It’s witchypoo’s fault, she posted the cutest photo of a kitten today, I went to get a cup of coffee and found my own gato, Jack posing in all his cuteness and just had to share! It was about 57 degrees int he house when I took this photo, do you think he was cold? […]
Category: personal stories
We can cook again and we will be moving, again…
The last few days have been a bit trying for us as some of you know. On Tuesday night our gas stove/ oven caught fire and that was enough to make me drink hard liquor! Wednesday we were told by the rental company that a new stove was on the way but were not given […]
New stove should be here soon..
Thanks to everyone for all your concern! Our stove is toast, the firemen told us to make sure they didn’t try to have us use it again. Here is why: We called the rental company we are renting this place from, the scheduled an appliance guy to come out this afternoon to take […]
Our stove was on fire!
Yep, you read it right… Our stove caught fire tonight! I baked some chicken breasts in the oven and then turned the stove off. N and I were eating dinner and this repulsive smell was wafting through the house. I mentioned it to N several times over dinner. Eventually the smell got stronger and then […]
Crazy weather makes for chilly times….
Yesterday it rained, all day and changed to snow last night.. It’s been snowing since then and this type of weather just make me want to sit and relax. Stormy weather makes me want to relax and to have “me time”. I am eating top ramen and the fire is going while I am sitting […]
Ahhh… What is going on?
I was installing some upgraded versions of the plugins I use in wordpress last night and like witchypoo my blog went a bit haywire! A special thanks to Veronica for giving me the heads up about some errors that were displaying on the blog, now I just need to figure out why commentluv isn’t working […]
It's fun to mystery shop!
Well, today consisted of driving 50 miles away to complete a mystery shop, earn some money and spend some time together. We headed down to cottonwood, I am a mystery shopper in addition to teaching dance at the local high school, being a professional blogger and owning my own business (where you can buy a […]
Our gas bill is how much?
My blood started to boil when I walked into the dining room and peered over N’s shoulder at the gas bill. Last month we paid $55.39 for 40 therms over the course of 2 months, this was November & December. Our new bill is for $208.61!! Apparently we used 170 therms in 32 days… That’s […]
Want to file your taxes for free?
I just about have all my W2’s and 1040’s and am ready to file and get my tax refund. Last year I bought a tax filing program because I was uncomfortable with my ability to file my own business taxes. This year I was looking for a free filing alternative for my tax needs. Those […]
I missed blog for choice day…
I read about blog for choice day over at Sleepless Nights and am sad I missed “the day”, better late than never right? So here I go! I am a very pro choice and cannot believe that so many are okay with giving up their freedom to choose. Freedom is what this country was built […]
Credit and how they are screwing you.
I saw a documentary last night that I highly recommend every American sees, it is called Maxed out. The movie basically illustrates how much of a struggle it is to get out of debt and it’s also illustrates how lucrative debt and debt collection is for creditors and collectors. This movie made me very, very […]
Adventures of traveling the pacific coast highway- Pt. 1 Smores
I just found a company, Trusted Tours & Attractions, that offers popular sightseeing tours and vacations online. I read that you could win a hand held GPS just by signing up for their online newsletter so I signed up and began browsing their available tours. I found a tour of San Francisco that reminded me […]
A fun twist on folding clothes
I found this site that has a great video on folding t-shirts I tried it out and it works great! Makes folding laundry a bit more entertaining… I enjoy the little things, this guy likes the little things too! I found a variation of the t-shirt fold but it is for long sleeved shirts and […]
Laughter can be the best medicine…
I was browsing Bix this morning checking the status of my contest entries and I found the funniest video: [youtube 5P6UU6m3cqk Greatest baby laugh] This baby just has the best laugh, it made me laugh and it got me to thinking about how important it is to have a good laugh. It really can improve […]
What is in your fridge??
I snapped a photo of my fridge in response to Corrin’s post from a while back about fridgewatcher.com. Our fridge is one that seems to always bee full. We live miles from a grocery store and it snows here so we keep food stocked in case we are stuck and unable to get to the […]
Shameless self promotion…
I have never won anything except in raffles that were held at drunken work parties where you ended up winning an extra large logo work shirt that you knew you would never wear. I stand corrected! Several hours later I won the Teeni’s Tiny Shameless Plug Award! Woho!! So I won a web award and […]
You broke your toe? Want to buy a house?
Well, things have been interesting her around the house. We are having dialog with the owners of the home we are renting. Some of you may recall me writing about how the home owners dropped the price on the house we are renting, again and wanted to make sure we knew about it. We had […]
Help me win a MacBook!
I could really use my readers support today! I made a video for a contest by Packet8/ Mobile Talk, you can view the video in my earlier blog post. I really need support in the polls for the contest, if you visit the contest page you can vote for my video and help me win […]
The economy and house prices….
Well, today the owners of the place we are renting made us another offer.. You see when we first agreed to rent this place we were in the middle of contract negotiations and we were interested in buying a home but were not finding anything at the right price. We agreed to rent on a […]
The birds got free and other crazy pet stories…
Well today was quite an eventful day! The school district called another snow day so I didn’t have to teach again today. I slept in a bit and then got up and let the Alexandria Maybelle (our bunny) run around the house. She was jumping and running in her cage and it seemed like she […]