Hello!

Well, things have been a little hectic lately. My dad's bank is doing some illegal things (as my accountant and lawyer have told me) with charges and withdrawal of money that they shouldn't be doing with a frozen account. I've tried to straighten this out with that bank numerous times and to no avail. So that means I get to talk to the attorney general and if that doesn't get resolved then I get to go talk to the state lawyer. Yipppeee. I can hardly contain myself. Hopefully, with a little push from some people higher on the chain this will get resolved immediately. I'm just not ready to even fight this. The estate is painful to deal with and watching b*stards get greedy and try to manipulate an account is just plain sickening. Too bad for them that I am stubborn and am so sick of this financial game that I will end up going as far as I need to go with this. Thankfully other money matters turned out alright so I am able to pay off final expenses and my lawyer that charges me outrageous amounts of money for a phone call...but we won't get into that.

I love our treadmill. I have used it every single day that it's been in our house. It has made working out so much easier. The baby will actually leave me alone for about 20 minutes and sit and watch cartoons. So if I time it right, during naptime and in the evening when Amadon comes home I can easily work out for an hour (including weights). I'm trying to cut out motivational quotes and pictures to post above my treadmill. I hope it will give me that little extra bit of willpower. I also put working out before cleaning. I can pick up at night or after I'm done working out. It's easier said then done to change your routine but it's important that I stay healthy. Not to mention being able to actually wear a nice pair of hip hugging jeans isn't going to hurt either. The one thing that really had an impact on me was Adele yesterday. She walked on the treadmill with me and tried to lift these tiny weights as I was lifting mine. And then it just hit me that this isn't just something for me but something to get my daughter interested into too. The hubby is a different story. He begged for the treadmill over an elliptical and hasn't used it yet. But he got all excited talking about it during drill weekend so hopefully he'll find some time this week to try it out.

I got a bunch of candles and some bamboo blinds on clearance (they're $10 at Target) and it looks great in the bedroom. I love taking a late night bath in candlelight. It just really helps take away the tension and get me from mom mode to myself mode. Needless to say, it's a way for the hubby and I to get a little relaxing alone time too.

I ordered a TON of books on amazon. I'm so excited for when they come. I have books on how to not kill houseplants (I have tried everything I can think of and my plants are still wilty, I pray this helps because I love flowers I just wish I could grow them), to books for the baby, some for Amadon and a few on glass working. I can't wait to do flame working. Hopefully, next year I can go away to glass school for a couple of weeks and learn the basics of glass blowing too. I have dreams of my own shop one day with all my work and other people's work in it. But one step at a time.
I haven't made a rosary yet. I can't decide on a layout for beads and crosses. I think it will be fun to learn how to make them but when I really look hard at the profits and the amount of time it will take, it probably isn't a good business venture. Maybe, selling a few here and there but that's about it.

Amadon and I came up with a crazy business venture for this summer. And you will laugh. Hard. At first, so did we. And then we thought it was the most genius idea ever. So we'll see. If nothing else we will have a good story to tell the kids. An ice cream cart at the park. And hotdogs. And pop. We need a permit and there's quite a list of health codes with food but we really are thinking about doing this vending idea during evenings and on weekends.

Our car heater went out. When it was 40 below. And we had to drive 90 miles out of town to get to drill. Yeah, not fun. I don't think I ever felt that frozen before. We had sooo much stuff on the baby to keep her warm but it was still a miserable drive. Both ways. Amadon's getting the heating part today but it really made us look at trading in our vehicle. Or at least one of the three we own now.I would trade in all three but I think you can only do one. Two old Buick's and an Omni. We decided we need a minivan. It's the most practical and cheap on insurance. It also has more room. We will go car shopping later this week. We found a decent one in DL for around 4,000. So we'll have to see what GF has to offer.

I will write more tomorrow. I only have about 15 min left of nap time and need to hop in the shower.