Venting..

Here I am trying to pull some weight

off my shoulders.

I am horribly behind on all things.

I am still caught up on laundry though..

I have taken back to running our household

numbers,

and

am not quite up to my picky particular

potential.

It took us both to iron it out last night

and

it took almost 2 hours.

I just like to keep a good eye

on spending

and

keep the papers organized.

We stayed under on our Christmas budget

which is awesome.

For me it is to start saving in the new room month
(I type random words sometimes..)

and

zero out the budget.

That way we “magically” grow our standard savings.

Too much info?

Get over it.

I am not mentioning numbers

just the basics on what I do.

That said, I found some errors today.

Just tried to double pay 2 bills.

Since apparently I did not know

I already paid them.

I know this can happen to anyone

but I haven't done it before..

I did one time buy twice as many diapers as

needed..but..

I had two in diapers

and

a screaming 12 hour a day baby

and

a screaming 4-6 hours a day not-quite-2 year old

and

a 3 year old who would beg to go to his room

to get away from the noise.

That said, I don't have that

and

still managed to whoops on things

and

paid extra on one. (No biggie there..but not planned)

So this really gets to me.

AND even though I

updated our 2014 calendar

(which I USUALLY do early December every year)

I just finished it today

and

wrote down all the school schedules.

Apparently, I can't read because

Bitty has school today

and

I was positive I did not read it on his

school calendar this morning.

**Edit**Yes, I was looking at the calendar for 
the school system he was in before we moved. **

I am pretty detailed oriented

so to have quite a few faux pas

today is not good.

Stuff happens, but it bugs me today.

Probably bugs me because in 2 weeks

I will have my next MRI and neuro-oncologist visit.

I was supposed to in December but

they called to reschedule due to my

Doc's schedule for traveling changing.

December was a bit nutty.

Some issues with one of our Pups

which means we have to decide what to do

and

that includes revamping the budget to

compensate for his new needs.

Bitty hit a nice fever the day after Christmas

and

hasn't recovered fully yet.

He keeps giving us his little curves of crazy.

Even one of the most “strict” peds,

(the one who told me at 2 when I listed some oddities I noticed

said, “It's not like he's Autistic or anything.”..)

Agreed, something isn't quite right but we can only list

what the illness is not.

Our tiles under our fridge

are pulled up

and

now the “man in charge”

from the plumbing company

has to come look at it

even thought we spent 2 weeks with a dehumidifier

and 1 of those 2 weeks also had a supremely noisy fan

to help dry it out.

We also met with their general contractor too.

His taking so long slows the process down

but he should be here tonight

even though he canceled on us earlier this week.

So here's hoping that ball continues to roll...

And things happen and schedules have hiccups..

We also had an animal stuck in our attic for a few hours on

Tuesday afternoon into evening.

THANKFULLY, it found it's way out

and

we have a vague idea of it's way in

and

blocked it.

So far so good..

So right now I would love to go hide

just because of all these nagging things

BUT,
I can't, so I won't

and

have a giant list of to do's

and

really would just prefer to

play with the Boys..

So onward to find the balance of both..

I really keep thinking it's a Monday..

SO glad it is not!!

There are plenty of sparkles of good..

they may be little but

they are here!

Time to go scrub some dirt, play with the Boys

and

focus on all of our sparkles..

with a little less weight now off my back.