I am writing today with my mental health somewhat in order...LOL This has been a crazy week, where several times I felt on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I made it through and now I am feeling a little more in control which is a good thing!
I have REALLY missed blogging this week. Basically we live in the country where we don't have many options for internet. I have a mifi box from Verizon and I only have a 3 GB plan and so does my Mom. They had used all theirs so I volunteered my box which left me without internet since last week. It's ok cause I am back online and probably wouldn't have had time last week anyway. So lets start from the beginning...
Last weekend Mark and I got to the point where we decided we had to have a lawn mower of our own. His brother has a landscaping company and usually we just borrow one of theirs, but our grass is so thick it needs to be cut every 3 days and with it being his brothers busy season it has been hard to get our hands on it when we need it. We can't go a week without cutting our grass because it is so thick, having a beautiful yard has it's down sides!!! So last week we started looking for a mower. This sent me into panic mode for several reasons...one being that I knew this was going to cost a lot of money, and the next because I knew we would have to finance the mower and I hate financing stuff! So, I knew we would have to find a commercial mower because a residential will not cut our ridiculously lush yard and we wanted to buy what we wanted since we plan to have it forever. Commercial mowers are NOT cheap!
As the search for a mower goes on we have a set back... Tuesday we came home from work to a refrigerator that was not working....OMG!!! I found that the breaker in our panel box kept tripping, so we make a call to Marks cousin Steve who is an electrician. He thought our refrigerator compressor was bad because that is usually what cause this to happen. So I am totally freaking out....really? Now we are going to have to buy a new fridge. So we got a drop cord from the shop and ran the refrigerator to a different outlet and it worked fine. So Steve said he would come take a look the next day. Maybe our breaker had went bad? OH heck no...nothing is that easy! Wednesday Steve comes over and it's not the breaker...guess what? We have a wiring issue somewhere!!!! Just lovely! So right now I have no electricity on the main wall of my kitchen. I had to move all of my appliances (microwave, toaster oven and toaster...that's all I had outlets for), there is a drop cord running across the living room to keep my refrigerator working and it is just a hot mess! It is going to take some time to find the problem and Steve will come back out when he has the chance to start going through all the wiring so for now my kitchen is in disarray. I hate for stuff to be out of place, so this has really been driving me banana's. Thank goodness we have an electrician in the family who can help us with this situation because we would be talking BIG money! Hopefully soon that will be taken care of....
After all of that we decided to keep going with the lawn mower search since we didn't have to purchase a new refrigerator (thank you Lord). So we found the mower we wanted and started talking with a dealer. We decided on a Cub Cadet Z-Force which is a light commercial mower without the full commercial price tag. They had a financing special going on where you could get 0% for 48 months which made me happy...at least we wont be paying interest :)
This is a big purchase for us, who knew it would cost so much to mow our lawn, but hopefully this mower will last forever and we won't have to buy another. Also a bit of advice...if you are looking to buy any type of mower it is better to go though a dealer than to buy them from a store like Lowes or Home Depot. They carry all the same mowers and the prices are the same. The difference is that they are "Dealers" and have mechanics who put these mowers together (opposed to some random person who don't know what they are doing at a store) and if you ever need warranty work you will get the best results from certified dealer. We bought ours from Knightdale Tractor and the folks there are awesome! Plus I much rather give my business to a long time family run business instead of a big box store!
So that is all the crazyness I will talk about, there was other little things that were driving me crazy, but those are the two big ones. The mower is done and hopefully soon my kitchen electrical problem will be gone too.
Now onto something FUN:
If you read my blog much, you know my dear friend Amanda had a baby girl about a month ago. I have missed her so much at work, and just in general. Last night Amanda, Caiti, Amber, and myself went to dinner, and it was a hoot! I don't see these girls to often and it was nice to spend some time with them and Amanda who I have been missing like crazy! We had a nice dinner and spent about two and a half hours eating and talking about old times :) I laughed so hard I hurt! That was the highlight of my week. It's so funny how a few hours with friends can take away all the stress of your week. As for Amanda...she looks absolutely AMAZING! You would never know she just had a baby! I hope I will look like that when I have kids :)
Well that's it for now...I have a lot of cleaning and catching up on TV shows to do today :)
I have REALLY missed blogging this week. Basically we live in the country where we don't have many options for internet. I have a mifi box from Verizon and I only have a 3 GB plan and so does my Mom. They had used all theirs so I volunteered my box which left me without internet since last week. It's ok cause I am back online and probably wouldn't have had time last week anyway. So lets start from the beginning...
