Splurging a little
The first week of October, every year is the International Balloon Fiesta here in Albuquerque. This has to be my most favorite time of year. I love watching the balloons, especially the special shapes balloons. We haven't had a chance to go yet this year and time is quickly running out as tomorrow is the last day. If the weather holds up we will go to the Glowdeo tonight, but if not this will be the first year we have missed the festivities.
It is finally getting much cooler. Jeff and I decided this weekend would be a good time to shut down the swamp cooler for the year and get the furnace ready for another winter. I'm glad the hot summer is over, but I'm dreading the really cold winters too. The weathermen are predicting that we will have a colder and wetter winter this year. I hope they are wrong!
Last weekend Jeff and I did some shopping. We refinanced our house and got a little bit of money back so we got a few things we desperately needed and wanted. We got new mattresses for our bed. No more taco mattress!! We have both been getting a great nights sleep now and neither of us hurt when we get up in the morning. Maybe that's why I'd been so cranky for so long?? We also got a new refridgerator. Ours completely died about a month ago but thankfully we have an extra fridge that we kept in the den for extra cold storage. It's one of those really ugly olive green ones and I refused to move it into my kitchen. Now we have a really pretty stainless steel side by side fridge with ice and water in the door and the kids think that is the greatest thing ever. Maybe now they will drink more water since it's funner to dispense. As we get the finances we'll upgrade all the appliances in the kitchen to stainless steel and eventually get new cabinets and flooring.
We splurged just a little and got a laptop as well. We certainly didn't need it, but Jeff knew I'd been wanting one for a long time so now we own one. We are slowing coming out of the dark ages of electronics. The house is now wireless, but not without hours of headache and being on the phone with tech support trying to get the router working right. I had to laugh after the fact because the router was supposed to be a simple install with no problems....yeah right. I don't know if it's because we have an old modem or what the problem was but we had to change i.p. addresses and all that good stuff. Me not being very computer savvy when it comes to that kind of thing and Jeff who is doing good to turn the computer on and check his email, this was a major undertaking that I was in charge of. Jeff is very good at fixing the internal parts but when it comes to reprogramming anything, forget it. So we were very thankful for the very nice, very patient tech people who walked me through getting it all set up. I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to take some computer classes that deal more with the inner workings of a computer and Jeff may really benefit from computer basics 101.
It is finally getting much cooler. Jeff and I decided this weekend would be a good time to shut down the swamp cooler for the year and get the furnace ready for another winter. I'm glad the hot summer is over, but I'm dreading the really cold winters too. The weathermen are predicting that we will have a colder and wetter winter this year. I hope they are wrong!
Last weekend Jeff and I did some shopping. We refinanced our house and got a little bit of money back so we got a few things we desperately needed and wanted. We got new mattresses for our bed. No more taco mattress!! We have both been getting a great nights sleep now and neither of us hurt when we get up in the morning. Maybe that's why I'd been so cranky for so long?? We also got a new refridgerator. Ours completely died about a month ago but thankfully we have an extra fridge that we kept in the den for extra cold storage. It's one of those really ugly olive green ones and I refused to move it into my kitchen. Now we have a really pretty stainless steel side by side fridge with ice and water in the door and the kids think that is the greatest thing ever. Maybe now they will drink more water since it's funner to dispense. As we get the finances we'll upgrade all the appliances in the kitchen to stainless steel and eventually get new cabinets and flooring.
We splurged just a little and got a laptop as well. We certainly didn't need it, but Jeff knew I'd been wanting one for a long time so now we own one. We are slowing coming out of the dark ages of electronics. The house is now wireless, but not without hours of headache and being on the phone with tech support trying to get the router working right. I had to laugh after the fact because the router was supposed to be a simple install with no problems....yeah right. I don't know if it's because we have an old modem or what the problem was but we had to change i.p. addresses and all that good stuff. Me not being very computer savvy when it comes to that kind of thing and Jeff who is doing good to turn the computer on and check his email, this was a major undertaking that I was in charge of. Jeff is very good at fixing the internal parts but when it comes to reprogramming anything, forget it. So we were very thankful for the very nice, very patient tech people who walked me through getting it all set up. I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to take some computer classes that deal more with the inner workings of a computer and Jeff may really benefit from computer basics 101.
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