Tired of Living in It

Welcome back!

I’m tired of living in it.  What you ask…a house that more closely resembles a garbage can than a house.  I say that with sarcasm only slightly.  I am a work at home mom.  My kids are with me 24 hours a day, at least the babies are, and they are 2.5 and almost 1.5 so therefore they have little to no cleaning abilities. 

I focus a large percentage of my day on my business(es) that I run from home.  The other large portion is spent filling sippy cups, changing diapers and breaking up arguments between said two children.  It is “active” and “fulfilling” however the house, well it gets little to none of the “percentage” of my day and has therefore felt slightly neglected.

It doesn’t help that our income has never been large enough to really care for the house properly.  We’ve not done much to the plain shell of a house that the contractors built almost 6 years ago.  Sometimes, I look around and I wonder will it ever look more like a home?  Maybe . . . I am being slightly over dramatic but really I just want it to be a little more cozy, a lot more clean and a tad bit more beautiful. . . can that become a reality?  Would it require me to work less and clean more?

Just wondering. . what should be my plan to take back my house in 2010?

Nothing More Frustrating

Ok, so I have been really wanting a smartphone for a while now, but being the cheapskate I am I didn’t want to pay for one.  Finally, I found a great deal on Ebay and I snatched it up.  It arrived today.  I plugged it in to charge, but thought, “I bet it’ll come on and I can play a bit before it is fully charged.”  Tried to power it up, nothing.

I was on my way out the door so I just left it on the charger until I got back.  I had a bad feeling about it, really I did, but I tried to put it out of my mind.  Arrived back home 2 hours later, tried to power it on, still nothing.  So I call the seller, it’s a company luckily, not an individual so they are shipping me a return label and I’m returning it, but I’m still more than frustrated.  I mean really people can’t I just get a phone and it work instead of going through all this?