falling behind

this economy is bad enough to give someone a stroke! as more and more jobs are lost DAILY, the cost of groceries continue to rise!  every time i return the the grocery store, the prices have gone up even more! the avg cereal box is now $6.50, milk $5, bread $5, pears $2.40/lb, one small beef roast (the cheapset kind) $12.50!!! with all the jobs lost (and now all blockbusters across HI are closing), how the hell do prices continue to rise?!!! will someone please explain this to me?! i got a call from Honolulu Fed CU yesterday that i'm over $500 behind on my truck loan payments. i didn't even know! i knew i was $190 but not $500!! she said i forgot to pay Aug for the whole month and that i missed a payment a month n a half before that. see, usually if i have a loan i set up automatic pay to take out 2x a month, been doin it for years. but my truck loan is a diff FCU than my Navy FCU that i use and i found out that one FCU won't do automatic pay to the other FCU. so i basically have to REMEMBER to pay it, and Lord knows my memory is pretty bad. when she told me i forgot to pay Aug, i was shocked cuz i swore i paid it. last month i had to re-register my Chrysler for $187 and thought i could relax after that, but then found out that i had to re-register my Dodge RAM this month for $234!!!! i already been dippin into my savings for the registrations, and then to find out that i owe over $500 on my truck loan which i gotta pay up on the 1st PLUS pay the mortgage too, i won't have any money for groceries, especially at the prices they've become! this is when i feel the regrets of loaning that Ricky dude $600 back in May which he still owes me $250!!! i could REALLY use that money right about now! in other news....Matthew and Justin made up.... wewh! ...so he's calmed down a bit. he's gonna start some college here next month or Nov on the 9/11 GI Bill and then in Jan will be goin to school full time.Kris bought the a whole series on the books about "The Five Languages of..." from the just one i suggested. lol i got to see a GI specialist 2 days ago FINALLY!!!! in this case it was sorta of an emergency since my bowels "shut down" for almost a week. the GI pin pointed it to results of being on cymbalta. she told me i should get off it and is writing a note to Rheumatology in the system about it. i tried telling Rheumatology during my follow up about the side effect with cymbalta a few months ago but they would NOT hear me out and told me to stay on it!! the GI doc was shocked! thank GOD SHE heard me out and said to get off it. WOW..... she put me on this medicine that's syrupy and smells like caramel, i gotta take it every day for a month and my system should clean out. then i gotta follow up with her after that and if i can't find my results from the 2002 colonoscopy, then she'll schedule me for another colonoscopy. i said whatever it takes, as long as i don't end up pooping thru a bag one day! guess i'll call rheumatology Monday about the whole thing. guess that's all the update for now (and some rant about the horrid economy)..... if y'all got anything for me, just post it! i'm all ears. thanks again for being there and God bless! you guys are awesome friends! rock on!!