Box of Chocolates

This weekend has been long. Started Friday at 7:15 am with a delivery of roofing material, a call (in which I had to make) told me the roof was being done on early Saturday morning, broken AC, an evening with a phone call that said we wouldn't be able to close on the new house on Monday (tomorrow), Roof banging for two days, the "normal" church on Sunday, a phone call to my grandmother to find her not in 100% health and has ended with everyone in bed, but me. So here I sit contemplating the weekend and just life in general. here is what I am thinking...... The house although it appeals to my senses is senseless! as in definition #2 (esp. of violent or wasteful action) without discernible meaning or purpose . Well it has a little bit of purpose as in we need a house but it is just a house! I have a lots of people to call tomorrow because of one person? It is amazing to me how one person can cause so much havoc. It only takes one and there seems to always be that...

I have so many random things going on. I need to vent, soap box, just write it down. Enjoy! UPS delivered a great check today. Profit from our house sale. Wish they delivered these kind of checks everyday. AT&T sent a rebate in the form of a debt card. Have you ever used one? I now know to spend the whole amount at once but GESH, how cheesy! Allstate was cheap! Sorry USAA moving car over too to save almost $600 a year. Same coverage lots of savings. AND the savings because we no longer live in Florida is amazing. Auto is half as much a year and home owners is less than $800 for the year. I couldn't believe it that is over $1000 less than Florida and we had cheap insurance in Fl. Our homeowners went up to over $3000 one year with Citizens. No wonder there are so many foreclosed houses in Florida. Insurance went up from $700 to the highest at over $3000 in a ten year period. NUTS! The federal law that will not let you get information unless your name on the bill is...

This weekend we did a spontaneous trip to Ellijay, GA. It was a nice weekend that ended too soon. Mark has a very flexible schedule within certain guidelines. All that to say we had a long weekend with not much to do. Living in a rental there isn't much to do and it seems like we are just waiting around for house closings to happen. We decided after a friend called and said they would be in Ellijay this weekend (only three hours from us) we decided to stalk them. On Thursday night Mark found a place to stay and we left Saturday. Only because there was supposed to be a company picnic Friday night that got rescheduled or we would have left Friday. It was a beautiful cabin in the mountains. It wasn't the easiest to get to, well leaving the cabin on our little town trips was harder. Toward the middle of the weekend when we would leave we would count down and yell "blast off". That is when Mark would floor the van just to make it up the mountain. It was not pr...

I was a little bothered at first that I am not going to be on the loan for the new house.  Not because I want to be or that I wanted to sign a ton of paper.  I will be on the title which is what matters. Here is the kicker, I don't make any money therefore I don't have to be on the loan. OUCH!  I might not make money but my contribution to this household is not so black and white.  I don't really care to sign paperwork needlessly,  it just rubbed my fur the wrong way.    There is this ornery side of me.  That was your warning.  Here it comes...... The boastful side AKA pride that wants to say, hey wait I have a masters degree. I can get a good job.  I am capable of income.  What do people think I do all day FB, blog, and eat dark chocolate.  I do have three children that have to be cared for almost 24/7, it's not like I sit around all day and do nothing.  I deserve to be on the loan even if I don't make any income. That is where GOD strikes me down and says "al...