we are headed to kansas to go buy something...

well, not kansas, but 1/2 way to kansas!

anyway, apparently hubby needs to spend money (against my better judgment b/c i have only been spending money just b/c we NEED things not to buy TOYS)

anyway, we are headed out to buy a motorized bike, like the one he had when he was a kid. we took the motor we had to a shop and the IDIOT didn't fix it and charged us UP THE ASS for it. I should post his shop name so that people don't get taken advantage of.

Anyway apparently this one is pretty reasonable and it was found on craigs list - wish us luck. :) i will post pics this afternoon.

I hate going to wally world....

Man, walmart is just about the worst place to ever be on an afternoon with cranky kids.

We really needed food, well, not really, but it is nice to have the next 5 days of dinner meals planned out so that I don't even have to think at this point! :)

Other than that, the kids have been decently behaved and I have a TON of work to do so off I go - :)

The appraiser came and went.

well that was fun. basically he said a few things that I didn't know and that have changed since the last time that we looked into refinancing.

So lenders make the appriaser take comps from the last three months - well that's just peachy. No one has sold in the past three months, not even a foreclosure - um, it isn't b/c we are all stuck here, it's b/c we LOVE LIVING ON A LAKE!!! We have a condo on a lake, and it is super nice. In our area, you cannot find a place like this with the views that we have. But alas, the few ruin it for the many.

So hubby and i are taking bets as to how high (or low) our appraisal comes in at. None-the-less, even if our appraisal comes in high, we still might be okay with our payment not going up, so that rocks our socks to be able to get off of our stupid adjustable arm (thank you mortgage company for taking advantage of us and not educating us and realtor that we used, thank you for not guiding us the way that you should have) and to us, well, this was a VERY expensive lesson, one that our children will not have to learn on their own.

same crap, different day ;)

excpet for there is MUCH less of it!! :)

I got rid of two bins of trash, and then two trash bags, and one laundry thingy :) I am so excited. I didn't know that decluttifying your life could feel so good.

We have been on a MASSIVE de-cluttering effort for about 2 months now. Yes, we are slow movers, but it is coming along. I might even post pics when we are done b/c yes folks, we are THAT close to being done!!

I have to keep reminding myself of the accomplishments so that I don't get down -

Let's see items we have accomplished
kitchen cabinets
linnen closet
other linnen closet
Under kid's sink
Under my sink
laundry - this was the LARGEST one :)
our floor - under couches, all over the house the floor is clean :)
my dresser

I need to do my closet, and then the outer part of the house, but yesterday i also got through 3 bins of pure and utter crap and threw away most of the papers (or shredded them)

Ahhhh......my spirits are lifting as i type! We will no longer be a prisoner of our own home!

Wading through the crap.

We have an unusual amount of crap. I finally feel much better - it is true what they say - clean your closets and under your sinks, out and you will feel MUCH better.

I cleaned the following today:
under the kids sink, moved all our towels there and took out everything else. All nice and neat! :)

closet - put away all linens in the closet.

got through 2 big bins of crap. I have a bin for trash, shredder, and everything else I have been putting away upon touching it. NO MORE CRAP. That's our new motto.

I still have a ton more to do, and yet i find myself blogging b/c a huge mount of crap makes me tick and overwhelms me, so taking periodic breaks helps break up the mini-panic attacks that I keep getting b/c of all the crap here.

Here's to a productive day!

People who live in glass houses shouldn't cast stones.

I have to admit, I actually like blogging. I have like 3 blogs, all for different reasons. But I actually started this blog in response to another just because, well, passive-aggressiveness was happening on that blog towards me and my board, so I retaliated.

Childish? yes. absolutely. But seriously there is no other way to deal with passive-aggressive people. I mean, they say that they want you to come to them if you have a problem with them, but what they really mean is that you can come to them, but they don't listen. Period. I have tried. I extended an olive branch twice, and have been basically told to go jump in a lake (in so many words) But this type of typical behavior reigns true for ANY passive aggressive person. They always find a way to blame everyone else for their issues, when in reality if so many people have issues with them, maybe it's them that needs to take a look at themselves.

Yes, this blog is public. Yes people can read it. But no, my board where people talk in private isn't. And when people tell you 1/8 of what is going on, and sometimes it isn't true and sometimes it is, you cannot make ASSumptions as to what is going on. I read through the entire thread, and not once was their mention of kissing a drama filled ass.

Apparently I blog lies. I have never laughed so hard. No, I don't blog lies, I quote what others WRITE and if what other people write is lies, then well...........NMP.

Many people have asked me what happened - here is the LONG drawn out story for your pleasure - obviously from my side, but even so i have IMs to back it up. This entire 'riff' started when I was accused of telling another photographer that this person said she sucked and she stole her marketing ideas - the funny thing? Another person told her because this person told them personally, NOT ME. I kept my mouth shut, and my promise NOT to tell her.

Then this other person found out that I entered into a business relationship with the person she hated, she then severed ties between me and the board. In the process, she kept me close to her just long enough for her to create a board for herself and two other board members (whom btw were also moderators on my board, which isn't cool IMHO). Then they secretly private messaged everyone that they felt needed to "leave my board and come to theirs" all my members told me what was going on, and that's when I got pissed. Not that they made a new board, there are MANY spin off boards from mine, and I even belong to some of them. But the fact that they did this all in secret, bashed me and my board (and yes, if you bash my board you bash me for the amount of time i put into this) AND they blocked my IP from their board, which clearly sent a message.

Bottom line, people have feelings. Even if you don't think they know things they do. And they have other people watching out for them because of the way that they have been treated in the past.

Cleaver title - if you are a whiner and know it......blog. Hmmm......how bout this one - People who live in glass houses shouldn't cast stones.

We had the BEST weekend ever!

So saturday we went ice skating. Wow, what an experience. I totally was only able to contain myself on the ice, so hubby and god father took the other two kiddos. E really go the hang of it after one lap, and poor god father had to take her around two more times - his poor back!!

Then we got out of the rink, and it was BLAZING hot. I seriously felt like I was going to melt. So we decided to head to my parents house and go swimming! Then we headed back to the house for a nice evening BBQ.

On sunday, i had my boutique and then my grandpa's birthday party - he is 86!!! And then we came home, and snuggled. Well, shower time first as my grandparent's DO NOT have air conditioning, and we all melted there. Then we got our jammies on - well most of us did LOL - e fell asleep on the couch in her towel!! Apparently running around with your cousins in the backyard all afternoon makes you VERY sleepy!! YEAH for cousins!

Hub and I actually got some quiet time and got to hang out with each other this weekend - it was quite nice.