I was freaking out a few days ago because the check engine light was on in my car and we have little funds to spare given I’m supposed to be saving up to get her a replacement radiator (ha!) and she needs an oil change and the brakes looked at given I realized around the [...]

The guy who fixes peoples houses? Is it? Because I’m about ready to make a video and send it.
I wake up this morning with this MEGA to do list of things and discover the place is a shambles, and I’m not just talking about the clothes, crap and toys all over the place.
Faith set dishes [...]

I felt a bit weird all yesterday wishing people alternately “Happy Holidays” and “Merry Christmas” but then I don’t want to get into the long explanation with random customers that we’ve already had a holiday celebration, my holiday celebrations, this past weekend, and it’s only my husband’s coming up tomorrow. We’re going to spend the [...]

I found myself wondering today, as I let the munchkin spend some of his Yule money what people do with gift money. Often times lately when I get money as a gift it goes straight into the bank rather than being used, so that it can help pay bills. Hubbie often cajoles me on this, [...]

Two years ago today we signed the mortgage paperwork on this house. I felt it auspicious that we were signing the paperwork on the Solstice, and despite the rough times we’ve been through with money and health, the house has always remained, a great comfort and great shelter.
Slowly and surely we’re getting used to [...]

I’ve been a little absent again, but this time it’s for a good reason. I’ve not been staying in hotels new orleans but I’ve been spending a lot of time with family.
My husband’s side of the family are down from Staten Island, so a lot of time that’s not been spent over there has been [...]

Hubbie came home from work today with a letter that has me seeing red. It’s from his employer. We’re already hard pressed with their insurance right now because the deductible went up $1200 to $4200 but they’re still only putting $3000 in the HSA which is supposed to cover our out of pocket medical expenses; [...]

There’s been so many things that I’ve wanted to write about but it’s been difficult to put into words, and even more difficult while the blogs and sites were down and I wasn’t able to write about things that were going on.
I’ve been having a rough time lately with lack of energy, and lack [...]

I uninstalled and reinstalled this site, and several of the others are currently uninstalled right now, because I took a break from things and just now have got MOST of this site back together.
I still need to fix the widgets, but it’s past midnight and that’s seriously enough for me right now. My eyes [...]

For the past few days I’ve been locked out of several of my websites because I experienced a serious and malicious attack from a hacker, who had managed to hijack the password to get into my server account and built a subdomain on the back of this site with which to spoof paypal.
I may [...]