So far this week our bank balance is in the black. Awesome! Yeah, not really. I have 22 miles left in the van, and I know Bill is running low. Tonight is Church. This is the second time we've missed Church because we couldn't afford gas. Wonderful right?
alright, today is a different day than the previous paragraph. Infact, that was last night. This morning I put $2 in the gas tank. TWO WHOLE DOLLARS. Hey, it worked out. So, we have a whopping $.62 in the bank. ALRIGHTY! PARTY!
Good news though, I got my financial aide straightened out.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Been a long time since I......
well, the answer certainly isn't "rock and rolled". Rock and roll is a part of this house all day everyday. Even today Zsusanna busted out the violin and played some rock for us! Woo Hoo! Rockin' on the violin! Anywho... I have a bad habit of going long periods of time and not blogging. BAD BLOGGER, BAD BAD BLOGGER.
Recently I've considered selling stuff on etsy. WHAT? ME? noooo, not possibly true. I've always wanted to make money
on crocheting. I LOVE to crochet, and it is relaxing (unless the dog runs away with my skein and knots it up.)
I see so many people on there selling their wares, and I think....I could do that-couldn't I? Bill asked me today, how long would it take me to make a snowman. It would take a day if I sat my butt down and did it from start to finish, not surfing the net, not checking out the forums, not playing WoW. Yes, if I sat down and treated it like a job, I bet I could make SOME kind of money off my goods. Problem is... me.
I enjoy what I do, when I do it. I don't have a set pattern that I follow, I make it up as I go along. That means, I don't ususally get the same item twice. Snowmen, well, that is a LITTLE bit different, because a ball is a ball, unless I think I wanna change it up, then I get like, oh, an oval or something.
So, although it is true that I could probably make a little money on the side selling my incredibly wonderful stuff, I know myself, and I'm a bit lazy. Yes, I said it, and I put it right out there on that table. Hey, at least I admit to it. No trying to sugar coat anything. I'm good at my job, I bust my butt at my job, when I get home at the end of the day, I'm tired and I don't want to be pressured into making something. If I WANT to make something, that is completely different. However, I fear that if I make something because I'm going to sell it, that I will become so anal retentive about it having to be perfect, I just may make everyone's life a living nightmare. On the other hand, because I know it may only take me a day to put an item fully together from start to finish, I may put it off and put it off, and then when I realize I only have "X" amount of time to go, then I"ll bust my butt to finish, just barely making the deadline, and still being anal about things not looking right, and then having to listen to whomever (myself) berate me by telling me "If you had started this earlier, you wouldn't feel like this." Sounds like I know myself pretty well huh?
I know I can do this. I KNOW I can do this. I'm not stupid by any means, and I make pretty good stuff; but why doesn't that translate any farther than my mouth? Why can't I realize it? Hmmm, something to think about maybe. However, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to make money on my "wares". See my issue?
ahhh, if only it were that easy to convince myself of my own worth.
Recently I've considered selling stuff on etsy. WHAT? ME? noooo, not possibly true. I've always wanted to make money
on crocheting. I LOVE to crochet, and it is relaxing (unless the dog runs away with my skein and knots it up.)
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| Making the Grab! |
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| Making a run for it! |
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| What the blue looked like when we got it back |
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| "Ooooh, I got it again!" |
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| Not giving it up so easy this time |
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| and this is him trying to run away with the white. See what he did to the blue? |
I see so many people on there selling their wares, and I think....I could do that-couldn't I? Bill asked me today, how long would it take me to make a snowman. It would take a day if I sat my butt down and did it from start to finish, not surfing the net, not checking out the forums, not playing WoW. Yes, if I sat down and treated it like a job, I bet I could make SOME kind of money off my goods. Problem is... me.
I enjoy what I do, when I do it. I don't have a set pattern that I follow, I make it up as I go along. That means, I don't ususally get the same item twice. Snowmen, well, that is a LITTLE bit different, because a ball is a ball, unless I think I wanna change it up, then I get like, oh, an oval or something.
So, although it is true that I could probably make a little money on the side selling my incredibly wonderful stuff, I know myself, and I'm a bit lazy. Yes, I said it, and I put it right out there on that table. Hey, at least I admit to it. No trying to sugar coat anything. I'm good at my job, I bust my butt at my job, when I get home at the end of the day, I'm tired and I don't want to be pressured into making something. If I WANT to make something, that is completely different. However, I fear that if I make something because I'm going to sell it, that I will become so anal retentive about it having to be perfect, I just may make everyone's life a living nightmare. On the other hand, because I know it may only take me a day to put an item fully together from start to finish, I may put it off and put it off, and then when I realize I only have "X" amount of time to go, then I"ll bust my butt to finish, just barely making the deadline, and still being anal about things not looking right, and then having to listen to whomever (myself) berate me by telling me "If you had started this earlier, you wouldn't feel like this." Sounds like I know myself pretty well huh?
I know I can do this. I KNOW I can do this. I'm not stupid by any means, and I make pretty good stuff; but why doesn't that translate any farther than my mouth? Why can't I realize it? Hmmm, something to think about maybe. However, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to make money on my "wares". See my issue?
ahhh, if only it were that easy to convince myself of my own worth.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
blah-ity blah blah blah blech
I just feel so...meh
I also feel buggy. You know the feeling you get when you feel like bugs are crawling all over you, but they are not? Like you just found out your close friends have lice, but you have not been able to go home and check youself out. Grrrrrr, I feel nasty buggy. (no, nobody has bugs)
I didn't take my meds last night, because it was too late to take them when I got home. I wanted to be able to wake up in the morning and go to work. Really, it was only one night; but today (tonight actually) I feel really on edge, and irritated, and blah. I seem to have a short fuse. Withdrawls...gotta love em right? WRONG I hate them. ick.
