So my blog still works. Pretty amazing since it seems I get here one a year or so. There has been so much happening and only the ethers know why.

Update: living up country.

We moved back. We've been here for two years now. I still miss my people and my job at the spa. Honestly I thought life would slow down when we got back but it insists on careening along at the breakneck pace as usual. There are many people that still have no idea I am here. Question like, "Are you back on vacation?", or "Really? You live HERE?". Son #2 is amazed I can slide in and stay off the grid completely.

It's ok. I like it.

But alas, I find myself unemployed, worried (again) about not enough funds, crunched financially, and really wanting to find a way to make some real cash from home.

Anybody got any ideas? I am looking at Affiliate Marketing, but damn it I am tired of getting scammed.

We have met some new friends here. That's pretty amazing when you consider all our new friends are former Coloradoans and choose to live here. We haven't known each other for very long at this point (just 6 short weeks!) but it seems we have all been friends for a lifetime. I am relatively sure Sister Tam and I have shared more than one lifetime. Thanks to all of our lucky stars, we are on another trip through history.

Well, at least I know I can still get here to vent/prattle/play.

Always remember, good fences build good neighbors..

Peace.

New Year, New Outlook

Here it is, another year swiftly past in my life. 2009 had some remarkably psychotic head snapping events.
It marked the year I moved back to my old home town. (scary).
It marked the year out guitar business went into a serious tailspin, thanks to a the corporate giant sending out the attack dogs.
It ticked off another year of living the goodlife thinking we were broke on our ass. Actually we had no idea we were NOT broke, but we are now. After our guitar build got shut down and the economy tanked, tanked, and then really tanked.... we have had to reevaluate every single thing in our lives.

Our cable is gone..

Tomorrow I am shutting off our home phone..

I have been living with a coat on in my own house for a month because heat is just too expensive..

My son's coat has a broken zipper, so instead of just getting a new one (which I would have done a year ago) he wears a hoodie under his coat.

And to top off the lovely list of crap that sits on my head, I know my paycheck will fall short each and every month by $600.

Life is just a bitch right now. But, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I really believe that.

We have signed up to take a financial course, both of us, as a couple. It is the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University. We have gone through the first lesson about saving saving saving. All ya gotta come up with is a thousand bucks.

That's all?? Should be easy right?? If my grocery bill didn't cost more than my house payment, and if my luck holds out hiding from the credit card people, I might be able to get it done. We dug up $45 today.

I will be using this for my online diary about the next chapter of learning to become debt-free.

Stay turned for class #2! It starts tomorrow.