I am going to talk about a ton of different things we have going on. It seems I can never get the time to talk about everything I want to so tonight you will get a blog post full of several random things. Sorry, but I hope you enjoy it either way :)
Graduation
Last Friday my sister Jayme graduated with her associates degree in Human Services Technology. Don't ask me the details I have no idea what you do with this...help humans(lol) We all know graduations are boring as all get out and it happened to be a 90 degree day...lovely Not to mention it started @ 6:00 on a Friday when folks work! I made it and saw her walk across the stage. I must say I am super proud of her, she has been working on this off and on forever and I think we were relieved that she finally accomplished this goal.
So being the mean person I am I was sick of everyone talking up my little sister. All I heard is Jayme has been working so hard to get here, she paid for it by herself, she worked and went to school...blah blah blah I finally asked my Mom what the big deal was. Why did I ask this? Well I graduated with two associates degrees in 2 1/2 years while living on my own and working two jobs. My Mom got mad at me...LOL I was just trying to make the point no one made such a big deal out of my graduation WITH TWO DEGREES. Really I am proud of her though :)
Jayme @ Graduation
I have been wanting to go back to get my bachelor degree forever!!! I am not worried about the work, it's something that I want for myself. Once again I am checking into schools thinking I can maybe take 1 or 2 classes and take my time. No rush this is something I want to do before I have kids. After checking out the schools I just want to cry! $315.00 a semester hour??? Are you kidding me? I am not rich!!! If I remember correctly most classes are 4 credit hours so that means 1 class cost over $1,200.00 well at that cost I will never be able to get my bachelor degree. I will keep looking maybe I can find a better price...can you price haggle with colleges (LOL)
RELAX
Finally Mark and I took a day off from all of weekend chores to enjoy a day at the lake with some of our best friends. The boys went swimming, but us girls were having no part of that. The lake is still freezing! We really needed the day off. We have the best group of friends in the whole world and I love them all dearly. What a great day just relaxing on the boat :)
Mark and Josh trying to talk us into swimming
Dusty decided to join them and they had a secret meeting under the boat...LOL
enjoying the water and company of good friends
Mark and I :)
Pool Woes
After trying a million things to try to save the filter to our pool we have failed. Our pool is our vacation spot since we are poor folks so we had to break down and by a new filter today...and I was crying as I watched my budget for next month fly out the window :(
We went to the pool supply store today and decided to change from a sand filter to a cartridge filter. It is the new thing on the market and to be honest the sand filter is a pain in the butt anyway so we will see how it works this weekend. Luckily we got a GREAT $300.00 discount since our pool was bought from that store. Lucky for us we were close with our neighbors before we bought the house from them and we had all the information on the pool. Since we have been unable to run the pool it is so nasty looking. I am hope I can have some pictures of a new sparkling pool on here very soon!
The new filter (yay) and my sweet husband who put it together tonight...he is the greatest!
Super Doubles @ HT
Quick coupon update from my shopping trip at Harris Teeter. This week is super doubles where they double coupons up to $1.50. This picture is all the items I bought, but there are also 4 coffee creamers that I couldn't include since I had to leave them in the fridge at work today. I spent $29.67 and saved $66.04 or 70%!!! I am going to make a few more trips this week, but I have to wait until the coupons I ordered from the clipping service come in :)
Super Double Deals!!!
Other things...
A few last things... I have been begging for rain for our garden and boy did I get my wish. We had rain Friday, Saturday and then the bottom fell out Sunday and Monday. Our garden was severely flooded so Mark and I had to go outside in the pouring rain and dig trenches to keep the plants from washing away. The garden was totally submerged water. It was great fun...j/k! I told Mark he should be glad that he has a awesome wife who will dig ditches in the pouring rain. I am sure he already knew that :) So from now on I think I will stop begging for rain!
Hope everyone is ready for the weekend. We are excited that the yearly J&J birthday pig pick'n is this weekend. A yearly even where we cook a big, play games, dance and hang out until the wee hours of the night. I am so ready for this...can't wait to hang out with the besties and have a good time. Yee haw!!!!
