YaY

Got a new laptop and I LOVE it. This is good news for you why!?!? Well, duh, it means I'll most likely shirk my other responsibilities and start blogging again. It also means my grades might slip because I can guarantee that I will blog during anthropology!!! Speaking of grades...Math is going SOO good for me. It was my ONE dreaded class and so far I'm sailing through it...so far I've done all my homework all the way through mid-feburary...WooHOO!!! Already started on my one major paper for anthro and philosophy...I am such a go getter!!!! (Pats myself on the back!!!)

So, because I haven't been blogging lately I haven't kept ya'll up to date but here is some big news....at the beginning of last semester I went off ALL of my medications (all 13 of them.) I did it following a conversation I had with my 65+ step father in law about the meds we were on...when he found out I was on 13 a DAY he said, "holy crap Jaime, that's more than I take and I'm over 60." That hit me pretty hard and in the following weeks I made the decision to go off the meds. It worked pretty well for awhile...there was definetly an adjustment period but I thought I was off of them for good...but it didn't last. :( The past two weeks I've literally locked myself and Spencer in my bedroom and stayed in bed. What a freaking life. I don't know what happened but I know I can't climb out of this cave alone so I started back on my antidepressants last week. Today was the first day I felt semi normal so I hope I'm making my comeback. Please God, let it be so!!!

Hmmm...what else??? I reconnected with two of my best friends EVER through facebook today and I'm over the moon about it!!! It also made me realize that we need to get out more...as a couple and on our own. I am in desperate need of a girls night AND a date night. Most of my friends are too busy with kids and work to go out and have a social life but then there are a few that seem to balance it all...family, work, social life...I want to have it all too lol. So, I'm going to try and set up some time to get out and be social both with and without the hubs. I think it will do wonders for my mood!!! So my friends, look for emails or invites soon...I need to have fun! I'm a social person and in the past few years I've become anti social and I hate it...sometimes I don't even recognize myself LOL!

In other news...I NEED to quit smoking...I HATE it...its gross!!! Plan on quitting when I have some work down in my mouth...BLECH!! Fingers crossed!!!!

And finally....who is READY for tax time??? ME ME ME!!! Between fed and state we're getting over $13000 back thanks to both of us being in school, the kids of course, and jer losing his job earlier this year!!! We look really really poor to the IRS because NONE of our income is taxable...between army disability for jer, the GI Bill, and disability for DJ we do really ok month to month but having xtra in the bank is going to be great! Between the tax refund and both mine and Jer's student loans we are socking away over $20000 JUST to savings!!!!! You know what's funny though...I don't freak out about money until we HAVE money...then I become a savings Nazi. We stop eating out, stop buying crap we don't need and make a game out of how much we can add to our savings each month! :)

Anyways, I'm watching the Bachelor right now....sorta...it's sooooo stupid but I just can't help myself. Thank you God for DVR!!! Be back soon!!!!

This Ones For You Brooke!!!

I promised I'd blog so here I am. I have spent the last 3 hrs sitting in this horribly uncomfortable chair studying philsophy and world civ and I can't say I'm thrilled about it. Getting a new chair is definetly in our near future...and a new laptop! Will start shopping for a new one soon, my other one bit the dust I think...won't charge and that makes me very sad! Blogging is much easier and way more comfortable from my big giant comfy bed!

I haven't been on here in ages....need to catch up on some of my favorite blogs. I have missed reading them so much but never seem to have the time. Thankfully this semester I'm not running back and forth to school 24 times a week for classes so I should have more time on my hands! Only have 2 classes at school 4 nights a week and 2 online so I have my days (mostly) back!

I've spent the last week in bed for no other reason than I'm lazy...I laid there and had my mind infiltrated morning talk shows and the ever entertaining soaps. I left my house for the first time in a week to go somewhere other than school....maybe I'm becoming a hermit LOL...NOT. While this past week was luxuriously lazy starting tomorrow I am re-entering the real world. WATCH OUT! :)

Need to add pics of the kids...you know I have a million of them! Both of them made honor roll this semester and of course I'm one proud mama. Spencer is still Spencer. WILD and CRAZY! He has changed so much and is ALWAYS into EVERYTHING. I have had to make and install my own brand of baby safety devices...they are patent pending under "Redneck Safety for Baby" available in stores all over this fall!

OK, that's all for tonight...my back is SCREAMING at me and threatens to chain me to the bed for another week if I don't get up right NOW...wouldn't want that now would we??? ;)

One more thing....Thank you BROOKE for reminding me to blog today!!!! Love you!!!