Jos and I went to this "couples only" fireside put on by a cute old LDS couple. They were like 70-something and they were talking about strengthening your marriage, love etc. It was such a nice fireside. What an uplifting way to end the week.
Ya, good times. A short post. Just what I needed. I'm off to make dinner.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Downer McDownerson
Yep, that's me today. I'm feeling rather frustrated and upset. When I applied for my Maternity Leave benefits, I only applied for the 15 week leave. Yeah, dumb me. So we haven't rec'd a mat leave cheque in a month...and we REALLY need that money yesterday! I feel like such a fool, a broke fool. We applied for a mortgage pre-approval. Um....there isn't a house that we could actually buy with what we were pre-approved for.
I was so down about it today, that I even considered suicide!!!
On a funny note, Lliam finally pooped today! WOOT, after 10 days of waiting, its something to shout out about! Speaking of poop, he really reaks right now. I gotta go. Then I'll cry some more. Then maybe plan for some way to make money without losing my Mat leave.
I was so down about it today, that I even considered suicide!!!
On a funny note, Lliam finally pooped today! WOOT, after 10 days of waiting, its something to shout out about! Speaking of poop, he really reaks right now. I gotta go. Then I'll cry some more. Then maybe plan for some way to make money without losing my Mat leave.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Posting a post
I totally missed the Thanksgiving post, sorta on purpose. There is a lot of things that I'm thankful for, I just wasn't in the mood AT ALL this year to share them. Not sure why. Am I becoming more private? I normally share EVERYTHING that's going on in my life. Now I just feel like I'm pretty boring. LOL Maybe I need to go back to work and "BE" someone again. Its not like being a stay at home mother/wife/chef/occasional housekeeper isn't a fun job or anything, its just way different from a day job. I miss being important in the office. I'm trying not to feel guilty about that last statement.
I'm on my way to my "other family" to visit for the day. The 8 months before Jos and I got married, I lived with another family to help me save for the wedding and help me prepare a little better. This family is an LDS family, and helped me in ways that can't be described. When it came time to move out, and get married, I cried, lets put it that way. So I'm off to visit today, and introduce my little 4-1/2 Month Lliam to her. We always find some sort of craft to do at her house, so I'm helping her do some quiet books for some kids at church. I should really try and get my hair done or something.
Walmart shopping will just have to wait until tonight or tomorrow.
I'm on my way to my "other family" to visit for the day. The 8 months before Jos and I got married, I lived with another family to help me save for the wedding and help me prepare a little better. This family is an LDS family, and helped me in ways that can't be described. When it came time to move out, and get married, I cried, lets put it that way. So I'm off to visit today, and introduce my little 4-1/2 Month Lliam to her. We always find some sort of craft to do at her house, so I'm helping her do some quiet books for some kids at church. I should really try and get my hair done or something.
Walmart shopping will just have to wait until tonight or tomorrow.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
My memelicious meme
1. I've come to realize that my last kiss: will be from old man lips.
2. Last night: I watched Iron Man- very good movie.
3. I drink: Water mostly,but lately I drink GTHP for my health. When I go out to dinner its always a Virgin Ceasar with 2 ice cubes.
4. I eat: more often now that I cook every night now. I actually like leftovers for breakfast. I'm weird that way.
5. I love: Summer and Autum seasons. I also love to horseback ride.
6. My room is: shamefully a mess 90% of the time.
7. My love life: is private 6 days a week.
8. I hate it when people: lie to me, drive like an idiot, swear around my kids, ignore their personal hygiene.
9. Love is: forever, deep, trusting.
10. Marriage is: fun, most of the time. Its forever.
11. Somewhere, someone is thinking: "I really want to rent, 'The NeverEnding Story II'" but not me.
12. I always: brush my teeth before I put on my makeup.
13. I have a secret crush on: no one, my crushes are never secret.
15. My mobile phone: is a music phone, it rings once in a while, and I use it mostly when I'm in my car. Thank goodness for bluetooth technology.
16. When I wake up in the morning: I normally go and nurse Lliam and try to go back to sleep. I wonder when a full 8 hrs will ever come again on a regular basis?
17. Before I go to bed I: normally fall asleep within 10 minutes of my head hitting the pillow, but on the odd night, I giggle for about an hour for no reason.
18. Right now I am thinking about: How glad I am that its not snowing outside.
19. Babies are: cute, time consuming, exhausting, and
20. I get on myspace: once in a while, but I don't really care about myspace anyway.
21. Today I: will be consuming lots and lots of turkey.
22. Tonight I will: eating turkey at dad's, then driving to Cardston to my moms.
23. Tomorrow I will: be thankful on thanksgiving day.
24. I really want to: lose about 25 lbs!!!
25. In five years I see myself: having one more child, and owning a house.
2. Last night: I watched Iron Man- very good movie.
3. I drink: Water mostly,but lately I drink GTHP for my health. When I go out to dinner its always a Virgin Ceasar with 2 ice cubes.
