Hi, I am new here so I don't really know what I am doing but I saw that this site was a good way to find help. This last year (2010) has been a hard hard year for my fiance and I. First I'll start with when we were doing okay. I was working as a waitress from 2009-2010 I was making good money from tips and it was nice bringing home money everyday. However, the people there were stressing me out. I was continually being harassed by managers and other staff members so I stuck with it until something better came along. Well while working as a waitress we were struggling to make rent still at times and both my fiance and I had a car so we decided to downgrade to one. We decided to sell his and that way we could make rent and start saving money for emergencies. Well soon after my car broke down and we couldn't afford to fix it. We ended up with another car soon after from what we had saved up though so all was going good. We'd get repairs done whenever necessary and still seemed to keep up rent and bills. Well one day everything started falling apart for us. After that car finally broke it was a lost cause and we just kind of hopped from car to car because we couldn't afford anything spectacular. Well one day when I was talking to my fiance I told him we need to find a good car and not be afraid to spend a little money on it because we need something that will last us so we did. Well it lasted us 2 weeks and the engine went! Now this was after I had found another job working in an independent senior care home. I was making good money and my fiance was working a part time job but was still looking for something better at the time too. Well I had to give up my job and so did he because we had no way of getting there. I worked too far away to take a cab and there was no bus routes nearby and our family/friends stay 40 min or more away from where we live. We were stuck! We were close to being homeless and it was depressing. My last check from my job got mailed to me and that's how we payed our rent and bills for that month while we were unemployed. So I was on the computer all day and all night trying to look for a job at least close enough to walk to so we wouldn't be homeless. I don't give up and I knew I could find something. Well I got a job at a daycare. I walk there everyday except for weekends. However, it is only part time and I barely make enough to pay the rent and bills. Just barely! So my fiance and I don't have cell phones and we can't get anything extra. We do get food stamps at least to pay for that. Anyway things were ok but we can't see our families because we don't have a car and it's getting depressing and it's freezing where we live. We're stuck inside all the time with nowhere to go. Also, just recently I found out I am pregnant. I have no insurance or anything and even if and when I get it I have no way of getting there. I want the baby to be okay and I am afraid because I don't know how far along I am and whether or not the baby is even healthy. If we had a car we could both find jobs and we would be okay I think but we're stuck. I am the only one working and I am pregnant so when I go on maternity leave we'll have no income. My fiance has been looking in the area but nobody is hiring and we are so limited. And my fiance is a super talented artist and he gets depressed because he wants to sell his art on merchandise or make a book/cartoon or something from it but doesn't know who to contact about doing that. I know we could make something of ourselves but we don't have the car or tools to do it. Also I just want the baby to be ok. Can anyone help us? Please!