Graduation
Last Friday my sister Jayme graduated with her associates degree in Human Services Technology. Don't ask me the details I have no idea what you do with this...help humans(lol) We all know graduations are boring as all get out and it happened to be a 90 degree day...lovely Not to mention it started @ 6:00 on a Friday when folks work! I made it and saw her walk across the stage. I must say I am super proud of her, she has been working on this off and on forever and I think we were relieved that she finally accomplished this goal.
So being the mean person I am I was sick of everyone talking up my little sister. All I heard is Jayme has been working so hard to get here, she paid for it by herself, she worked and went to school...blah blah blah I finally asked my Mom what the big deal was. Why did I ask this? Well I graduated with two associates degrees in 2 1/2 years while living on my own and working two jobs. My Mom got mad at me...LOL I was just trying to make the point no one made such a big deal out of my graduation WITH TWO DEGREES. Really I am proud of her though :)
Jayme @ Graduation
I have been wanting to go back to get my bachelor degree forever!!! I am not worried about the work, it's something that I want for myself. Once again I am checking into schools thinking I can maybe take 1 or 2 classes and take my time. No rush this is something I want to do before I have kids. After checking out the schools I just want to cry! $315.00 a semester hour??? Are you kidding me? I am not rich!!! If I remember correctly most classes are 4 credit hours so that means 1 class cost over $1,200.00 well at that cost I will never be able to get my bachelor degree. I will keep looking maybe I can find a better price...can you price haggle with colleges (LOL)
RELAX
Finally Mark and I took a day off from all of weekend chores to enjoy a day at the lake with some of our best friends. The boys went swimming, but us girls were having no part of that. The lake is still freezing! We really needed the day off. We have the best group of friends in the whole world and I love them all dearly. What a great day just relaxing on the boat :)
Mark and Josh trying to talk us into swimming
Dusty decided to join them and they had a secret meeting under the boat...LOL
enjoying the water and company of good friends
Mark and I :)
Pool Woes
After trying a million things to try to save the filter to our pool we have failed. Our pool is our vacation spot since we are poor folks so we had to break down and by a new filter today...and I was crying as I watched my budget for next month fly out the window :(
We went to the pool supply store today and decided to change from a sand filter to a cartridge filter. It is the new thing on the market and to be honest the sand filter is a pain in the butt anyway so we will see how it works this weekend. Luckily we got a GREAT $300.00 discount since our pool was bought from that store. Lucky for us we were close with our neighbors before we bought the house from them and we had all the information on the pool. Since we have been unable to run the pool it is so nasty looking. I am hope I can have some pictures of a new sparkling pool on here very soon!
The new filter (yay) and my sweet husband who put it together tonight...he is the greatest!
Super Doubles @ HT
Quick coupon update from my shopping trip at Harris Teeter. This week is super doubles where they double coupons up to $1.50. This picture is all the items I bought, but there are also 4 coffee creamers that I couldn't include since I had to leave them in the fridge at work today. I spent $29.67 and saved $66.04 or 70%!!! I am going to make a few more trips this week, but I have to wait until the coupons I ordered from the clipping service come in :)
Super Double Deals!!!
Other things...
A few last things... I have been begging for rain for our garden and boy did I get my wish. We had rain Friday, Saturday and then the bottom fell out Sunday and Monday. Our garden was severely flooded so Mark and I had to go outside in the pouring rain and dig trenches to keep the plants from washing away. The garden was totally submerged water. It was great fun...j/k! I told Mark he should be glad that he has a awesome wife who will dig ditches in the pouring rain. I am sure he already knew that :) So from now on I think I will stop begging for rain!
Hope everyone is ready for the weekend. We are excited that the yearly J&J birthday pig pick'n is this weekend. A yearly even where we cook a big, play games, dance and hang out until the wee hours of the night. I am so ready for this...can't wait to hang out with the besties and have a good time. Yee haw!!!!
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