JR and I have been working on a few DIY projects for about a year, we made a list and have been crossing things off, and of course adding more.

The biggest job and the one which will make the biggest impact is flooring, we had 15 year old carpet...so gross!
I thought it just looked like crap, when we JR pulled up it was disgusting! never ever no no no more carpet for me!

Here is the nasty pad and the disgustingly gross carpet:

We had it cleaned every couple of months because hello? it was OLD and Hello again? Sissy! after it was cleaned it looked o.k...but yuck!
We also had teeny tiny early 1990’s ceramic tile in the entry way, hated it!

It will all soon be replaced with wood floors, I have not been this excited about anything in years.
I will post pictures during if I’m there when it gets installed, and of course the after shots too.

I’m feeling like such a grown-up, we are on a Debt-Free plan and we saved up for this project!
We saved a lot by doing the prep work ourselves...O.K JR did it all:)
Go us!

It’s not very often that I say I cannot wait for the weekend to be over, but this weekend was such a freaking whipping that it can’t end soon enough for me.

I’m too exhausted to go into it, but I will give you an idea...it’s 7pm and I just now got to shower, between JR and I we’ve cleaned more poopy butts and puke than we may have with our own kids.
After he took the grands back JR asked if I wanted to go to dinner or a movie, I could not muster the energy to laugh hysterically so I think I grabbed my chin with my hands and shook it from side to side, not sure but if he didn’t get my answer, the fact that I stared at the wall without being able to blink for 20 minutes got my point across.

All of you who had more than one child, I don’t know how you did it because there is no way I could do this full-time. 2 days did me in.

A while back I wrote about our next door neighbors, they are much older than us and at first seemed like sweet people.

We soon found out that the husband “Bill” is a huge gossip hound and busybody who is in everybody’s business, he was a nice enough guy but seriously we don’t need to spend 30 minutes hearing about people 2 streets down from us and their problems, he bugs me.

Well a couple of months ago he stopped by to give JR an invite to a neighborhood men’s bible study he was starting, he also gave JR a tract and left.
The next day he came by and JR wasn’t home and when I told him that he said he’d come to invite us to his church, he said he’d noticed we were at home the previous Sunday when he left for church.
O.K buddy, first of all we HAVE a church that we attend and we love it, we go to the late service because I am LAZY and like to sleep in, I rather leisurely get up and get ready and be happy going to church than go early and bitch about it for an hour until my coffee kicks in.
Secondly, it’s none of your damn business what we do and where or when!
I very kindly told him that we are members of such and such church and we attend the LATE services...he looked like I had just told him I had a baby with Lucifer himself.
When he saw JR drive up he went outside to meet him...he asked JR to return the tract he’d given him, uhhhh WTH???
JR came in and asked if I’d seen it and I said no, we looked for it and decided we most likely threw it away.
O.K so that was probably not nice of us right? it’s not we did it in a mean spirited way just to be ugly, but Bill took it VERY personally apparently.
So now we are heathens in his eyes, and he has been rude since that day, he doesn’t speak to us at all which whatever, but Friday Bebe and I were sitting on the tailgate of my car waiting for JR to get home and the baby kept waving at him and saying “Hi” and the fucker did not even acknowledge him! That’s really crappy!
Who does that? he’s a baby! he can feel however he wants about us and we are OK with that, but don’t take it out on an innocent baby you big jerk!

It’s not like he’s the epitome of goodness and kindness, he’s a gossip! he walks the neighborhood talking to people and winning their trust until they confide in him, then he spreads their private business all over, he claims he is doing that so he can pray for them...yeah right, I am not buying his line of bullshit!
He needs to mind his own business and quit trying to dig up dirt on everyone.
He makes me sick, seriously. I’m so over his crap...freaking nosy Scooby Douche!

Friday night was great, I met my High School best friend Jules for dinner and shopping.
We had not seen each other in about 13 years, in that time she’s had 2 children and I have a different husband, time is a trippy thing.
Even though we’ve only written emails or spoken on the phone as soon as we saw each other it was “hey you!” and we walked into the restaurant like we’d seen each other the day before.

We wet to Red Robin where I found a very healthy and delicious chicken salad and drooled over the burgers and desserts everyone around us was having.
Fueled by a good dinner we went shopping, we started off at Charming Charlie which is my current happy place and then we stopped at several more stores until everything closed.
Good times.

Saturday we had both grandbabies with us and enjoyed a cooler day that we’ve had in weeks. That night we founds ourselves alone and decided to just chill at home.
JR grilled steaks and made baked potatoes and I steamed some veggies, perfect.

Today we’re taking it easy again, I cleaned the house while he took the babies back to their parents yesterday so all we have to do is a little laundry.
I have a meeting at church this afternoon and if I’m lucky JR will have grilled some chicken for tonight’s dinner. I sure do love having a man that loves to grill and is good at it..."manly man make fire,,,cook meat...feed woman” Heh.

As of next week I will have no home phone for the first time in my life! I am so excited to be saving that money now!
Any call we make is LD if it is outside our town so we’ve had a special LD calling plan which we pay out the butt for, we lowered the service as much as we could last year basically keeping the phone just for the DSL...but now, now we finally get rid of the damn phone line! AT&T finally has something new available. We will keep our DSL as is because the newer higher speeds are not available in BFE but it works fine for us.

The best part is we will be saving over $150 a month! you know what I can do with that? $19.99 a month plus tax and that’s it.
I don’t even care that our cell reception is zilch at home, anyone I want to hear from just texts me anyway and those come in just fine.
Oh the freedom of never hearing that phone ring!!! no more voice mail to never check, no more sales calls to not answer.

I feel like Laura Ingalls moving out of the Prairie and into the big city.  I may start calling JR Almanzo...no? maybe just during “the dark time” then? right Smizzo?

Have a great weekend everyone, and love on all the fathers in your lives!