A Year of Change

Alright, here we are facing another week, they seem to come and go fast these days. I started off yesterday with a gym trip (what’s new) and then ran Jag to inter-murals only to be met by Lori at the front door telling me to go right back and get him as they didn’t have inter-murals until Tuesday! Off I went back to school and then took off 45 minutes later with both boys in tow.

I ran a few errands in the morning and then was on the computer working up pricing for various markets across the country. Prior to that of course, I had my Monday morning conference call.

Meanwhile the good looking one was off to school to grade papers and then to Bed Bath and Beyond to return some things. We crossed paths finally around 3:30 pm for the first time since the morning.

Now to the news of the day. This is where those of you that don’t enjoy my musings can tune out! I promise though, you might learn something and I’ll be gentle.

First up, sometimes it’s easier to understand things when they are compared to things in our every day life. Check this out and see if you can relate,

Lesson 1

US Tax Revenue $2,170,000,000,000

Fed Budget         $3,820,000,000,000

New Debt           $1,650,000,000,000

National Debt   $14,271,000,000,000

Recent Budget Cuts $38,500,000,000

Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget…

Annual Family Income $21,700

Money They Spent        $38,200

New Debt on the Credit Card $16,500

Outstanding Balance on the Credit Card $142,710

Total Budget Cuts So Far $38,500

Got It So Far?

Lesson 2

Here’s another way to look at the debt ceiling

Let’s say,  You come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood…….. and your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings………

What do you think you should do,

Raise the ceilings or remove the shit?

Get it, I hope so as my kids are not going to be happy when they grow up and find out how much of their money we spent on crap that didn’t do a damn thing!

So that pretty much sums it up. I could go on about the train wreck known as Obama Care but it’s doing more harm to itself than anyone could. I didn’t agree with the GOP trying to stop it as it’s so bad on its own, they should have just let it play out. Doesn’t look so good now no matter which side you’re on.

In closing, sometimes I feel like I’m beating a dead horse (who comes up with these sayings? I mean who ever beat a dead horse…. and why?) but you’d better get ready for some changes in your life as things are going to get much worse before they’ll get better. Don’t believe me, still have your head in the sand? Don’t take my word for it, our own gov tells us were headed for a big correction and then there’s guys like Warren Buffet and others sounding alarm bells as well.

There now, that wasn’t too bad was it? I thought the debt ceiling lesson was entertaining. Oh well, that’s it for the day, take care and God Bless.

Well as I’m sure you all know, the Broncos lost a close one last night. This is despite the flat out bad officiating for the entire game. But like I said, no one will remember the bad calls, only the loss. So time to cowboy up and move on and come back strong next week. See how that works!

Yesterday Jag and I left around 10 for baseball. It was a long cold game against a clearly superior team. It was so bad we looked like the Bad News Bears from the movie. We even had a 9 year old (it’s a 12 year old league) who’d never played, playing for us so we had 9 players. It was pretty comical but the kids played their best which is all you can ask for. I think we have a game next week but we’ll see, we just might be done.

The boys played hard for the rest of the day until dinner and then bed. I tried to keep the misses quiet on the couch but she made dinner and other stuff.

Here in Denver a mother with her 1 year old was stabbed at 12:30 yesterday afternoon at a light rail (train) station during a robbery. We just don’t know what’s going on these days. People are really really desperate and violent crime is up. I only mention this as if this can happen in the middle of the day to a young mother with her baby in a stroller, it can happen to anyone. You’ve got to be aware and be careful! I’ll leave it at that.

It’s 5:10 and Jag has inter-murals so I need to run to get to the gym to get back in time to take him. Hope all’s well, take care and God Bless.

Today is Jag’s last game of fall ball. This is good news as he really doesn’t like this team and didn’t want to go but he signed up, so he’s going. Yesterday we went to the corn maze instead of the zombie thing. I think a Mom from school is taking Jag and 5 other kids next weekend.

As Lori said, the boys played and played, what’s new. Finally we all wound down around 7 for some tv and we went to bed around 9 leaving the two guys downstairs to watch some more tv. It’s 5:42 now and everyone else is sleeping. We’ll leave at 10 for baseball while Ty and Mom stay home. The misses head is still killing her.

It’s nice and cool outside with leaves blowing everywhere. This evening we’re supposed to get a rain snow mix. That’s about it, guess I’ll go you know where, the gym. Take care, God Bless you and God Bless Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos who play tonight!

The Mr. picked up the kiddos from school yesterday, and the youngest brought his friend Jack home for a playdate. We knew that he would eventually ask to have Jack stay for the night. The boys played legos and some make believe games outside. They were in and out multiple times dropping leaves each time they came in…unfortunately they didn’t take the leaves with them on their way back out.

The Mr. brought home all kinds of fun, yummy activities for the kids…caramels to melt and dip apples, marshmallows, milk chocolate and graham crackers for s’mores and carving kits for pumpkins. What a thoughtful daddy!

The oldest went to sleep at 9:30…the other two were awake until well after midnight. The youngest came in to wake me up to make breakfast at 5:18 a.m. Are you kidding me? I came down at 5:30..fed the dogs, made coffee and gave each boy a banana to hold them over until I was ready to make breakfast.

The Mr. has a few work related errands to run this morning..he’s already been to the gym and back. The day is gorgeous, so I’d like to take advantage and get the boys up to Red Rocks for a walk.

