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June 25th, 2009

Timeout For Thursday Thunks

I know I’ve lacked blog posts this week, but that’s because I really haven’t wanted to sit here constantly whining about Hubby getting laid off, having no money, and all that. Next week I’ll have plenty of baby talk since we’ll be heading to the doc on Wednesday and hopefully scheduling the next ultrasound.

Today I decided to do something a little different to, if nothing else, lighten my mood a little while providing you with something that doesn’t consist of another “poor us” post. Today I present a meme since I haven’t participated in any memes in awhile. This one is called Thursday Thunks, and it seems quite interesting. Plus we all know I love memes that ask me questions instead of just requiring that I do something on my own. I’m just too lazy for that right now!

thursdaythunks.jpgAnywho, off to the meme!

1. Someone knocks at your door. You answer it. It’s a kid from the local school selling candy bars for a fundraiser. Do you buy one?

That depends on what I’m craving at the moment and what kind of candy bar it is. If they’ve got The World’s Finest Chocolate Almond Bars I’m scraping together enough change to buy one…or two.

2. The end of the world is tomorrow and you are out of milk – do you go buy some?

I think if the world was ending tomorrow I’d be thinking of a lot of things other than milk.

3. Have you ever picked up the phone and called someone that you hadn’t talked to in years?

There have been a few times, but only after running into the person and getting back in touch with them. I don’t just pick up the phone to call random people I haven’t heard from in forever. If I haven’t heard from someone in years there’s probably a reason.

4. Whats on your computer desktop background?

A picture of the cat and dog sleeping together on the couch.

5. What was the very first movie you saw in a movie theater?

I have no clue. I’m sure it was something with my parents when I was too young to really know what was going on.


6. If you had to take a 10th grade science test, do you think you would pass?

Yep. Bring it on! I’d fail every other subject, but science is the one I think I’d pass.

7. Describe heaven.

Wow. That’s a big one isn’t it? I don’t know if I believe in the whole pearly gates and all that, but I believe heaven is so beautiful it is indescribable.

8. Has a place that you lived ever been infested with some sort of insect or rodent?

The apartment we had years ago had roaches no matter how hard we tried to get rid of them. They moved in before us and refused to leave, but that was before our best friend took over the family extermination business. Now nothing stands a chance in our house!

9. When you were a youngin’, did you hide in the clothes racks at department stores?

Of course! I’d jump out and scare the old people, too!…until my mom caught me and made me stop.

10. Is there anything in your vehicle that is broken?

I’ve got a Blazer, so that automatically means lots of things are broken! You know you’re a Blazer owner if…

  • the driver’s side seat lever is broken.
  • the passenger side seat lever is broken.
  • the power mirror switch is broken.

I’m sure the list could go on, but it’d be about 15 pages.
11. What is something in your house that people would be surprise to find?

I think the Barbie doll collection would probably suffice. No, I don’t collect Barbies. My Grandma gives me one for Christmas every year, and she’s threatened to remove my head if I get rid of them. I guess technically my Grandma is collecting Barbies (and cluttering my house) through me.

12. Do you agree with the death penalty?

Yes.

13. Whats your favorite type of bear?

Polar Bear.

14. Where was the last place you went?

In general or vacation? The last vacation was our trip to Washington, DC, then to Pigeon Forge. The last place I went was too The Dollar General last night. I haven’t left the house today.

15. What if that person knocking at your door earlier was an adult selling candy bars… would you buy one?

That still depends on my mood, my cravings, and what kind of candy bars are being sold.

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June 17th, 2009

Waving Goodbye To My Money

Paying attention to detailAt least the bills are paid, and I can sit back and relax for another week without stressing about it.  Actually with Hubby’s work situation right now I thought I’d be stressing about money constantly, but things have seemed to work themselves out. 

He’s not going to be constantly out of work for 5 weeks like we thought.  He’s getting to work about every other day to every 2 days now depending on when materials are delivered and stuff like that.  It’s leaving us with enough of a paycheck to definitely keep the bills paid, and that’s keeping me from stressing out.  It definitely wouldn’t be good for the munchkin if I was stressed to high heaven.

Luckily I also tend to forget when I stash cash away for emergencies sometimes or even for a let’s go on vacation fund.  I’ll stick a little cash in an envelope in a drawer or a book, and I’ll forget about it until I decide to go on a major cleaning spree.  That’s happened again this time, and I’ve found quite a few little hiding spots I had forgotten about that I must have tucked money into last year when we were saving for a vacation.  We ended up taking advantage of some great travel deals that saved us a lot of cash, so I never really needed to go looking for what I’d tucked away.

