congratulations to me!
i am a proud owner of a 2008 chevy aveo
December 31, 2008
December 29, 2008
bah humbug
but not really. I had a good christmas, not great but good. No i take that back, Im alive all of my family is alive AND well and i have a great job. So i cant complain.
but i still cannot shake this crappy feeling. ugh
i mysteriously hurt my hand. and i hope its not from crocheting because thats the only new thing ive been doing. my new insurance doesnt kick in until the first and my old insurance ends on the first and none of the doctors are accepting new patients with my old insurance. gotta love red tape.
on the good news front one of my bffs had an excellent christmas!!! another friend is getting married today in an hour and it just seems like all is well.
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December 15, 2008
random thoughts…by jack handy
no not really but its along those lines
Blogs are the diaries of the 21st/22nd century. Throughout each major period of time people either wrote letters to their friends and families who were not near them. or they kept diaries or they did both. Letters started to lose some prominence with the advent of the telephone. Not to say that they totally fell into oblivion, however the point of my argument is that with the advent of new technology favored methods of communication fall to the wayside when new technologies come around. Not to say this is bad, however we sometimes fully embrace the new technology without weighing all of the pros and cons first. As a result of adopting the telephone, letters fell out of favor. But people still kept diaries.
Then, came teh internets and email. And the telephone fell off hard! People use untraceable media now adays, short emails, texts, and phone calls (even though those are slowly going the way of the dinosaur). I doubt that these are retrievable, salvageable, and documentable (yeah that just happened, go with it), when diaries and letters were/are. But
Written media has been saved from every major period in life. I doubt this will happen for our time. 
Blogs serve the purpose of documenting our lives, because like diaries, almost everyone has one and updates on a semi-regular basis. However, I highly doubt that we will be able to preserve blogs the way that diaries and letters have been preserved. Because frankly, I see the decline of the internet. And even if the internet is here to stay, will social scientists really take the time to sift through all of the blogs for study? Blogs=diaries not so much.
Gardening!!!
It rawks! No seriously you don’t understand how awesome gardening is. Its all zen inspiring and stuff.
I am planning a winter vegetable garden and a flower garden!
I don’t forsee any problems with the vegetable garden. However, the flower garden is going to be tricky. All of the flowers I want to grow need at least 6 hours of full sun a day. The only place that receives full sun for that length of time at my house, is the backyard.
I want the flowers in the front yard.
I hate shade loving flowers.
Gah what am I going to do? all hysterical and what not. BTW I hate that word because of its origins
1. Originally “hysteria” designated a link between certain nervous disorders and diseases of the female sexual and reproductive organs. It was thought that there was a direct connection between these physical pathologies localized in the female organs and certain nervous symptoms.
2. This explains why hysteria has commonly been conceived as a pathology to which women are exclusively susceptible. If it is based in a physiological source that is gender specific (the uterus), then the illness itself could only occur where this prerequisite physiology is present.
But the thing that is really killing me is that I am planning on leaving my mothers house in a few short months. Why would I start a veggie garden at her house when I’m finna bounce? That’s about $200 that could go towards my new house. Although gardening is super relaxing and rewarding, its just not worth it right now.
Oh wait I didn’t tell you that I was about to move? How silly of me! Yes I am about to move. Now. At first I was against purchasing a house but when I found out how affordable it is…lets just say I changed my little tune. As normal I was doing a little pre stalking research on house loans, because there is this house that I want. Perfect neighborhood, very affordable price, large house! How do I know its the perfect neighborhood, why its only 4 houses down from my mother! 4/2, huge outdoor florida room, on the water and only, $150,000! That house was sold 3 years ago for $450,000. My mother purchased her house 7 years ago for $90,000. I know right! If you want to see the house (kee) gmail me and I’ll send you the addy so you can street view it on google earth.
But can we say EPIC WANT of a great magnitude. I don’t know what other words, or combination of words that I can use to explain to you how much I want this house. So last night I was doing a pre-, pre-, pre-qualification and if I can come up with $5000 big ones I can qualify for a $145,000 loan! And at 5% interest my monthly PITI will be about $1000 a month! For a 30 year fixed loan. And hopefully I might be able to qualify for one of those first time homebuyers programs, I highly doubt that. Because I make way too much money for a single person to qualify. But who knows. <shrugs>
I’m calling my bank today.
So the idea of not starting a veggie garden flower bed at my mother house when I am about to leave dawned on me last night. And it jelled, strangely enough, because I found a replacement mirror for our bathroom, a gold antique looking thing (which by the way matched the image in my head perfectly and was only $13 at my local thrift store! total scoreage). But this started my creative juices flowing, and I was all prepared to repaint the bathroom a complimentary brown color, purchase a brown and gold shower curtain and accents, and everything. In my mind it was a gorgeous bathroom. But I had to pause. I’m not going to be here forever, and the $100 budget I was giving myself for the bathroom is money that could be put in the bank for my house. So I said no. I drew the line at the mirror, because it is a neccessity. So I am going to take the next 2 months to save $5k, pay off my credit card bills and get up out my mother’s house. Be prepared for a blow out house warming party!
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