Life keeps on moving

As I said in my previous post, we went to Burlington and put coats and snow bibs on layaway for the kids. We ended up putting them on hold for all 7 kids because BFF said last year was tough finding stuff for her DS's. We managed to put all 7 sets (coats and FULL snow bibs) on layaway. The total cost for all 7 will be less than $200!!!! WOW. We put down 25% payment, and have to finish paying it off in 60 days. This means basically if we pay $50 for each payday it'll be paid off.

On the downside. We discovered today that the store we'd be HOPING to put our girls Christmas presents on layaway at doesn't DO layaway. :( I'm quite saddened over this actually. So we are now on the hunt for stores that have the item and DO layaway, or have said item for a little less money. Our concern is that by the time we have the money to do it, they won't have the item anymore!!!

I got my hair cut yesterday. As soon as I'm actually happy with the look I'll post a picture. I liked it at first, but as it dried I became unhappy with the length, not as long as I wanted and felt like it was too "in between" and I'd rather go shorter. And the place I went has a 7 day guarantee, so I could go back easily enough for free. The problem with that is that BFF cut her hair yesterday too. She ended up going about as short as I would if I went back and did another cut. She went shorter than she planned, but it was so she could donate her incredibly beautiful hair. I'm so proud of her for this. :) And her cut looks BEAUTIFUL. But if I cut my hair shorter we will SO look like the bobbsy twins! LOL SO, I am pretty much stuck with it for now. She likes it on me though. She says it's a good length.

I also dyed my hair last night. I used a color I've used NUMEROUS times before that usually looks exactly like my natural color. But this time it turned out blueish. I think someone switched something on me. It doesn't look right. I know some of it will wash out with time, and we will add some highlights to break up the monotony of the color. But until then... Yeah... LOL

Okay, whining done! LOL

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Happy September!!

Wow, hard to believe it's September already!!!

Sorry about the unexpected break in my blog. I had to take a break though. I was getting so busy and I just did not have the time to devote to it.

We are fully moved into the "new" house, well, let me rephrase that, all of our belongings are here. LOL We still have SO MUCH unpacking to do. But it's a start. We try to get to a couple boxes everyday. We finally got my curtains up last night :) I didn't need them, but they were nice to put up and add some color to my room.

I've been working hard, but it's same old same old. Interesting customers, stupid returns, and lottery tickets.

BFF's brother is visiting, and we've been having a lot of fun. Yesterday we headed towards the cape. We had a picnic lunch at the Forefather's monument in Plymouth, and I got a couple T-shirts for myself and a mutual friend of mine and BFF's. I text teased her that I bought her pink, she does NOT wear pink! LOL

We visited Plymouth Rock and then headed out. We headed down the coastline toward the cape. BFF's Bro wanted to see the beach really badly so we found our way to the beach. The girls hadn't really been the a true beach before and were a little afraid of the waves at first. But they got used to them pretty quickly. Peanut especially was running in and outta the waves so much!!!! The kids were all smiles and giggles. It was so much fun to watch. We DID take pix but they are not all uploaded. My facebook friends, there's 2 or 3 pix from my phone on there under mobile uploads.

Today we have some "business" to attend to. We are running to Burlington Coat Factory to put some winter coats on layaway for the girls. $100 for 4 winter coats AND snow bibs, can't fight that! And then to another store to put some Christmas gifts on layaway. hehe. We gotta get me some more work socks, and do some short grocery shopping.

I started a water delivery here to the house last week as the tap water didn't taste as good to me here and I felt this would be a good way to start rebuilding my credit. Well, we started noticing that our "cooler" wasn't giving cold water, at all. In fact, it was warm, no, very warm. Like, you'd better add ice to get it remotely cool warm. BFF and I finally used our espresso thermometer to measure the temp yesterday. The "cold" side was coming out at NINETY degrees!!!!! I called the company this morning and was EXTREMELY impressed with their customer service. I work in customer service, and I know that most customers walk in expecting a fight. I try NOT to be that person. I explained what was happening to the gal, and also about the constant drip coming from the spout. She said the water SHOULD be coming out as cold as if it were in the refrigerator! So tomorrow they are sending out a new cooler. And because of the constant drip they are sending an extra bottle of water at no charge (so wasn't expecting THAT!! :) ). And she could hear the girls in the background and asked if I'd like the cold water spout childproofed so they couldn't play with it so easily, for free!!!! WOW... Now THAT is GREAT customer service!!!

In other things. I started my second cake class last week. The nice thing about THIS class is we only make ONE cake, for the very last class. YAY! The rest of the class is making these flowers that we save for the last cake, joy.

Well, I think that about brings you up to date for now. I will try to get back to a daily posting of my life!! :)

Nique

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