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Somewhere, yes, let me see if I can dig it out. 
You mean this one, FEM? That was several years ago, he was being a real goober!
That's him looking rather dapper and handsome, and not being nearly as much of a goober
I felt terrible yesterday at the office. My allergies were triggered ALL day, so I was sniffing and sneezing most of the day. I'm not entirely sure what set it off other than the fact that I jumped into shuffling around charts that hadn't been touched in a LONG time and in the process encountered some pretty epic sized dust bunnies. I got a lot more stuff sorted so that it can be shredded, and then got a lot of that stripped out of the charts (I SO wish I could just dump the whole chart to be shredded, but they don't like that much!). There's still about half a dozen shelves of charts that still need to be sorted and stripped for shredding, but at least I'm getting somewhere. Slowly but surely. All day though my nose was running off my face. I felt so tired and drained when I got home.
But the good news is that I got off work early, and so did the BF! Well, I didn't actually get off work early, it's amazing how quick 8 hours goes by when you arrive about 6 in the morning. The BF actually beat me home! We futzed around, and he called the hospital about the receipt he STILL hasn't received in the mail for the ER bill from back in the summer when a moth flew in his ear. He needs to submit that to his flex spending account so he can get reimbursed, and quickly before the cut off happens for the year. I don't know why he's drug his feet this long, but whatever. That'll be $200 that we can put towards something useful! After he got off the phone with them (to be told that oh, you can just stop by the cashier's office at the hospital and get a copy), we decided to go out and run some errands. I wanted to stop by Kohl's and see if by any wild chance they still had the curtains that I had from the bedroom before. They didn't have the exact color, but they had some nice gray ones on clearance for only $5.99 per panel. I bought all 5 that they had in case I wanted to cut them up or something. If I really decide not to use them I'll just return what I don't use, but I have a feeling I can use all of them, even if I just make some temporary curtains to go in the basement or something. At that price it's very much worth it! Then we headed to get something to eat. We haven't actually eaten out in a while so it was nice to go eat out. We went to Chili's because they have a "2 for $35" deal that includes 2 margaritas. That's a killer deal for an appetizer, 2 entrees, dessert, and 2 drinks. Then we stopped in Bed, Bath, and Beyond to return one of those laser light cat toys. The cat just didn't appreciate it. He likes the hand held laser light better because he can really run and go all over with it. This one just confused him and made him bored! Returned that and found some frying screens which we really needed, so we picked those up. I still got a little refund at least LOL
We finally made it home, and not too late, either, and I just crashed. I sent my mom pictures of the curtains, she doesn't like them quite as much as I'd hoped, but oh well. I think they'll work out fine, and I think part of the issue is the color in the photos.
Today I went to yoga and then stopped at Joann's to see about trim for the curtains. I have this idea in my head, and now I'm trying to figure out how to do it. I didn't find anything I was over the moon about, so we'll see what else I can come up with. I wish we had a better selection of fabric stores in the area, but even at that Joann's is pretty good. I'll show the BF tonight, and hopefully he can hang the rod so I can start experimenting. We need to get some of those tie back hooks, and I have to figure out how I want them to work. It will be so much nicer to have something thermal in there, though. These windows leak like crazy. I haven't figured out how I'll handle the curtain for the window over the dresser, because it won't look right to do it the same as the one over the bed. I might just do a valence, and then do a roman shade out of the gray ones just so there is something there to keep the room warmer, and hopefully it will look similar enough to the bed that it won't look awkward. These windows are so difficult to design for!
I swung through B&N to return a book that mom got for the BF for christmas about blacksmithing because he already had it. Since I didn't have the receipt I had to take the lowest price that they had in their system which was $2.96. Oh well, I took it and then actually did find another blacksmithing book on the bargain rack, and with the discount coupon that I had I spent less than $10. I'm not going to tell him I had to spend anything, I'm just happy I found something else for a good price. I hope he likes it.
Not much else happening. I got my W2 so that means I can go submit our taxes now, which is good news! Hoping for a big fat return! And the sooner the better! I REALLY want to pay off one of his credit cards! I did update the budget today, and I went in and switched things around for him so that he'll only pay the minimum on the one card (which is pretty high), and then pay double the minimum on this other card. I'm so sick of dealing with it because they're charging him "payment protection" which means that every month if he only pays the minimum he is actually not paying enough to pay down the card. Maybe it's because I started with capital one cards forever ago, but I can't stand the way either his AmEx or his Discover card website is laid out. It feels sneaky, like they don't really want you to know how much you owe or how much you have put on the account in the past month. It isn't user friendly at all. My capital one account is easy to navigate and easy to tell how much I owe and what the new transactions are. I have to dig around in the other two to figure out what the heck is going on. Irritates me a lot! I can't wait to pay them OFF so we can get out of debt and start putting that money towards USEFUL things like stuff for the house and savings! I just confirmed the appointment with the accountant on the 2nd, so that will get that ball rolling.
Otherwise not much else to talk about. Hopefully we can do some fun stuff this weekend without spending money!
