I swear, this time of year feels like it's going a million miles an hour. There is so much going on, and so little help, that it's hard to keep up with it all.
At least this week was a little less busy than i expected it to be. I had two jobs scheduled for this week, and both had to cancel for different reasons. It's not that big of a deal. The only reason i really work at all is to give us a little more extra mony. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen, and we just do less that requires money. Not the end of the world. (it was nice to have jobs to rely on for when ruben got sick though. That would have been BAD) So instead, i'm focusing on my own house. Or at least trying to. I haven't been feeling too good, so it's hard to really keep up with it all.
Today i am going to focus on getting the Living room and Kitchen cleaned back up, and make sure that Ivy gets her room clean the way it needs to be. Since Ruben and I had to go in there and clean, she's doing better. It was way worse then we thought it was just by looking at it. I konw it's not all Ivy's fault, but still. Bella and Desi have a big hand in it all, but she should have kept up with it better. So we got that taken care of, and now it's just a matter of keeping up with it. I have no idea how to keep her motivated, and i sure know i'm not going back into there and doing that all again. It's not worth it for me. I'd rather just throw it all away and start over.
There are a lot of things i'd like to get done. I've got so many ideas. Like the living room needs some better storage. Something that the kids can't get into as easy. In the kitchen, i need some stuff to help with the organization of the pantry. I love having it, but it's just hard to reach all the way into the back, and to find everything. And then we want to buy a few bar stools and a good table cloth so we can use Ruben's game table as a family dining table. I hope we can make that work. I miss having the family time. Then in the girls bedroom i found some really awesome furniture that i want to pick up. There is a little loveseat that transforms into a bunk bed, which is awesome. Don't know if we will do that or if we will do loft beds, or the captains beds with the storage under them. The loft beds would allow for the beds to be up high and all the play stuff to be down low. The captains beds would allow for their clothes to be in the beds, instead of trying to fit it all into the closet (although, it wouldn't be too hard to do that here, since the closet could hold two dressers and still have room for stuff to hang up. ) But i'm not sure that we will always have that kind of storage. We aren't going to live in an apartment forever. At least, i pray we won't. NOt that it's the end of the world, but i miss having a house. Even if it is a horrible fixer upper. Then in our bedroom, we basically just need more space saving stuff. we've got the room packed as much as we can really. I don't know what to do in there though. I guess we will find out. We have a queen size bed, which is awesome. i might see how much it would cost for a queen size captains bed with all the underbed storage for us. Hmm, might go do that in a minute when i'm through here.
So this week i'm focusing on getting the house cleaned and organized. I might see if i can't convince my sister in law to come over and help me with the clothes. We have a TON between Ruben, the girls, and I. And i have no idea how to organize them so they are easier to find and get together and all that jazz. I know that's gonna be one of the major things i'm gonna focus on as soon as i can afford it. That would make my life a hell of a lot easier, if i had somewhere to come home from doing laundry and put it all up without too much hastle.
These last few days i've been so freaking homesick i can't even describe it. I'm sure it was because my friend couldn't make it up after promising that it was happening a month in advance. That was a HUGE blow. I cried all damn day. I still feel all weepy when i think about it. I feel like i'm loseing the only friends i've got. The most important ones live so far away, and my newish ones live closer, but have comflicting schedules or no kids and no idea what to do with them. Or they just don't want to deal with the kids. I love my girlies, don't get me wrong, but it is super hard to make new friends with Ruben working nights and me staying home with the girls. Used to, the majority of time i spent with my friends was in the evenings, around the time the girls went to bed. Now, Ruben works nights, so he has to leave not long after they go to bed. It works out ok. We've got a system. But at the same time, it would be wonderful to get some me time again. A trip to the coffee shop with a friend to talk for hours. Going to the bookstore and reading for hours. Going down by the river, or the lake, or hell - even the water canal, to enjoy the sound of the water and draw, or read, or listen to music. Going for a walk with friends and taking pictures of the pretty things we see. It's getting too cold to take our early morning exploration walks we were taking there for a while, which SUCKS, since i had just started to figure out my camera. BLAH. Maybe we can go for a drive or something soon. Hell, i've gotta find my camera first. I can tell we haven't been doing anything with it. I can't remember where the last place i saw it was, :(
I'm ready for winter to good and get here. I've had the chance to use my fireplace lately, and it was wonderful. I haven't had to turn the CH&A on in like three days :) That's gonna hopefully be great when i get my bill next month. Freaking Electric company.... UGH! Last months bill came in and it had dropped from 240ish to 191. YAY! I was all excited, thinking that finally our bills were going down. But then we got our bill this month, and it was back up at 247. Um, WTF? So i sent them a message to find out what happened, to which they replied that the bill last month had been wrong, and was supposed to be higher. :( GRRR! That pissed me off. I got a month to get all excited, only to have it come crashing down. That seems to be happening a lot lately. Oh well, whatever. I've got a plan though, if everything works out. I'm going to pay the balance due on my average monthly billing and give my account a CREDIT, and hopefully keep it that way for a couple months so that when we hit the 13 month mark at this apartment, i can see about signing us up for the guarenteed flat bill for a year. If we could qualify for that, it would be GREAT. I would know, FOR SURE, how much our bill would be every month. And hopefully it wouldn't be too high. I would LOVE that. I guess we see what happens though.
I'm STILL waiting on my settlement from the car accident. Freaking insurance company is dragging their feet something fierce. Hell, i haven't even heard from the lawyers office in over a month. I seriously need to get off my butt and call them and find out what's going on. And i need to ask about the bill from Midwest medical center. Actually, Natalie, if you're reading this, i've got a question. When a bill is part of a case that is currently in littigation, isn't collection on that bill supposed to freeze?? I've been getting a lot of bills from them, and they are threatening to send it to the next level, or whatever. I don't know anything about that. BLAH.
Neway, i've written more today than i have in a while, and i think i've finally gotten a lot of it out. Right now, i'm gonna go play a game, or read, or watch tv, or something. No idea what. Oh, and fight with Ivy to get her homework done and her room clean. I'll be getting Ruben up here in just over an hour or so. So i need to get what little me time i can manage before the night routine gets started. UGH, i'm so sick of routine. i need some adventure. Something NEW for once. BLAH. LATERS
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