4. I eat: more often now that I cook every night now. I actually like leftovers for breakfast. I'm weird that way.
5. I love: Summer and Autum seasons. I also love to horseback ride.
6. My room is: shamefully a mess 90% of the time.
7. My love life: is private 6 days a week.
8. I hate it when people: lie to me, drive like an idiot, swear around my kids, ignore their personal hygiene.
9. Love is: forever, deep, trusting.
10. Marriage is: fun, most of the time. Its forever.
11. Somewhere, someone is thinking: "I really want to rent, 'The NeverEnding Story II'" but not me.
12. I always: brush my teeth before I put on my makeup.
13. I have a secret crush on: no one, my crushes are never secret.
15. My mobile phone: is a music phone, it rings once in a while, and I use it mostly when I'm in my car. Thank goodness for bluetooth technology.
16. When I wake up in the morning: I normally go and nurse Lliam and try to go back to sleep. I wonder when a full 8 hrs will ever come again on a regular basis?
17. Before I go to bed I: normally fall asleep within 10 minutes of my head hitting the pillow, but on the odd night, I giggle for about an hour for no reason.
18. Right now I am thinking about: How glad I am that its not snowing outside.
19. Babies are: cute, time consuming, exhausting, and
20. I get on myspace: once in a while, but I don't really care about myspace anyway.
21. Today I: will be consuming lots and lots of turkey.
22. Tonight I will: eating turkey at dad's, then driving to Cardston to my moms.
23. Tomorrow I will: be thankful on thanksgiving day.
24. I really want to: lose about 25 lbs!!!
25. In five years I see myself: having one more child, and owning a house.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
My support blog entry.
Some of you may know that my husband has been working as a financial advisor part-time for the last year or so, and that he’s gotten really good at it. He’s at the point now where we’re looking to make the move to full-time in the beginning of 2009. To make that work, he needs to build up his client base over the next few months. The biggest way financial advisors build their businesses is through referrals, so I’m referring him to all of you.
I don’t like to use my blog to advertize or spam people, so I won’t be sending out any more messages or emails like this, but he’s my husband, and this is me supporting him. I hope you guys, my friends and family, will support me by helping out. If you could use a really good financial advisor, or know anyone else who might, please email or call me or Jos. It doesn’t cost anything to sit down with him for a half-hour, and see what he can do. If you sit down with him and it turns out you don’t need his services, no hard feelings, and neither of us will bug you about it, so don’t worry about that. Jos isn’t a pushy guy, and he knows how squeamish I am about asking my friends to do business stuff (I had some bad experiences with MLM years ago).
Jos mentioned that most people don’t really know what “financial advisors” do, and there’s a lot of confusion – even suspicion about it. He’s not there to scare you or trick you into spending money you don’t have, or tell you that you have to live on “wiggly soup” to save for retirement. He’s not going to try to convince you to risk your savings or your house on some wild, super- risky investment scheme. In fact, most of the time he just helps people pay off their debts super-fast. He knows how to pay off your house years sooner than you thought you could, making the same payments you’re making right now, for example. Even if you rent, like we do, Jos can show you how to free up enough money to buy a house sooner. He knows how you can save tons on your taxes, and he knows how to turn $5,000 into almost $4 Million by the time you retire. He even knows how you can take the money out tax-free!
Most of the businesses his group sits down with have decent - but not great – benefits programs. Jos knows how to make the benefits program top-notch, and it usually costs less to have better benefits than it does to have the “ok” ones. He should sit down with your boss, and you can get all the credit for saving your boss money, as well as getting better benefits.
One of the things he does I wish I’d known about sooner, so I could have told some of you months ago. He has a Critical Illness program for children, which covers things like Autism, Meningitis, Cerebral Palsey, Cystic Fibrosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and 8 other childhood illnesses. If your child is ever diagnosed with these conditions, the program pays between 25 thousand and 2 million dollars, tax-free, which you can spend however you want – to pay for treatment, or take time off work to be with them at home, or whatever. It also includes access to the best doctors in the world to help your child get better – they’ll review the case for free. It includes healthcare-, convalescence-, psychological-, and even legal-assistance. No wondering about how you’ll provide the best care for your child in the face of such a massive challenge. And if you are blessed enough to never need the program, you can choose to get money back, and you can use it to pay for university, or weddings, or whatever. Either way, you can help take care of your children, and Jos can help you do that.
I don’t understand most of the details of what Jos does, he’s gotten a lot of training about it, and he had to get licensed to be able to even really talk about it. I just know that he’s helped our family, and several others, and I’d like him to be able to help your family and friends as well.
Oh, and I’m supposed to tell you that none of his clients have lost a penny in all of the “sub-prime” financial crisis stuff that’s been going on lately.
So anyway, my husband’s a genius financial advisor, and I hope he can help you, or your family and friends, or even the company you work for. Call us, or email, and set up a half-hour sit-down with Jos. He won’t tell me anything about your money situation (Privacy Act), and he’ll probably show you things you never imagined you could do with money (including making more than you have right now).
