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She picked up some food at Walmart as well as the oil change supplies for the cars, and well, then I checked BoA when I came back forward and discovered we were at -60 bucks. SHIT. Yeah, we'd all forgotten that the car/life insurance hadn't come out yet because it normally comes out on the 25th, yeah, so some panic and emptying the munchkin's savings account and a quick trip to the bank later to deposit the last of his Christmas money ;_; we have no deficit. We have $5. D gets paid on Friday, though. I hope, and I'll get a whopping $32 on Thursday from Kanga, and I think I get $40 from PU2B this week. D caught me as I was leaving the bank. He was policing an accident that I apparently narrowly missed being part of because I was in line at the bank, and saw us driving back and waved me down because he saw I was crying and wanted to know what was wrong, he tried to give me a quick pep talk. Saying it wasn't my fault, I shouldn't take the blame and that he wasn't mad because I wasn't here all morning, apparently Rose had called him to find out what kind of car he had so she could get oil filters for his too. I feel bad too because Declan was asking me all the way home what was wrong and why I was crying. When we stopped at the house he clambered out of his seat to come give me a hug which made me cry worse and then made him cry because he was scared. Since we've been home for a bit but were playing a game to distract us both for a while. I hate money. I really do. I guess I'm going back over the budget to see what else we can nix. I thought that we were going to be doing okay now that the credit card bills were halved and things were sorted...but it's not seeming that way ;_; I really don't know what else to do. I was tempted to ask at the bank if they had any jobs open but I don't think crying, half-dressed crazy woman is a good first impression to make. I do have that one psychic network lead, but I'm not sure how much that will bring in. I can't cancel Netflix until...

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