Frustration

That pretty much sums up how I feel right now. Do you ever find yourself in a situation where the harder you work at moving forward the quicker you go backwards? No matter what you do to try to fix things, it just doesn't work. Right now I think there is a brick wall somewhere with my name on it saying "hit head here". None of you have ever felt that way right? I didn't think so.

Pumpkin anyone?

I love this time of year. It's the time when everything pumpkin comes out. I had a coupon for the coffee mate creamer and it was on sale so I bought the pumpkin spice creamer. I fixed a cup of coffee and used some. Man is it good! If I close my eyes it's just like eating a piece of pumpkin pie! I suggest you try it if you like pumpkin pie and coffee!

Procrastinate

should have been my middle name I sometimes think. I don't procrastinate at everything. In fact with the majority of things I do it and get it done early. Unfortunately I don't do that with filing papers. Now my file cabinet is organized and my desk has different slots for different things. Usually I just toss papers to be filed in my "file" box on my desk and file them when it starts getting full. It passed being full about 2 months ago lol. In fact now it's about to spill out of the desk. This is the worst its ever been. The problem all started 2 years ago this month to be exact. We sold our house moved in with my parents. My filing slacked off greatly due to not having many bills to pay. Plus I wasn't using my normal filing cabinet, but instead the file drawer on my desk and most of what I filed wound up going to the tax lady back in Jan/Feb. My poor 2 drawer file cabinet sat neglected for over a year. With 2 previous years stuff in it. You know where this is going don't you? So we buy our new house and literally moved in in 2 days. Of course everything from the desk gets thrown in a box and sat in a room to wait for me to get to it. All while life goes on and the desk is collecting the current papers to be filed, I have a box of last years filings to be filed in the cabinet, and the neglected cabinets with 05 and 06's years worth of filing. My sister was over last week and commented on my filing system on my desk. Normally I can find what I need if I need it, but not this time. Alas, it was finally time to bite the bullet and sort through the file cabinet and weed out old stuff and box it up. I did try this a few months ago and didn't seem to get anywhere. Other than dividing stuff into 3 boxes.
Today was going to be the day. I woke up around 8am and headed in. I finally stopped about 1230. I totally cleaned out the file cabinet and further organized it into his, hers and ours lol. (I had stuff in there from the year we got married 7 years ago and almost every month's bill stubs from our previous house we lived in for 5 years!!!) Then I sorted through the boxes I had previously divided. Everything got filed in the cabinet for access, in the shred box, the trash box or the put in the attic box. I felt so accomplished after that. I can actually see the floor around my file cabinet! I didn't however tackle the desk. That will be for another day. But at least there is a light at the end of the tunnel. And maybe I'll find the credit card the company says they sent and the owners manuals for the things in the house! The ironic part is while I'm cleaning up my filing mess, I'm fussing at my daughter who doesn't want to clean her mess on the other end of the room. I don't know where she gets it from?!?!? It's gotta be from her daddy!

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Carnival

One of our local churches has a carnival on Halloween. We've never been to it before. Last night we decided to take E. Everything was free. They had corn dogs, cotton candy, popcorn and drinks. You could get as much as you wanted by getting back in line. They had rides for big kids and little kids. They also had games for the kids to play. They played Christian music the whole night too. It was cool. It was cold! We rode the Ferris wheel, which had to be adjusted while we were on it. We were the second group to get on on the second load. The guy said the weather affects the adjustments. It sounded logical. I was praying the whole time to make it off. Hubby was shaking cause it was colder since the seats were metal and little E wouldn't be still and every time she moved the seat would swing. It didn't bother me but hubby doesn't ride rides so it was a miracle he even got on it. Then it had to have adjustments lol. It was fun once the ride started. Of course we had to use the portapotty too! What fun would it be if we didn't? We played some games, ate cotton candy and popcorn and E rode some more rides. Then we ran into one of E's best friends from school. 2 hours later we were going to head on out. E wanted food but the food lines were too long to wait. So we grabbed a drink and told her we'd stop by McDonald's. We did and got double cheeseburgers for her and me and fries for dad. Poor thing, she was so tired she was asleep before we got out of the drive thru. We tried to wake her up to eat when we got home but to no avail. Into the bed she went. Dad ate the cheeseburger. You know whats coming next don't you? Dad had to work today so he left early this morning. My 0830 wake up call from E was "where's my cheeseburger? I was gonna eat it for breakfast!" said in a half surprise/half about to cry voice! Bless her heart. Guess daddy has some explaining to do when he gets home!

Fridge is fixed!

Thursday was the day. Turns out the compressor went out on the fridge. They brought a new one Thursday and now it's working beautifully. No funny sounds or anything lol! It's amazing how much we take things for granted. We had to use 2 coolers to keep everything iced down. Every other day, if not everyday we were buying a bag of ice to replenish. It did get cool enough after the second day that we could have just put everything outside and not bought ice. The 2 drawbacks to that is I didn't want any animals inviting themselves to our food and I didn't want to go outside in the cold in my pj's to get a drink in the middle of the night! Remarkably, none of our food spoiled. Not even the milk, as I was able to pour what we had into a quart jar and keep it in the cooler. The only loss was of the labels on some of the bottles. And luckily those were from obvious things like juices. All in all it was 6 days we were without the fridge. I am so grateful I was born after refrigeration was invented. I definitely don't want to go through that again. Now that I know I have the warranty, next time it starts making any sound I'll call right away.