Ever start a blog someplace and then forget about it?

I did.


Discovered today right before lunch we're overdrawn at the bank, so lunch plans changed from food someone cooks for us to food that comes out of the freezer in a plastic tray. Mexican TV dinners...yum.
I know this isn't the time or place, but I really need a new job that pays a living wage. 23 years in the same place, and after doing our taxes this year discover that our family qualifies for reduced lunches at the school. I knew this day would come -- all these years we danced precariously on the precipice of poverty level, and finally, after the last round of benefits increases at work, that now eat something like 30% of my check, we've finally fallen below the ceiling for full-price school lunches. Of course, the girls don't want to eat the slimy refuse that passes for nutrition in the Wichita public school system, so they'll still be brown-bagging it.
The department created a new sub-supervisory position, kind of an assistant manager, that I thought about applying for, even though 23 years of experience and a bachelor's degree doesn't qualify me for the job, and then I learned that I'd have to take a $6/hour pay cut to take the job, and move to 1st shift. Er, no thanks, not interested. Guess I'll just pin my hopes on Powerball for now, and the March Madness pool.