Always something eating at my wallet!

Well, it's that time of the year again that I dread. It's time to renew the auto insurance. The monthly payment isn't so bad. It's just that annual down-payment that always seems to eat a hole in the wallet. Why can't you just have an on-going payment? Why must there be an end to the policy and then have to renew with an entirely new down-payment. It really gets my goat. Well, thankfully I'm not having to renew rv insurance. I can't even imagine what the down-payment and monthly payment would be for that!

Change?

Ever regret a vote after you've cast it? That's where I am now. I'm not sure that I made the right choice in my vote. So many things are happening and honestly, I'm not sure I'm happy with them. But ya know...what can ya do? I know we all have a voice, but seriously, I'm a very small cog in a very large wheel. I think my main concern right now is affordable health insurance for EVERYONE, myself included. I'd love to be able to go to the doctor when I get ill or go and get my vision checked. I'd love to be able to see if the bone in the top of my foot is actually broken (like I think it is). But for now, I'll just continue on like I always have....I'll make it and I'll do whatever I have to do to keep making it. I just hope that "change" comes soon!

Clean-up time

So I spent the whole day cleaning today. Fun, fun. The kitchen has been done from top to bottom. I even scrubbed the ceramic tiles that make up the kitchen floor, one by one. Tomorrow I will tackle my bedroom. That'll be a huge undertaking. The boyfriend has made a shambles of it and his crap is EVERYWHERE. It's driving me nuts. I'm ready to throw all of his belongings into a few storage totes and haul it to the garage. He enjoys spending so much time in the garage, let him go play with all of his belongings out there! *sigh*

Gonna rehaul it!

When it comes to redoing rooms in the house, the bathrooms are the rooms that I seem to have the most difficulty with. I just never know where to begin. That being said, I want to redo my bathroom. I want to give it a complete overhaul. I've been searching on betterbathrooms.com and I like what I see. From lighting fixtures to bathroom tiles, it's making me like a kid in the candy store. I'm loving everything. I'm totally excited now about redoing my bathroom. I literally can't wait to get started and make it look like the room in my house that can almost be a showcase room. I want to get new bathroom fixtures and I also want to get a new medicine cabinet. From there, I'll just work on accessories in the form of rugs, candles, a beautiful shower curtain and some great curtains. It's going to be a work in progress. I can't get everything in one fell swoop but I'll get there. After that I plan on tackling my bedroom. I need to get my boyfriend some organizational cabinets or something. He has stuff everywhere and it's driving me nuts. I think I'll need to do the same in the bathroom for all of his beauty supplies. I swear, the man is worse than any woman!!!

Total redo!

I've been revamping the house. The ENTIRE house. Today I went through the entire downstairs and did a major rehaul. Next weekend I'll be doing the upstairs. That'll take a lot more work. The kids have turned their areas into war zones. I'll need to find a few stainless steel drums to load up all of their junk into. Maybe I can seal them up and have hazmat come and pick it up! Boys are horrible to clean up after, that's for sure! It'll get done though. I have a week off during the first week of November and I'm going to put it good use!

Hot!

I'm glad it's heading into the cool time of the year. The air conditioning is not working on the car and it's driving me crazy. Yesterday it was nice to drive around without sweating like a construction worker in the middle of the desert. I need to check out the prices of auto accessories to see how difficult it'd be to find the small little part that is preventing the air from working. It's sometimes the minor things that can be the most major though.

Shrinking violet

I hate my kitchen sinks. Hate 'em with a passion! They're so deep and my arms are not all that long. I've literally got to stand on a step stool so that when I scour them, I can reach all the way down in. How sad is that? Maybe I'm just shrinking. Nah...that can't be it! That doesn't start to happen until one is past 60 or so right??

Time to listen to me

These days, you've got to have a gimmick with your business. Times are tough. Everyone is in competition for the new customer or client. My boyfriend is going through this very thing with trying to get his business up and running. It's really dog eat dog out there. I told him to look into business gifts. Give the client a little something with the business logo on it or something. They'll be far more apt to remember him when they've got a cool can cozy or something like that. At least that's what I think. I'm always one who loves getting little gifts from businesses. But that's just me. We'll see if he listens to me. He rarely does...unless it's me calling him for dinner! *sigh*

Gotta Quit Procrastinating!

I don't like doing outside work. I always put it off until it can absolutely no longer be part of my procrastination plan. My wicker furniture on my front porch really needs to be repainted. I also need to find some new outdoor pillows for the furniture. I'll have to be certain to check for critters first. It seems the lizards enjoy the furniture as much as I do and they love to sit on the cushions in the afternoon sun. Glad they enjoy it because it gives me the creeps thinking about sharing a seat with one of them!

