blog stuff

Here’s a new meme I’m trying out.

Appetizer
If you were a dog, what breed would you be, and why?

A chocolate lab. I look good in brown.

Soup
What does the color purple make you think of?

My 18 different shades of purple socks I had as a teenager of the 90s.

Salad
Approximately how long does it take you to get ready each morning?

30 minutes or less.

Main Course
How many cousins do you have, and are you close to them?

On my Mom’s side, I have 1 younger male cousin and 1 female second cousin that I count as my cousin because she’s only 6 days older than me. *Update* I forgot two more younger male cousins on my Mom’s side.  Whoops. * On my Dad’s side, I have 5 younger female cousins and 1 younger male cousins. I was the first grandchild for both sets of my grandparents.

I would say we aren’t all that close. I’ve lived 8 hours away from them my whole life. We get along well when we’re together and I do keep in touch with some of the older girls more than the others. They seem like really cool people too so I do regret not being closer to them than I am. 🙁 The youngest ones are the same age as my children and they have a great time playing when we visit.

Dessert
Take your initials (first, middle, last) and come up with something else those letters could stand for. (Example: SFO = Sweet Funny Otter)

AJB – Angelic Joyful Butterfly

Look at THAT alliteration. Ok, so I have some password protected posts recently and I really don’t mind people reading them, I just want to know WHO is reading them. So post a comment or email me and I’d be glad to give it to you.

Today I’m thankful for:

• Simply the fact that we’ll be getting a new youth pastor soon barring any drama that might ensue.
• The new camera we were able to buy for the youth group and even more importantly the gifts of the people that helped us buy it.
• Good news concerning my grandmother.  She won’t have to have more surgery, just chemo and radiation.
• All the money I’ve saved this week and my awareness of how much money I tend to waste.  Our bank account is thankful.
• Great friends that I can be honest with.
• Good news concerning my raise.  I may be getting something after all.

I was selected as a mom blog on http://www.pregnancysurvey.com. I see some familiar faces over there, so go check it out.

Ok, so I do like alliteration. 

I have yet to find any kind of plug-in to help me display our van payoff in my sidebar so I just created a good ‘ol spreadsheet and pasted it in the right sidebar as a table.  I decided to go ahead and show the actual dollar amount vs. some sort of percentage or hidden amount.  Nothing to be embarrassed about and it’s not like I’m showing how much savings we have…just the opposite.   I also included our monthly payment minus any interest they take out each month.  It’s not exact, but when we’re starting at 10 grand, who’s counting pennies? 

I figured it up and I’d have to make an extra $500 a month from PPP in order to pay the van off by end of next year which would be my ultimate goal.  However, I’m not sure if that’s doable or not.  If no extra funds are given to the van, we won’t pay it off until Spring 2010.

So far this month I’ve made $56, over twice as much as I made all last month.  If I continue with the same rate of posts as I have, that is about $200 extra a month and we will be down to around 3K by end of next year.  So thank you, thank you for putting up with the few extra posts so far.  I know I have a long way to go but at least this gives me a goal to shoot for.

I will update the amounts as I get approved for things and as I have time to update it.