Monthly Archives: May 2010

Memorial Day weekend, it’s a three-day weekend for me and DB. Yes, I have been looking forward to this holiday for a while. We will be busy with cleaning up the old house ready for the bank’s realtor. There are still a bunch of stuff to pick up for donation. All these going back and forth between the old and new place is really sucking up a lot of our energy. Oh well, at least we get a “reward” from the realtor’s agency in a form of monies….that’s a motivation! Monday will be a day for us to just chill. I told DB I will take a break from walking the boys, long walks that is. I don’t need any diet supplement right now. I actually is tired of walking and getting up early during work week to walk them for their business. So this holiday weekend, I’m just gonna chill and will just walk the boys right to the front of the house and they have to get their jobs done there. I want a break!

DB’s place of work is offering health benefits for its employees and I’m encouraging him to look into it. We are definitely looking into cheap health insurance for us if possible. He is now under my medical coverage and it’s expensive. If his health insurance is cheaper, I will have him sign up with his company and I will cancel mine. But if it’s cheaper for his insurance to cover just for himself, then I will take him off mine. Like I said before, we are on a very tight budget now. We don’t have the extra moolah saved up, so whatever we can do to cut extra expenses, we are going to do it.

As usual for me, once I get the dogs out for their walks, I will start investigating the new area we are living in. I have to say, the townhome community we are at is one very peaceful community. We don’t hear the neighbors at all unlike when we were at the old house. I suppose without a backyard, the neighbors have no where else to go except the little patio or in the house. Now, I have been going a little farther out of my townhome are and ventured out to the single family homes neighborhood which is 2 streets and a block of prairie land from our home. OMG, those single family homes were gorgeous. They are around $400+K homes. I took couple of pictures with my cellphone but they turned out horrible. Will try again this weekend. I was like “wow” under my breath when I see those homes…homes with swimming pools and a lot of them have little front yard ponds with pond skimmer installed. I have not lived so close to such big and beautiful homes so now, I’m just like some kid admiring someone’s home for the first time.

It’s been 4 weeks we are in the new house. Sad to admit, we have not look into renter’s insurance. I wanted to get the renter’s insurance through our current insurance company but they are quoting us extremely high even though we have 2 auto insurances with them. You would thing the insurance company will give us a better, lower quote with all three together. Yesterday, I went to my credit union to ask about cheap insurance for auto and renter’s insurance. We are definitely putting all of our bills on a diet.

How many drug addicts are out there these days seeking for help? I’m sure there are some who are in dire need of help but unable to get it. When I was in Vegas, I remember seeing some guys and gals hanging around the back of the lanes having a dose of weed. I assume that is social but what about those who are into hard core drugs?

If these hard core druggist who do want help, they would want rapid detox, a detox facility based out in Las Vegas.  This is only if they are ready and has a lot of support from families and a very good detox facility to assist them with the initial and post treatment.

My boss took me out for my 10th year anniversary. It’s just the two of us. There is no big boss in our department at this location. Her boss is now the big, big boss who sits in NYC. The lunch was good. Kinda uncomfortable for me initially but it lighten up. We talked about every thing except work. I do miss my former boss though, who was her boss. Yeah, she asked if I received my anniversary gift from the company. I have not which I think will arrive later this afternoon. I really like the fact that the company gets its vendor to take care of these anniversary gifts. The site is neat too, broken down to years of anniversary for gifts for her, for him and unisex kinda gifts. My boss is happy I accepted her invite for this lunch. I am too, and since it’s just the two of us, I may as well, change my attitude towards her.

It’s been years since I have to deal with our insurance company. Honestly, they are very expensive. Since we are now renting, I told DB I want to change insurance companies. The credit union I am with right now offers very decent motor and home insurance rates. I have requested life insurance quote from them before and they are extremely decent, reasonable for my pay.  Today I might drop by the credit union and speak to the rep or I might call or email him tomorrow.  It’s kinda nice to be in charge of this kind of stuff again….it used to be handled by the man, but I want to be in loop, just for c.y.a. purposes.

When we bought our first house, there was an alarm system set up in the house. I was not too crazy about these home security systems coz they are super loud if the alarm goes off. In this new hut, there is one already installed. The boys is the home alarm system right now. It’s nice to have one just in case I want to turn it on but then you need to pay for the fees to run it. I think the last one we had it up was about $50+ a month. Not too bad but will have to think about it.