I Couldn't Not Blog This

Long time, no blog.  Life is nutso, and blogging is overwhelming, but something happened yesterday that gave me that final push I’ve been waiting for.  Granted, so many other “typical” blog-worthy things have happened in the last year.  We bought a new house.  Many birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays happened.  Just got home from an epic summer vacation with the kids, but none of it was enough to inspire this beautiful mind, until we met Q.


Yesterday, Josh and I were having a date night at Burger King –one thing that hasn’t changed is that we are still poor, and still spend date nights at fast food places, where we were gifted the best business card in the history of business cards.  Q, is the owner (I use that term loosely) of said business, but after reading his card, and his very friendly delivery of it, I knew I liked him.







Available via special delivery are as follows, and in this order:


men/women’s footwear, men/women’s apparel, TAZERS, PEPPER SPRAY, Bucket cap (can’t wait to find out what that even is!), fitted caps, TOBACCO ACCESSORIES-like he read my mind when I thought, “this tobacco needs some bling!”, men/women fragrance, entertainment etc. (wink, wink), school time apparel, sun dresses, sandals/flip flops.


One Stop Shopping.  Back to school…done!


Life is still full, sometimes hard, usually stressful, but Q made my night.  The other day I was leaving the dollar store and walked out behind a little, hunched over, old lady walking carefully with a cane to her Buick.  Turns out I was parked right next to her.  She maneuvered her cane into the passenger seat, while I got into my van.  As I went to put on my seatbelt I glanced over at her and saw her drinking a massive can of Monster energy drink.  Gave me the giggles all the way home.  The best. 


I’m forcing myself to just sit down and write, because we learned that even after two consecutive years of not blogging, Grandpa Brian still checks the thing religiously, just in case.  After our summer vacation—I owe him.  Stay tuned.

Doors and Windows- Part 3

(This is about a year old, but why not post it, yeah?)


If Josh struggles to close doors and windows, then I guess you could say that I struggle to keep them open.  It drives me bananas when any door in my house is left slightly ajar.  You know I follow everybody shutting doors behind them, because Jameson can't pass a door that is slightly opened without running back to it and pushing it shut.  Learned behavior from his mama.
Like Josh, this is also a great indicator of how my brain works.  When I know, I know.  Not much time spent analyzing.  I just make a choice and deal.  Now, does this mean it's always the right choice.  No.  But, I'm pretty good at not looking back.  Whatever happens as a result, I just deal with it.
Knowing this about me, this next bit of Brown family info shouldn't come as a surprise.  For the last couple of weeks I've been going out with a realtor looking at houses.  None of them "felt" right.  On Friday I took Josh out to look at a model home that I was interested in.  While there, we were shown a different home already under construction of a floor plan I had never even heard of before.   I liked it.  I got Josh back home, sent him off to bed (He is working nights right now) with the thought in his head that I liked that house, its something to think about, and then fast forward a few hours to him waking up to me saying, "Hey, on your drive home from work in the morning...yeah, um, just meet me at that model home we went to today.  We are going to buy that house we saw.  I set it all up already.  K?"
So he did.  He met me there yesterday.  We signed, and now we wait til our new home is done.  Door slammed.  Done.  (Pictures to come)