Holy crappers, taxes

I screwed them up big time! I have spent hours upon hours trying to fix the dang #'s and file correctly but it was to no avail. Today I figured it out though. I found out this morning that we for sure needed to amend them and I started freaking out. I tend to need to do things ASAP when it comes to things like that. Since I was at work, I couldn't so it put me in a bad mood most of the day.

When I got home this evening I immediately set out to fix my screw up. It took hours, and I mean many hours, to make it work properly (stupid Turbo Tax is NOT dummy/idiot proof). Finally though I worked it all out and feel so much better. I was afraid we'd have to go to a tax place. I had to recreate my screw up then amend from that because the orginal filing was all screwed up from having played with it prior to tonight. It was one frustrating night!! Oh well. It's almost done with now.

Hehe. So I started printing everything to file by mail (a must when amending) and guess what? The ink ran out on my printer. *sigh* and the saga continues until tomorrow morning! :P

New Furniture

Buying a new house of course means buying new furniture as well. Psssh, our piddly apartment housed hardly any furniture and it was crowded. We moved into the house with the furniture we had in the apartment and sadly, the house still looked empty. Our mission: buy new furniture!

We set out on a journey to find the perfect couch. My idea was to get a dark brown leather couch. I love my tan ones so I wanted something similar and as comfy as those. No luck finding any we liked in leather but we did find this.....

We instantly fell in love! They are magnificent, comfy, and can hold about a bagillion people! Perfect for entertaining which was one of the main goals. So, these babies were seriously pricey but well worth every penny.



Before the couches, though, came the bar. Uh huh, a bar! It's awesome. We saw it at a furniture store for $1300 but somehow the same day I magically went onto Craig's List and there it was! No joke....for $400! How irresistable and perfect timing is that?! Of course we bought it! It's an awesome conversation piece! It sits in the area that is supposed to be the formal dining room. Formal shmormal. Can you see us with a formal dining room? Yea, uh...no! It's such a waste.

And here is our baby.....

*sigh* yes, I know, it's gorgeous.

Lastly (for now) is the kitchen table. Our tiny apartment sized table was no match for our monstrosity of a dining area off the kitchen (yes, there's 2 areas for that in this house). It's fabulous! I love it love it love it!

We also bought Suraya a gorgeous white trundle bed which I have yet to capture on picture. It's super cute though. As far as furniture goes I think that's all. Oh wait...the futon. No pics of that yet but it's really nice and not one of the crappy ones. It's eventually going to be housed in Andrew's game room. when you have tons of extra space you make up things and names for each room.

We have tons of space since upgrading from a 2 bedroom tiny apartment to a 4 bedroom house with 2 livingrooms and dining rooms. All this space makes me anxious to fill it up with more awesome furniture. Too bad we be po' folk and can't afford to do it all at once.

Yup, I chopped it off!

After a battling with my nasty super long to my butt hair I decided I needed a fresh new look. I knew I wanted it short. Not mid back, that would be like having long hair still. I wanted total change.

I Jumped On the Bandwagon!

I am reading Twilight! *gasp* I know, I know...I told everyone that suggested I read the series that it is not my style. It is still not exactly my style but we watched the movie and I liked it. It intrigued me enough to go out and buy the book. I'm halfway through and so far it has kept my attention so much so that I read it any chance I get! Yes, yes I am now an admitted Twilight fan.

Easter

This year the Easter celebration was hosted at my house. I have to say that I was weary of it and not exactly looking forward to it because of some drama that had happened before that and just because I was not in the mood.

The night before, Andrew' mother and stepfather stayed the night. It was nice to have them over. They hadn't seen the house yet so they were excited. The next morning we woke up and attempted to start cooking the ham. Ummm, yea....that's all I have to say. It was my first time and I didn't know which instructuions to follow out of the 2 I had found on the internet. I chose one and ran with it.

I headed out to do some last minute shopping for dinner and came back home to find an almost fully cooked ham! It was ony 9:30am! I had chosen the wrong instructions! Oh well. I took it out and just let it sit until it was time for the festivities to begin.

People started arriving around 2pm and brought food as well so I wouldn't have to bare the brunt of the food-making. My duties were potatos, ham, salad, meatball appetizers, and fruit w/fruit dip. Ok, so my fruit dip and meatballs are party hits! I have to thank Roxanne for the dip recipe.

Both mine and Andrew's family were there and it was a full house but everyone seemed to have a good time, myself included. We ate dinner, which was delicious and then had our egg hunt. It was so cute watching the little ones. After all that dessert was served and the party came to an end.

I am glad we were able to host Easter at our house and it turn out so well! The family's got along great and everyone had a good time. I couldn't ask for more!

Story Behind the New Car

Two Saturdays ago it was decided that it was time for my Jr. Jr. (car) to have some major surgery. There was a huge list of things wrong with her plus she needed the 100,000 mile tune up. We dropped her off and stupidly proceeded to look at the new cars. Bad idea! We were sucked in at that point but still refused to budge on buying a new car until we knew poor Jr. Jr.'s diagnosis.

Man, the salesman pushed hard. Seriously hard. It was annoying. They went as far as bringing the service tech supervisor in to tell us my car was pretty much a gonner. (Ok, so secretly at this point I wanted a new car but wasn't thrilled about having a new car payment.) Even after hearing this we decided we needed firm proof my car would be insanely expensive to fix.

We waited around another hour or so for the final verdict. The verdict was what they had told us. It would cost around $5000 to fix my car. I honestly believe this was a lie or padded quite a bit in order to get us to buy a new car. So of course with that we decided to get a new one just like the pushy salesman wanted. We fell into the perfect hole for them and they pounced!

After hours of negotiating we purchased a 2008 Dodge Charger. I was nto a happy camper at first even though I secretly wanted it but it has grown on me. It is a damn sexy car and it is roomy enough for us to have another child one day!

Things are great but.....

I don't understand why I can never be completely happy for more than a day or two. I am living the life I have always wanted to live. I married the perfect man for me, we have a house, an awesome new car, and yet I still feel a void. Maybe it's not so much a void. Maybe I need constant change. I just cut my hair. That's a huge change for me. With all these changes in the past year how can I NOT be totally happy?

I don't even know if it's that I'm not happy. I truly believe I am. I think life is not enough. I'm even in school with no real goal other than to get a BA. For some reason I feel the need to have constant change. I get so easily bored with everything. It's always exciting for a little while then bam, I get bored.

What is wrong with me? Why can't I be fully satisfied with my life? In a time when people are losing so we much we have gained so much. I should be thankful and rejoice in our luck.