Advents Corner

OK I saw this laundry hamper and I just thought it was the coolest thing. First off I know I would not use it for a laundry hamper because there are so many more things I could do with this. Besides my house is not that big that I need to worry about wheeling my laundry from one end to the other. I could however see this to be useful for laundry if you had to go to a laundry mat or something.

I thought about all of the times me and Lani come home in the evenings and she has her paperwork for the day, lunchbox, jacket, my purse, work folders and of course the items that we picked up from the grocery store on the way home. We could just throw everything in there and make only one trip instead of two or three. Then I run into the issue of having to chase Lani down because she left out of the house on one of my trips to the car. I really think I am going to get one of these. Maybe I will ask for it for Christmas. I really like this thing the possibilities are endless.

What about the picnics or trip to the park or just trips to the store. You could just put you bags in it as you come out of the store and when you get home everything is already in it and all you have to do is wheel it into the house….perfect.

I don’t know what is going on with everything these day, insurance, taxes, mortgages, gas prices (which are better now) the rising cost of food.,….it is all just becoming too much.  We have our home insurance and our property taxes escrowed into our mortgage payment so most of the time we do not pay attention to the rates until the beginning of the year when they adjust our mortgage payment to cover the raising cost of taxes and insurance so in turn your mortgage payment goes up.

This year our property taxes when down a couple of hundred dollars but our home owners went up 100 and our flood went up 200 so at this point we are exactly where we were last year.  Florida tried to help everyone by lower our property taxes but they let the insurance companies raise their rates so it really did not help.  We are now shopping for a new home insurance company because there are some out there that really do try and keep the rates down so be on the look out for the good ones.

I got my brother the funniest shirt for Christmas.  He was famous for sometimes wearing inappropriate funny t shirts if you know what I mean.  This year for Christmas I thought I would get him a funny shirt like he used to wear but a little more on the tame side than he wore before.  It is:

Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

Yankee Oscar Uniform

It took him a second but once he got I thought he was going to die laughing.  He however was a little disappointed when he put it on the next day and went out and about and he did not get one second look.  I told him he needed to shop with more intelligent people and they would get it.

Matt and I were in town the other day and the mini cooper in front of us had the most appropriate plate on it.  I do not remember the exact spelling they used but it read: IM L8 2  I’m late too.  I thought that was so funny because you know every time you are in a hurry you get behind someone that is going so slow.  I have always wanted to get one of those Private Number Plates but I can never come up with anything cleaver.  I really like the sites that point you in the right direction so you can have a very cleaver plate without putting too much of your own brain power into it.

We all get to a time in our lives where we think we are doing well and things are falling into place.  You like your job, your spouse loves his job and then all of a sudden the rug is pulled out from under both of you.  What would you do it the job you love is relocating across country and they are making it very easy to pick up and follow them but your spouse is not to excited about it?  What would you do?