Tonight we are taking a few kids to…get ready for it…”Field of Corpses.” A haunted house with fields of Zombies. It may be too scary for the youngest and Dad, so I may have to find another option for them.

I’m off to shower…have a great day and God Bless.

It’s here, and it’s wet, I already used the boys Nerf sword to knock the snow off the trees when I was getting the morning paper. We all slept in as I didn’t roll out of bed until about 6:10. Oh well, we must have needed the sleep.

Here’s a comment from Annette,

Annette says:

Sorry about yesterday, it just got away from us! Field Day was a success for both boys, Lori will try to post pictures later.

Today the misses is already on a conference call and then has to get ready for an MRI across town at noon. I think it’s both with and without contrast meaning she’ll get shot full of dye.

Tax day came and went, we managed to get Colorado, New Jersey, New York and California paid (still don’t understand why I’m filing and paying in CA, NJ and NY!) but couldn’t swing the Fed’s. Oh well, I’ll just get a nasty letter along with a nice penalty and pay it when I can. You can’t let things like money get to you, in the grand scheme of things, it’s just not worth it and trust me, it’ll flat out kill you.

It’s cool outside this morning, just how I like it. They say we’ll have a rain and snow mix starting around 8pm tonight through tomorrow.

Our four legged alarm clock woke me up again around 5am. I seem to get up that time every morning anyhow, I’d make a good farmer/rancher as that’s when they have to get up! Everyone else was up a bit after 6.

Not much else going on, just trying to keep it all in perspective and get through another day. We’re really hoping the MRI shows us something that can be fixed as this has been going on for too long.

Oh yeah, our honorable Congressmen and the Pres have come to an agreement that’ll allow them to spend more of our money (mainly my kids kids) on useless pet projects in their own districts and of course line their own pockets for a couple of months. Then we can do this all over again, yea!

So have a great day, check back this afternoon and look for pictures, they’re great,

God Bless

Well, Lori thought I was writing this morning and obviously I thought she was. Anyhow, we had a good long day at school with Field Day. It was fun for everyone involved, more to come tomorrow,

Bye!

It’s 5:14 and I really don’t have much time today to write much. On top of that, with it being tax day, I’m not really in the mood. Hope everyone is well,

God Bless

Ok, it wasn’t pretty but 2 months from now nobody will remember how bad the Broncos played yesterday, all that matters is another win. We (or they) better get it together though before playing the Colts next Sunday night as they won’t be such a push over. Anyhow we had a great time, lots of fun and laughs and memories for Jag and his friends that’ll last a lifetime. Watch for pictures in this years yearbook.

Today the misses goes to another doctor for her neck and arm issues. We have to get a handle on this once and for all, surgery might be in her future, sooner than you think. We’ll know more after our 10:30 am appointment.

It’s getting cooler with a little snow likely for tomorrow. I can’t wait until tomorrows over as it’s the dreaded tax day, October 15th. Still not sure how we’re going to survive it but hopefully God will come through. Sometimes when you have nothing else left, you have to rely on faith.

70 days until Christmas, hard to believe. Not sure what we’re doing for the holidays, any of them. I think Aunt Robi and Robert are coming for Thanksgiving and I heard Grandma Dixie wants us in California so we’ll need to sit down and figure it out soon. We’d have to drive if we go and that’d be iffy with the weather at the end of November. We’re also hunting the middle of November and we have an event the 19th and 24th we have to go to. On top of all that, work trumps all and the next 60 days are critical for me pulling out the year. I might have to jump on a plane a few times at the drop of a hat. It all depends if any market (state) doesn’t order the wine their supposed to. Anyhow we’ll figure something out.

Oh, the boys had a good race and the 5K yesterday, I guess Jag ran it in 28 minutes and Ty, ever the player, stopped with his friend to veer off the trail and explore, right in the middle of the race! Anyhow they had a great time and it supported the PTA for school. Meanwhile I ran to the gun show to pick up some extra molle pouches for our medical gear. The gun shows are great places to pick things up super cheap as the vendors will all negotiate with you and you know how I love to negotiate! I ended up getting $72 worth of gear for $20, well worth the trip.

Time to run, hope everyone is well, take care, have a good week and we’ll report on the misses prognosis tomorrow.

Yesterday I was mapping out what leftover elk tags are available and when Jag and I will head to the hills. I try to wait as late in the year as possible as that means we’ll have a better chance of bad weather. Right now it looks like November 13th to the 17th are our best bet. That could change if we get a monster snow storm before then. The mountains are actually supposed to get between 6 and 10 inches tomorrow but we’re sitting tight. We have started getting all our gear together though just in case we need to head up early. I might run up on Tuesday as I need to check the fence we just put up and could scout around at the same time. It is tax day though so I might not be able to make it, we’ll see what magic I can work before then.

Hopefully tonight the Bronco’s will be 6 and 0, we’re all excited here in Denver as we should be. We did take the boys to get pumpkins yesterday and picked one up for Grandma also which we dropped off to her on the way home.

Lori just came down as the boys are both running the Gold Rush this morning. This is a 5K race they run every year. They need to be there at 8:30 so no time to waste.

It’s cool outside but not what you’d call cold. I sleep with the window open whenever I can and the heat off to cut down on our bill. I still can’t believe how high our bill is. In our next house, I’m making sure we have good insulation and will probably put in solar panels.

Time to run and get moving as it’s almost 6:30, the paperboy (or girl) must be sleeping in as my newspaper isn’t there yet. Hope everyone is well, take care and God Bless.