Always on Blast

I think it's funny how there's always some people that are ready to slam everything. Like when you read diet pill reviews and there's always that ONE person that has to say that it's a crock. not to buy it, and they never got their money back. I'm sure there's always at least the one situation that can't be fixed but I never believe those people for one minute. I've never encountered a company that hasn't honored its own contract. It's usually the consumer's fault for not being informed feeling like it's not necessary. Come on people, give me a break.

What Would You Do?

So I know I have some excess money coming in soon and I'm having a hard time deciding what to do with it. I know I need to save some and buy necessities but I still would really like to try and get my business going but I need supplies. The other thing I could do would be to "re-invest" it into other ways to make money. Between the last two I'm kind of stuck. I don't have enough to make an impact on both so it has to be just one. That makes it even harder to decide. Oh well, I still have some time and I really don't have to spend anything right away, it would just be good to start once it happens.

Stay-cation

Things are looking up and within a month we should be on track, or at least making ends meet a whole lot better then they have been. I thought my bits of jealousy would go away when summer ended but I was wrong. I forgot one of my friends was going out of town for one last vacation in a week or two. LOL I'm happy that she's going and she's excited to be going to one of those Outer Banks beach rentals but I wish I were going to. :-( I'm planning some fun things for us to do with the kids before Thanksgiving though so I hope that will lift our spirits a little.

Hard at Work or Hardly Working?

I'm really starting to run down...I'm out of diet pills again and won't be able to get any until later this week. I've been working a whole lot lately and I can't keep my energy up no matter what I do. I think some of it may be due to malnutrition since we haven't had a proper meal in a long time and whatever I do have I end up giving to the kids to make sure they get the nutrients. All of this has been really rough. At least I know that money is coming this week and I can go out and get the things we need in a couple of days. That's always a huge relief!

Time Flys SO Fast!

I was looking at DD the other day and I had one of those "mommy moments". I just can't believe how big she's gotten already! I miss the days when I first brought her home and she was just a tiny bundle. Now when she wants to be cuddled like a baby I have to SWING her in all kinds of ways until she's in both my arms. LOL

The funny part is that she really still is a baby but she's always looked a lot older then she really is. I took a picture of her when she was 1 1/2 and she looked like she was 2-3 which is is now and now I feel like she's a tiny girl that should be 4-5! She still has her crying fits and tantrums which is the crummy part. I wish we could just bypass all this stuff and be back to peace and quiet.

Contemporary Designs

I need to redecorate our spaces and when I say need to, I really mean it. We have THE most horrible furniture ever because everything is a cast off from some one else. We love the hand-me-downs and some of it is really great and just needs a face lift but none of it goes together for anything and eventually looking at such a mish-mash of cluttered looking stuff wears you down.

We REALLY could use a new couch for one of our rooms. It's supposed to be our family room but you won't see any family sittin in there! The couch is some bamboo-ish, tied together looking thing that my mom "thought was so neat" with cushions that no one should ever have to sit on (let alone lean back into). I've been looking at affordable modern sofas to show my mom hoping that she'll "see the light" and figure out that her idea wasn't so great (or comfortable) after all. Hopefully she'll at least let me paint the walls a color of some sort so that we can stop living in an institution!

I Never Thought of That!

Not long ago I was looking for an office chair and I ended up with a cheap one from IKEA. It does the job but when I'm required to sit LONG days on end I end up in a world of pain. I have no idea why it never dawned on me to look for a chair from a medical equipment place! IKEA had some ergonomic chairs but considering the quality, I really didn't feel like spending $200+ on a chair there and though that I might be able to find a lumbar support to use anyway (which I haven't done yet). I just happened across a site that has more than one chair under that amount with free shipping and I'm really excited! Yeah, I get excited over little things. LOL! Well, anything that saves me money warrants a good response I think. ;-)

She's a NUT!

Have you ever met someone so incredibly bizarre that you couldn't do anything but drop your jaw? I'm "lucky" enough to meet people like this on regular occasion (yeah, it's great) and there's one gal that just keeps popping up with a new surprise all the time.

I think she's really a hypochondriac along with being a "one upper". No matter what's going on with you, good or bad, she'll come up with some story about how much better or worse she is. It's just insane! Once, we were all talking about how the economy was making life tough and she actually had the balls to go on and on and on about how she was "SOOOOOO" much worse off than any of us the year before. Give me a break woman! Add to that the incessant stories of how sick she is and how there's no cure or how much more sick her kids are with (conveniently) the same thing your kid has (that you just mentioned the week before) and knowing her some one (either her or some one she's close to) almost just died and is barely hanging on by a thread.

People like this absolutely drive me nuts! So why do I even bother to pay attention or notice? Because it makes my hum-drum life just a little more interesting that day! I'm good with it...from a distance. A LONG distance. LOL!!!