Healthy Eating

   I am all about eating healthy on a regular basis with the occasional splurge of a cheeseburger or a steak sandwich. What I am just trying to figure out is how to eat healthy on a budget. I find that it is so expensive to eat healthy. You always see all the fattening foods on sale such as frozen pizza's, candy and chips but, what about the fresh produce and the healthier meats. When they do go on sale it's not very often so it's not like you can stock because you can't stock up on produce it will just go bad.
    I can see why it is easier for people to turn to the frozen and boxed processed foods because that is what is easily available to people on a grocery budget. I even use coupons but, when trying to eat healthy couponing does you no good because their are never coupons for healthy foods and once again if their are it is not very often.
   I have come to find that what you spend for one or two healthy meals could be your weekly budget for all your groceries if you weren't eating healthy. This is what is so frustrating all you hear is eat healthy, exercise but both of things are hard for everyone to afford. What we need to keep in mind is that we can still eat healthy on a daily basis even of your fridge isn't stocked with all healthy foods we just need to be a little more careful. It's all about portion control.
   I wish eating healthy was easier but for me it's not. The right thing to do would be the healthy choice but sometimes it is easier to go the easy route and just swing through a drive thru.

Work

This was the week from hell at work! I don't know what it was. I don't know if their was something in the the water or what, but their was something seriously wrong this week. I think I dealt with every idiot/ dumbass this week. I don't know if that is even possible, but it was pretty damn close.
  I work for State Farm Insurance as a licensed agent and I am not going to lie I know my job. All the ins and outs of insurance policies,claims and most guidelines. After 12 years it pretty much gets burned into your brain. I won't say that I love my job, but at certain times I really do enjoy it. I love the people I work with. My boss is great when it comes to flexibility and a laid back work environment. I couldn't ask for better coworkers we keep each other sane during weeks like this last one. I consider myself to be pretty laid back and easy going. I don't let much get to me that I can't just shrug off and get past but this week was different.
 People need to understand just like everything else insurance rates go up, but what doesn't. The cable goes up, the phone goes up and so does consumers. It is just a part of life. I do my best to work with people to help them find the lower rate but sometimes their is just nothing more we can possibly do. Just because they call everyday with the same complaint that doesn't mean that their rate is going to miraculously go down. It doesn't work that way I wish it did, but it doesn't.
 If I have to listen to one more person complain and tell me that they are on a fixed income I am going to SCREAM !!!. Well guess what? I am on a fixed income to! I know everyone has different incomes some may be more than others, but come on. I don't know many people that aren't on fixed incomes. I don't know many people with unlimited funds that they can just spend and spend and spend.
  Last but not least if one more person tell me how to do my job. I am just going to tell them they can have mine. Don't tell me how to do my job. Don't sit there and tell me I have no idea what I am talking about, when after I sit their and listen to them speak they are the ones who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. I think some people just speak because they just like to hear themselves speak no matter how ridiculous or stupid they actually sound.
  Well now that I have gotten that off my chest I feel much better. All I can hope for is a better upcoming week.

Half way mark

  So the first semester of school is at the half way mark for myself as well as my son who is a freshman in high school. I actually think college is going smoother for me, than high school  for my son. It is hard to think that is even possible, but it seems to be. I am so far passing all my classes and actually enjoy school. Which is hard to believe since 16 years ago I disliked school so much that I always said I was never going to go to college. I now understand the importance of a college degree. I should't say that. A college degree has always been important, it's just now I am mature enough to see the big picture that I didn't see before.
  I preach to my son everyday the importance of school. It seems that these days it is in one ear and out the other. He frustrates me so much! Learning comes to him naturally to him, he doesn't seem to struggle which is to his benefit. The issue we are having is that if he doesn't understand something, he figures well I guess I just won't do it. So then I get a call or an email from the teacher letting me know of the situation which makes him so mad. Which I don't understand why he gets mad, it's not as though I won't ever find out. So for the last couple of years we go through the same thing. He spends the last month before the marking period is over turning in all the missing assignment, paying extra attention and passing all his quizzes and tests just to get a passing grade. If he would just do everything when it is supposed to be done he would save himself so much time and save argument between the two of us.
  I would like to say that I forget what it is like to be a teenager, but that would be a lie and besides I am not that old. It is  just sometimes hard being on the other side of the situation. I was once the moody teenager, the kid who didn't want to do homework, the one who always talked in class and got in trouble for it. Now I have to be the adult. Talk about a role reversal. All I can say is that everyday is a learning experience for both of us.