I know it’s a bad habit, and I really need to stop it. I just hate sticking that extra cash in the bank because I know it’ll end up getting spent whether I want it to or not. Even my savings account gets raided during critical times, but I always knows I can most likely find some hidden cash around here somewhere when times get tough.  Of course with the baby on the way I seriously doubt I’ll have the extra funds to tuck away like I would have in the past, so that’ll help me kick the money hiding habit. 

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June 12th, 2009

Please Stop Calling

Wow. I can finally say today has been a nice normal day except for the fact the dog is sick and has puked in every room of the house.  Poor guy’s stomach is all messed up, but it’s not something new that worries me.  He’s got some serious allergies, and when his allergies flair up so does his stomach.  I called the vet to double check, then I gave him his usual dose of Benadryl.  He’s not running a fever, so we’re not going to give him anything else unless we have to.

Now if my phone would stop ringing I’d probably be able to lay down for a nap, but I’ve gotten 4 calls today from a company trying to sell us Medicare supplement insurance. That’s all fine and dandy, but I don’t need it because I’m not with medicare. I applied for medicaid since we don’t have insurance to cover the pregnancy, but other than that we don’t have anything to do with medicare.

I have a feeling it’s probably got something to do with my sister-in-law. She’s on disability, and she has medicare. She used to live with us years ago…and I mean like 6-7 years ago…when we had an apartment, but that was not only in another town but was in another county. For some reason we still receive hospital stuff for her, though, and sometimes junk mail from companies trying to sell her supplemental stuff. I can understand that, but I don’t understand how these people got my personal cell phone number and think I’m on medicare. I explained I’m not and to take me off their list, but they’ve called 3 more times today. Each time they’ve told me it can take up to 48 hours for my number to be removed from the system, so they keep calling back.

Honestly I think it’s one of those work at home things where the people get a list of numbers to call that day, and half the time 10 people have the same list. I know how that works because I did a short trial as a cold caller for one such medical company, and it only took me a couple weeks to realize it was something I definitely didn’t want to do. I got tired real quick of getting yelled at because I was the 4th or 5th person to call someone that day. Now that I think about it I do think it was one of those type companies because I definitely remember hearing something that sounded like a kid in the background of one of those calls.

Ya know I have no problem with a stay at home mom trying to make a little extra cash anyway she can. Honestly look at me. I do the same thing, and I’m not even a stay at home mom yet, but when it comes to the cold calling, don’t call me, especially on my cell phone.

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June 10th, 2009

Sigh

Do you ever think nothing will ever go right again?  I’ve definitely had one of those weeks, and it’s only Wednesday.  So much stuff has gone wrong this week it’s unbelievable.  At first we thought Hubby would be out of work for 5 weeks, but at least that turned itself around somehow.  Now we know he’ll only be out 2-3 weeks at most, and that’s a big relief.

Now I’m working on making sure the window motor gets replaced in the driver door on the Blazer since it went out on us yesterday, the window is stuck in the down position, and there’s rain on it’s way.  There’s a way to manually raise the thing, but it’s a royal pain to do.  Then again this is why mechanics charge outrageous amounts to fix it.  The part is relatively cheap, but just getting into the door is a task.

First of all the Blazer has one of those alarm systems that disables the ignition if anything is tampered with in any way. It’ll also screw things up if you disconnect the battery without disarming it, but it’s not as simple as just hitting a button to disarm it like most alarm systems. You have to do all kinda stuff in a specific order or you’ll screw everything up. I don’t even mess with it as that’s Hubby’s domain.

Then actually tearing into the door was a nightmare. Hubby’s done this twice now so at least he knew what to do, but it’s a pain trying to pop everything apart without messing anything up. After he got inside the door the manual totally contradicts itself. The procedure for raising the window tells you to lower the window fully then to disconnect the regulator by following the directions in another chapter. When you get to the directions for the regulator it tells you the window much be raised all the way up and taped in place before you can drill out the rivets to remove the regulator. It’s like how the heck am I supposed to raise the window when you’re telling me I have to have it already raised to remove the regulator, but you’re telling me to remove the regulator to raise it!

Yeah this is why I’m just as confused as you are at this point, and if I could afford to there’s no way I’d be sitting there reading Hubby the directions on how to do this when I could just pay someone else to do it. Unfortunately that’s just not an option right now, but neither is leaving the window down with rain headed this way.

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