You mean this one, FEM? That was several years ago, he was being a real goober!
That's him looking rather dapper and handsome, and not being nearly as much of a goober
I felt terrible yesterday at the office. My allergies were triggered ALL day, so I was sniffing and sneezing most of the day. I'm not entirely sure what set it off other than the fact that I jumped into shuffling around charts that hadn't been touched in a LONG time and in the process encountered some pretty epic sized dust bunnies. I got a lot more stuff sorted so that it can be shredded, and then got a lot of that stripped out of the charts (I SO wish I could just dump the whole chart to be shredded, but they don't like that much!). There's still about half a dozen shelves of charts that still need to be sorted and stripped for shredding, but at least I'm getting somewhere. Slowly but surely. All day though my nose was running off my face. I felt so tired and drained when I got home.
But the good news is that I got off work early, and so did the BF! Well, I didn't actually get off work early, it's amazing how quick 8 hours goes by when you arrive about 6 in the morning. The BF actually beat me home! We futzed around, and he called the hospital about the receipt he STILL hasn't received in the mail for the ER bill from back in the summer when a moth flew in his ear. He needs to submit that to his flex spending account so he can get reimbursed, and quickly before the cut off happens for the year. I don't know why he's drug his feet this long, but whatever. That'll be $200 that we can put towards something useful! After he got off the phone with them (to be told that oh, you can just stop by the cashier's office at the hospital and get a copy), we decided to go out and run some errands. I wanted to stop by Kohl's and see if by any wild chance they still had the curtains that I had from the bedroom before. They didn't have the exact color, but they had some nice gray ones on clearance for only $5.99 per panel. I bought all 5 that they had in case I wanted to cut them up or something. If I really decide not to use them I'll just return what I don't use, but I have a feeling I can use all of them, even if I just make some temporary curtains to go in the basement or something. At that price it's very much worth it! Then we headed to get something to eat. We haven't actually eaten out in a while so it was nice to go eat out. We went to Chili's because they have a "2 for $35" deal that includes 2 margaritas. That's a killer deal for an appetizer, 2 entrees, dessert, and 2 drinks. Then we stopped in Bed, Bath, and Beyond to return one of those laser light cat toys. The cat just didn't appreciate it. He likes the hand held laser light better because he can really run and go all over with it. This one just confused him and made him bored! Returned that and found some frying screens which we really needed, so we picked those up. I still got a little refund at least LOL
We finally made it home, and not too late, either, and I just crashed. I sent my mom pictures of the curtains, she doesn't like them quite as much as I'd hoped, but oh well. I think they'll work out fine, and I think part of the issue is the color in the photos.
Today I went to yoga and then stopped at Joann's to see about trim for the curtains. I have this idea in my head, and now I'm trying to figure out how to do it. I didn't find anything I was over the moon about, so we'll see what else I can come up with. I wish we had a better selection of fabric stores in the area, but even at that Joann's is pretty good. I'll show the BF tonight, and hopefully he can hang the rod so I can start experimenting. We need to get some of those tie back hooks, and I have to figure out how I want them to work. It will be so much nicer to have something thermal in there, though. These windows leak like crazy. I haven't figured out how I'll handle the curtain for the window over the dresser, because it won't look right to do it the same as the one over the bed. I might just do a valence, and then do a roman shade out of the gray ones just so there is something there to keep the room warmer, and hopefully it will look similar enough to the bed that it won't look awkward. These windows are so difficult to design for!
I swung through B&N to return a book that mom got for the BF for christmas about blacksmithing because he already had it. Since I didn't have the receipt I had to take the lowest price that they had in their system which was $2.96. Oh well, I took it and then actually did find another blacksmithing book on the bargain rack, and with the discount coupon that I had I spent less than $10. I'm not going to tell him I had to spend anything, I'm just happy I found something else for a good price. I hope he likes it.
Not much else happening. I got my W2 so that means I can go submit our taxes now, which is good news! Hoping for a big fat return! And the sooner the better! I REALLY want to pay off one of his credit cards! I did update the budget today, and I went in and switched things around for him so that he'll only pay the minimum on the one card (which is pretty high), and then pay double the minimum on this other card. I'm so sick of dealing with it because they're charging him "payment protection" which means that every month if he only pays the minimum he is actually not paying enough to pay down the card. Maybe it's because I started with capital one cards forever ago, but I can't stand the way either his AmEx or his Discover card website is laid out. It feels sneaky, like they don't really want you to know how much you owe or how much you have put on the account in the past month. It isn't user friendly at all. My capital one account is easy to navigate and easy to tell how much I owe and what the new transactions are. I have to dig around in the other two to figure out what the heck is going on. Irritates me a lot! I can't wait to pay them OFF so we can get out of debt and start putting that money towards USEFUL things like stuff for the house and savings! I just confirmed the appointment with the accountant on the 2nd, so that will get that ball rolling.
Otherwise not much else to talk about. Hopefully we can do some fun stuff this weekend without spending money!
