Homerun Hitter!

For Governor Product Sake!

As stated in a previous post I don't follow the typical West Texas line when it comes to politics. Governor Product errrr Perry sorry, the Bush wannabe and man who brings jobs to Texas but can't get one except being a career politician...wait..I went on my soap box. Let me regroup.
This person is running for president. He just lied to millions of Texans about the state of our government, our budget, our livelihood and then did the bait and switch. Once elected we went through an ugly, nasty battle which left schools, elderly, mental programs, Child Avocacy programs, and Texas Forest Services under funded. Now this man is running on the basis that he created jobs in Texas. Um no you didn't OIL did you moron. You gave tax breaks yes but you didn't keep this state going. Also most of the jobs are minimum wage.
What about the millions of children who are suffering because of his itty bitty brain, and will not have the money to learn in the type of school environment that is needed to have them run these companies he is budgeting money for every year? Where will these kids work? What are teachers seen as low class citizens in the career hierarchy? Those who can't do teach? What the flip? Those who can DO IT ALL TEACH!!!!
Governor Product...I will vote for anyone BUT YOU!!!

Never One to Follow Crowds

I sure love baseball. I love every bit of it. I love watching Brayden, I love watching the Rockhounds, I love watching the Rangers. I LOVE THE RANGERS!!!

I fell in love with Gentry's playing style because he plays hard. He runs into walls, he hauls ass, and he moves like lightening because he wants to play well. I looked everywhere for tshirt of his this year and had to order one because he is not the normal players like Young, Hamilton, Andrus, Kinsler...
So I paid extra...

This man is amazing, and while not played regularly as other players, he plays his heart out. Alot of the time that is what is missing in the professional sports. I think that is why I like baseball and college football so much.
For my birthday we went to watch the Rangers as a huge crazy family. 

And yes that's me with my cheesy smile and my Gentry poster! Only person in the whole ballpark! Yeah buddy!

I leave you with an awesome interview I just found with Gentry.



This stupid thing won't play but it's fun to watch if you want to go to mlb.com. I am a member...I'm telling you... OBSESSED WITH BASEBALL!!!

Wiggily 3 year old go to sleep

Seriously I mean it. You're not tired? We've taken a shower, brushed our teeth, braided our hair, said "tears" (instead of prayers), read the Grouchy Ladybug for the millionth time and you have still wiggled for 30 minutes. Your daddy doesn't want you to cry at night, it makes him sad and reminds him of sad times when he was younger. I think a good whine might be good for you but you're the third kid I haven't been able to Convince him.
You started on my chest, going to sleep every night. You were so small you fit on my chest without me having to hold you. Then you began to grow and your legs began to hang over my side onto the bed but you still had to cuddle every night before bed. I guess as a working mama I feel guilty so I have carried this on and used this time to love on you. But I'm tired. You're not tired? You move, and kick and I can't go to sleep until you do because I have to move you into your bed. Where is that man who doesn't want a sad baby? He's slerpin on the couch and I am waiting on you wiggly baby to go to sleep.

A budgeting and meal planning I will go

So budgeting has seriously been my nemesis lately. I just can't get the thing right HOWEVER this week when hubby gets his middle of the month paycheck we are going cash only. No more debit cards. Only cash in this house until we get our spending taken care of. SOOOOO when it's gone, the moolah is gone. Scary thought but oh well, it's time to get this party started.
Next is menu planning. I have never planned anything, even when I did lesson plans they were really just for show because if you came in my classroom I was so not doing what it said on those plans! So meal planning was laughable for me. I think though with needing to control spending, this will go hand and hand. This will help me figure out what I need to get together as far as coupons for the trip, as well as making sure that the kids are not talking me into a bunch of processed yuck all the time which is really expensive.
We have been eating up everything in the freezer, pantry and fridge right now. That is until paycheck comes so I have been getting very, very creative!
So as I fret, and freak I just hope that we end up with enough. If we don't you know what? Oh freaking well. We can just go back to when we were super duper poor and eat alot of Ramen noodes. At least we are doing it in a nice house!

