After about a  hour delay my flight finally took off at 6:10 pm pacific time. This put me home at 10:30pm. The only saving grace was I was upgraded to first class. I walked in and couldn’t believe that I was in the right house! It was sparkling from top to bottom, in fact I don’t think it’s been this clean since we moved in about 10 years ago. The final touch was the boys play room that was completely cleaned up and all the little guys clothes were hanging in the closet. The only thing missing was a bed. I think today we’ll pick up his bed from our friends and see if we can come up with a couple of cheap desks to round out the decor. He’s super excited to have his own room.
Yesterday when I was talking with the kids, the oldest one told me the people down the street didn’t pay for their house so all their stuff was out on the front lawn. Turns out the neighbors about 3 houses down were evicted and the bank (or whoever they hire) just put everything out on the front lawn. I drove by this morning and it looks like a junk yard. The misses thinks the city will come clean it up but I wouldn’t be so sure of that. It’s a shock to see this in our neighborhood but many cities such as Detroit have whole areas that look like this. Wait a minute, the oldest just said there’s a big truck down there picking up all the trash! Hope this is true and not just some people looking through the junk trying to salvage some stuff.
Don’t know if anyone noticed but the stock market dropped over a 1000 points this week! Guess they don’t have the same confidence in our economy turning around as the President does. Standard and Poor (the credit rating agency) also downgraded the U.S. for the first time in our history, from a AAA rating to AA+. The Obama administration tried to convince them not to do this as it is not beneficial to his re-election efforts but the truth is, we deserve it. Maybe this will finally shock the politicos into some meaningful action.
I think today we’re going to head to the new Ikea store and check it out. They’re really reasonably priced and we just might be able to finish off the kids rooms cheap. Personally, I want a bread maker. I can’t get any milk cows to offset the price of milk but I figured out that making our own bread will save over $60 a month. Now this doesn’t sound like much until you do the math and figure out it’s $720 a year! Plus the bread will taste better. We’re also getting lots of tomato’s and zucchini out of the garden these days so we’ve been eating good veggies.
I need to clean up my office this weekend to match the rest 0f the house, the misses has inspired me. Time for breakfast so I’m going to run now, hope all’s well and that everyone has a great weekend. Take care and God Bless,