It was June of 2006 when I first posted that we were going to be using CareOne to try and get out of debt. I promised to keep updated but haven’t really done a good job with that, so…
We were on the CareOne program for a year and five months. During that time, our minimum payments were less than what they would have been if we’d just kept paying the cards on our own. I don’t want to be specific about a lot of the numbers, so I hope this is still understandable. We had two cards, one was very large and the other was around $1000 when we started with the program. If you kept up with the comments at the older post, you’ll know that we had a somewhat rocky start getting going with CareOne. But once that was through, they were deducting a monthly payment on the 15th and sending some to each creditor, putting $5 into some “discount” program, and keeping something like $30-35 a month for their doing the service.
Continue reading ‘CareOne: in retrospect’
So my kid has been obsessed with bodily functions lately, and it’s kind of driving me nuts. A couple of weeks ago, I told him to get something out of his room then return to me. He stopped in his doorway and said, “wait, I got to tooted.” Then he “tooted” (farted, yes, I can say it) and then laughed his little head off.
As much as it’s gotten old and stale and can be embarrassing in public, I totally have to try and not to laugh every time because I think it’s hilarious. It’s mostly hilarious because it’s always in the past sense, always “tooted” never “toot” or “tooting.”
On the upside, I have him trained well. The other night when Steve faked a “toot” noise just to get Elijah going, well, it sort of went like this:
Elijah: Daddy! Did you tooted?
Steve: No, Mommy did it!
Elijah: Nooooo, Mommy didn’t tooted. Mommy doesn’t tooted. Ladies don’t tooted.
HEEHEEE :)
That’s right, boys!
Ugh, what a day. Well, five hours anyway!
Today after class, I got the three of us and B (secretary) some lunch and went to the house/office that I sometimes do computer work at. It’s been a little while since I’d been there, but the printer still wasn’t printing and I had other tasks to complete. They’re switching rooms around so I had to move the daughter’s computer into the parents’ bedroom and the parents’ computer up into the over-the-garage apartment as well as setting up a printer for the lady’s laptop and fixing the printer with the office computer and cleaning the office computer.
I cleaned the office computer and while waiting for the “new” fax/print/copier to install, I went to move the first computer into the bedroom. But, alas, someone had already moved it! It was in the living room in a pile. Somehow, they’d moved it with all cables in tact, still connected everywhere, and dumped it into a big pile of wires complete with two extra mice, an extra keyboard, and some other junk. So the first task was to untangle all of that. How I wished for that computer to be equipped with everything bluetooth and otherwise wireless at that time!
Continue reading ‘Hear ye, hear ye: everything should be wireless!’
The internet is awesome, I tell you what. Yesterday, someone contacted me via Flickr and boom, within 24 hours I have in my virtual hands photos of the house my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather built in 1784. Yup, you read right, that’s 7 greats. The photos were taken later, the lady assumes sometime around when her great-great-grandfather moved in, 1865. I’m so giddy. Go ahead, make fun of me, I know it’s coming, but dang, I’m excited!
Continue reading ‘est. 1784′
It’s only 9:30am and already this has been one heck of a day. The head congestion started to come upon me sometime yesterday evening and no medicines helped so I didn’t sleep well last night, mostly, I’m sure, because I was unable to breathe. At most, I maybe got three hours between midnight and 3am. I know I was in and out of consciousness in the 4:00 hour, got up at 5 and got Steve’s lunch ready, checked on Elijah, stood around until Steve left.
Continue reading ‘Ice & Sick Again’
In case you’d not caught on yet, I officially started homeschooling Elijah (my four-year-old) in December. At “worst case scenario” he’ll end up being ahead as we have three semesters to finish Kindergarten before I have a conniption fit (he’ll be five in July). With this has come the desire, nay, the need, to regularly attend the monthly meeting with other moms who homeschool. It’s funny but we were regularly with that group in high school after our own stuff had ended and many of these women have gone from being “my friend’s mom” to my friend.
The meetings aren’t necessarily all about homeschooling, more like a support group. Monday night was longer than normal but I learned more this time around thanks to more discussions about actual homeschooling. Even at the “extended” part of the meeting where we hit a restaurant that’s open 24 hours a day and often end up there until after 11, I asked a lot of questions and the fears that I had about one thing or another were dispelled. (His left-handed-ness, the time we spend on lessons each day, skills he should have before finishing Kindergarten, etc.)
Continue reading ‘Adventures in Homeschooling’
So who’s watching American Idol this year? It’s not nearly as interesting for me as it used to be but we’re still watching, though I’ve also not fretted if I’ve missed a showing either.
But I have one thing to say for tonight:
PLEASE get rid of Danny Noriega! How dare he butcher the Great Elvis’ song like that!! I swear, I almost fainted. Plus, he’s just plain annoying. Can we say “Drama Queen”? :P
Continue reading ‘American Idol ‘08?’
This morning on our way north to church, we saw a rainbow! And not just a rainbow, either, but a full one spreading from the West to the East.
Steve saw it first and pointed to the East and already I thought it was a great rainbow, brighter than any of the others I’ve ever seen before. Enough that Elijah was able to see it right away, too, so that was a plus, haha. Then we got onto the interstate and saw the other side of it, too, and the middle. It was absolutely amazing! We watched it for probably a total of ten minutes before we finally went underneath it and further north.
Continue reading ‘At the end of the rainbow’
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