So, we cut all the bills down and we STILL don't have enough money to pay everything. I was suppose to go tomorrow and get my background check done for nursing school. Doesn't look like we'll be doing that. First, I don't have enough gas to get me through the weekend, and second, we don't have the money to pay the $50 for the fee. Love life. It keeps throwing punches, but we keep bobin' and weavin'
I should be doing my Visiting teaching, or making a grocery list; you know-useful things...but I just feel so eh.
Stephanie wants me to teach her German. Zsusanna is suppose to be helping me learn more Spanish. When I try to recall Spanish phrases, the first thing that pops into my mind is German. :-( I'd say I'm too old to learn anything, but that's a crock and I know it. I'm still young enough...but I feel so overwhelmed really. Lots going on. At least, I feel like I have lots going on. Probably not as much as other people have going on-but for us I feel like it's a lot.
Picking up Stephanie from school every day REALLY sucks. I hate it. They won't let the kids walk to their cars any more, so I have to go through "the circle". I hate the circle. I don't even leave the house until Stephanie is OUT of school. Even then when I get there-the place is still packed. I hate it.
Tuesday is cheerleading, and Wednesday is Church and dance class.
Add work to any and every one of these days.
I keep getting side-tracked by Ghost Whisperer. Stephanie is watching, and I don't wanna watch, but it's interesting. Oh well, guess I'm gonna resign myself to watching the rest of it.
I'll worry about our "money problems" later.
I also feel buggy. You know the feeling you get when you feel like bugs are crawling all over you, but they are not? Like you just found out your close friends have lice, but you have not been able to go home and check youself out. Grrrrrr, I feel nasty buggy. (no, nobody has bugs)
I didn't take my meds last night, because it was too late to take them when I got home. I wanted to be able to wake up in the morning and go to work. Really, it was only one night; but today (tonight actually) I feel really on edge, and irritated, and blah. I seem to have a short fuse. Withdrawls...gotta love em right? WRONG I hate them. ick.
So, we cut all the bills down and we STILL don't have enough money to pay everything. I was suppose to go tomorrow and get my background check done for nursing school. Doesn't look like we'll be doing that. First, I don't have enough gas to get me through the weekend, and second, we don't have the money to pay the $50 for the fee. Love life. It keeps throwing punches, but we keep bobin' and weavin'
I should be doing my Visiting teaching, or making a grocery list; you know-useful things...but I just feel so eh.
Stephanie wants me to teach her German. Zsusanna is suppose to be helping me learn more Spanish. When I try to recall Spanish phrases, the first thing that pops into my mind is German. :-( I'd say I'm too old to learn anything, but that's a crock and I know it. I'm still young enough...but I feel so overwhelmed really. Lots going on. At least, I feel like I have lots going on. Probably not as much as other people have going on-but for us I feel like it's a lot.
Picking up Stephanie from school every day REALLY sucks. I hate it. They won't let the kids walk to their cars any more, so I have to go through "the circle". I hate the circle. I don't even leave the house until Stephanie is OUT of school. Even then when I get there-the place is still packed. I hate it.
Tuesday is cheerleading, and Wednesday is Church and dance class.
Add work to any and every one of these days.
I keep getting side-tracked by Ghost Whisperer. Stephanie is watching, and I don't wanna watch, but it's interesting. Oh well, guess I'm gonna resign myself to watching the rest of it.
I'll worry about our "money problems" later.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Watching General Conference
1. forget not to be patient with yourself
2. forget not the difference between a good sacrifice and a poor sacrifice
3. forget not how to be happy now
4. forget not the WHY of the gospel
5. forget not, that the Lord loves you
These were the points made by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf tonight at the Womens Session.
2. forget not the difference between a good sacrifice and a poor sacrifice
3. forget not how to be happy now
4. forget not the WHY of the gospel
5. forget not, that the Lord loves you
These were the points made by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf tonight at the Womens Session.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Life as we know it
Is about to change in approxamately 3 months. I recieved my confirmation letter from HCC for the nursing program.
But right now, I'm not exactly thinking about that. I'm thinking of the spiritual well being of my family.
I'm to angry/hurt/mad/confused/pissed/heart broken to blog right now. Guess we'll all have to wait out the "emotion" storm Amber is about to go through to see what's going on, and how I'm going to handle it. Probably the same way as always, so we end up right back here. Just sit and wait and see if anything changes, knowing FULL WELL it won't.
amazing how I planned on blogging about nursing school, but the kids got me side tracked to something completely different.
But right now, I'm not exactly thinking about that. I'm thinking of the spiritual well being of my family.
I'm to angry/hurt/mad/confused/pissed/heart broken to blog right now. Guess we'll all have to wait out the "emotion" storm Amber is about to go through to see what's going on, and how I'm going to handle it. Probably the same way as always, so we end up right back here. Just sit and wait and see if anything changes, knowing FULL WELL it won't.
amazing how I planned on blogging about nursing school, but the kids got me side tracked to something completely different.
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