Hump day
I'm so sick of snow. I mean I know that's what winter is all about, but Jeebus. I'm also sick of cold weather. Looks like we have a break coming this weekend but with rain and then I've heard talk about another big system coming our way that trumps all the other ones we've had.
I apologize for my 2 week absence. I have been quite busy potty training Shade. Which at this point is going quite well. He has came up to me and told me he needs to go pee all day and was dry all night. I'm so very proud of him. He's been extra sweet this morning too. Friday will make 2 weeks with no diapers. We've been putting one over top of his undies at night just in case and when we travel a long distance. Right now he is watching land before time II and eating mac n cheese and bologna per his request. While I am lazy on the couch.
In cooking news: I've made two dishes I'd never made before over the past week. I was sick to my stomach and couldn't think of anything I wanted to eat except apple pie. I only had apple pie filling, so my mom suggested apple cobbler. And to my surprise I had the needed ingredients. It's something else to look at a recipe and know I have the ingredients. That's new for me. I never kept stuff like that in stock in my house usually. It turned out good but I ate my one piece and now it sits in the fridge.. Same goes for the peanut butter fudge I made. Simple recipe. Turns out great.
Here was the cobbler ^^
Here was the fudge ^^
Jessi and I went to Lexington Sunday. I walked about a mile to my car which I had left parked at salon 80, since it came a blizzard the afternoon and evening before. I didn't want to get Tommy and Shade awake that early on their morning to sleep in. So I trekked it and all was well. I got a great haul from Sephora::::
I desperately need to go back to work. Not that I don't love staying home but I need a paycheck. And photography isn't footing the bill this time of year. Valentines shoots start this weekend, but that is a temporary 2 week period. I didn't want to spend my entire student loan refund and tax returns when they get here just trying to stay afloat. Hopefully arh will call me back ASAP with something. I hear the RNs no longer have to wear white! They are transitioning to grey. That is fabulous.
I am going to dispute a BUNCH of bs on my credit report today. I heard that can help it go up a lot especially if the accts are old. I have a lot of medical bills in collections that I get no correspondence to. We need to build on before the new baby gets here and the only way that's gonna happen is if we refinance. And with my credit score it's not gonna happen. And I need to finish editing at least one set of proofs today. I really need to get amber and Stanley's wedding set done too. It's coming up on the 4 month mark and that's when I quoted them. I also have a disc to mail to a client but can never get to the PO especially with this weather having been as it is, and the fact that if it barely rains when it's cold I am stuck.
Monday we ventured to the yoders store in knott county. Truly pleased with it. Got some local apple butter, honey, pickles, dried apples, yoder bread, brown butter cookies, two sticker books for shade, and some mix for potato soup that I may make today if my stomach settles. And the best pickles I've ever tasted. I had cereal for breakfast. So my stomach is iffy. I highly recommend the yoders store though seriously. Lots of neat things and healthy things. And it's mostly local. The honey I bought was raised and harvested in Jeremiah ky. I find that fascinating. That someone's little bees worked so hard and I bought their honey!
I was thinking back when we lived on bull creek when a conversation on fb prompted me to mention that our water has already frozen once here on preachers fork for 4 days, and I've been snowed in already countless times. I was never really snowed in on bull creek and I don't ever remember my water freezing. But I do remember the faulty and flaky power system. I'm sure our electric would've been off on several occasions if we were still there. We lived there for 6 years. I was barely there 6 months before Tommy moved in. It's hard to believe 6 years of our lives were spent there and we were just forced to pick up and move here. I think eventually this place will be lovely. It's definitely more peaceful and I don't pay rent on the land at least. But the road is horrid. Dangerous. The people drive ignorantly and the stray dog problem is terrible. I am hoping next winter to have by then traded to an awd vehicle. And that way tommy won't be the only one with one. Because otherwise I'll just get fired from my job because I truly can't get out of here unless someone comes and gets me. Everything takes longer to get to as well. And I can't just pick up and run up to my moms house and she's up here even less. :/ but it's our own and hopefully we can turn it into something nice. I can't wait to get the roof on the porch, and finally sew some grass. It's a giant mud put up here. I just can't believe we met there on bull creek, started our relationship, started our life together, brought our first child home there and spent his first 2 years there. Theres a lot of memories on bull creek. Let alone the ones from my own childhood. But we couldn't get out in our yard or outside and enjoy anything because we had neighbors right on top of us after a while and ppl always driving by scoping things out. Overall I'm glad we moved for the future but I will never be okay with the situation bc it wasn't my idea, and we had to pay way too much to do it just because someone wanted a bigger yard. It's just really not fair. I wanted to build and do things like I wanted to for my and my family's future. But no. Someone else controlled that and made me do this. I think they would've changed their minds had it been a situation they'd ever been in. But what's done is done and I'm learning to make the best of it. However I will never forget all the money we've lost because of this. And the hard times it's caused us and will continue to. UGh anyway.
That is all for now.
Xoxo
I apologize for my 2 week absence. I have been quite busy potty training Shade. Which at this point is going quite well. He has came up to me and told me he needs to go pee all day and was dry all night. I'm so very proud of him. He's been extra sweet this morning too. Friday will make 2 weeks with no diapers. We've been putting one over top of his undies at night just in case and when we travel a long distance. Right now he is watching land before time II and eating mac n cheese and bologna per his request. While I am lazy on the couch.
In cooking news: I've made two dishes I'd never made before over the past week. I was sick to my stomach and couldn't think of anything I wanted to eat except apple pie. I only had apple pie filling, so my mom suggested apple cobbler. And to my surprise I had the needed ingredients. It's something else to look at a recipe and know I have the ingredients. That's new for me. I never kept stuff like that in stock in my house usually. It turned out good but I ate my one piece and now it sits in the fridge.. Same goes for the peanut butter fudge I made. Simple recipe. Turns out great.
Jessi and I went to Lexington Sunday. I walked about a mile to my car which I had left parked at salon 80, since it came a blizzard the afternoon and evening before. I didn't want to get Tommy and Shade awake that early on their morning to sleep in. So I trekked it and all was well. I got a great haul from Sephora::::
I desperately need to go back to work. Not that I don't love staying home but I need a paycheck. And photography isn't footing the bill this time of year. Valentines shoots start this weekend, but that is a temporary 2 week period. I didn't want to spend my entire student loan refund and tax returns when they get here just trying to stay afloat. Hopefully arh will call me back ASAP with something. I hear the RNs no longer have to wear white! They are transitioning to grey. That is fabulous.
I am going to dispute a BUNCH of bs on my credit report today. I heard that can help it go up a lot especially if the accts are old. I have a lot of medical bills in collections that I get no correspondence to. We need to build on before the new baby gets here and the only way that's gonna happen is if we refinance. And with my credit score it's not gonna happen. And I need to finish editing at least one set of proofs today. I really need to get amber and Stanley's wedding set done too. It's coming up on the 4 month mark and that's when I quoted them. I also have a disc to mail to a client but can never get to the PO especially with this weather having been as it is, and the fact that if it barely rains when it's cold I am stuck.
Monday we ventured to the yoders store in knott county. Truly pleased with it. Got some local apple butter, honey, pickles, dried apples, yoder bread, brown butter cookies, two sticker books for shade, and some mix for potato soup that I may make today if my stomach settles. And the best pickles I've ever tasted. I had cereal for breakfast. So my stomach is iffy. I highly recommend the yoders store though seriously. Lots of neat things and healthy things. And it's mostly local. The honey I bought was raised and harvested in Jeremiah ky. I find that fascinating. That someone's little bees worked so hard and I bought their honey!
I was thinking back when we lived on bull creek when a conversation on fb prompted me to mention that our water has already frozen once here on preachers fork for 4 days, and I've been snowed in already countless times. I was never really snowed in on bull creek and I don't ever remember my water freezing. But I do remember the faulty and flaky power system. I'm sure our electric would've been off on several occasions if we were still there. We lived there for 6 years. I was barely there 6 months before Tommy moved in. It's hard to believe 6 years of our lives were spent there and we were just forced to pick up and move here. I think eventually this place will be lovely. It's definitely more peaceful and I don't pay rent on the land at least. But the road is horrid. Dangerous. The people drive ignorantly and the stray dog problem is terrible. I am hoping next winter to have by then traded to an awd vehicle. And that way tommy won't be the only one with one. Because otherwise I'll just get fired from my job because I truly can't get out of here unless someone comes and gets me. Everything takes longer to get to as well. And I can't just pick up and run up to my moms house and she's up here even less. :/ but it's our own and hopefully we can turn it into something nice. I can't wait to get the roof on the porch, and finally sew some grass. It's a giant mud put up here. I just can't believe we met there on bull creek, started our relationship, started our life together, brought our first child home there and spent his first 2 years there. Theres a lot of memories on bull creek. Let alone the ones from my own childhood. But we couldn't get out in our yard or outside and enjoy anything because we had neighbors right on top of us after a while and ppl always driving by scoping things out. Overall I'm glad we moved for the future but I will never be okay with the situation bc it wasn't my idea, and we had to pay way too much to do it just because someone wanted a bigger yard. It's just really not fair. I wanted to build and do things like I wanted to for my and my family's future. But no. Someone else controlled that and made me do this. I think they would've changed their minds had it been a situation they'd ever been in. But what's done is done and I'm learning to make the best of it. However I will never forget all the money we've lost because of this. And the hard times it's caused us and will continue to. UGh anyway.
That is all for now.
Xoxo
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