Good news!

We have just found out that not only will Jacqueline be going to school on a Pell grant for the fall and spring semesters, but, the state will help her out with childcare costs while she’s in school! This is a HUGE relief for us all, especially me. Now I can really pursue my business and not worry about where Violet will be when her mama is in school. Yay!!

Posted on Wednesday July 9, 2008 ♥ 12 pieces of comment love!  
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Hey you! Yes, you!

We didn’t have a great turnout for the cookout, but that’s okay. The people that did show up had a good time. :smile: We have a TON of food leftover! It was fun though, we got to see some folks we haven’t seen in a few months.

I’ve been trying to keep busy around the house. We did get some more things hung up and put away before the cookout, so that’s good! There’s two boxes of random things in the living room. We still have NO furniture in that room except for a bookcase that we want to replace or move to the basement and Greg’s Lazy Boy.

Greg and I are heading to Newport News/Hampton VA (our old stomping grounds) from the 22nd-24th of July. He’s got a business trip down there, so we’re driving the night of the 22nd and spending that night and the night of the 23rd down there. We’ve got a few friends in the area still, so hopefully we can touch base with them for dinner or the day or something. I will be really bored if my friend Karen cannot spend the 23rd with me. Greg will be in meetings all day at the shipyard. It’s only a 3 hour drive, so doing that after work on the 22nd will mean less traffic! We’ll be home sometime mid-day on the 24th unless he’s got a meeting there that morning. *He’s off on the 25th, so we may tag something onto the end of that, but I have to be back here on the night of the 25th as I have a meeting the 26th with the wedding couple.* It’s going to be so weird to be there all day in our old town. We haven’t lived there in 4 years, so much has changed from what I’ve heard! Business trips like this are great, the gov’t pays for his meals (which the money usually enough for me to eat on as well), his gas and his hotel room. AND the best part is that we are alone. :cloud9:

We may be going to Pittsburgh the beginning of August, we’re not sure what the job is doing with that. I hope it’s not over the 9th, which is the wedding I’m shooting. I don’t think it will be as that’s a weekend.

Then we’re in Atlanta the 20th-24th of August seeing Jess, Greg’s sister and her family and my brother and his family!

We’re also thinking of going to Vegas for a couple of days in October. My best friend Lisa and her hubby will be out there for business. We could stay at the Luxor hotel pretty cheaply, hopefully and then we just have to pay for food and plane tickets. She will be all alone otherwise, since he’s going on a business trip and has meetings and such…we can’t let that happen, can we? :pinkgrin: Greg and I really had an okay time last time, (we were there with Jacqueline in 2006) but this time it will be just adults, so it should be better, right? Plus, we know what we want to do and see again AND we’re not driving, we’re flying!

Lots going on trip wise I guess!

My tattoo is pretty much healed up. I had a skin reaction to the red ink, so my back has been filled with hives all around the tattoo for the past 10 days. I used Cortaid on those and Eucerin on the tattoo. It’s still itchy here and there, I think I’m allergic to red ink. I did have a reaction a few years ago when I got my first tattoo, but I didn’t really think about it as it was my first and I didn’t know.

Anyhow…just wanted to pop in and say HI! :kiss: TTFN!

Posted on Tuesday July 8, 2008 ♥ 8 pieces of comment love!  
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Let’s Say Thanks

I meant to post this a few days ago.

If you go to the web site Let’s Say Thanks you can pick out a thank you card and the Xerox Corporation will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq.

You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services. It is FREE and it only takes a second. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these?

Posted on Sunday July 6, 2008 ♥ 7 pieces of comment love!  
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Clök

We finally have a great alarm clock. We’ve been looking for a year or so. The previous alarm clock was nice, but, it was time for an upgrade. We had one that was a dual alarm, radio/CD player. Perfect, except here for some reason we can only get like two radio stations to come in. I’ve been taking my iPod upstairs and either listening to it with my headphones or plugging it into the portable speakers we’ve had forever. You cannot fold laundry listening to the sound of nothing.

The other day I went to Target and found Clök. It’s perfect as it’s not only an iPod dual alarm clock, but it also charges your iPod! We have 2nd generation Nano’s, so I was checking out the book to make sure it would work with it before getting it. There’s little brackets you put on the top for every iPod out there. :smile:

The image on the Target site doesn’t do it justice. It’s a gorgeous clock! Greg loves picking out a song to wake up to…I like the snooze on it! If you have a Target near you, go in and check out this Clök. I bet you buy one if you need a new alarm clock!

Posted on Thursday July 3, 2008 ♥ 5 pieces of comment love!  
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