Prindle 4-2

Monday, January 14, 2008

Neat freak

our clean bed with a clean dog (minnie just got a bath that night)

I don't know who I'M turning into??

You know how as you get older the more you start to realize how much like your mother you really are. No matter what you do or how you try to hide it it sneaks up on you, in the middle of the night while your laying wide a wake and cant figure out why your not asleep. Then you remember its from your mother, who would go to sleep for three hours and then about 1:30 am you would here her up in the sewing room sewing away. Well, 7 years (or so ) later what do I do? I do my laundry at night because I know will be up through out the night and I can do it then because I don't have time during the day.

Then the other day as i was doing laundry I wondered "Humm what would my sheets feel like if I ironed them??" and if any of you don't know me I DON'T iron. So I ironed them and put them on the bed and WOW I don't know if it was all in my head or what but for some reason I just enjoyed them so much more. And last night I couldn't go to sleep until I had picked up our room and taken the dirty close down and put all the clean ones a way. Josh kept trying to get me to lay down but all I could think was "nope I got to get this done or it wont ever get done."
Then I remember reading in the book FOR WOMEN ONLY as it talked about the many different windows women constantly have open and I realized that cleaning up was becoming one of those windows that will not close until I have completed it.
In some ways I am very thankful for this new neat freak deformity, but in other ways I hope I don't turn into one of those women who have there house so clean you can't even walk in the door with out taking of your shoes and putting on special booties.
I call it a deformity for this reason, relating back to the story of my mother, neither one of my parents are neat tidy people. My dad likes to have things clean but if there not its no worry to him and my mom is no where near being a overly tidy person. So where do I get it from????

Money and time

OK so for the last few weeks Josh and I have been very busy! He is totally swamped with work (which is a good thing) and I have been busy trying to clean up after him and make sure he is staying on task.
So as for the Total Money Makeover we have not finished it yet but, I am paying more attention to the things we waste our money on (i.e. late fees ! finance charges, overdrafts) and I have tyred to get my self set up on a budget (It doesn't have to last the whole month cause we kinda use my money at the beginning of the month and his toward the end). But I am more just trying to not go in the whole.
And good news from the front I have finally paid my cell phone bill of to a 0.00 balance for the first time in a year and a half!! And Josh has paid of his Snap-On account for the first time since he was 17!!!
New subject:
Over the weekend Josh, my dad, and I laid new flooring in his parents house as a surprise Christmas present. I looks soooo good the old flooring was about 25 years old and was in good condition but needed to go! And of course his parents LOVE it. The dogs are a little scared to walk on it but they will be fine. I will try and post some pictures later this week.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

done with one and movin' to another

A new picture! Ya I couldn't get my ring on.

Ok, I finally have a minute to post something.

Well in the last month Josh and I finished the books we were reading (Foe Men Only and FOr Women Only). The night we finished we talked briefly about what part of the books impacted us the most. We both agreed that the chapters that talked about the different ways our brains process information were the most beneficial. I now feel that when we get into an argument, instead of just going at it we try to make it clear weather we really disagree or just don't understand due to the way our brain is processing. We now try to make things clear and to the point instead of assuming that the other one know what we are thinking. WE ARE NOT MIND READERS!!!!!

We have passed the books on to Josh's sister and her husband who are coming up on there first year of marriage and are starting to see themselves come out their "brand new marriage" stage. So I sat down and talked with Josh's sister and she thought that the books would help them, so that where they are now.

We started reading The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey last night. We got to page 30 and are just starting to get into the chapters on how to get out of debt. I like reading the stories they really do give me a feeling that "humm this sounds like it could really work!". For Josh the book so far is giving him hope that getting out of the money problems we have does not have to be so far down the road and that it can be done.

I go back to work next week so I will have more time to post new thing this has been a very busy month for all of us!

Friday, December 7, 2007

What are you thinking

OOOH man!!

So i was talking to some women to day about marriage, and one girl that is engaged was saying that her and her boyfriend are trying to have a baby!!!!
When I heard this I not so politely asked her WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!
Her response was "My aunt and her husband have NEVER been married. They have had two children together, five total. They live with each other and don't plan on getting married. But their family is very secure and stable. Her kids (my cousins) are now 18 and 19. They are doing well. So as far as us deciding that we shouldn't rush into a marriage, that s a personal decision. But thank you for your words of wisdom."
OH she is also only 20 and her boyfriend is 21! There is another reason to be married before she has kids.

Then she told me i was wrong and tyred to be an adult by saying "i'm just gunna say "ok" prindle. Right now I cant give you a full response as to why I don't agree or to confirm or justify your concerns because I am at work. But I will. but for now, thanks. "

Oh my Gosh, what are people thinking these days!!