Let the hunting begin

Woo-hoo!!!

Boyfriend and I got pre qualified to buy a house. All our hard work, budgeting and sacrificing has finally paid off!

Last night I scanned some of the last of the final paper work and sent them off to the lending company. They have the number to our rental agency to verify rent. I'll probably hear back from the lenders Tuesday or so. Calling up a realtor Monday. Been searching on line for awhile now.

I'm thinking about a place with a couple acres. There are a lot of houses out there that spoil the "master" of the house. Huge master bedrooms with bathrooms attached. Bathrooms that have giant bathtubs in them.

My advice out there to everyone is to never stop dreaming. Never lose sight of your goals. If we can do it so can you.

Also buy the book "The young, fabulous and Broke." It teaches you about finances in a language you can understand.

Welder Girl In Action

I've been gathering pictues of these stainless steel letters being made for awhile. There are still some left to collect, but I couldn't wait any longer. I had to show off my work. I'm very proud of this job. I did about 90% of the work on it myself.

This project made it into my company's quarterly news letter complete with pictures of me welding.

The people who bought the sign absolutely loved it.

A job well done. Something I am proud of.

P.S. Check out the letter "g" Could they have picked a harder font for me?

Welder Girl in action!!!

More of me welding

And today's letter is "Y"

Putting the letters in their place

McMurray

medical

Building

The big guy on the left is Scott. He helped bend up the metal for the sides of the letters. The guy in the white is a forman. He had nothing to do with this project. The guy on the far right is the boss who was in charge of this job.

For inquiring minds

No!!!! I am not pregnant. Started my period at work... Today..... Unprepared.... Of course.... In a shop full of men.

Now get those crazy ideas out of your head.

Wow, you wouldn't believe the change in the way my family works these days. Roommates cooked dinner. Sweetie pie mowed the lawn. Roommate #1 and sweetie pie are doing dinner dishes right now.

Something worked out well for me.

Found out why I was so grumpy too. Friday I took a nap for a couple hours. Got up, ate something for dinner, then slept for 12 hours straight. Could have possibly been a little pre menstrual too.

Any way, none of all that matters now. It's all back to sunshine and happiness again.

Just bought tickets to go see two different concerts today. I love summer.

Sweetie wants to go get hitched in Vegas. Weirdo.

Doing much better now

The boyfriend and I got together after my "grumpy" post. We talked about how I was feeling and he helped me realize a few things. Just like it was pointed out in the comments, the two roommates do have something new going on. The honeymoon stage will last for a while longer even.

Plus roommate #2 just moved in. Her stuff is still in the process of being organized. She has no idea where to put the dishes away even if she did do them. If she wanted to pick up around the house a little bit she, yet again, wouldn't know where to put stuff.

Plus after the babysitting episode, the house was a mess. It's not hard to make a mess when there is already a mess going on.

I've decided that I just need to relax a little. I love a certain amount of organization, and I think I'm going to have to have it in my own bedroom.

Also the roommates are out of town for the weekend. I'm going to get rid of some clutter, clean and organize things. Start off with a clean slate. Maybe it will be easier to keep it clean once it is already clean.

Thank you all for reading a boring post.

Adventures in Babysitting

Ok so my brother, the electrican's apprentice, had a "job emergency" and he needed someone to watch his three kids for him for the night. Tonight's work would all be overtime pay and he really couldn't afford to turn it down.

So it's big sister to the rescue. I hardly ever get to see my two nephews and my niece, so I really don't mind watching them. Problem is, although I have experience with kids, I'm a little out of practice.

I know I need to feed them so I send Ivan (who got home at 4 this morning) to the store for something for dinner. We also needed some diapers for the little one too. After about 45 minutes I started getting worried.

Ivan comes home with 5 bags of various cookies. Yes that's right guys 5. Also a box of crackers and kool-aid. Paper plates and bowls. Plastic cups. A huge package of toilet paper. A huge pack of paper towels. And a giant pack of diapers and some wipes to go with them.

For dinner he went off to KFC. The kids meals were perfect for them. Managed to borrow a sippy-cup from the neighbor for the little one. Now the kids are full and all sugared up.

Young one needed her diaper changed. As soon as I got off her pants I realized that this was a number two emergency and I needed wipes "STAT"

Ivan rushes over to get the wipes and opens the package while I am attempting to use the diaper to wipe her up. As I let go of the diaper and make a grab for the wipes, the turd actually rolled out of the diaper and onto the floor. She was laying on the couch by the way. So I'm laughing trying to hurry up and get the diaper on her and clean up the turd on the floor mess.

We finish getting her all dressed and look around for the two boys. During the time it took to change their sister, both boys managed to get them selves naked. So I grab some small t-shirts of mine and put one on each kid.

I can hear all of them running around chasing the dog right now. They are actually barking at her.

It's only been two hours. Lord help me for I'm doing this tomorrow night too.