Last weekend Mark and I got to the point where we decided we had to have a lawn mower of our own. His brother has a landscaping company and usually we just borrow one of theirs, but our grass is so thick it needs to be cut every 3 days and with it being his brothers busy season it has been hard to get our hands on it when we need it. We can't go a week without cutting our grass because it is so thick, having a beautiful yard has it's down sides!!! So last week we started looking for a mower. This sent me into panic mode for several reasons...one being that I knew this was going to cost a lot of money, and the next because I knew we would have to finance the mower and I hate financing stuff! So, I knew we would have to find a commercial mower because a residential will not cut our ridiculously lush yard and we wanted to buy what we wanted since we plan to have it forever. Commercial mowers are NOT cheap!
As the search for a mower goes on we have a set back... Tuesday we came home from work to a refrigerator that was not working....OMG!!! I found that the breaker in our panel box kept tripping, so we make a call to Marks cousin Steve who is an electrician. He thought our refrigerator compressor was bad because that is usually what cause this to happen. So I am totally freaking out....really? Now we are going to have to buy a new fridge. So we got a drop cord from the shop and ran the refrigerator to a different outlet and it worked fine. So Steve said he would come take a look the next day. Maybe our breaker had went bad? OH heck no...nothing is that easy! Wednesday Steve comes over and it's not the breaker...guess what? We have a wiring issue somewhere!!!! Just lovely! So right now I have no electricity on the main wall of my kitchen. I had to move all of my appliances (microwave, toaster oven and toaster...that's all I had outlets for), there is a drop cord running across the living room to keep my refrigerator working and it is just a hot mess! It is going to take some time to find the problem and Steve will come back out when he has the chance to start going through all the wiring so for now my kitchen is in disarray. I hate for stuff to be out of place, so this has really been driving me banana's. Thank goodness we have an electrician in the family who can help us with this situation because we would be talking BIG money! Hopefully soon that will be taken care of....
After all of that we decided to keep going with the lawn mower search since we didn't have to purchase a new refrigerator (thank you Lord). So we found the mower we wanted and started talking with a dealer. We decided on a Cub Cadet Z-Force which is a light commercial mower without the full commercial price tag. They had a financing special going on where you could get 0% for 48 months which made me happy...at least we wont be paying interest :)
This is a big purchase for us, who knew it would cost so much to mow our lawn, but hopefully this mower will last forever and we won't have to buy another. Also a bit of advice...if you are looking to buy any type of mower it is better to go though a dealer than to buy them from a store like Lowes or Home Depot. They carry all the same mowers and the prices are the same. The difference is that they are "Dealers" and have mechanics who put these mowers together (opposed to some random person who don't know what they are doing at a store) and if you ever need warranty work you will get the best results from certified dealer. We bought ours from Knightdale Tractor and the folks there are awesome! Plus I much rather give my business to a long time family run business instead of a big box store!
So that is all the crazyness I will talk about, there was other little things that were driving me crazy, but those are the two big ones. The mower is done and hopefully soon my kitchen electrical problem will be gone too.
Now onto something FUN:
If you read my blog much, you know my dear friend Amanda had a baby girl about a month ago. I have missed her so much at work, and just in general. Last night Amanda, Caiti, Amber, and myself went to dinner, and it was a hoot! I don't see these girls to often and it was nice to spend some time with them and Amanda who I have been missing like crazy! We had a nice dinner and spent about two and a half hours eating and talking about old times :) I laughed so hard I hurt! That was the highlight of my week. It's so funny how a few hours with friends can take away all the stress of your week. As for Amanda...she looks absolutely AMAZING! You would never know she just had a baby! I hope I will look like that when I have kids :)
Well that's it for now...I have a lot of cleaning and catching up on TV shows to do today :)
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