my son is singing the jigglypuff song in the shower right now.  its adorable!!!  i can hear it just faintly in the bathroom.  r says he's going to put himself to sleep in there.  ::grins::
its been a rough two days.  started yesterday with my cellphone dying at an inopportune time.  i was at home eating my lunch when r calls the house.  apparently he's been trying to reach me, and so had aiden's summer camp because the kid had forgotten to bring his lunch.  since they couldn't get me r had to leave work to take it to him.  so r lost time at work.  that evening i get another call from r just as i was stripping out of my clothes for the day.  his car was acting up.  before two minutes the car had died in the middle of a hugely busy three lane road during rush hour.  sigh...  so we have to get a tow truck.  we have to communicate on two mostly dead cell phones (i plugged mine in for ten minutes before having to leave the house again).  we get the car to the place we had it fixed last time and the part is three weeks out of warrenty.  we can get a good part to replace it - but the total cost = nearly 900 bucks.  we can go the cheap fix for about 400+ 90 for the tow.  we're just hoping that we can have his car survive another year so we can save to get him a newer one.  his is a 95.  it has had shite loads of expensive problems in the three years we've had it.  this is the third altenator in that amount of time...  sigh...
last night the dryer also stopped working.  thank the great fluffy bunnies it is under warrenty.  but the damn thing is only two weeks old so it really grinds my gears you know.  i am grateful they had a saturday appointment for me to get it fixed.  at least i don't have to take off more time from work. 
last night i came SOOOO closing to caving and eating pizza for dinner.  r helped me through it and i just ate the cheese and some chicken wings.  he said if i was going to blow the diet it should at least be over something i REALLY wanted, not just plain cheese pizza.  i ended up with 22 carbs for the day which blows.  but it was actually largely the fault of the protein bar i had at lunch. 12 grams for that alone!  so no more of those fuckers!  it didn't even taste good.  i can have a little debbie 100 calorie snack cake for the exact same amount of carbs and it will at least taste good!  not going to eat those yet either.  today makes my first full week on the atkins.  211.6 yesterday, 211.2 this morning.  i feel i will do better in the morning because i kept my carbs at 10.2 grams today and i added an extra half a mile to my 3 mile morning bike ride (stationary) and 50 crunches.  my co-workers and i even went out to eat at a restraunt today and i stuck to my diet without any real trouble!!!  i was very proud! 
having aiden home has been really, really great.  he's been so well behaved and sweet.  i hate it when he's gone!!!
r has been WONDERFUL to me lately, especially today.  he knows i've been really stressed out lately because of all the crap, so many extra unexpected bills this month (the car is just the icing on the cake this month) and then the diet and my period to boot.  so he offered to make dinner tonight and he got all the information together to deal with the dryer and was going to do it himself AND he cleaned the kitchen as i had been saying i would for the last 4 days.  if you knew how he was about making phone calls at all, let alone to strangers, you'd realize what a huge thing his offer to handle the dryer thing was and how special it made me feel.  he really loves me and its the most awesome thing in the world!!!
shoot yeah, also the air conditioner isn't keeping the house as cool as its supposed to.  so that's pissing me off too.  UGH!!!  lol...  shit happens.  with all the bad stuff i'm still so happy and grateful for what i've got - even if i whine about the other stuff. 
i think i'm going to start a new sewing project to help me take my mind off of food.  and i'm going to start a new video game i haven't played.  we've had it forever - but i sucked at shooter when we got it.  now i'm good at them and want to try my hand at it.  we recently hooked the ps2 back up in our bedroom so i played resident evil 4 for the first time.  beat it twice as leon and once as ada so far!!!  i LOVES it!  got the unlimited rocket launcher for leon!!!  ::grins::
hope everyone is having a great day.  now that the library is in order i seem to be spending more time in here on the net again so that's cool.  get to post more often.
night kitties.  i'm off to kiss my hubby, tuck the wee one into bed and figure out the rest of my evening.  ::squishes::

 i am a happy camper.  i finaly got what should be our last good faith estimate of all expenses we can expect at the closing and what our monthly payment will actually be.  and its TWENTY dollars less/month than what i was hoping for.  I am STOKED.  we'll be pinching pennies for a while - so this makes me super happy.  every little bit helps kitties.  yes it damn sure does. 

we went and priced frigerators today.  erm...  when did they get psycho expensive?  like - sell your ovaries expensive.  i got a 10% off one item coupon from best buy and we're going to pay for half and finance the rest.  its two years interest free and the bring it in and install it and hook up your water for free.  that is super awesome in the world o' asani.  there's no getting around having to have a fridge so we're going to bite the bullet and get something decent - even if we can't afford the next step of dreamy...  i am really excited about that!!!  YEA!!! 

