Jeff just finished a splatter plexi-art piece for the living room. I kinda sorta recorded the process, and uploaded it to the family youtube channel. Go have a looksie. It’s drying now so tomorrow or so I’ll be able to get a picture of it, which will be posted also.
*For convenience I’m going to link the video right on here but you can also find this link on the main page of the family’s web site. *
i didn’t check my email yesterday-333 (so far) in my junk folder, WTH?! Oh yea recently asked why is there so much profanity in my online ’stuff’ but I dont really cuss that much IRL….BECAUSE I CANT cuss that much IRL-w/ 2 kids 1 who repeats anything she shouldnt so instead I get all my need for such foul language out on here. Profanity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers. HA! I love that one….annnnyway I got my foot tattooed yesterday. OUCHIE, but not as bad as I was expecting. Dont get me wrong it hurt like a bitch but I’m really wanting my other one done now so you know it wasn’t that bad. It looks awsome too, lily was so amazed that she had to get her foot tattooed-so out came the sharpies. lol, ‘look mommy i got my foot tattooed like you’. so adorable. After I got home I put my foot up as per instructions, it got puffy later on last night. Gooped it this morning-tattoo goo just fyi and it’s happy. Yesterday I was up made breakfast and had gotten a shower, completely ready to walk out the door at 9am yesterday but my appt wasn’t till 11. I was so nervous from everyone who heard about my upcoming tattoo, ‘omg it’s going to hurt so bad, etc etc’. Ummmm….now jeff is antsy wanting a tattoo. but he’s going to wait a bit, I feel like that would be stretching funds to tight and nope that’s not allowed to happen. Most people choose to pay off debit and THEN build credit or vice versa but nooooo, i have to do it all at the same time in as little time as possible. I guess to make up for all the time and money we wasted instead of taking care of it before. It’s working well so far but we have to stick to our budget or else it’ll get screwed up like it has so many times before. I think one of the guys jeff got hired onto the company is about to loose his job. he’s been in the trade for 6 or so years and he’s pissed because jeff has only been doing it 2yrs but jeff is incharge. He thinks because of his ‘experiance’ the superviors should go to him and he should have the van and all that. But he KNEW when he was hired thats how things were going to be. Anyway today he didn’t come into work he hurt his back last night supposedly. I mean it’s very likely that he did-trip on his daughters toy and fall down the stairs even though it wasnt bad enough to go to the hospital-but he is ’sick’ 2 or 3 days a week. he goes to work but doesn’t work to what jeff and THE BOSS know hes capable. Kinda shitty but thats how things work sometimes. Jeffs parents are coming into town next week, we’re going to the zoo and such fun things w/ them. Lily is really excited, i’m nervous-I love ‘em both to death but usually the first day is kinda awkward, dont really know what to talk to them about. I’m sure once we move out closer to them that’ll go away as I spend more time with ‘em. I think in the soon to be 4 yrs we’ve been married I’ve spent a total of 3 wks with them? give or take a few days of course. I think we’re going to FL sometime this summer too-jeffs grandma has alzheimers, in the last year it’s gotten worse and he’s really scared he might not get a chance to see her again. She forgets lily’s name and age and usually doesn’t even remember we’ve had serenity. She’s such a sweetie and his grandpa too. I dunno I feel completely comfortable with them, it’s weird people close to my age or OLDER people I’m good around it’s that parent age kinda feel strange with. ok i gotta get back to my cleaning this was just a break to check the bank and post about my so much cuter foot. oh and an updated kids piggy bank balance as of this morning-$94.89
whats happened hmm, well lily is offically using her big girl potty. not every time but it’s getting better-she nows wears her actual pantis instead of pullups quite often. squeaker is working on her crawling, not quite there but working on it. i sold a painting to a girl on my punkymoms forums-she inspired the painting so yay. my mothers day was ruined-then i got flowers the next day which made it better. i feel the need to up my nostril to it’s 8g then get the other side up to the 10. we’ve decided not to visit jeffs parents this summer so we can save more money for moving. have gotten $100 more into the money market accoutn for said moving. we’re workin on it. jeff got his school package and taken his first exam. he’s really excited about it and so am i. once hes done i’m taking my art course from the same people. cant wait, i’ll have to double up his payments to get it paid off in time of him finishing it. work is going good for him, lots of hours, lots of pay. bad news is he’s been having some bad back pain lately, i set up a doc. appointment for him this thursday to hopefully get some pain pills to help. i’ve been trying to get him to give yoga a chance-never know it could actually help. i think so anyway. still waiting on that secured credit card. they took the money out of the account but still say the application is in review so i got the number for jeff to call if he makes it home in time tonight. lilys piggy bank is getting quite hefty. any time we have $1 bills or any change into the pig it goes. i put 7 cash and i’m atleast 2 dollars in coins in there last week. i’d really like to switch to bank of america because of their keep the change program. it’d be a good way to help keep the kids savings going strong. we have the money market account for our adult savings needs and then just make a seperate savings and use it as their account which would get all the extra change. jeff and i have been putting out a lot of art work-actually today i need to get some more uploaded. he had planned on