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Ashes… Ashes… They All Fall Down

Posted by: cchellez on: January 28, 2009

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I’m finding out today that life is one massive domino effect. When one thing fucks up, it all fucks up… in succession.

The tax return news came back yesterday as I had suspected. While $2180 in returns is nothing to shake a stick at, its a bitch when your husband has already spent over his half before we even have the check in hand. I’m sure this year will be like the last where the state will take money from our state return (even if he denies that he owes anything) and I’ll be left with maybe $500. Lucky me to marry such a financial winner right? I just want my little vacation in the summer… is that too much to ask?

Daniel also informed me today at lunch that he is no longer allowed to work Saturdays anymore. Translation: $800 gone from our monthly budget that I’ve worked so hard on, and me being stuck trying to pull him out of debt with scraps. I by no stretch of the imagination live outside of my means bill wise. I have my half of the mortgage and house bills, 3 small balance credit cards with $25 a month payments, 3 loans with $50-60 monthly payments and thats it. I’d call that somewhat reasonable if not average. He on the other hand has a list of bills so long I probably need a whole page on my blog to list it out. I can’t even count them on 2 hands… It’s terrible.

Losing $200 a week is really going to hurt us. You think I’m bitching now? I may take up drinking before this is over with.

My lovely dot also makes her visit this week. Let’s pile that into my shit parade while we’re at it.

I’m now stuck in a position where I’m considering giving up on my trip to Dallas in lieu of using the money to pay to keep my water running and my lights on. We aren’t to that point just yet, but I feel it heading that way. I always expect the worse I suppose. Maybe it helps from feeling jaded in the end?

Anna did the gracious thing of reminding me (though indirectly) that its time to start thinking about my garden. It will be my first one so I better make it good. Lots of research and planning before that idea gets off the ground.

I’m off to Micheal’s Craft store in a few to pickup some silver thread and seed beads for my headband project. I hope they have some silver ribbon I actually like…

This workday has been slow, but I’m glad to see it come to an end. Hopefully my night will bring me the rest and relaxation I so desperately need.

❤ Me

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Commitment = Busted!

Posted by: cchellez on: March 25, 2008

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😛 I said to myself last Friday I was going to start blogging on a daily basis… lol that only lasted for like what? A day?

Commitment for me must be a bitch cause I can’t get anything to stick these days.

I think its because all I know is work and school and home. That’s it. Sure I get free time, but what do I fill it with? Books and World of Warcraft. I’m officially a loser. 😛

That’s okay, things are about to change and I can feel it coming. Right after I get Aunt Flo outta the way I might be able to get things done around my place. Not to mention it’s cold as snot outside so I can’t work on house stuff out there til its warmer.

Here’s my spring cleaning list:

Finish cleaning pin oak leaves out of the backyard
Investigate how much it would be to have limbs cut out of the trees in the front yard
Till up the entire yard and plant new grass seed
Finally get my flower bed (its one big one that wraps the house) put in
Get the roof cleaned
Get the guest bedroom/exercise room painted and furniture moved in
Finally finish painting the trim in the house
Work on getting the bathroom repaired

We’ll have to see how much of all that’s going to get done. *sigh* Sometimes I wonder how we make it.

My weekend was pretty uninteresting being that I was stuck up Daniel’s family’s butt all weekend. One day was enough… but two days is one too many. Not to mention the food is all too disgusting and forgettable. Oh I’m cringing just thinking about it. I did get in some good World of Warcraft time so I’m amped about that.

Yesterday I had nothing to do at work so I finished Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward. I had class last night but since I’m so far ahead I got to leave at 6:45 so that was like an hour of my life I’d like back. I read a little and played on the internet. Do you know I could have had 2 loads of laundry done in that hour? That’s what I ended up working on when I got home. The laundry room really is a mess and the washer is going bad…. quick too. We’ve got yellow transmition fluid all under that thing. I can’t wait til we can afford a new one. And no… I’m not using my half of the 4000 IRS refund to do it. Call me selfish, but I want to go to Europe more than I want a washer. 🙂

Maybe when we get our bonus refund check (the one that the president promised us), we’ll get one then. I think we qualify for the maximum amount so it should cover a brand new one.

Here’s to hoping right?

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right when you think it’s complete…

Posted by: cchellez on: February 6, 2008

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… you find ten thousand more things that need to be done.

It’s hump day… not the kind of hump that’s preferable either. 😛 Usually hump day brings about the promise of the work week being half over. For myself, it feels as if it has only just begun. Oh yes! Monday has ever so deviously snuck into my Wednesday!

I wake at 6:45 this morning to find that my all too brief “nap” from 1:00 am til the alarm sounded was much too short for my liking. While the thought crossed my mind of calling in for a real “hump day” 🙂 I decided against that judgement and proceeded to snooze another 15 minutes. Ah, the 15 minutes you think will carry you through the rest of the day. Nothing like me, Daniel and of course Lexi passed out between us in the bed. 7:00 am comes… bah! Work indeed…

So I’ve made it to work, which at the current moment I wouldn’t call it work. It’s more like a prison cell I get to sit in for 8 hours a day and get paid for it. I’ve finished reading an entire novel in 2 days, managed to invoice for the month and still be throughly bored. The only excitement that fills my first half of the week is the fact that we are being audited by the state for sales tax and the ever growing anger and desire to shred heads over at MCI. Yes… the phone company. While my job may seem boring, it is centralized around the fact that I have to answer phones all day in order to receive and process orders for the company. When the phones don’t work… I don’t work. And while a blessing to most normal Americans, it’s torture for my happy ass. I sit here and contemplate about a million other things I’d rather be doing than staring at the computer or sitting in solitude. I mean I just bought a house for Christ’s sake!

Now I’m down to an hour to go. Do you ever get that feeling at the end of the day that the nights are growing way too short even for your private life? I drive home and it takes about 20 to 25 minutes to get there. By that time is 5:15 and dinner needs to be fixed along with a shower and taking care of the dog. Not to mention cleaning and getting things moved into the house. Painting, hanging pictures, changing lightbulbs… everything. There’s always more to do than you can ever fit in your evening. And by the time you relax, its 10 pm and you won’t be able to sleep for the next 3 hours if you lay down.

So now that I’ve had my little rant… I’m going to make my little to do list: