Insanely giddy...

Yesterday seemed like such a roller coaster. I know it doesn't really matter in the whole scheme of things, but seriously at the moment, it mattered. It mattered so much I was about puking mattered.

Things have been slowing down with the business which I suspected would happen when hubby went back to school. We just received our final payment from one of the artists and one last buyout from one of our series. Will that happen again? I don't know. It's hard to know. It could but it also perhaps could be it.

Anyway, we get the bright idea... Let's buy futon covers! Hey ours are really gross and it will really brighten up the room, let's go for it!!! YAY! Okay that is one thing hubby and I agreed on, let's do it. We had tossed the idea around about saving for my 5d or buying me a laptop or another computer tower, all of these business decisions. They make sense. Yes?

Okay, so we go and look at the futon place and are greeted by such a polite, nice and witty lady. I wanted to buy right on the spot. LOL Hubby was convinced we had a full mattress, while I just KNOW it's a queen. She got a kick out of that and heck it was closing time. She halfway sides with me and gives us a black queen futon cover for free to try. If it fits, great, we have an extra cover and we will know it's a queen and come back tomorrow and buy from her. If not then, well we know it's a full and we still come back and buy from her.

So woohoo, we are on our way, still no decision on our next purchase. We get home, I look at the tag of our existing matress. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I was actually wrong!?!?! Omgosh, I wanted to melt into a puddle, but I didn't. I told hubby and he was not gloating or anything, gotta love that guy. Skip ahead, we go back to buy our FULL size futon covers. The lady is not there. Crap. It's her daughter, she owns the joint. Okay, well at least we're back, we kept our word :o)

Hubby was interested in buying a new frame because our old one cracked right after we bought it and they never replaced it for us (jerks, whole other rant though) The mother quoted us 229 for the frame alone. Okay, almost we may just do that but how to get it home, nah we better not. We don't have a truck anymore, hubby gave it to his brother. Okay so no, how about just the covers. The mother, had we known our futon size was going to sell the covers for half off. Dangit, why did I argue??? Okay so we're thinking the daughter probably won't give us that good deal too.

She does offer up the same deal but we have to buy the futon to get the half off covers. Okay, not so good since we don't have a truck. We try to pass on the futon frame. She tells us okay the total is 289 ahem what? You just said a minute before with the frame the total would be 339 so for 50 bucks we'd get a frame?!!? Okay, so we say no, we'll take the frame. This whole time the boys are running and jumping and running and jumping and just being terrors allllll over. Crap. The lady then decides we can upgrade to a better model for the same price. okay whoopee so we do. Breathe deep it's only 50 bucks.

We get the van ready and hubby gets his debit card out. Total 419. sHit... tax, wth? That is double what I thought. No laptop now, no tower, big hit to the savings towards my 5d. Okay not that huge, but still. We're only getting new covers and a frame that looks almost identical to the one we already had :(

We drive out of there and I'm about sick. I have a broken laptop and we bought house stuff. Wthell is the house ever done to earn us money??? LOL I am about puking and I look at hubby, he's not looking so well himself. I ask if he's ok with the purchase, he says well yeah I guess. Great, I think we were both feeling obligated to buy even after feeling pressured into the frame. We talk about it and he's convinced we should just take it back. Um no, you heard them, no returns only for store credit, so what the heck good would that do? ARG!

Nope, we decide just live with it, we got a frame, a good one for 200 bucks. Okay that's a positive spin. But I still don't get anything new. wahhhh... :( Skip ahead. I'm tired. I'm thinking early night. Nope, my sis is at the casino and wants me to join her, besides I need some stuff from the store anyway. So off I go to meet her there.

I walk in to the casino and talk with her for a few. She can't play in the actual casino portion, just the class 2 section so I take off into the real games. I play around on my $20 and I'm doing pretty well. I don't normally play quarters but today I was. I get a little bold and switch to the dollars, nope bad idea. Back to the quarters, couple spins and I should go check on my sis. Couple more spins, she's okay, I'm sure of it :P HOLY! Meltdown, Meltdown, Meltdown. I'm thinking YAHOO, $600 that covers our futon crap. Then it randomly spins again. $1200 and again... what is that now??? I look at the total amount of credits and it is growing like mad. Then it spins again, and yet again. I just hit $3000. *faint* There's my freakin' 5d all in one push of the button.

Anyway, in an hour I will go pick up my camera. WOOHOO! To think 24 hours ago I was about puking over the thought of never saving enough.

THEN!!! the next awesome news! Hubby was accepted as one of the artists in an art show in New York City. He got the word today. WOW. I'm so proud of him. :o)

Sometimes...

you just feel to busy to function.
you just don't accomplish anything because you're busy feeling overwhelmed.
you just don't return your netflix for months and keep paying the fee for movies you can't even remember.
you order some damn sweatsuits from cheerleading and have regret because they will be changing uniforms next year.
you just don't feel like working out.
you just don't blog.
you just don't care.
you just exist.

Here's to existing :o) Go me! LOL

BACK!

A whole week gone and a whole lot changed. Life has a way of moving along when you're not looking. We visited hubby's family and my gosh... they are grown up. Hubby and I were talking about it and when we got together they were nearly Cub 1&2's age. It makes me think how quickly they are growing and how pretty soon before I know it they will be grown. My how the time flies.

While we were gone, one of my mom's very good friends lost her husband. Again, another thing that makes me realize time passes even when you aren't there to witness. She knew her husband was dying, but does that really make it any easier?? A loss is a loss, and it still sucks.