having a ‘gallery’ unveiling on sunday but due to the day being so terrible that didn’t happen. i have to get more of mine onto the camera then online. also still need to link the posting onto the family page. i’m so proud of jeffs career course he’s working on. he’s putting a lot of effort into it, and really making it worth the money. i was a bit leary thinking it would be a complete waste and he’d just let it sit and not finish but seems to be getting done. i did something sort of bad….i ordered jeff a book for his birthday which isn’t till september but its limited to 2000 printings. book cost $87 after the s&h. and i put it on the credit card. i know we’re trying to pay it off but i wanted to make sure he got that book. it’s nice and he may not have a second chance. for fathers day i plan on getting him ear weights but those can be gotten any time-if the ones planed arent available then there is always a different style. I found the funniest thing which i’ll post in a min, so actually you’ll get it read it before reading this, hope it was enjoyed? ok all for now i guess
lily has used her ‘big girl potty’ twice now, so thats exciting. i guess mom was right when she said leave her alone and she’ll do it when shes ready. if ya push they’ll resist. cool-now i wonder if she’ll keep it up. squeaker is doing great w/ rolling over-now rolls all over the place to get where she wants to go…hehehe kinda funny to watch actually. i’m not sure if we’re still going to visit jeffs parents this summer, gas prices are high now and it’s not even mid-summer when they’ll get really high w/ all the people driving. i think we might just stay here, save the cc and jeff can work and make money instead of loosing. it’s sad but really the best thing. everyone cept for karen n’ her family are coming back this way anyway so we’ll get to see them and karen had been planning on not being there when we did make it out (hoping to have steve a new job and all that so moving) so-i guess we’ll go w/ the way things are going to work out best. jeffs doing great working, saving is going to be doing good too. we’ve caught up on everything and i think we’ll be able to get ATLEAST $300 saved just this month so we might just be able to make it outta this place by next year. wont that be grand-our own home. still waiting on the secured credit card-jeffs mail school thing (well the check for it) cleared today so soon he’ll be getting his books n’ such to start the ‘edjamakation’. wooo jeffie. random bullshit rumor going around-that was quickly stopped, jeff was pissed and yea i’m not going into it here. lily had green eggs for lunch-lol, she read the name sake book today and wanted it. now i gotta go do dishes. i think i’m going to try portrait work tonight, maybe painting, maybe drawing, possibly both! we played candy land last night-lilys fav game. haha says 3-6 on the box, well boo my 2 year old can play….ok so it’s not some great feat but whatever.
serenity rolled over 3x yesterday…and quite a bit last night, which meant mommy up and down to flip her back over cause she was fussing…guess bored being awake and in there
Jeff has signed up for a distance learning course to be an electrician. He’s already worked in the trade for an year and a half so in another 6 months he’ll have completed the requirement for in the field traning and due to the knowledge he’s learned he’ll probably finish the course in the same time and with those two requirements he’ll be able to take a test and if he passes (no doubt he will) get a journey mans license. After having that for a year he can take a different test and become a master. Yet another year of having a masters license and he’ll be eligable for a contractors license when he can finally work for himself. Great news. Also on my side after his course is complete I will be taking an artist course through the same career school-penn foster. Thats for my own benefit really-i dont think it’ll help me financially but personal improvement. Then I believe jeff will be taking another course, carpentry possibly. Also he has be signed up for a secured credit card (by me) so we can work on getting his credit improved. Hopefully. Oh and there have been more photos added to the webpage if your interested in checking them out. The webpage was upgraded to remove all the banners. 
Today I check the mail-we get our amended return, and jeffs sign up packet for penn foster school by mail to get an electrician diploma. What does this all mean for us, and why am I excited? Well the amended return is going to pay off our credit card, fix the car so we can go visit family in St. Louis this summer. Also it’ll be used to open an acct with bank of america for jeff so he can have a secure credit card-to help up his credit score. With this secure card I will be getting my tattoo, then pay that off and we’re going to set up jeffs class (penn foster) to charge that card automatically. That way there is constant activity on the account and it’ll actually save a bit of money-about sixty dollars). The penn foster class will be finished quickly since he knows most of the information they’ll be teaching just from his work experiance. He’ll need 2 years (done that) and 240hr class (thats the entire penn foster course) so as soon as he’s finished the program he can go get a journey mans license and a year after that he can take a test and get a masters. Once he’s done with his classes, I’m thinking I’d like to get a degree in something, possibly either art or psychology. Not sure about that. I really like the idea of school by mail. Having that little piece of paper will make him worth a lot more money to companies. He’s really excited about getting that paper, I’ve also done the reasearch for him on requirements, payments, etc etc….basically I’ve done it all and now all he has to do is the school work so that should be simple enough. I think things are finally starting to look up for us, getting straightened out and taking necessary steps to make life better.