That’s the end of my commercial blogging/emailing. Thanks for reading, and thanks for helping me help my hubby. I’m very proud of what he does as a financial advisor with Canada Loyal, and of how hard he works to help our family by helping other families. I like the fact that my husband comes home excited about what he’s done each day, and I like that his clients always seem grateful for what he’s done with them. I don’t expect that I’ll be posting or emailing anything like this again, so thanks again for reading this one.
I don’t like to use my blog to advertize or spam people, so I won’t be sending out any more messages or emails like this, but he’s my husband, and this is me supporting him. I hope you guys, my friends and family, will support me by helping out. If you could use a really good financial advisor, or know anyone else who might, please email or call me or Jos. It doesn’t cost anything to sit down with him for a half-hour, and see what he can do. If you sit down with him and it turns out you don’t need his services, no hard feelings, and neither of us will bug you about it, so don’t worry about that. Jos isn’t a pushy guy, and he knows how squeamish I am about asking my friends to do business stuff (I had some bad experiences with MLM years ago).
Jos mentioned that most people don’t really know what “financial advisors” do, and there’s a lot of confusion – even suspicion about it. He’s not there to scare you or trick you into spending money you don’t have, or tell you that you have to live on “wiggly soup” to save for retirement. He’s not going to try to convince you to risk your savings or your house on some wild, super- risky investment scheme. In fact, most of the time he just helps people pay off their debts super-fast. He knows how to pay off your house years sooner than you thought you could, making the same payments you’re making right now, for example. Even if you rent, like we do, Jos can show you how to free up enough money to buy a house sooner. He knows how you can save tons on your taxes, and he knows how to turn $5,000 into almost $4 Million by the time you retire. He even knows how you can take the money out tax-free!
Most of the businesses his group sits down with have decent - but not great – benefits programs. Jos knows how to make the benefits program top-notch, and it usually costs less to have better benefits than it does to have the “ok” ones. He should sit down with your boss, and you can get all the credit for saving your boss money, as well as getting better benefits.
One of the things he does I wish I’d known about sooner, so I could have told some of you months ago. He has a Critical Illness program for children, which covers things like Autism, Meningitis, Cerebral Palsey, Cystic Fibrosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and 8 other childhood illnesses. If your child is ever diagnosed with these conditions, the program pays between 25 thousand and 2 million dollars, tax-free, which you can spend however you want – to pay for treatment, or take time off work to be with them at home, or whatever. It also includes access to the best doctors in the world to help your child get better – they’ll review the case for free. It includes healthcare-, convalescence-, psychological-, and even legal-assistance. No wondering about how you’ll provide the best care for your child in the face of such a massive challenge. And if you are blessed enough to never need the program, you can choose to get money back, and you can use it to pay for university, or weddings, or whatever. Either way, you can help take care of your children, and Jos can help you do that.
I don’t understand most of the details of what Jos does, he’s gotten a lot of training about it, and he had to get licensed to be able to even really talk about it. I just know that he’s helped our family, and several others, and I’d like him to be able to help your family and friends as well.
Oh, and I’m supposed to tell you that none of his clients have lost a penny in all of the “sub-prime” financial crisis stuff that’s been going on lately.
So anyway, my husband’s a genius financial advisor, and I hope he can help you, or your family and friends, or even the company you work for. Call us, or email, and set up a half-hour sit-down with Jos. He won’t tell me anything about your money situation (Privacy Act), and he’ll probably show you things you never imagined you could do with money (including making more than you have right now).
That’s the end of my commercial blogging/emailing. Thanks for reading, and thanks for helping me help my hubby. I’m very proud of what he does as a financial advisor with Canada Loyal, and of how hard he works to help our family by helping other families. I like the fact that my husband comes home excited about what he’s done each day, and I like that his clients always seem grateful for what he’s done with them. I don’t expect that I’ll be posting or emailing anything like this again, so thanks again for reading this one.
Monday, October 6, 2008
A spontaneous new DO!
Check it out.
I was walking through the mall with my little brother and my 2 kids. We went passed a "Chatters"and decided to go in. My brother and I, both decided to go get new hair cuts! WOOT!
Tell me what you think of the cut.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
again...2nd video
This second video is of me and Tess. She's a little more experienced, but I'm not. Tess is about 7yrs old, and is a pleasure to ride most of the time. Its my 4th time trying this new thing, so I'm a little sensitive. I just wish my father "the REAL experienced cowboy", would give me a little more direction on how, exactly, I'm supposed to do it. So far, I have learned that you are supposed to guide your horse in the general direction of the barrel, ride around it without knocking it over, and head to the next barrel, go around it, and then to the last barrel, go around THAT barrel, and run as fast as you can back "home". Um...yeah. Sounds simple, but I know there is some actual stuff in there that I'm supposed to do with my feet and hands. I'm just trying to stay in the saddle most of the time.
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