I got my federal tax refund the other day and my state refund should be on its way. I already spent a little over $1,000 in removing a dead tree from my yard, I have to pay back $500 I borrowed from my friend last month, and I was going to get a new stove because my oven stopped working, and then I was supposed to have a few hundred left over.

Fat chance it would go that easy. I completely forgot about the $1,425 fee I had to pay the lawyer. And my mortgage company informs me that my insurance went up and so I need to pay them $489 by April 1^st to cover the escrow shortage. And the oil company filled up the oil tank and left me a bill for $681 yesterday (not only the oil price skyrocketed, but I was also sick with flu and cranked the heat up to the tropical heat level for a few weeks, so I used A LOT of oil). And the gas price is going up so fast that I don’t even know how much it is now and I’ve been spending over $100 a week on gas.

So basically, I had to tell my friend I would have to give him back his $500 in a few months… hopefully…, and I can’t get a new stove any time soon. So yeah, crap.