You do what you have to do.

For the next month and a half, I am working a lot of six day weeks.  By this I don't mean six full-time days, but that I have to show up for work six days a week, even if I get to leave early one day because I came in on Saturday.  None-the-less, it's still taxing.  I'm used to having Saturdays and/or Sundays where I can sleep in and laze around before running errands or cleaning or getting ready for a night out.  Now I have to get up six mornings a week and since we go to the hubby's parents' house every Sunday afternoon for laundry and dinner, I don't have a single day to myself.

But it's what we have to do.  I'm lucky to have my job, especially since it seems pretty secure.  I'm also lucky to have my second job, not just because it brings in income we so direly need, but because I enjoy it so much.  If you are going to have two jobs, it's incredible to like them both, especially the second one, which has the possibility of feeling like a chore.

The hubby's temp job ended Thursday and so I have been super worried about money and life plans.  My jobs alone can't cover all the bills and household expenses (we're talking just basic food and gas here, no extras) so it was imperative that he find something new.  Not long ago, he went into a fave pizza place to see if they needed any help - this would be his second job.  They recently called to ask him to pick up a few hours taking phone orders and now that they heard his job ended, they've offered him more hours and have promised him that as long as he needs the job, he has it.  It's not a lot, but it's something and it's enough to pull us through.  And now the hubby is even talking about going back to school so he can finish his bachelor's degree.  Being a school addict, this makes me incredibly happy, but it does so on a practical level, too.  The unemployment rate is higher for people without college degrees and it is indeed harder to find a job if you don't meet the basic "college degree required" part of a job listing.  (Yes, I believe that the degree doesn't necessarily mean much as far as job skills and knowledge are concerned - I've met enough people with college degrees who couldn't tell their ass from their elbow - but we live in a time where it's valued so it only helps to have one.)

It will be a lot - both of us working and taking classes, but sometimes I think a schedule like that is preferable.  Your free time becomes so much more precious and valued.  I like being busy and productive and would really like it if the hubby and I had similar levels of activity.  I can see it working out really well for us.  The unfortunate part is that we wouldn't have a lot of extended free time for friends and things like that, but we would just have to make sure we take the time to plan fun activities with everyone once in a while.

We've also been talking a lot lately about when to have a baby.  We have vague plans about this, but it's scary to think about getting pregnant and having a baby when finances are precarious.  Those little buggers aren't cheap, after all, but I'm going to be 35 next summer, which is the big "uh oh, danger danger" age for conception and pregnancy so, if possible, I'd like to get in one pregnancy before that.  We'll see if it happens, though.  We're not trying right now.

But, if nothing else, now we get really cheap pizza.  I can definitely live with that for a while.