So, as most of you know, Tim and I are without income. We're not like...Starvin Marvin poor, but like almost Kenny poor. Thankfully my parents, and food stamps are helping to keep us from having to eat creamed corn, creamed corn, and uh...creamed corn ( Read more... )

So living with my parents is not half as rocky as I thought it was going to be. WHile I feel awful that we're taking up space mom had set aside for guests and office/craft space, I have to say now that we're settled, we're all getting along really well. I do think Mom and Ember and I all need to find a way to have more free time though. We're ( Read more... )

Right, so now that I've gotten my rant out of the way ( Read more... )

So I've started homeschooling my daughter ( Read more... )

Well it looks like NEXT week might finally be sunny. I've managed to get Amber practicing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on her violin this morning, so I feel like we're off to a good start for the summer \o/ ! Mom's coming over Thursday so I imagine we'll end up doing stuff in the basement since the forecast for that day is thunderstorms. Course ( Read more... )

I have this huge victorian dollhouse waiting for me at the Nixons abode. I would love to take it home and put it in my basement to toy with it until it surpasses perfection but my basement, despite the recent leak-fix (thank you Karl) sadly does still mold and rust things ( Read more... )

So I'm spending the weekend at Jay and Cat's, starting tomorrow. My daughter's going out of state with Grandma and Grandpa to visit family. But before anyone goes anywhere I have to get my yard ready to be inspected by the Fire Chief so we can get our yearly permit for our firebowl ( Read more... )

Yeah so apparently the fancy computerized tax forms they made my husband use at work in 2007 failed to file my income at all. Yeah.
So umm, we suddenly owe the IRS $3,635.

yeah....

Well the good news is that we have the money to pay it - just barely.
The bad news is that we're going to need to use all the money we saved for Ember for college.

Oh my gods I'm SO not ready ( Read more... )

For those of you that didn't get the Myspace Bulletin, I'm inviting anyone who cares to come to my birthday party tomorrow on the 27th at my house. Show up anytime after noon and stay as late as you like. Bring food or drinks if you like. Bring your kids if you need to. Ours will be here. Messege me back if you need directions or whatnot. Love ( Read more... )