I love Obama!!

Today I had my regular monthly financial panic attack. It's that time of the month when I look at all of our upcoming expenses and compare it to our upcoming monthly income and FREAK out and try to figure out how to make things work this month. I go through this every month... and every month we always somehow make it all work out!

This month is especially scary because we've got some really big unexpected expenses coming up that we have NO room in our budget for!! So this panic attack was much more panicky than most. I could feel my heart racing, I felt light headed and dizzy, my throat started to close up... full blown, five alarm, panic attack!!!

In the throws of this panic attack, I started to write this post. I had entitled it "I hate money" - a statement that is heard crossing my lips on a regular basis!!! Then I saw my paycheck for this week and saw that is was just a little bit bigger than usual. Not a huge difference, mind you, about $30, but my paychecks are always the exact same amount every two weeks, so it is easy to spot a difference. I tried to figure out why this check was bigger. As I compared it to my previous check I saw that the difference was my federal tax withholding... it was $30 less!! And then it hit me!! The tax cuts that Obama promised have come through already!!! Our new President is letting me keep more of my hard earned money!!! I was thrilled!!!

Now, granted, $30 is not going to solve all my problems and fix the financial panic attack for this month... but that's $30 more on every one of my paychecks, so that's $60 more per month, which makes a big difference when you live on a budget!!!

So while I may not have figured out how to solve this month's financial FREAK OUT... I at least feel good about getting some of my money back!!

THANK YOU OBAMA!!!!! (^_^)