Random Thoughts By Amanda

1. Remodeling a house is not all it's cracked up to be. Don't get me wrong I love being able to pick out the colors and design of everything but it really bites when one person helping you hurts his back and the other person helping is sick. That just leaves a handful of girls and I need boys with big strong arms! haha! Oh well. It gets done when it gets done.

2. I'm so excited about my 5 days in St Louis I could almost pee my pants! I just absolutely LOVE that place. If the mortgage biz wasn't in the toilet I would pack my happy little home up and move there. However, now is not exactly the time to be looking for a job. Plus I love my job and my family here in Arkansas.

3. Nykile has been strangely good the past week or so. Calm before the storm maybe?

4. Being on a budget and having to cook your meals instead of have them prepared for you is for the birds!

5. I'm somewhat concerned that I can now fill up my gas tank for less than it takes for me and Nykile to eat at Chilis. Anybody else just fill like you are just waiting for the bottom to fall out from under you. It's so bad that I go to bed at night sometimes mentally preparing myself for gas to be 10 a gallon the next morning. Weird I know! I shouldn't really think about it. I should be trying to decide what I can spend my extra money on :)

6. One thing I've recently gotten into is Craigslist. Weird I know! But it's really interesting what people try to sell and why. Like they tell ya they need to sell to make next months mortgage payment. While I'm not unsympathetic but it's just not something I would share with the world. Anyway, I also bought a really COOL piece of furniture on CL. I would recommend it to anyone. If you want to sell it's great. So far I've sold about $200 worth of stuff in the last week. Cash money for just taking a picture and posting it. Not bad in my book. At least now I don't have to move it.

I will post some pics of the progress on my house soon.

Later

Closing: Office Visit

Guess what? I'm closing on Wed! I'm super excited although I was once REALLY excited about doing pretty much a complete re-model but one trip to Lowes cured me of my excitement. I should not say that I'm not excited but overwhelmed would be more accurate! There's so many choices for EVERYTHING! Paint for example, there's a million choices and I'm the most indecisive person there is when it comes to stuff like this. Here's what I've got so far:
Red in the kitchen
Herbal Green in the laundry room
Light Orange/Light Tan in my bed room
Limeade green in Ky's bathroom
Chalk Board wall & Red in Ky's room

As far as everything else I think that I will leave that up to the experts. HAHA


In other news my wonderful son got to visit the assistant principal for the 2nd time this week. Today's visit warranted a call to me so it was really bad. Really strange because he has been a saint all week for me. He thought that it was his job to be judge, jury and executor of justice. Yep he bit a boy on the leg because he was doing something he was not suppose to be doing. Somehow there's more to that story but that's all I got. So I picked him up early and life wasn't fun in the Poor household once we got home. For those reading that don't know Nykile, he really is a sweet, smart, & lovable child. We've just hit a rough patch that has lasted longer than I care to think about. :)