Planting the garden

Boy did we get a late start on the vegetable garden this year.  First of all it rained and rained and rained.  You can’t get into a garden with it’s as wet as ours has been lately.  Then when it finally got dry enough to plow and get ready to plant, we had a heck of a time finding plants and seeds.

I am guessing that because of the economy, more and more people are planting gardens this year.  That has to be what it was since there’s usually plenty of plants and seeds available most anywhere you go.  We’ll keep looking for the seeds we haven’t found yet but if it’s much longer, they won’t grow very well because it’s be too late in the season to plant them.

Tax season is always a pain

Of course I have a CPA and they keep up on everything throughout the year but tax season is always a pain.  Especially when it comes to paying what you owe if you owe.  Yeah I owed as usual.  Celeste had to do taxes for the first time in her life and she got back quite a bit since she has Little Joe and she didn’t earn much money either.  Being a full time student helped her too.  One things for sure, I hope everyone got their taxes in before the deadline because it’s a mess when you don’t.   You have to file for extensions and all kinds of crap.  Well I got it all done in time.  I sure hope you did too.

Some women hate being called this but not me!!!

I have read this before many times but wanted to share it with you because this is who I am.  Yes I have been called this many times because I don’t compromise.  I am my own person and no one is going to change that.  So if that sounds like you, read on!!!

BITCHOLOGY

When I stand up for myself and my beliefs, they call me a bitch.

When I stand up for those I love, they call me a bitch.

When I speak my mind, think my own thoughts or do things my own way, they call me a bitch.

Being a bitch means I won’t compromise what’s in my heart. It means I live my life MY way. It means I won’t allow anyone to step on me.

When I refuse to tolerate injustice and speak against it, I am defined as a bitch.  The same thing happens when I take time for myself instead of being everyone’s maid, or when I act a little selfish.

It means I have the courage and strength to allow myself to be who I truly am and won’t become anyone elses idea of what they think I ‘should’ be.

I am outspoken, opinionated and determined. I want what I want and there is nothing wrong with that! So try to stomp on me, just try to douse my inner flame, try to squash every ounce of beauty I hold within me. You won’t succeed.

And if that makes me a bitch, so be it… I embrace the title and am proud to bear it.

B – Babe
I – In
T – Total
C – Control of
H – Herself

B = Beautiful
I = Intelligent
T = Talented
C = Charming
H = Heck of a Woman

B = Beautiful
I = Individual
T = That
C = Can
H = Handle ‘anything’

Well we’re moving right along

All of the dry wall is up and now they’re going to put the ceramic tile on the bathroom and kitchen floors.  They’ll start that tomorrow.  The tile in both rooms is the same.  I got a sand or tan color that is sort of mingled so dirt won’t show on it.  When you have a little one running around, you have to think of stuff like that because they can make a mess on a floor and you sure don’t want it to show.

Well I guess I’ll be getting the toilet, bathtub, vanity, sink and all of the other stuff for the bathroom this weekend.  I may as well go ahead and start looking for all of the stuff for the kitchen too.  It’s a good thing that things have been a bit quite around here over the weekends.  No snow means not many people up here for anything.  Oh well, they’ll be back soon enough.

Well they were right

Here it is Friday and they’re starting to put up the dry wall in the kitchen.  I showed him some of my ideas and some of them he is incorporating into the job but he said that some of them were great ideas but then showed me better ways to do what I wanted.  That was pretty neat.  One of the things I wanted was since the walls are slanted on the bedroom sides was for him to build the closet and storage spaces in the lower parts of the bedrooms.  He had already come up with most of that but the built in drawers and desk, he hadn’t thought of.

In the living room, I wanted the drywall cut out to make shelves for pictures and things like that.  The shelves wouldn’t be deep enough for books or anything very deep but that’s okay.  He liked that idea too.  Since I could not read the blue prints, I couldn’t tell that most of my ideas, he had already planned into the apartment anyway but like I said, he also had not thought of some of the ideas I had too.  I am loving doing this.  I guess I’ll be shopping this weekend for cabinets, flooring, and all of the light and other fixtures too.