It was a pretty long weekend for me.  I haven’t been feeling very well and we’re still cleaning up the house in order to get everything ready for Christmas this year.  Unfortunately a very unwanted house guest will be arriving on Saturday but for the sake of being respectful, and civil, I’m going to spend the next week getting everything completely cleaned up in the house so that the place isn’t a complete and total mess. We pulled a lot of boxes out of the closet because Karen has quite a few holiday decorations that I was unaware of.  I’m…more»

I should probably stop watching TV channels such as TLC and HGTV.  I’m now itching to do some search into an affordable rate on a mortgage so I can go out and buy the house of my dreams.  As of right now, however, I’m not sure if Sean and I could really handle a very high volume of money leaving our bank account on a monthly basis.  The average mortgage payment is about $800 a month down here, on top of that there’s electric, gas, water, sewer, cable, credit cards, and numerous other expenses that keep us on our toes…more»

A big box showed up in the mail yesterday addressed to Sean.  He wouldn’t let me read the shipping slip, let alone open the box.  I’m itching to find out what’s in there but he informed me that it’s my Christmas gift and I guess I’ll have to do some real snooping around over the course of the next 23 days.  I’m excited to find out what it is, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out sooner or later.  I already know that he bought me something from Zales but it’s hard to hide a FedEx box when I go…more»

Come Monday I’ll be doing some pretty heavy duty holiday shopping. I don’t like waiting until the last minute, by then it’s slim pickings at almost every store, everywhere. I did read that more than 30% of all of the holiday shopping this season will be done online so I want to assume that there won’t really be many people at the mall this coming Monday. I’m just going to cross my fingers in hopes that I’ll be able to find everything I’m looking for.  Sean is fairly easy to shop for, but he drops hints for quite some time…more»

Last night Sean and I went over to the tree lighting downtown.  Driving down the main strip you’re greeted with gorgeous lights wrapped around the poles, and even the mechanical reindeer that many people have on their lawns during the Christmas season.  All of the store fronts are filled with lights and over crowded with people looking to see the tree from every possible location on the street surrounding the tree.  Then you hear the countdown and turn your head as quickly as possible expecting to see something spectacular, you then realize it wasn’t worth the trip. Now, I don’t…more»

On Saturday we packed up a few suitcases as well as the dogs and headed to a hotel in the area.  Karen and I dropped a bomb in the house and Sean couldn’t be around for it because the dust in the air would be enough to kill him with how bad his asthma is.  Now, I’d personally prefer to just drop a fogger from Walmart and call it a day but she (who reads too much into EVERYTHING) is convinced that the fogger would either kill the dogs or not kill the fleas and a whole other mess of…more»

Thanksgiving is around the corner, Sean and I are going to spend a quiet evening at home with a Turkey, all the fixings and of course Bella waiting patiently under the table for scraps of food to fall.  I’m still behind on getting things accomplished due to a lack of a computer these days.  We’re in the process of packing up the house so we can bomb and my only computer as of right now is the desktop, so that’s why I’m sitting on Sean’s right now.  My laptop is on the verge of death, the battery is dying on…more»

I know I haven’t been around much but there’s a lot going on with family as well as the living situation right now, so it’s certainly taking it’s toll on me. I’m still in search of a home for hubby and I.  We got the unfortunate news that the complex we were looking to move into is currently between owners and no one really knows what the outcome will be when the new owners finally do get their hands on the grounds there.  So we’re back to looking in Delaware, we’re not overly happy about it but there’s obviously a…more»

For the past month or so I’ve noticed that I’m in somewhat of a funk.  Life is good right now so it’s not really an emotional funk, I’m just having trouble brainstorming ideas for new clients, as well as current personal projects.  Up until the launch of the summer season down here, Sean and I spent quite a bit of time at the beach.  I’m not sure what it is but there’s something about the way the waves hit the shore that spark my inspiration to astronomical levels.  Now, going almost every evening did have a wonderful effect on me…more»

The weather changes are taking their toll on me, this afternoon I was sweating my ass off and now I’m freezing since the sun went down.  I think it’s like 50°F outside right now, it’s only going to get colder.  I should probably just soak in a nice warm bath and then enjoy a cup of tea and get started on my new books. The other day I was kind of itching to get out of the house and do some shopping. The loan check has cleared but the money I spent was based on my Paypal debit account anyway…more»