Time off?

I've thought about going down to four days a week of work. Of course, I'm not sure how we'd be able to pay our bills but figure we'd manage somehow.

Now I'm considering doing some online trading! Of course, I wouldn't invest too much because the market is so unpredictable.

It would be fun to take the day off and stay at home doing some day trading!

Out of commission...

Sorry I've been away for a while. Work's been kicking my ass everywhere and now I have just a few minutes to update this blog.

So much has changed.

Emmy and Graem are getting big and...


My father passed away a few days ago.

Of course, now I'm just trying to make sense of all of it...

We need more.

I've looked everywhere for the perfect table lamp for our living room.

Instead of buying a new one we just revamped our old one and even purchased a new lamp shade! Of course, that was an ordeal and took three months to find a decent one that didn't look like our grandmothers!

YES!

Tomorrow is my first day off of work since maternity leave! I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to going to Grammy's field trip and seeing her and all of her classmates interact.

Then we're going to Kyushu! After that we're going to do some geocaching and plan on going to L,C, and J's house for Halloween trick or treating and dinner!!

Let the fun begin!

Trimming the fat?

With the holidays approaching I don't know if I should try now or wait til January 1st to start my new diet!

Heck, I'm scared that with the holidays I might even put on more weight. God knows I love my food and I'd rather work on losing it than just cutting out goodies.

Maybe I should try orovo diet pills and see if they can help me out during the upcoming months!

Exhausted.

I'm so tired. Emmy was up quite a bit last night and she's been pretty grumpy the past day.

I hope she's not getting sick.

There's nothing worst than a sick baby!

Work less. Play more.

At some point Shawna's going to go back to work. However, I'm not really sure what line of work she's going to get into.

Ideally, she'd have a part-time job or something where she can make her own hours and then with the rest of her time tend to home stuff and kids.

Maybe we should look at franchise opportunities. That way she'd be able to make her own schedule and still contribute financially!

Let's vote!

I really can't wait to vote this year. I feel like things have got to change.

God knows I come home every day and curse out the computer because I see my savings and investments go to an all time low. Let's not even talk about the kid's college fund.

Augh.

So memorable.

I'm so glad that we purchased a camcorder when I was pregnant.

We've been able to capture both births of our daughters and all of those precious things that happen when kids are young.

The ongoing joke is when people come over we ask them if they want to see our birth video!

Rain or snow?

It's nasty outside!

The past few days it's been so dark when I get up. I can't wait for daylight savings so that I can wake up and know that it's time to start my day!

I just watched the news and it's reported that we might get snow showers.

WTF??

I guess it is October though!

Must move more.

I keep saying every few weeks how I need to trim down. I'm finally down from our trip to Philly but I feel like my clothes just don't fit like they used to.

Not to mention, I've spent a lot of money on my wardrobe and so I can't afford to buy a new one!

Maybe we should get an elliptical machine so that I can workout from home.

It seems like the hardest part of working out is actually getting out of the house.

All work...

These past few weeks at work have been so busy. My boss has talked about bringing on another employee but I'm not sure that's the right answer with the economy being in shambles and noone knowing where all of this is going to go.

So far I've been able to keep up with everything and just put a few extra hours in here and there.

What kills me is when I'm on the road and don't have access to phone or email. Typically I check in and make calls throughout the day.

I just need more time in the day!

They worked for Shawna!

Maybe I should try diet pills too!

When Shawna resigned to stay home with Graem she was prescribed a few diet pills. To say the least they were what jumpstarted her weight loss and she was able to get down to an all time low.

The good thing was that after she had lost some of the weight it was much easier to lose more.

Let the diet begin!

Yesterday as we were driving home we decided that we should start our diet. It was nice because after having delicious food all week in Philly it was easy to have a light meal last night!

Of course, it's lunch time now and I'm STARVING!

Maybe I should just go to the treadmills at the local gym instead of McDonalds.

We don't have a thing!

I swear office supplies in our house are pretty scarce.

When Shawna was working she always used to bring nice pens home since she did some work from home. We had collected quite the number of pharmaceutical pens.

However, just the other day I realized that we didn't have *any* pens at all! So for the first time in about 10 years we had to go out and buy a few packs.

I can't wait til we get to go school shopping with the kids. FUN FUN FUN.

Flab.

Well, at least I've been able to get back to my 150 pound mark. I was exceeding my limits for a while there and I contributed it to extensive maternity leave and the fact that we were eating way too much and too often!

Of course, I might be interested in reading weight loss pill reviews if I want to start on a fat pill any time soon!

*gulp*

Our friend, L, mentioned the other day that she was down $30,000 for the year. Now that's a lot of money! Right now I have a pretty large amount of money in savings and I've been looking at ways to invest.

I've thought about futures trading but I'm not sure I want to take the risk right now.

At this point I have some ability to go risky and I know I should just take the plunge in order to diversify my portfolio.

Nice.

When we were in New York I tinkered around with all of my dad's cameras. He has the Leica, Canon, Nikon D90, Samsung, and Olympus digital SLRs.

It was a lot of fun but somewhat overwhelming because there were tons of settings and it reminded me how much I love my Canon Powershot point and shoot!

What can I say...

I pick Shawna's blackheads.

The reality is we all need someone to help us out and instead of them getting infected in her skin I pop them.

I've noticed that I have some blackheads on my nose and try to pick them but they aren't as fulfilling as hers and many times I don't get anything out.

I suppose at some point if they really bothered me I could start washing my face more or using cleanser.

Where's my money?

Years ago Shawna used to be an accountant. She had a decent job and was constantly looking at spreadsheets all day. Her best friend worked in collections and always said that the company would be better off with commercial collection agencies because they had so much outstanding and she could only do so much.

Another flipside of going through an outside agency is that the company that is owed is not seen as the bad guy and it's more of a routine process.