I love days like today

I had the most productive day.  I haven’t felt like doing much lately, but today, I had a plan.  I picked the kids up at their dad’s this morning at 9:00, and when we got home, we went straight to work. Bekah pulled all of the annuals out of the flower beds.  JJ and I [...]

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Big Weekend Plans (Part Three)

Remember my Big Weekend Plans from two weeks ago?  The ones that I didn’t get done because I ended up buying a new car?  Well, I’m going to try again.  Since the new car is at the dealer getting detailed and having a few minor repairs done, here’s the list of things (in addition to the [...]

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Big Weekend Plans (Part Deux)

Looking over the list of chores I set out to accomplish this weekend, I realize that no where on that list was “Buy A New Car.” However, after taking Dawn’s advice over at Fighting Foreclosure on How to keep your car on the road, that’s exactly what I did yesterday. I dropped the van off [...]

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Big Weekend Plans

Dawn over at Fighting Foreclosure had a post this week about performing routine maintenance on your vehicle.  Since it was time for an oil change and tire rotation, I booked an appointment at the garage for tomorrow, throwing in a diagnosis of the transmission (it’s shifting really hard from first to second,) and the steering wheel [...]

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I hate grocery shopping

There.  I’ve admitted it.  It’s the first step to recovery, right?  Admitting you have a problem. I hate spending my precious time walking up and down aisles, comparing unit costs, figuring out if using a coupon for item X is better than buying item Y without a coupon. I HATE taking my children to the [...]

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Seriously?

I got home from work tonight, and there was the dreaded yellow door-hangy thing on the door knob from the maintenance department. When inspections were done this year it was noted that your bathroom ceiling needed painting. We will be here on Tuesday, the 23rd of Dec. to perform this. Please have the bathroom cleaned [...]

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Just in the nick of time

Our town provides leaf pick up service.  All you have to do is rake your leaves to the street, and they come by with big vacuums and big trucks and suck your leaves away. If you don’t take advantage of this free service, then you have to buy brown craft bags and rake and bag [...]

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