This is The Reason

This gorgeous image landed in my email today from it's maker asking me to purchase.  How do you refuse such beauty and perfection??   It's $425 and light years away from my ownership at this point.

But this is why we do this.  This is why The Mr and I have struggled for years to get through school and find the perfect job.  The job he has is the job we have struggled so hard for and now he might lose it!

But if he keeps it...  this bag is mine.  All of our dreams will finally come true. 

No pressure, hun.

The Decision

Hopefully I didn't keep anyone in suspense, I realize it's Friday and we found out about The Mr's job on Tuesday, but there was an adjustment period needed.

Apparently he neither keeps his job nor loses it....yet.  He has a new goal that he has to meet and he gets four weeks to not only meet his first goal but to meet an even higher one.  So the wait continues...

We have until November 12th to make this happen.  My anxiety has reached brand new heights.

What's With Today, Today?

The team in St. Louis will be meeting this morning to discuss The Mr's future with the company (in there right now parrying with our livelihood, the little...).  We should know something by lunchtime with any luck. 

For some reason we have felt better about it over the weekend.  We thought we would know by Friday and instead they pushed it back to today.  At first I thought I was going to choke on my frustration it was so palpable, but it was as though we both just decided to not think about it and it will be what it is.  It also helps that we both inexplicably believe that he won't lose his job.  Let's just hope we're right.  If not, I might not respond for a few days until we figure it all out.

This print makes me feel better.

Waiting With Bated Breath...

So obviously it is post October 1st - we did make it.  We now have toilet paper and diapers and we even went on a mini-vacation to Alabama for a family wedding (though, luckily, we didn't pay for that - Thanks to The Mr's parents and Uncle B and Auntie M).

We have made it through the most difficult month according to our Budget calendar, but the end is still not in sight.  One piece of information that I did not mention when beginning this budget challenge was the reason for the tight budget.  We would not have moved ourselves here for the promise of an income so meager.  We were under the impression that The Mr's job would be paying more.  Financial Advisor's work on commission and to this point, he has made very little commission.  He has been in sales since he began working as a small boy mowing lawns.  He has never had any problems, until now.  It just has not been the lucrative snowball we were promised from his company.  So what he is paid is his monthly salary, which is supposed to supplement commission to be a very nice income...if you had the commission. 

Next comes the reason for the extra despair you might have picked up on in my last post.  The Mr. was given 17 weeks to reach his sales goal.  He has not gotten even close.  If he does not reach his goal, he will be let go.  Add that to an already freakishly low situation and you've got yourself a pretty bad time.  He has more than enough in clients, he is just having a difficult time getting them to sign off and get the money transferred.  They, of course, are not on the same time line as we are.  He's having a hard time trying to instill a sense of urgency in them.  And imagine trying to meet all of these clients and get things done without toilet paper at home.  I don't know how he does it, but I have been very proud of him.  He has not given up.  He has since made a very nice sale, but is still not close enough to his goal.  The goal must be reached by tomorrow, October 15th.  We haven't breathed in over a month, but either way it will be over tomorrow.  We're not sure yet what we would do if he is let go, but you know me, we'll just find the next adventure.