Well we are still waiting to have our phone/ DSL connected today. We had an appointment for a tech to come out between 12pm & 5pm today, it’s 4pm as I write this and nobody is here. The whole deal with service calls and connecting utilities is kind of silly. They need access to your […]
Category: personal stories
My body hates me- moving is rough!
Well, I am just now sitting down with my laptop for basically the first time in 2 days. We are moved in and it has been exhausting! Thanks to my family we got the majority of our junk into the new home by Sunday night. We stayed in the new, warmer, much bigger home Sunday […]
Fun with the family.. Video with adult language!
We made my yummy salt roasted chicken for dinner and then made some smores for dessert. Were having some fun before we start the moving process from the one rental to another… Here is a snapshot of our evening, good times! [youtube I90WJeO9RDg Fun with family- video]
Time is a ticking…
We are getting snow right now, got about 3 inches last night and it’s still coming! Saturday my students have their first competition of the season, that evening my family is coming to Flagstaff to help us move. On Sunday we get the keys to our new rental house and we begin moving in! The […]
Where is your family tree?
I spent most of today piecing bits and pieces of information together to form my own family tree. Recently an aunt of mine found me from my father’s side of the family. I haven’t heard from anyone on that side of the family in 17 years and I realized how little I actually know about […]
How close are you to your family?
The term “family” means something differnt to everyone. For me my family has always been basically just the immediate family. My real father was out of the picture when I was just about 8 years old. My mother raised us alone for a few years and then remarried. For us family has been who ever […]
I don't want to be free boobin' anymore…
I am spending much of my blogging time over at Gather right now. Please forgive me for being boring and neglecting my blog but I am only 50 points away from a $25.00 Macy’s gift card that I intend to use for my girls (yes the boobs). My bra has recently become even more of […]
Working on the Nissan Maxima…
As some of you already know, our car died last week and we had planned to work on removing the alternator this weekend. I have never worked on a car before but we didn’t let that stop us.We had our little manual for the job, it showed photos and directions for getting the tasks accomplished […]
Pretty, pretty Orchids!
Instead of getting cut flowers for valentines day I got a pretty potted orchid! I love plants so this just makes my day, although I am not confident that I’ll be able to keep it alive since the temperature and light levels in my home are so whacked… Anyway, wanted to take to opportunity to […]
Don't pour bleach on bunny pee! (or any pee for that matter)
Ugh, my nose is burning and it’s cause I had a temporary moment of stupidity. We are moving in 15 days and I have an ongoing list of crap to accomplish. Today it was sweeping/ cleaning the wood floors and cleaning bunny’s cage/ mess. Oh and I was supposed to find the Nissian repair book […]
A white valentines day.?.?
Yep, we are having a white valentines day! It’s cold, snowy and cozy. I’ll get to use up lots of our fire wood today so that is good! The more we burn the less we will have to move in a few weeks. Yesterday I tried to go out back and chip some ice off […]
Sometimes I would like to just be a hermit.
Today has been eventful for us. We had to head into town to do some minimal grocery shopping so we did that today between my teaching class this morning and N having to work this afternoon. We shop at the local Sam’s club, we buy food in bulk and make it last. Anyway when we […]
Our oven works?? Now what do I do?
It’s been a long and annoying 2 weeks since our stove caught fire and today I am here to report that it appears we can actually use the oven on our new for us/ used stove. Oh, joy. Guess that means I can stop eating large dishes of jello like it’s going out of style […]
Moving tips?
A few days of nothing have been nice but now I need to get my butt in gear and start getting ready to move. We get the keys to our new place on 2/25 and need to be out of this place my 2/29.. It’s nice to have a few days to make the transition […]
My interview by Janelle
I participated in the citizen of the month great interview experiment and totally forgot to post my own interview questions here. It was fun to interview someone and to be interviewed. Janelle over at junk food for the soul interviewed me and thankfully she asked about my interview and reminded me to post it! I […]
Election time… where do you stand?
I am so sick of hearing everyone talk about the presidential candidates sex, race and religion. It seems more and more people think that what is on the outside is the most important. Hillary is a woman, do you want a woman president? Barack is not white, is he a Muslim.. who cares? There is […]
Yay the insainty has passed!
Mmmm buttery toast! I am finally sitting down to relax, seems like it’s been the first time in two weeks! I feel like a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I am so thankful to be so fortunate. I knocked out 45 custom purses and they are on the way to their […]
Salmon on the stove top? :(
Howdy!! Do you know of a creative way to prepare salmon without the microwave or oven? I still only have a working stove top … the oven still doesn’t work and no resolution has been offered yet. We have to be out of here on 24 days anyway so WTF?? It would be nice to […]
When life gives you lemons…
… smash them into a sorry pulp, take some photos and blog about it. Things are crazy right now (that is quite the understatement)… Our living situation saga just keeps getting more and more interesting as the days pass. Back on January 15th 2008 I wrote “You broke your toe? Want to buy a house?” […]
Adventures of traveling the pacific coast highway- Pt. 2- Spending to much time in the car is a bad thing!
As you can tell by the title of this post traveling by car to a distant destination is not always a good thing! spending too much time in the car makes you grumpy and irritable and you can’t make tuna fish sandwiches while driving in the car (well you shouldn’t). N and I visit California […]