Closing on the new house tomorrow at 4. This makes me feel as if I am going to hurl. Oy. We put the offer in at the beginning of June. This has taken forever. There has been much hoop jumping, and paper work like you would not believe. We did not have to go through this with our last house. It was easy peasy. Of course, that explains the whole mortgage crisis, right? Just give a house to any one! They made us fight for this one! We still have to pack M's playroom. We have been putting it off so as to avoid the meltdown of the century. That will be done tonight. The kitchen will be done tomorrow, and then I am scootching everything on the porch OVER, to make room for what is down stairs. We move Saturday. I pick up...

It has been one of those days. I mean, it has not been dreadful or anything. I just had the day planned out a certain way in my head, and it went NOTHING like that. LOL. We still managed to get a TON done. It has not been too terribly hot today. All of the bedrooms and clothes have been packed up. We have one more closet to do, the kitchen, and then to gather all of the crap that accumulated in the apartment downstairs and the root cellar, PLUS all of M's things out in the yard. Aaaaalmost done. We found out today that closing may not be Thursday, but either Friday or Saturday. NOT good. ARGH. But, there is nothing that I can do about it, so gotta let it roll! Off to have dinner.. another picture post coming hopefully...

Since my family here does not really want any part of us, I have made sure that we have had a fantastic summer regardless. Because no matter how much I try to play it off and act like I don't care, it stings pretty badly. They have cookouts and...

I have missed the FL sunsets. A lot. Being tucked in the valley here, the sun goes down behind the mountain around 5, and sunset is not until much, much later. Kind of a bummer, so the other day, my friend J and I went off in search of a sunset....

There are a lot of old and abandoned houses around here. Each time T and I go to the VA Hospital in Clarksburg, we pass this one place, and I always say, "I HAVE to stop and shoot this place!" I finally did, but was only able to fire off 2 or...

My kidlet is going to be 5 exactly one month from today. *sigh* She is such a fantastic kid. I love how people respond to her. She is such a ... light. Does that make sense? We will be moving at the end of the month. For those of you that don't know, we got a house in an nearby town. Thanks to my mom, we will have a wonderful new start. I am hoping to really set roots down in this place. We will start going to church. M will start kindergarten. Next spring, I am planting a garden. I want to get some fruit trees.. an apple tree, a peach tree, and a cherry tree. I also want a gorgeous red maple for the front yard. I want to fence in the yard, and have blackberry, raspberry and blueberries growing along side the garage....

Everyone always says, “Just write for you, and no one else! It does not matter if people don’t read; you are not doing it for them.” Ok, partly true. However, the fact that I have been at this since 2000, and I literally have 3 readers really sucks. OUCH. People always tell me that I am a fantastic writer. Really? Then where in the hell is everyone? I must be boring as HELL. I swear. There is really no point to this for me anymore. I mean, I like having the outlet. I like to blog. But, with no one really reading and having pretty much NO interaction with people, it just doesn’t do it for me. *sigh* Okay, okay. Enough whining. We all know that I am not going anywhere. Apparently, I am a sucker for punishment. LOL. Now,...

Most of you know that at one point, T and I had not one, but two Nissan trucks. We LOVED them. Seriously. I loved my truck. And I loved his even more. I never 'got' when people would get all stupid over cars. But, well, I do that over old Nova's, 69 Camaro SS's and Nissan Frontiers. LOL. Anyway, I venture over to Nissan's website every now and then to drool over new Frontiers and Xterras.. and today I came upon this... It is a long read.. so to sum it up short and sweet? That man's last name is Nissan. He has been using his name forever and a day in his business dealings (companies owned etc.) and it started back when Nissan vehicles were known as Datsun. Nissan Motor has gone after this poor man, relentlessly, for YEARS....

Ok, I guess I can vent this here cause I think there are like 3 of you reading this still... First, let me say that I DO believe that she is guilty. Second? I did not even watch the trial, just heard what was going on in the news. I was NOT SHOCKED by the jury's decision. I think they acted accordingly. Before you scream at me, just wait. I will explain in a moment. Third? I am REALLY finding it hard to keep my mouth shut on Facebook. The things people are saying!! Eeee man. I mean, I guess I sort of understand, as right now people are being ruled by emotion. But COME ON people!! There are rules and laws and you cannot convict someone just because you feel that she is a douche with no soul!! All of these comments that...