3/19/2012
Had an absolutely wonderful weekend….St. Patty’s Day or weekend….however you want to look at it. Having a really hard time getting back into work mode today. I know I need to do it but ughhhh….!! I danced so hard this weekend that I quite literally cannot walk 2 days later! My calves are KILLING me!!
3/15/12
Got a lot done today. I am working on getting my Today’s Gal Friday website back up and running. I can’t get anything done with my business till I have that part completed so it has been a priority on my list for some time. Got about half way through it today….tomorrow I will finish it! Then I can finally move on with that project 
It was another gorgeous day…but I didn’t let it distract me.
3/14/12
So beautiful outside today….I’m having a hard time getting into work! I slept in late today but I so needed it….the last few nights have not been good nights of sleep. So now it is 12:30pm and I am just now settling in to my day. Oh well, C’est La Vie…..that’s why I’m such a lucky girl….I can do what I want, when I want!
3/12/12
Back at my sisters house today in St. Michaels. Have lots to get caught up on and a very long night of no sleep. I don’t know what was going on but I woke up literally every half hour and then at 6:30 am could not go back to sleep. The vans I looked at in Fredericksburg didn’t really work out. The one I really liked (and still do) was too high in mileage and price. I could do it (price wise) but I’m too nervous about running out of money before I get money coming in and don’t want to spend too much….probably the wrong way to look at it but there you go. I’m trying really hard to be smart about this and I am NOT a car person….I do not know diddly squat about cars!! The only thing I normally look for in a car is whether or not it has cup holders and if the seats are pleather or fabric….hate that damn pleather! I leave the rest to someone way smarter about cars than me! I know….I’m really going to have to fix that problem if my “housing” is my van….I might need to know a little about cars LOL!!
So the plan for this week is to look at more vans over here by my sister’s house and to get my Today’s Gal Friday website back up and running. I thought I would be able to use some of the stuff from the old website but the information was all outdated and incorrect….so it looks like I will be starting from scratch….blehhhh! It’s going to be a beautiful week – in the 70′s!! So I’m definitely going to get some walking in…..lost 5 pounds last week so now I am super motivated!
3/7/2012
Went to look at vans today – found one I really like – but I’m going to keep on looking to make sure that I don’t miss anything.
3/3/2012
Got a lot done yesterday and have had a few really good productive days this week. Today I am relaxing. This next week I will be spending at my moms in Fredericksburg, VA. I’m going to get a lot done this next week – I have a huge list of things to do!! All of mine and my sons Dr’s are in Fredericksburg so I have scheduled all of our appointments for check ups etc. I’m going to spend some really good quality time with my mom nailing down our plans for April and our upcoming trip. I’m also going to start looking at vans. It is a lot easier to do that from my moms location than my sisters. Next week is going to be busy, busy, busy!!!
3/1/2012
Today is going to be a good day…..I’m determined……because yesterday……how can I say this politely……SUCKED!!
I hate days like yesterday. I did not wake up till 11:00 even though my sister swears on a stack of bibles that she came in and woke me up and I looked right at her and told her I was getting up!! So since I woke up late I didn’t get in the shower or make my bed. Sounds silly I know, but when those 2 things don’t get done first thing in the morning I do not have a productive day. I’m sure it is just a mental thing…..but there you go! I’m certain the reason I got up so late was because it was POURING and it continued raining the entire day into the night.
Today is sunny, I got up first thing and took a shower and made my bed……. Yep gonna be a good day!
2/28/12
I’ve been so neglectful of my daily journal 
As you have probably read in my posts things have calmed down considerably now that I’m done “moving” and done with school. It is so nice to have my time to myself again. I’m not exactly lazing around…..I’m BUSY…..but now it is doing stuff that I WANT to do….it makes an amazing difference. And I do them when I want and how I want……BIG, BIG difference!!!
Today I am working on a lot of different things…..
Getting the Today’s Gal Friday website back up and running
Resurrecting my barter club profile and getting some new barter clients (this is going to help with my travels as there are barter members all over the world and it is considerably easier to get barter customers (no cash) than to get cash paying customers!!)
Continuing on with listing the last of my stuff on eBay
And finishing up everyone’s taxes
Whewwwww…..busy but productive….I love it!
2/17/12
Update on the rental office and my furniture – I talked to Comcast and they said they couldn’t do anything for me and that I should of had rental insurance. I could kick myself of course because I normally do have rental insurance but for some reason it slipped my mind this time – I don’t normally have anything of significant value anyway – who knew I had something as valuable as Comcast equipment!! The rental office wants me to come in and sign paperwork saying that I agree to their offer. I asked them if they could mail it to me since I am 2 hours away (that is a 4 hour trip when I’m trying to finish up homework…grrr) – they won’t do it. So now on top of everything else I have to drive 4 hours to the rental office to take care of something that they should be bending to kiss my feet over. I’m not amused.
