First, I am SO glad that the world did not end last Saturday.
I just don't have time for that to happen right now....ya know? 8-)
Here are a couple of photos from a couple of weeks back.
First my daughter before she left for Prom......
She had a frugal-ish Prom. The dress is the same one she wore/bought last year. No multiple dresses were bought by the parents in preparation for Prom like some girls & parents do. And it's a style she can wear and has worn outside of Prom occasions. The shoes she already had and the necklace she bought last year.
Unfrugal would be the amount of money she spent on having her hair did. She paid that bill herself and her eyes about bugged out at the price tag for some curling and hairspray. ;-)
Daughter has legs that go on for days. Thankfully she didn't inherit my genetic code for short stumpy stumps.
And here is #2 son a few Saturdays ago when his musical friends came over to jam.....
The neighborhood got serenaded briefly.
Those tiny little amps sure ratchet up the volume....
Now this is where I apologize to all my readers and blogging friends for my lack of posts, effort and commenting/reading their posts this past week.
The accident threw a complication into my already falling apart plans for the week. We've been dealing with insurance companies(notably an especially unfriendly-dare I say hostile-adjuster for the other driver's insuror), towing companies, hospital reports/forms and salvage yards. Between jumping through these hoops and my elevated stress level, I've been a tad distracted.
The forecast kept saying RAIN on Saturday so I backed off of holding the Garage Sale and didn't advertise it at all. Of course, Saturday morning the sun is shining and it's a glorious rain-free day.
Ugh.
Man makes plans and God laughs.....
We did get the Garage clean-out DONE....yay! But since the Garage Sale didn't happen, I still have many boxes of HBA stockpile in the living room still. After #1 son goes through it today to extract what he needs for the summer, we'll have to get it all moved to the garage....so there goes the cleaned garage.
Ugh.
But at least once the Garage Sale does happen, everything will already be there, organized, ready for me to set up the tables, put it all out and price. Of course until I have the sale, the garage will be less navigate-able.
So I am hopeful that by this evening I'll have a mostly cleared out living/dining room, except for the furniture, and it will be ready for the 'relatives' onslaught which begins on June 5th.
Presently, I'm buried in Salvation and Salvation Army wannabee stuff. Hubs trunk is almost full again, I've got items to take pictures of and I've got boxes of stuff to finish going through today.
Oh, and I have to drive #1 son across the state on Friday to his summer job since their car is totaled and IF we ever see any money for it from the responsible party's insurance company it won't be soon enough to get another vehicle for them before they both leave for the summer. This accident has totally jacked up our plans for the summer but at least we all survived it. ;-)
Add in the end of the year regular craziness and it's full blown Pandimonium here!
And I need to go back to Rite-Aid today but nothing new about that.lol
So that's why I've been MIA lately.
More on this story as it develops.....
Sluggy
I just don't have time for that to happen right now....ya know? 8-)
Here are a couple of photos from a couple of weeks back.
First my daughter before she left for Prom......
She had a frugal-ish Prom. The dress is the same one she wore/bought last year. No multiple dresses were bought by the parents in preparation for Prom like some girls & parents do. And it's a style she can wear and has worn outside of Prom occasions. The shoes she already had and the necklace she bought last year.
Unfrugal would be the amount of money she spent on having her hair did. She paid that bill herself and her eyes about bugged out at the price tag for some curling and hairspray. ;-)
Daughter has legs that go on for days. Thankfully she didn't inherit my genetic code for short stumpy stumps.
And here is #2 son a few Saturdays ago when his musical friends came over to jam.....
Those tiny little amps sure ratchet up the volume....
Now this is where I apologize to all my readers and blogging friends for my lack of posts, effort and commenting/reading their posts this past week.
The accident threw a complication into my already falling apart plans for the week. We've been dealing with insurance companies(notably an especially unfriendly-dare I say hostile-adjuster for the other driver's insuror), towing companies, hospital reports/forms and salvage yards. Between jumping through these hoops and my elevated stress level, I've been a tad distracted.
The forecast kept saying RAIN on Saturday so I backed off of holding the Garage Sale and didn't advertise it at all. Of course, Saturday morning the sun is shining and it's a glorious rain-free day.
Ugh.
Man makes plans and God laughs.....
We did get the Garage clean-out DONE....yay! But since the Garage Sale didn't happen, I still have many boxes of HBA stockpile in the living room still. After #1 son goes through it today to extract what he needs for the summer, we'll have to get it all moved to the garage....so there goes the cleaned garage.
Ugh.
But at least once the Garage Sale does happen, everything will already be there, organized, ready for me to set up the tables, put it all out and price. Of course until I have the sale, the garage will be less navigate-able.
So I am hopeful that by this evening I'll have a mostly cleared out living/dining room, except for the furniture, and it will be ready for the 'relatives' onslaught which begins on June 5th.
Presently, I'm buried in Salvation and Salvation Army wannabee stuff. Hubs trunk is almost full again, I've got items to take pictures of and I've got boxes of stuff to finish going through today.
Oh, and I have to drive #1 son across the state on Friday to his summer job since their car is totaled and IF we ever see any money for it from the responsible party's insurance company it won't be soon enough to get another vehicle for them before they both leave for the summer. This accident has totally jacked up our plans for the summer but at least we all survived it. ;-)
Add in the end of the year regular craziness and it's full blown Pandimonium here!
And I need to go back to Rite-Aid today but nothing new about that.lol
So that's why I've been MIA lately.
More on this story as it develops.....
Sluggy
