us while we're trying to pay bills. They've offered him a job-in house in Alabama. If we move, they'll HAVE to give him work, regardless. And pay him.

I can easily transfer to another Payless ShoeSource over there with no problem. Puts a hold on my pastry schooling, but I'm okay with that.

The thing with Blue Street Studios in Alabama is that the owner is one of Josh's old friends. It provides tension when they don't send him stuff and promise too, and in the end, they send it, but always late. Josh isn't a very confrontational man (usually)-- even though I've told him that he needs to be.

The reason that he can't find work here is because he refuses to be paid anything less than $20 an hour. He thinks that since he has a degree, that's what he's entitled too (it's what he got paid at the last studio that he worked for). I always tell him that when he applies somewhere, he needs to put that his wage can be negotiated, but he refuses to do so, no matter what I say. It's irritating.

I keep trying to tell him that getting paid $15 an hour is better than not getting paid and waiting around for a product order for two weeks before it finally comes in. But he will not accept it.

I make $7.75 an hour, which is more than I've ever been paid anywhere, and I work for 40+ hours a week, and yet, my paychecks are only about $250 a week when all the taxes are pulled out (about $60 in taxes). I just started my training for a promotion and raise, but still.

I make a bit, but not quite enough, and he refuses to 'dumb down' for a slightly cheaper job, even if it's temporary. We don't really argue about it, but it gets irritating when he just outright refuses to work anything else for cheaper.

Oh well.

We aren't uncomfortable, we get the bills paid with money left over and we are happy other than that, so I shouldn't complain. We live in a nice area for almost nothing (because we have a roommate).

Going out to eat tonight~ We were going to do it Wednesday night (it was our nine month anniversary, YAAAAAAY), but we couldn't afford it. Lol. So, out to eat tonight, and then grocery shopping! I finally got my pots and pans, so I can cook.

Katheryn (ya know, my best friend?) was AWESOME, and kept an eye out for clearance items at her grocery store. She ended up getting us a s**t-ton of things for under twenty dollars. A set of ceramic dishes, some plastic plates, a ceramic pie pan, a couple of cooling racks and two Pyrex casserole pans.

We want to pay her back, but she insists that it's her housewarming gifts. Ha ha ha. Anyhow, it's awesome. I've been cooking a lot of pasta and soup, so it'll be nice to bake a casserole once in awhile.

We are rather thrifty with our groceries, so our grocery bill is ridiculously cheap-- we spend about $40 a week on groceries, and that'll feed us every night, and me at lunch at work. It's pretty awesome. Then again, we aren't too picky about our food.

Josh has a ton of bills that he needs to pay-- his car note, student loan bill, cell phone bill ($180 a month, you kiddin me? I know, he pays for his grandmother's phone too, but still) and the internet. @.@

Which is why he needs even a cheap job. Still, we get everything paid somehow. Ha ha ha.