I have steadily been working on homework but Sunday is the last day of the semester and I’m losing faith that I’m going to make it. I am still weeks behind and the frustration and worry over the homework is causing me to not be able to concentrate which is only making it worse of course. I’m really just about ready to give it up. If I fail the classes I won’t have to pay back financial aid $$ but then I will have to retake the classes and the Project Management class is a serious bitch – the worse class I have ever, ever taken. What will really make me mad, if I fail and I have to take the classes over again, is that I wasted so much time and effort on the classes this past 8 weeks when I could have been taking care of other issues.
I have so many other things I need to be taking care of. I have a few new clients for Today’s Gal Friday which is fantabulous!!! I still have a room full of eBay stuff that needs to be listed (and I’m sure my sister would like it out of her living room!). I still have not been able to work on any of my “projects”. It’s very, very frustrating. I know after Sunday it will get a lot easier but ughhh….right now I want to pull my hair out!
2/15/12
Haven’t had time to journal the last few days. I have been at my moms in Fredericksburg, VA getting some loose ends tied up and getting my taxes done. And of course working on homework!! I found out that I am getting a refund so I’m super duper excited about that. This means that I will be able to take care of many, many things AND I’ll be able to go visit my Dad and Step-mom in Hawaii!!
I also got a phone call from the rental office about my furniture – they want to eliminate any late fees, break lease fees etc and just charge me for the days I was there. The manager implied that that was saving me around $4,000. That is all well and good and I’m willing to take it except for one little tiny thing…….how am I supposed to take a $4,000 credit from my apartment complex and apply it to the $600 Comcast is going to want from me for the missing equipment??? The apartment manager said that “legally” they could charge me the $4,000 and I countered with “well “”legally”" you can’t destroy my personal property without notice”……that shut her up but didn’t really get us anywhere. I left it with I would talk to Comcast and see what they said. So for now we are at an impasse. I’ll have to let you know how that all pans out!
2/11/12
Another very long day of homework!! Melanie and I went out last night for a little bit so that was a nice break….but back to the grind today. I’m having a horrible time with my rear end LOL!! I’m sitting at the computer so much that I literally cannot sit anymore! I move from my desk to my couch to my bed and back around again and again! I try to do 20 to 30 min of homework and then get up and do something around the house so that I’m getting a little movement in my legs but it isn’t doing much good! I feel like I need to go hike a mountain or something…..and for those of you who know me you know how much of a laugh that is!
The lady who was supposed to buy the TV stand flaked out on me at the last minute…..she was the 4th person to flake out on me for that particular piece of furniture!! I give up! But I did have some good news…..someone contacted me today about my antique bed and is going to pick it up tomorrow. That is $175 in my pocket…yay! And it is the one piece of furniture that I would have been upset if it didn’t sell…..the other remaining pieces I’m ok with putting out on the corner so somebody who needs it can take it.
Some of my Princess House items sold yesterday as well. So some funds are starting to trickle in even though I haven’t really had time to work on any $$ making projects yet. I’m looking forward to getting my taxes done!!
2/9/12
Homework…..homework…..homework….homework!
2/7/12
Soooo happy that I did not have to move anything today!!! Spent the day getting caught up on “paperwork” stuff but it’s been a bit of a roller coaster.
Bad….First I found out that I can’t drop my classes so now I have to hurry up and get caught up which of course means that I won’t be able to get anything else done because I’ll be doing homework 24/7. (So much for actually trying to make some money in the next 2 weeks).
Good…..Then I found out that my hot spot on my phone is unlimited. I was worried because I kept getting text messages from Verizon saying that I was almost through my allowance and it had only been a few days – it turned out to be a miscommunication.
Bad…..Next I found out that I’m not getting a large chunk of money that I was expecting.
Good…..Then I got accepted for a screening for a clinical trial that might bring in some extra cash.
And it went on and on and on and on……….
You get the picture
2/6/12
Ughhhhhh……finally done moving stuff from my apartment!! I’m exhausted! With all the moving and trying to get stuff on eBay I have neglected a bunch of “paperwork” things that I really need to take care of. Soooooo……tomorrow will be an “office” day. Then it will be back to putting stuff on eBay and working on my projects. I really need to get the $$ situation under control!
2/5/12
Another long hard day…..still moving stuff from my apartment to my sister’s house. So much for my goal of only having enough stuff left to make one load in my mom’s mini van! :-( The problem is that I haven’t finished listing everything on eBay…..so there was a van load of just eBay stuff. We have to go back again tomorrow to get the last little bit of stuff then I will finally be done. I had to lower the price of my furniture again…..bleh. But I finally got some more of it sold.
