After living the last 2 years in a living hell of a job, I finally did it.  I quit!  Nothing like screwing a retail company right before Christmas!  I told my boss that I couldn't live being sick, tired, and depressed all the time anymore.  It isn't fair to me or my family.  It's scary because I've worked since I was 14, but I am going to try being ( Read more... )

I had the most productive weekend I've had in a long time.  My Mom came down and helped me get everything in my garage cleaned out and put away.  When we moved in about 6 months ago, we just moved everything through the garage and what didn't find a place right away just stayed there.  Pretty soon, we couldn't even walk though to the door!  It ( Read more... )

I am so spoiled.  As I write, my husband is driving up to Minnesota to get me a bulldog puppy!  I've wanted one since I was little.  They are so expensive, but my husband is always good at talking to people and he talked this lady down $1500!  He is so cute in the pictures...I hope I like him as much when he gets here.  All Gavin does is run around ( Read more... )

Once again, we are being screwed by mortgage companies.  So we go to refinance our house so we can pay off our credit cards, do some stuff to the house, and hopefully get out of this car that we bought that turned out to be an overpriced piece of junk. (Yes, I'm bitter.)  This mortgage company says "hey no problem, it will be an easy refi.  You ( Read more... )

We are trying to refinance our house now.  (I know, we just bought it.)  We have a lot of equity since we bought it from my Grandma.  I don't know if we will be able to do it though because we haven't occupied it for more than 6 months. (or one year depending on who you talk to.)  We have a lot of things we need to pay off and we could consolidate ( Read more... )

Thank goodness I'm finally back home!  We had a divisional meeting in Dallas all week. One would think going on a little trip would be fun every once in a while...but not with our company!  We started at 6:45 every morning and some nights we weren't done until 8:30 pm!  It would be one thing if I actually thought that it was worthwhile, but ( Read more... )

Ugh I'm so sick of bad weather!  It was finally nice today, but last night sucked!  Our roof already needs to be re-shingled and the hail did more damage.  (But I bet the insurance company won't cover it because there was damage when we bought the house.)  All the tornado sirens were going off last night, so I finally woke Gavin up and laid down ( Read more... )

I went to an antique store in the Old Market the other day and found 2 lady head vases right away!  I talked them into a better price for buying bother of them.  Here is my collection so far.  The two vertically in the middle are the new ones I got.  The ones on the left are the ones that I bought for myself to start my collection.  The ones on the ( Read more... )

I've discovered the "joys" of homeownership in the last week.  We FINALLY closed on the house last Thursday.  The same day, we went and bought my husband a new car because his broke beyond repair.  Then after all that, we noticed our air conditioning didn't seem to be very cool.  The repairman came out and said we had a huge leak.  Then he looked ( Read more... )

Yesterday was our second wedding anniversary and my husband had the best surprise ever!  He took my out over my lunch break and parked at the new outdoor mall and told me I could go to any store I wanted and buy whatever I wanted.  I didn't know how this could be possible since I didn't think we had any money.  Turns out, he had been saving money ( Read more... )