For Christmas I bought a ham, cooked half of it and put the rest up in the freezer. I went ahead and took it out today and made a potato ham bake with it. It’s been so cold here lately and something warm and filling (not to mention easy) seemed the way to go.

While it [...]

There has been a string of vandalism in the area lately. Mostly these vandals have limited themselves to tagging innocent trees and ditches for their fun but they have been escalating. The other morning they tagged the garage of one of our neighbors. We heard all about it since they did it in the early [...]

Today was my third court appearance for the car accident back in February and at long last it’s all finally over; the ticket was dismissed. It’s such a relief, really, and the whole process was dragged out far longer than it should have been. While waiting in the court room I spoke to some people [...]

When I checked the mailbox a little while ago I honestly didn’t expect to see anything. Over the past couple of days the mailbox has been empty, and when it’s not, there’s fliers for everything under the sun, such as some revolutionary phentermine diet pill, an upcoming fiesta, car sales, real estate agencies, and whole [...]

It feels good to have my own set of wheels once again. I abhor having someone else chauffeuring me around. It took an incredibly long time to get Pyro fixed after that fender-bender back in February mainly because I didn’t have a steady and reliable flow of income anymore after getting laid off. Pyro still [...]

There is indeed such a thing as internet addiction. I should know, I’ve been going through withdrawal. First my internet service provider was acting screwy and now I’m just flat out without internet at home. The computer at my mom’s office said “I Quit” and did not bother to give her two weeks written notice [...]

And there still hasn’t been any word back yet from DialAmerica. I am intensely glad that I went ahead and filed for unemployment benefits because, let’s face, I don’t think they’re calling me back any time soon. I have two small checks coming from the still; one for two days of work and another for [...]

Truly, sometimes the only person you can trust is yourself. Since my car is not exactly drivable right now I’ve been using my grandfather’s truck to get to work. Yesterday he showed up late, so late I had to call in and tell them I wouldn’t be coming in. Of course, after I had called [...]

So today was quite the interesting day. My grandfather took me to Las Cruces so I could try to apply for a loan with him cosigning for me. As you might have guessed, things didn’t go as planned. For every good there seemed to be a bad.
Good News
My grandfather was able to make time in [...]

It’s looking like I won’t be seeing Pyro up on any car lifts any time soon. The reason is simple, apparently my credit score is too low to even get a $1,000 loan from my bank. And no, I have no idea what my credit score is because, apparently, they’re not allowed to tell me [...]