I’ve been working about 60 hours a week for the last year, so that has been tough on me. When I’m not working I try to spend most of my time catching up with my husband, who also has a very busy schedule at work. Sometimes we both work so much it feels like we are just roommates who see each other in passing instead of spouses. Because both of us work so hard, a lot of our home life is disorganized and crazy. We have a hard time fitting in our friends and family, and forget about taking care of bills. Sometimes we discuss making adjustments at home, like changing wireless internet providers, but then we just forget and it never gets done. I’m grateful that we at least have a maid who comes in once every other week to pick up after us, because if it wasn’t for her our house would probably look like a science experiment gone bad. I really don’t think that we can go on like this for much longer. I hope work slows down soon so we can spend some time together and get organized.

Thankfully, their waiting room had a television in it, so I could watch the news while I waited, and there was a pleasant woman in the waiting room that I chatted with to pass the time.

Afterwards, went to Staples to pick up tax preparation software, I have found that I can save a lot of money by doing our taxes ourselves on the computer and filing online instead of paying someone else to do it.  Now I just have to wait for all of the forms to come in the mail from all the employers/banks etc so I can start to file them.  I’m sure we will get a refund this year.

Over the past couple of years he has really been having trouble – he needs a couple of root canals, a couple of his teeth have broken, and a couple have fallen out. I have a really hard time to understand how and why this is happening to him; I haven’t even had a cavity in over thirty years! I’ve bought a water-pik for him to use, but he won’t use it, and when we moved down here I don’t even remember unpacking it, so it may still be packed up in a box in the basement somewhere.

I feel badly for him because of his teeth, they cause him a lot of pain, and unfortunately our dental plan does not cover it all, and we can’t afford to spend the money that needs to be spent to save his teeth. I’m afraid he will have to have them pulled. And I’m afraid we will not be able to afford dentures.

Well of course I had to check it out for myself, and within a matter of seconds I was a registered user of the website and ordered myself a set of FREE toe warmers! As a matter of fact my toes happen to be freezing right now, sitting at my computer and I have two pairs of socks on! Seems to me that the only time my feet are ever warm is the month of July!

Anyway, back to the bargain website – I was looking all around and it appears that every day there are new offers put out on the website. The great deals are only offered for one day. The next day presents the shoppes with new merchandise to choose from. Apparently there are limited numbers on the products, because several of the deals that I saw on the website were already sold out.

There are some buttons on the website that you can click on to see past deals, and a button to click on that calls itself “insanity deals.” Apparently with the “insanity deals” the website displays a very short term crazy deal that has such a low price that it seems obvious that the website is using it as what is known in the retail business as a “loss leader.”

One of the “insanity deals” that I certainly wish I had seen when it was offered was for a Kindle Touch for under $20! My husband and I were just talking last weekend about whether to purchase an e-book reader or not. We are a little bit reluctant because the price seems to be a little bit steep for our budget right now. Another great insanity deal was for a Canon camera worth over $400 on sale for less than $20 as well! I am definitely going to have to bookmark this website and check it out every day to see what bargains can be had!

Gosh, I love working with my sister. She and I started and event planning service a few years back and it’s slowly grown into the business we have today and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. She and I just get along so well and we have really complimentary skill sets so it’s nice when I don’t know the answer that she usually does. We’ve got a home office at her house, actually, since she had an extra bedroom and it’s all set up with bank card processing software and tow phone lines and a meeting area for new clients. I love being able to work with brides and businesspeople all day long and she’d much rather pour over the details like invitations and caterers so we really work well together. It’s become a full-time money maker for both of us and I think we’re both surprised it’s gone this far. I never imagined this little job would be more than a hobby for the both of us!

I have been buying my son’s and my husbands underwear for as long as I remember and now I have been purchasing them online which has been a time and money saver, both of which are awesome. I can usually find good deals and free shipping is always a must when ordering anything online, if not those shipping and handling charges can really rack up the final total bill and we can’t be having that these days.

Who wouldn’t enjoy a nice relaxing holiday season for a change. Instead of dealing with all the stress and madness that takes place during those crazy months that so many people and families get put through each and every year. Sitting on a tropical beach, soaking up the sun, people watching and drinking one of those drinks with the little umbrella in it sounds so much better than dealing with the wet, cold, nasty weather that comes along during those holiday months.

Today I had go inside because the teller at the drive in window was giving me a hassle about a check that I wanted to cash, which was never an issue before Wells Fargo came into the picture. I was surprised to see that this very small home town branch now had these stanchions with the nice and plush looking velvet rope (which I’m sure customers such as myself helped pay for) placed in front of the tellers for their “crowd control” issues. What crowd is what I want to know? What a joke.

Next thing I expect to see is some of barricades put into place for the employees that are conducting business behind the desks and in their high and mighty offices that now look very uninviting to the eye, sigh . .

His girlfriend sent me an email today informing me that she thinks that he needs to see a Periodontist and is asking me to step into the picture and urge him to find a Periodontist that will take his insurance and is taking new patients. So I have decided to do a bit of the leg work for him and went to smilegeneration.com to see if I could find a Periodontist for him. I love how the Internet makes a task such as this a much easier task to tackle, it sure beats thumbing through the Big Yellow Book trying to find what you want and need. I don’t even have any phone books in my house any more, they were just taking up space and collecting dust so as soon as one arrives at the end of the drive way they go straight into the paper recycling bin and good riddance to them all.

So I did find a couple of Periodontists that fit the bill and I have sent him an email with the information that is needed and I can only hope that he takes it from there, if not I guess I will have go into my “nag” mode and I really don’t like going there any more than I have to.

I’ve been been into the whole Netflix scene, but it seems to me that $10 a month for unlimited movies was a very low price, so the jump to $16 a month isn’t all that major if you ask me. That is still a very cheap price considering how easy it is to use and how many movies you get to watch in a months time.