Of houses and puppies
So I think everything that happened last week has finally sank in. Why my brain chose my first day back to work after a weekend full of doing house stuff, I have no idea. Before I start my rambling, there has been a new addition to our family in the form of a puppy. He was found as a stray by a family member, and we were called since everyone knows we want a puppy to go with the house. Well he is so sweet, probably 4 months old, and looks part lab part something else, but he is dark chocolate brown and white. His name is Oxford, and I will try to get pictures up tonight.
Okay so back to rambling… I have a new house, and it has lots of stuff we need to do to it, I have an engagement ring and that leads to lots of planning for a wedding, I have to return to school and that leads to planning around work, and now we have a puppy and for the time being that means training, and later means planning for fencing and whatnot. And, as most things do, all of the above take money. Now it should come as no surprise that I am not made of money, but I do alright with my normal day to day bills; when the phone bill and the rent bill hit in the same two weeks I have to stretch it a little but that is pretty normal. Well now with the house, I am literally contributing nothing except my credit score and manual labor- all the money for the house repairs and new furnishing are coming from the other two; so that doesn’t feel to great. Then you add on the fact that I need to save for college, which even if I only take one class will cost me $500, and still be able to afford the right now things for the puppy like vet visits and flea treatments (and yes I know that Mom and Drew could probably take the puppy costs but they are already paying for everything so I need to do something). And down the road I will need to have money to contribute towards the weddings, and finalizations on the house, you know the little stuff we couldn’t afford since we lost our carpet allowance in closing, can’t homestead our house until next year, and had to pay for electrical repairs we weren’t counting on. So I am feeling the monetary crunch because all of these things came back to back, not to mention I feel like I have so much to accomplish that my relationships with others is going to be lack luster; my work already suffered today- I was so busy thinking of all this stuff that I dropped my keys on our 5 acre campus and had to go wandering around for them, then missed the turn for a doctor’s office and didn’t realize it till 2 blocks later. I did pull it together this afternoon though and finished all of my paperwork before sitting down to write this. I feel like I need a check-list for my life right now, some kind of internal “this is the next step” meter.
But I do have to say that we have accomplished alot, most of it being Andrew's doing. We have the appliances in the house (despite having to pick out a second fridge because the first one was to big), we got the meter box fixed so now Teco just has to come out and give us a new meter and wires to connect to that new meter, the pest control guy is scheduled to come out some time this week to get rid of my creepy crawlies, we found an affordable carpet we all love so that is set for the 17th (since we have to have power for them to install), the AC will more then likely be installing our new AC and airhandler the week of the 14th, and I picked out paint last friday, and over the weekend Mom, Mel, Matt, and I painted 3/4th of the house (give or take a little for reamining trim).
We did all that since the 2nd of April and it is the 7th of April... but my brain decided it would pick today to panic, despite all that we accomplished. Plus over the weekend I realized there are so many worse things that could be happening in my life, more precisely that everything is going right for me and I really should get on my knees and give thanks instead of fretting- now if I could just get my brain to comply.
Okay so back to rambling… I have a new house, and it has lots of stuff we need to do to it, I have an engagement ring and that leads to lots of planning for a wedding, I have to return to school and that leads to planning around work, and now we have a puppy and for the time being that means training, and later means planning for fencing and whatnot. And, as most things do, all of the above take money. Now it should come as no surprise that I am not made of money, but I do alright with my normal day to day bills; when the phone bill and the rent bill hit in the same two weeks I have to stretch it a little but that is pretty normal. Well now with the house, I am literally contributing nothing except my credit score and manual labor- all the money for the house repairs and new furnishing are coming from the other two; so that doesn’t feel to great. Then you add on the fact that I need to save for college, which even if I only take one class will cost me $500, and still be able to afford the right now things for the puppy like vet visits and flea treatments (and yes I know that Mom and Drew could probably take the puppy costs but they are already paying for everything so I need to do something). And down the road I will need to have money to contribute towards the weddings, and finalizations on the house, you know the little stuff we couldn’t afford since we lost our carpet allowance in closing, can’t homestead our house until next year, and had to pay for electrical repairs we weren’t counting on. So I am feeling the monetary crunch because all of these things came back to back, not to mention I feel like I have so much to accomplish that my relationships with others is going to be lack luster; my work already suffered today- I was so busy thinking of all this stuff that I dropped my keys on our 5 acre campus and had to go wandering around for them, then missed the turn for a doctor’s office and didn’t realize it till 2 blocks later. I did pull it together this afternoon though and finished all of my paperwork before sitting down to write this. I feel like I need a check-list for my life right now, some kind of internal “this is the next step” meter.
But I do have to say that we have accomplished alot, most of it being Andrew's doing. We have the appliances in the house (despite having to pick out a second fridge because the first one was to big), we got the meter box fixed so now Teco just has to come out and give us a new meter and wires to connect to that new meter, the pest control guy is scheduled to come out some time this week to get rid of my creepy crawlies, we found an affordable carpet we all love so that is set for the 17th (since we have to have power for them to install), the AC will more then likely be installing our new AC and airhandler the week of the 14th, and I picked out paint last friday, and over the weekend Mom, Mel, Matt, and I painted 3/4th of the house (give or take a little for reamining trim).
We did all that since the 2nd of April and it is the 7th of April... but my brain decided it would pick today to panic, despite all that we accomplished. Plus over the weekend I realized there are so many worse things that could be happening in my life, more precisely that everything is going right for me and I really should get on my knees and give thanks instead of fretting- now if I could just get my brain to comply.