Seriously? It's already February? Ugh.....that scares me a little inside. I always look forward to the fall, especially at work, because it's kinda quiet, and we can have some lazy days, and some days to get some projects done that wait all summer. But, um, yeah, it's February, and we never got any of those quiet, lazy days! I guess that's good and all, business wise, but now we're fast approaching Spring, and pretty soon it's going to be the busy time again, and next thing I know it will be October again! URG!!! The only thing I hate about my job, is not getting to enjoy the summer. Even if we go on vacation, we usually do a wedding on Saturday, leave on Sunday, are home on Friday, and do another wedding on Saturday....it gets a little overwhelming and exhausting. I must be bummed today, because I feel frantic, stressed, and exhausted just thinking about it. Must start working out, build up that strength, yadda, yadda, yadda. I say I'm going to excercise, I tell myself that before I go to bed. "I will get up and work out." And then I wake up in the middle of the night, and decide I'm too tired, and I just can't do it, and then I don't do it...Ugh. Really need to get better about that. Been cutting out my salt, reducing sugar, shrinking portions, eating better overall, but that dang working out thing. Sweating is just not for me.
I blame my parents. They never taught me to be competitive. =)
Basically, nothing exciting is going on here this week. Catering a surprise 70th birthday party Friday night, for a lucky man and 160 of his closest friends. Switched banks after 15 years to avoid exorbitant fees, and now I have to try and memorize a new account number. EEK. =) Trying to scrimp through February, and just make it to March. I hate property taxes!!!!! They make November and February a cruddy, cruddy time for us. In May, when I pay the last one, we usually have our tax returns back, so it's not as bad then. But, between gas going up, electricity going up, Craig driving his absolute FUEL HOG diesel (higher than gas) pick up, because I can't afford tires for his Camry, things are TIGHT. Talk about trying times. One should not spill out their financial distress for everyone to see, but seeing as 2.9 million homes were foreclosed upon last year, I can't be the only one with troubles. Thankfully, I can still afford my home, my cars, my phone, and most importantly, the kids, and I can feed them, us, and the dogs, and everything is paid in full and on time, so really, what am I complaining about? Oh yes, the fact that we never get to do anything FUN!! But hey, you take what you can get, live each moment for what it is, and look forward to brighter times, because they may be around the corner. My job is raising great kids, so really, I'm on the right track. =)