2/4/12
It has been a long, cold, wet day….not good for my head cold Loaded up my car and my moms van (with the help of my wonderful children) and lugged it all to my sisters in St. Michaels. She is going to babysit some stuff for me and I’m going to stay here for a little bit till I get on the road. A couple things sold on eBay which makes me happy but it’s not selling nearly fast enough. And the furniture I put on Craigslist is not selling at all. I did lower the price but that didn’t seem to do the trick. I listed the furniture on backpage.com also. So I don’t know what will happen in the end with that stuff.
2/3/12
I’ve been feeling it come on for 2 days now but today I have a full blown head cold! I am super grateful that it is not the same respiratory infection that I have had 3 times over the past year but it is annoying just the same. I’m so stuffed up I’m walking around breathing through my mouth and feeling like a complete neanderthal! I think I have used an entire tube of chapstick today.
Despite how I feel I’m chugging along. I have about 30 items listed on eBay now and I’m going to get more listed tonight. If anyone is interested in the Princess House items I listed in my first few posts….they are all listed on eBay now! I listed the last few pieces of furniture on Craigslist again yesterday but still no luck. I’m in a quandary now….I don’t want to price them too low…..but I do want the money and I DON’T want to have to move them to my sisters. I’m really, really trying to get to Hawaii at the end of this month…..sooooooo I guess I’ll lower the price 
2/2/12
I am sore today. I spent most of yesterday packing boxes and lugging them out to my moms van. The apartment is getting emptier and emptier! I’m hoping to be done with it by this weekend. Last night I went through 6 to 7 boxes of “mementos” so that I could consolidate them. What a walk down memory lane!!!! Diaries from when I was little all the way through high school, old letters, old calendars. It’s funny the things I don’t remember ever happening! At one point I went on and on about a boy that I dated apparently for a few months and the only real recollection I have of him is what I thought was a one night thing! So funny! Today I’m going to work on taxes and getting more stuff on eBay…..another busy day!
1/30/2012
Leaving my sisters house today I had a really lovely weekend and don’t really want t0 leave BUT I have so much to do when I get home!! I love St. Michaels! And it will be even nicer when it gets warm outside. I’m going to work on getting as much stuff on eBay over the next few days as I possibly can……that is my goal for this week.
1/28/2012
Yesterday ended up well! I made it to my sisters and she took me out for drinks at a really fun bar here in St. Michaels! We had a great time! And it was with in walking distance so we didn’t have to decide who’s turn it was to drink and who’s turn it was to drive! Today I helped my sister finish moving some stuff to her new place then spent most of the day being lazy. Now I’m trying to get back to my homework and not really having much success. I guess I will have to spend tomorrow getting caught up.
Started looking at vans the other day on Craigslist. I’m impressed that there are so many out there within a decent range $$ wise and that they looked pretty good! Still have to work on the money part…but that will come. I’ve been waffling between getting a mini van or a cargo van. Right now I’m leaning towards a mini van because I don’t want to deal with the insurance part of getting a cargo van. But a cargo van would have given me more room and more stealth.
Found out yesterday that I have to be out of my apartment by 2/15….that is a little earlier than anticipated but like my mom pointed out….it’s motivation to get stuff done!
1/27/2012
Another rocky day….but it’s been interesting. Spent an hour on the phone with an old friend catching up and trying to get my computer to open a zip file so that I can get at least one of my ideas rolling! Coming up with every excuse in the book NOT to do homework….but still getting some of it done! Went out to get some much needed caffeine…..it is 60 degrees outside….4 days ago we had snow….we are all going to hell in a hand basket….I’m convinced! Now I’m packing to go to my sister’s house in St. Michaels (Eastern Shore, MD). I’m excited and could really use a few days with a change of scenery…..BUT in the back of my head I’m thinking “crap….so much to do, so much to do!!”
1/26/2012
Today has not been good. I’m cranky and tired of working on this stupid homework. It is keeping me from getting any of my projects done and I’m not happy about it! I’m thinking about going to my sisters in St. Michael’s for a few days just for a change of pace. Will still have to do homework but at least I can sleep on my own bed (she is babysitting for me )….not sure yet?! Just so much to do….so many ideas…..I just want to get started! On the upside….some of my stuff on eBay sold….I did a little happy dance
1/25/2012
Well I see that I kinda suck at the whole daily journal thing! Today I finally got out of the apartment for a few hours and ran errands. I have been holed up in here (haven’t even cracked the door once) since Sunday. I have been steadily working on homework, selling stuff and trying to work out a solid plan! Yesterday I finally cracked the “plan” code! I finally have a direction….now all I have to do is take that first step!
1/18/2012
Made $148 selling some of my furniture today. I put pretty much every stick of furniture I own on Craigslist….I don’t mind having a small storage area but I don’t really want to have to pay for a big one to hold furniture. My son Zachary and his girlfriend Brittney came and moved their stuff to their new place. I was sad to see them go Wrote a new post….my goal of doing one post a day has not been working out so well….I need to do better!
