Car insurance that is.  We pay pretty cheap for insurance now so unless we go with a “no name” company, one that may not be good on claims or whatever then we may stay with who we have.  I tried to do some searches the other day and got frustrated when my searches kept coming up with car insurance blogs.  I want quotes not to read blogs about car insurance. 

Are policy is up in a month, we paid in advance when we got our tax return so we have not had to pay monthly, it has been great.  I think we only pay about $330 for 6 months on 2 cars, that’s not bad compared to what we paid in Florida.   YIKES!

My hazelnut coffee.  LOL!  I get it from my local grocery store, Martin’s.  The brand is called Javana coffee.  Not sure if it is only carried by Martin’s but this coffee is tasty.  I mean don’t get me wrong I love coffee but those flavored coffees are so much better.  I don’t use creamer in my coffee anymore (too many calories, it’s bad enough I put sugar in there) so a nice strong flavored coffee is amazing. 

Sheesh with all the coffee I drink these days I certainly won’t need any herbal phentermine, this coffee has me peeing a lot and a bit of a curbed appetite.  LOL!  I don’t drink that much coffee but I will say with this tasty coffee I drink more than I used to. 

Packing, newspaper, boxes, packing tape, packing, newspaper, boxes, packing tape!

That is all I tried to do this weekend, with a little cleaning of course.  Our move is just a little over 7 days away and I feel I got a lot done but with kids and their toys all over the place it makes it hard to see the progress.

There is just stuff everywhere.  I haven’t put my craft stuff away yet either and that is a site for sore eyes.  LOL!  I have crap everywhere.  I packed a bunch of boxes and threw away a bunch of crap.  Nicki threw a bunch of junk away from in her room, I threw away a tv stand or two, a twin mattress will be going in the trash along with a night stand and two desks and some dishes.

We are trying to be able to get all of our stuff in a 24′ truck.  We have 2 4-wheelers we have to get in there too and that takes up some space.

Next week I believe it is going to be hectic.  Well, this Friday, I will be going to Nicki’s school to submit her withdraw paperwork.  Then starting Monday, we pick up the rental truck early in the morning.  Tony will be out in the garage part of the morning getting all that stuff packed in the truck first.

Hopefully he will get done well before the kids need to take a nap and then we can get all the stuff from the house in there.  When we moved in to the apartment 6 months ago, we had pretty much all of the stuff from the house in the truck by about 11 am.  We had a “Florida room” or as most people would call it a screened patio….it was filled with JUNK.  That patio took about 2-3 hours to sort though and get on the truck.  Most of it ended up in the trash but this time we don’t have all that junk piled up.

We then plan to call it an early evening, get some take out of some sort and watch a little tv and get an early nights sleep.  Tuesday morning we will get up before the sun, hopefully, load up the cribs, remaining beds and last minutes items.  Do some last minute cleaning and then get on the road.

I am hoping to be all loaded and on the road by 10am.  We will have about a 5-6 HOUR drive ahead of us.  I hate driving.  Really I do, but I will be excited to get this move over with.

We have to meet the landlord of the new house at the house at a decent time so we can get the keys.

Early Wednesday morning we will have Brighthouse come and install our internet.  We will also spend the day unloading the truck.  Thursday will be mostly getting organized and registering Nicki for school.  Friday we have DirecTV coming to hook up the satellite.  We will then have all weekend and Monday to chill and hang out until Tony has to return to work on Tuesday.  Hopefully with Tony home all week we will be able to get most of the boxes unpacked and the house somewhat organized.

Well now I am off to bath the kids and make dinner! 

I am getting old.  I know, I know, 31 is not old.  What makes me feel I am getting old is forgetting how old I am.  When I typed how old I was, I had to pause, calculate in my head when I was born and what year it was and realized I typed the wrong age.  What makes me feel I am getting old is Tony and I talking about what we want when he retires.  What makes me feel I am getting old is thinking that in 6 short yrs it will be acceptable if Nicki got pregnant….I could be a grandma in SIX YEARS!!!!!!

What makes me feel I am getting old is when my knees crack and joints creak and crack when I move and I find myself repeating often “man I am getting old”.  LOL!

Makes me feel I am getting old when I think of Neil Patrick Harris as “Doogie Howser”  and now he is all grown with chest hair.  When my daughter asks “who is Doogie Howser”, doesn’t know Rainbow Brite, Thundercats or Punky Brewster!  Those were some great shows growing up.

But on a serious note, with age comes thoughts of death.  I mean I am not going to live forever.  I should probably think about some life insurance.  There are places where instant life insurance quotes are available, I mean lets face it, I am not getting any younger.  I am an inpatient person….I hate when I am searching for things online and I go through the trouble of filling out the forms and then at the end it says oh a representative will contact you shortly to assist you.

That happened to me the other day when I was trying to rent a truck, I couldn’t get an online quote after I filled out all this info….I ended up renting from someone else that would allow me to do everything online…..now I am having that truck rental company call me every other day leaving me messages to call if they can assist me with anything.  If they could have assisted me don’t they think I would have answered the phone.  LOL!

Last week when we got our tax return, I went out and got some new tires for our Explorer.  I took Tony to work and went to the tire shop right afterwards.  It was a weekday so I thought it would be a quick visit.  WRONG!

I went with Lil Tony and Bel, Nicki was at school, I had some juice cups and a container of cereal for Lil T to snack on.  I get there and it didn’t look busy, there was only 2 people in the waiting room and there were several car lifts available.

None-the-less, it took over an hour and a half to get 3 tires put on.  Lil Tony was really good for the first 30 min or so.  By the time an hour came, he had his hands in the vending machine, turning their TV on and off, spilling his cereal all over the floor, screaming when I won’t let him rip all the wipes out of the package and basically just trying to touch everything in the waiting room.  There was an old man in the room with me and I could clearly see he was getting annoyed.

The most annoying part of it all is the old man that came in about 30 min after me with no appt, was told his work would take about 2 hrs to do.  His car was done at the same time mine was.

All I can say is that I won’t be going to do something like that again.  LOL!

I became a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator a week ago and so I am waiting for my starter kit.  It is supposed to be here tomorrow according to the UPS tracker.  Has anyone ever realized how many hands, trucks or stops your package actually goes through before hitting its destination.  I know I sure didn’t.

I don’t know why but I always thought it traveled straight from the warehouse. None-the-less, my package will be delivered to me tomorrow.

So I say to you, I am a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator! Check out my site http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/artfuldelight/ or email me at Leeanne@artfuldelight.com for more info.

Merry Christmas to me.  LOL!  I bought a new phone the other day and I received it in the mail today.

Presenting, the Pink Blackjack II!

My phone that I was using was a Samsung Sync. It was a good phone but it is worn. It’s been dropped in water, dropped on the ground and just all around in need of an upgrade. I wouldn’t even use my phone and by early afternoon the battery would be low. I am just so excited. Tony has one too and the other day he finally sat down and found all these great applications that can be used on the phone.

I can’t wait for Tony to get home from work to show me all the things it can do.