Three Days In A Row

This is officially my favorite song right now. I've been a huge fan of Anouk for quite some time but this new album that she just came out with last week...I adore! I've found myself playing her music for 2-3 hours solid when I'm just relaxing in my bedroom. I bet you'll like her as well!

Always something

My mom's computer crashed the other day. It's just over one year old and the mother board went kapooot! She tried to call customer service but that wasn't very successful. Seems that the maker of this computer does call center outsourcing and she really wasn't able to get any satisfaction as this person wasn't even in the country. The computer's manufacturer did tell her that they'd happily repair it for $400 or something outlandish like that. I say she finds a local computer repair shop and start there. At least help out the small business person and keep the money in the community. But what do I know?!

Bring It

I'm so ready for summer to be over! I'm tired of being hot. I'm tired of having to run the air conditioner. I'm tired of $400 electric bills. Simply put, I'm tired of summer. Bring on the cool temps! Bring on the crisp morning air. Bring on the open windows and a light jacket in the evenings! This is Florida. We'll never get a genuine fall but I'll settle for whatever I can get at this point!

A smelly situation

The guy I've recently started seeing is a cigar smoker. It's not a constant thing like some people smoke cigarettes, but it's often enough. He takes his cigars very seriously too. He's been known to spend big money on just one cigar. He also does some purchasing of cigars online. I just need to figure out a plan to get past the cigar smell. I hate it. It almost nauseates me from the instant he lights it up. I've taken to just shutting myself away inside the house while I relegate him to the patio with his cigar. So far it works, but it does cut down on our communication a bit!

Not cool!

It seems like every single night we end up eating dinner later and later. And now school is beginning in just one week. That is going to set the schedules into even more turmoil. We'll be lucky if we eat by 10 p.m. every night. Ok, so it won't be that late, but still. All of this late evening eating is not good for my weight loss efforts. Whatever I eat just sticks right with me as I'm not doing anything to work it off because I'm basically heading to bed shortly after dinner. Not cool. I'm going to have to search out some Fenphedra or get on NutriSystem or something. I've lost too much weight and finally happy with my clothing sizes to start inching back up again.

Searching high and low

I've just spent the last 6 hours pouring through family "artifacts" and trying to start working together some sort of family tree. I've found out quite a few interesting things about my great grandparents and my great-great grandparents. I'm trying to do most of my digging into the UK records. I seem to have more luck than with the U.S. searches. Now if my grandfather would have just had a less common British surname, things would be a whole lot easier. Do you know how many Beresford listings there are on the genealogy sites? Seems like a trillion although it's roughly a thousand or so and with about 700 of them being in the same county that my grandfather is from. I'll keep digging though. I'm hoping to find some relatives over in the UK. It'd be nice to visit some day and have a beer with them at the local pub.

Moving on up

Well, my parents are moving back to Pennsylvania. I guess they really miss it up there. Thankfully, they won't need to look into long distance moving companies because their friends are flying down here, renting a truck, and then driving the truck back to Pennsylvania and my parents are flying up. I guess they are leaving in mid-October. Right in time for fall leaves and whatnot. Speaking of fall...I'm more than ready for Florida's version of the cool temperatures. I've had enough heat! No more thanks!!

I can dream

So a friend of mine just returned from Rhodes, Greece. Another friend just returned from a lengthy over-seas vacation as well. I want to go on vacation! I want to pack up my Samsonite luggage and hit the dusty trail. Well, proverbially speaking only. I really would like to hit the airport and get on a nice air conditioned plane that will take me somewhere exotic. Preferably Greece. Or maybe Italy. I'm inclined to want to spend some time in Turkey as well. However, today, I will go to work, earn my little salary and just dream of vacation!

Decisions

I'm still having that inner battle with myself. Desktop computer versus laptop computer. I feel the need to have BOTH! Right now I have just a laptop but I miss my desktops. I haven't owned one in about three years now. But before a laptop, it's all I ever had. I'm thinking of breaking down and buying another one. However this time, it shall be a MAC! I think I've gone over to the light!

Not again!

It's Monday. Again. Unfortunately Monday keeps slapping me in the face every 7 days and there's no getting away from it! I can't believe there hasn't been some sort of software development that erases Monday from all computers, thereby making it non-existent! I mean, really! We can put a man on the moon but we can't get rid of Monday? Let's work on this shall we?!

New but good changes

I recently started dating someone new and I have to say, I'm pretty happy with this guy. It seems like we both want the same things in life. He's never had kids (like me) so it's kinda cool to see him interact with my niece and nephews. It makes me think of how good of a father he'd be. I mean, don't get me wrong... I'm in no way, shape or form ready to order any types of birth announcements, but it is cool to watch a guy interact with kids. It gives you a great perspective as to how they'd be with their own. Now if I can just get him to stop snoring, everything will be GREAT!!