What moron thought up this?

Like most people (unless you are one of those weird ones) I hate paying bills. They always get paid, I just hate paying them. I actually dread having to open up the online banking somedays and seeing the balance and thinking okay, what needs paid this week. Why, I'm not sure, cause there is money to pay it, but I am always worried about what "could" go wrong that we need money for. I think alot of it has to do with growing up in a single parent home with an extremely private proud mom who would never ask for help even if she desperately needed it, cause she was the sole source of monies coming in. We weren't dirt poor, don't get me wrong, but the cup definitely didn't overfloweth, know what I mean? That, coupled with some of our own issues we had a couple years ago, has made me pretty tight with the financial reins. My husband likes to tease me that I am so cheap I squeek, which he, of course, follows up with sqqqqqeeeeeeekkkkkk sound effects. Even my kids know this (and make sounds, rotten brats). So as someone who does concern themselves with "what ifs" (unlike my beloved husband who is of the mindset just *&^%ing spend it) imagine how exciting it was to open our Visa bill today and see the delightful new addition to their billing "notices". They have now added a notice heading at the bottom of the bills that is entitled "Time To Pay" where they so kindly let you know that if you continue to make only your minimum payment each month that it will take till THE DAY YOU DIE to pay off your bill.

And my kids thought I wasn't leaving them anything.

Washington Research

Thought I would pass along this little gem to any that may have research that takes them to Washington state.

http://www.sos.wa.gov/library/Obituaries.aspx


The Washington State Library has a FREE lookup service for obituaries that appear within their collection. Read the instructions included on the link posted above. If you are unsure of when the person you are searching for died look up the genealogy blog I did back in June, "Where the Heck Did They go? Part 2" for the link for the Washington Digital Archives or check for them on the pilot project of familysearch. I've used this service before, so it IS 100% free!

Happy researching!

Not Exactly How I Pictured It

Although misleading, since I have never actually pictured sharing my bed with two men, if it ever DID happen it would be with hubby and Gerard Butler (oh how I love that man), definitely not hubby and my 11-year-old-son. Last night, for the first time EVER in his life, my baby boy crawled into bed with us and didn't just fidget and fart around, but actually slept! Found him curled in the fetal position at the top of his bed bawling his eyes out last night at 10:30. Was determined he was "hurting so bad" cause something kept biting his feet and neck. Of course this was all a dream (the tell-tale bad dream face he gets when he has one) but he was so convinced it was all real that I absolutely could not get him to settle down so brought him in with us HOPING he would conk out and not be to hard to get up for school this morning. When he conked out, have no clue, cause I did first haha, but when I woke at 1 he was awake, talking to me, then again at 2......ugh.......needless to say I kept my "Sleeping Beauty" home cause there is no way he could have functioned at school. Nightmares suck!!

And so it begins......

Well, just walked in the door from dropping "The Boy" off to his first day as a Middle School student and "mini-me" off for her first day of Grade 10 and already I feel sad. Am I insane? Do I need a rubber room? Padded walls? A straight jacket? Surely I can not be the ONLY mom who hates seeing her kids go BACK to school? Most parents seem to start counting down the days till school goes back in ohhhhh JUNE, but me, nope. I enjoy having those little rugrats around. Like I said, JUST walked in the door and already I miss them.

Sighhhhh