Posts from ‘January, 2009’

We have our home mortgage loan and our insurance through State Farm of Florida; so you can imagine my shock and horror when I heard on the radio that State Farm was going to be canceling all their homeowner’s insurance policies. In fact I freaked out. By the time I got home from being out [...]

One of our financial goals this year was to refinance. Apparently we can’t do that until we have 10% equity in our home, because guidelines “particularly in Florida” have changed since last year. Great. We have about 1.5% equity in our home right now, so we can’t refinance for at least another two years, unless [...]

I came to the somewhat amazing discovery that I will never be socially acceptable. I came to this conclusion because I was realizing that I will never be normal the way my Grandparents, particularly my Grandmother wanted, and that when my Grandmother said normally she meant socially acceptable. The sort of person that she would [...]

Some times I find myself wondering about diet pills; there are times where I just don’t want to be bothered with actually making the effort, and those are the dangerous times, because they would be so much easier, and such a quick fix. But generally I feel that it would be dishonest to myself. I [...]

There are various ways to make this that I found while looking for the recipe, but the general gist is chocolate cake, caramel, condensed milk and cool whip with crushed candy on top. Anyway, this is how I made it. 1 packet Betty Crocker Devil’s Food cake mix. (3 eggs, 1 1/3 cups of water, [...]

So, we’re still in the rearrange and re-do; we’ve started painting the living room, and we’ve been getting things together in our room. I also started painting the living room. We got new curtain rods because one of them fell down, and we replaced the entire thing because it was easier. Then we decided what [...]

…with a twist. I feel as though I should be writing about M. Night Shamayalan now…anyway. A friend pointed me to this website because she was talking about their Scrabble keyboard. Then I saw this steam punk laptop and I am officially in love. It’s good that we need a new dishwasher and money is [...]

The spring cleaning bug has spread from the house to the websites. Roomie and I have been updating and rearranging a bit on the tarot site, and will be doing more on that in the days to come. For now though I’m done for the day. I’m just making sure to catch-up on a couple [...]

I’m actually no longer feeling quite as bad about how messy we’ve been at our house given we’ve been watching How Clean is Your House? and we do at least clean several times a month in the main house, and not once every few years, or I think ten years was the last person we’d [...]

It’s amazing to me that a year in to living in this house we’re still finding weird and random things left over from the previous owners. It’s not as bad as finding incontinence supplies buried in a closet; but there are lots of little things all over, including old Christmas ornaments and address labels. I’ve [...]