bad news...  its not going to be 400 - 500 bucks to get movers.  its going to be a little over 1000.  that blows out all asseyness.  but with just me and r and my dad who DOES NOT need to be doing this anyway - well after 4 moves in three years that we did our selves?  i think its time to break down and get help.  we were hoping to use the down payment 1000 we get back at closing for savings - but to the movers it will go.  oh well.  that's life.  we've been doing good with our savings and have manged to keep our expenses further down this month than i had anticipated so i'm feeling really good about that.  that WITH me putting a little extra on each of the cards this month!!!  i'm super proud of that.  i have the discover card AND the capitol one card paid down significantly!!!  the visa - well the visa still sucks.  but at least i made all that progress on it a couple months ago.  i'm going to give them one last shot to lower my interest rate now that our credit rocks - and then i am just going to move it to my discover card and tell them to kiss my grits.  i may do that anyway since i can get 3.9% interest for a year on that one and then after that it will still be lower interest than it is right now.  and the most it will cost me to transfer is $150  i'll save that in 2 months with the interest i won't be paying to visa.  fucktards.  ugh...

ok kitties...  i'm off to bed.  smooches to you.  i will try to comment this weekend.  its been a rough and long ass week.  i am reading and thinking of you all though i promise!!!  seriously - i adore you!

 

 

benadryl is my new best friend.  holy freaking crap.  i am so relieved.  

uck...  spent the morning thus far paying bills.  am now broke again.  poof.  but, i put a wee bit in saving (or at least have set some aside to put in savings once the bills clear tomorrow - got to love online banking).  we're finally in a position to try and start setting some aside for a rainy day.  though it can still on rain a little.  maybe a drizzly day.  :)  of course there's still the window.  :*  ack foo...  

i have to go get ready for work my kitties.  big heaping loves to you all.  i hope everyone has a great day!  ::squishes::

 

r's car is nearly 500 smackers to fix.  we should be picking it up in just a few minutes.  i didn't get as much done this weekend as i had hoped.  sunday = migrains.  monday = kicking ass.  hewlitt packard only sent me half of what I needed to fix my laptop.  i called, bitched out the recorded voice, bitched out the poerson who picked up, bitched out his supervisor and demanded someone who's first language was english.  know what happened when i got someone in america?  they IMMEDIATELY knew what parts i was refereing to, straightened out the problems with my warrenty - though which still expired, covered the current call because i originally called while i should have still been under warrenty and they did not correctly fix my issue with needing parts so he didn't have to charge me.  
then i lit a fire under the ass of the people working on r's car.  then i got the roof fixed (this was actually a call from the previous day - but still GRR POINTS FOR ASANI!!!) 

edited note:  I am normally VERY nice to the people on the phone.  but these people wer dumb enough to be shitty with me when i was already SERIOUSLY pissed off with their service record.  point 2, i have MAD respect for people who can pick up a second language fluently enough to work the service department over the phones in said second language.  i DO NOT condone using people who are not ADEQUATELY fluent to do such technically and precise kind of work.  if you can't understand what your customer is is implying when she's not using slng, when she's refering to parts by their correct names and she speaks intelligibly (sp? lol) - then you need to either get better with the language or get a different job.  PERIOD.  i will not  buy another hewlitt packard laptop (should i ever part with the one i have) again.  PERIOD. 
so while not much thesis got done yesterday - important things got accomplished.

we also went yesterday to pick up the part for the laptop - mapquest gave me directions to the WRONG james drive in a particular city extending that task by an hour.  ridiculous problems with that.  the street we ended up on had no buildings on it.  kind of scary place really.  and then the fedex beast would not give me the number to the store i needed to be at.  after much more of asani's (not quite yelling but you really don't want me to start yelling voice) she transfered me to them directly and i got good directions.  sigh...  at least we found the place.  all in a days work.  

yesterday my eyes did get a bit of a rest from the computer so that's good.  they've been really hurting me lately.  we've all got appointments with the eye doctor on saturday.  yippy, new glasses, i'm so excited.  how pathetic eh?

  in other news - it looks like i am going to finish up my training stuff once i graduate.  been years since i've worked on it with one thing and another.  i kind of had written it off at this point and had moved into other avenues of self training.  but i'm kind of glad to have the chance to finish what i started.  to keep my promise to myself.  the circumstances mostly suck.  but we'll see how everything pans out.  got some friends back home i'm all sorts of worried about.  blah....

and that's it for the morning post.  waiting for my guys to finish getting ready so we can go pick up r's car and i can get to work.   fun, fun stuff.  sigh...  

have a good one kitties.  miss talking with yall.  what's been going on with you? 

 

I personally mailed the electric bill last month. That, or I had R pay it online. I KNOW WE PAID THAT FUCKING BILL. I'm bill anal. Just got my bill online and its saying we didn't pay. WHAT THE FUCK? I'm going to have R check his account and see if that money had been processed and then I'm calling someone somewhere and raising hell! WTF!?! GRRRRRR.... tell ME i didn't pay my bill! I don't think so!