Looking California but Feeling Minnesota...

My first sign of bad things to come should have been when Bono broke his back preparing to rock Rice Eccles Stadium...didn't kick the summer off on a good note.

June flew by with the kids getting out of school and Zach getting his tonsils out the 2nd week of the month. Didn't even phase the kid...I think it was harder on me trying to keep him down and resting.


Mid June, the doo doo hit the fan with 0ur other house. The renters not paying their rent in June and moving out, leaving us a huge mess to clean up and pay for. Seriously, when I don't think it is possible for us to get financially deeper in a hole, it goes deeper. Holes in walls, missing door knobs and destroyed appliances, koolaide footprints on the ceiling, bullet holes in the neighbors house and the carpet...., I don't believe they owned a vacuum and they had daily oil dancing contests in the family room. ..the hits just keep coming. I guess it could have worse....it could have totally been worse....right? Thank goodness for a home depot credit card and all of the hours my husband has put into watching DIY channel and HGTV for the last 10 years. And for some amazing family and friends that pitched in to help us clean up and fix the mess. We are blessed.



2 weeks of back breaking labor, countless hours and about $3000 later, the house is half decent again. Could have used even more work, but we are out of time and money for now. That is going to have to wait while we dig out for a few months. The new people that rented it seem like good people and seem like they want to keep it nice, so hopefully they do. Even better, hopefully they buy it! Pray for them to buy it so I don't have to deal with it ever again.


So here we are facing the rest of the summer completely broke, in credit card debt up to our eyeballs and have the rest of the summer ahead of us to keep the kids entertained, with no money, no vacation, no Lagoon, no back to school shopping, possibly no food :), but that should do us all some good, right? Especially me....

I've got some crazy thing going on with my stomach making me double over in pain every time I move. They tell me I have an ulcer, a hernia and possible diverticulitis...(sp). Gee, I wonder why I have holes burning in my stomach....? :). I've been off work from radio all week and they are recommending that I cut back as much as possible while I get these issues under control....which is kind of making sense, even sick and doubled over in pain, I still feel better then I have in a year energy wise. Crazy how good a little sleep can make you feel. I can tell I've been sleeping like a real human being again. Cut back my hours....get more sleep? Laughable.....

I keep thinking maybe if I drop over dead then the insurance money will get us out of the hole? Even better, I'm hoping for a stray bag of money to drop on my head....then we get the bag of money and the insurance....miracles happen all the time, right :).


Speaking of miracles...I've gotten called on a few grown up, normal hour jobs the last couple of weeks. I was on my way to meet with one of them when I wrecked my car. Just a fender bender, but took some work on both of our cars. This after my brother backed my truck into another car the day before. Thank goodness for good insurance. I feel like that lady in Fried Green Tomatoes...

Maybe I should take the crashing of the car on the way to the grown up job as a sign that wasn't the right place for me to be....., or a sign that this summer hasn't been "my" summer at all.


A good thing in all of these two months of chaos, My dad and Auntie A got to come up from Arizona and visited us for a week. It was so nice to see them. It makes me miss him more when I get to see him though. I just get use to seeing his face and then he is gone again....and so it goes.


After the summer we've had so far, thank goodness fall is almost here....and it is almost football season... :) I'm a officially now a fall girl!