I can’t remember exactly at what age I stopped eating corn or the very first reason that gave me my aversion of the popular finger food. All I know is that I don’t like it. Have I eaten it before? Well yeah, during those few occasions when there was absolutely nothing else on the table nor in the food cabinet. I did, but as much as possible I stay away from it.

Why? I guess at the top of my head, it’s just that it’s still corn when it comes out! Get it? I know it’s gross that’s why I don’t indulge - not while on the cub, not even when in butter or in loose kernels already. If there’s anything else, then anything else would be better than corn.

Andrea knows about this. Some of my workmates also know about this. That’s why I don’t get any offers when it comes to corn. That’s also why I thought Mateo would get the same aversion of corn as me, but I was wrong - so wrong!

Here he is greedily gnawing at a cub from the canteen.

No matter how much we try to conserve our reserves or limit our spending, something always comes up to take everything away. For example, just this August, Andrea and I tried out a different strategy to minimize our grocery in the hopes of cutting down a few hundreds in expenses. Unfortunately, before August ended, just a few days ago, an impacted wisdom tooth of mine started announcing its presence painfully. So painfully in fact that yesterday, I was forced to go to the dentist to have it checked.

You see, according to the dentist, the impacted tooth needs to be surgically removed (with a 5k surgical procedure). What the heck?! Isn’t that just ironic? Instead of saving a few hundreds, we’re now facing a five-thousand deficit.

This made us finally realized that we really are living relatively too meagerly. By this I mean our expenses are breaking even with what we’re getting, if not exceeding. We both agreed that if we want to have another baby next year, then we have to find a way to get more than what we’re currently receiving.

Our solution - part-time jobs. We’re currently considering finding some online work to add a few more bucks to our income. It doesn’t really matter if it would require us to maintain more blogs, write some articles or check and compare mortgage quotes. The important thing right now is to earn a few more for the rainy days. We can’t afford to sit back and relax - at least not yet!