Okay,I'm back! Things have been kinda busy here. First off, we thouroughly enjoyed the Godsmack/Shinedown/Rob Zombie concert. It rained like hell though. We were totally covered in mud by the time it was over. But we were well prepared...rain ponchos etc. It rained the whole time Shinedown played, then it quit during Rob Zombie, then it rained a lot before Godsmack came on and then it stopped. Of course, we were right beside all the action...mudslide, mud wrestling, mosh pit. I wore my Crocs so all I had to do was hose them down! The concert was on Thursday and I took Friday off. Bobby woke me up at 8:30 after getting to bed at 3am and we CLEANED house!! Majorly!! Friday, we took two loads to the dump and Saturday, we must have taken about five loads. Even put Erin and Claire to work in their room. Ah...it feels good. Why all this work you ask? Well, we decided to refinance our home. We have been paying on it for 18 years and have never refinanced so we had a lot of equity in it. We are refinancing for 15 years (only 3 years longer than we had left) and they are giving us this obscene amount of money to pay off bills and do some renovations!! I am so excited!! It will be so nice to have our bills under control. First major thing we are gonna do is redo our bathroom. It needs a new floor....and I mean all the way...the underneath and everything. We have one of those claw tubs and we are gonna get rid of it and get a regular tub and shower doors, new walls, etc. We went window shopping at Home Depot today and picked some stuff out. Then we are going to have the wiring checked in our home and have new ceiling fans put up in our room, the girls room and the living room. I want to have our hardwood floors sanded and redone but we'll have to see how much is left after the bathroom. I want new windows too but that can wait a while. We figure we'll be living here from now on so we should do the improvements while we have the money. It will be worth it. We are also going to see if we can find Erin a nice (but inexpensive) used car...nothing fancy. Then once we are settled with all of that, I'm gonna get a new car. I have my eyes on a Dodge Charger....ohhhhh, I want one so bad!! I can't tell you how excited I am about all of this!! We closed on it Friday and pick up our check Wednesday. So....about the loopie trip!!! When and where? I think I can make it now! Maybe I'll even be driving a new car by then.... I need some details please!!!! LOL

Posted by Angie at 3:04 PM