And...We are a go!!

And the tickets are booked!!! We finally booked our tickets to see all my CA family!

After the blog post, Stress and Other Joyus Things, I was really able to take a step back and look at everything clearly. Since then, things really took off. I received the raise and title change I had been waiting on for about eight weeks. And with said raise, I also received a nice back pay check. Thus, making it possible for us to purchase the airline tickets to California! Then, after some much needed re-evaluation of our financials, I realized how totally okay we will be even through those unexpected issues! 

About two weeks after that financial peace, we were rocked again but of a completely different nature. The hours given to me were coming fewer and far between, so I took matters into my own hands. One my day off I went out in search of a higher paying and less stressful job, and boy did I find one. I started that day at a new job paying about $3 more and getting 42 hours with having three days off in a week. :) 

In this first week there I ended up being sent home early from an allergic reaction to something. And in this last week I got pneumonia and missed nearly three days. I am so eager to go back, sitting at home is not something I am good at.

I am so incredibly grateful for the insight brought on by blogging it out and praying it out. (Yes, I know more credit goes to praying rather than blogging!) :) 

Can you guess what I am headed to watch before bed?

Goodnight!

~Belle

Stress and other joyous things!

Hectic moments seem to follow me around these days. They form themselves into chaotic hours and mind boggling days!

As I sit here enjoying Disney movies on Netflix, I am swarmed with the spinning mind that rules my head. Too many thing to contemplate and finish, and not enough OCD in me to get it all done in the few hours I have left each day. So, I have decided to take this time to possibly clear up a few things and save what few braincells I haven't exhausted.

As most of you know, most of my family is in California. And this Christmas is one I would desperately like my hubby and I to spend with my family. Sadly, we already got turned down for having the week of Christmas off work. So, we changed out plans to the 12th through the 16th for our CA trip. Now, the hardship lies in the funds for said trip. It is going to cost close to $450 per person just to get out there. We only have about $500 on us to spend, and that is with $100 from my dad. Now, if we didn't have to supply the money until the trip, we would have it no problem. But the longer we wait to save the money, the more the tickets will cost ... And on top of it all, we have three unforeseen expenses coming up. One being this coming week, and the other two in the first week of November. I am at my wits end when it comes to this! I know there is the option of saving our money and taking the vacation when we can! But that is just it, I don't see it as an option at all!!! I feel like nothing will be ok if I don't get to see my family!

Against that chunk of stressful goodness happens to be something that stalks me everyday, my body. I am not one to play the victim because I know for a fact that I have the power (somewhere) to fix it and I am the one that caused it. I hear daily that I need to be proud of the way I look, but that doesn't just magically make me love what I see in the mirror. All it would take is daily workouts and good eating. Then why is that I can't seem to do any of it for more then two days at a time?
Well, enough with the self pity and confusing decisions that need to be made. On to one of the few
things that doesn't seem to stress me out these days, unpacking!

Moved and Improved

And the move is completed!

Our big horrendous move is finally over with! I know it was only across town, but it was big enough for us. We traded our tiny income housing apartment for a nice two story town home. With all the new space to decorate and fill we have come into quite a few expenditures that we were not planning. I even got a blue door to put my newly home made wreath. Now, to move on to the unpacking stage! I promise to post more when available!