Guilty Pleasures Part Uno

Everyone has them...whether it's a candy bar, blogs, trash magazines, or TV.

I have guilty pleasures...oh yes I do...

Yes, I love them. People take this WAAAAAAAY too serious. It's a show, it's funny, it's not real life, no they are not giving Jersey Shore a bad name, I think they are just kids having a freakin good time!

Yes it is Pauly D.

Oh I could take a bath in you.....I even have a special way to eat it. I bite it in half with my teeth, eat the peanut butter treasure inside of it, and then chew up the rest of the chocolate. Oh WOW!

This next pleasure is a multiple step, multiple formatted issue I have...

It all started with this...

Eclipse is my FAV..

Then came.....

Then my world changed when I saw

Because I was blinded by the light on Jacob's abs...

Oh yes...that's nice...

But between New Moon and

Eclipse did not include enough shirtless Jacob if you ask me.

Jacob because legal and I wasn't a pervert anymore..or less of a pervert I guess.

Yes, I own the fact that I am old, and he is 18. I am just looking....wait, what was I saying.

My favorite moment in Eclipse besides the tent scene is

FINALLY BELLA-DUH!

Now I patiently wait for Breaking Dawn...Come on November...

Did you just hear that? That suction cup noise?

That is me pulling my head out of my butt. I am so tired of focusing on this stupid credit report! We need a new house. Our house is bursting with kid crap, my crap, Chris' crap, just alot of crap (except the brown kind). Even when Chris rebuilt the enclosed porch it just wasn't big enough. I thought it would work, well it has kind of but now, not so much.
We bought at the height of home buying. When anyone with a pulse was given a mortgage and a set of keys. I wonder if we should have been one of those who foreclosed? Well we didn't buy over our heads. We bought low key and stayed way below our budget. We have alot of equity now, and so we are in a good place. Our payment however is not so good. Taxes make it go up every year and we had already started high.
This house payment is sucking the Sookie Stackhouse light out of our hands. We are getting more and more over our heads. With my student loans coming due we are getting a bit debt heavy and the house is not helping.

I have been working on budgeting and paying off but as life goes, things go and we need. I asked the wonderful people at the mortgage company to help me figure out what I needed to take care of, and so I was given a list of things to pay and that would raise our score enough to be in a better spot. We can get a loan now but if we did we would use all of our equity to get a house. I would love to take some of the equity and PAY CRAP OFF!!! I want to pay my car off so I can put all of that towards student loans (the thing in my life that takes my breath away-I literally feel the wind come out of my lungs and I get tight chested when I think about it). When Caelynn starts KG in a few years that is more money we can throw at debt. But the house is something that is like quick sand right now and the only thing I can do is work through the credit report, pay down debt and send letters to get bad crap off our credit reports.
It's not even like our stuff is that bad! It is SOOOOOO old!!!! It is frustrating to realize that what you did when you were younger and were stupid is reaching out and slapping you in the face later. I know that I am using this to teach my children! They will see what we are doing now and figure out at a young age NOT to play with their credit score like it is something that they will never need.

Blast from the past...

So I have been blogging in private, kind of without telling anyone. I used to have a blog a million years ago but it was too much pressure to keep it up, and I didn't like feeling like I had to do it so I stopped. It was more of a place for me to come and vent and not really a place to blog. An online diary and I didn't want anyone to know I had it. That is kind of how I feel now. I am going to do the same thing now, and not let everyone know I have it. Isn't that what facebook is for? I already have family on that, why do I have to share this too. There are a few who can handle me on a blog so those will be invited. Think of special invite, or secret status...
Now the only thing that is irritating me is the old blog has merged with my new one..

So my new life...

   

has met my old life...

Gross...

FYI: I figured out why it was merging and fixed it!!! Whooppee! CTRL-ALT-DEL and starting over. Thank you!