It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ~Benjamin Disraeli

God. Bless. Tax refunds.

I just filed our tax returns and talk about feeling Oprah rich for a minute. It's seriously going to help so insanely much and pretty much already spent but WHO CARES!! We'll have two cars again and no tickets and Jeremy can get new glasses and YAY!

I'm watching some show on 9/11 right now and Corbin's sitting with me talking about airplanes. It's weird to think that he'll only learn about 9/11 in school and he'll come home and ask me about it and wonder where I was or how it affected me.

On a completely different note, yesterday was Jeremy's birthday. I was in a horrible mood yesterday; not exactly sure why. It was one of those days where I just needed everyone to give me a pass on being grumpy for a sec and then I would've gotten over it. However, being as how it was Jeremy's birthday he did not want one second of grumpiness from anyone. Basically it was an afternoon/evening of bickering, apologizing for bickering, followed by some more bickering.

You know how there are people that say to never go to sleep angry? Yeah, that's great in theory, but I think in some cases calling it a night and sleeping on it can bring a much needed change of perspective on things. We're all better now so life is good.

Winter is Nature's way of saying: "Up yours."

I am so over winter it's not even funny. Today is the first day in almost a week that the temp is expected to get out of the teens. Over it! We had to break down and come stay at Jeremy's parents house the past two nights because our house was fuh-reezing and there's the whole pipes being frozen as well, which made for a less than fabulous time.

Good lord, I went to the house to get some clothes for the kids because they're spending the night with Matt's dad. Anyway, so our humble abode has no central heating (I know, 21st century and no central heating... What can ya do?) Thus far it hasn't been a problem, given that we live in Texas and all. Space heaters and blankets get the job done on chilly nights. Then Hell decided to freeze over and we haven't been home since Wednesday afternoon. This also means no space heaters have been going on. We now have a sink full of dishes encased in ICE due to our dripping faucet not doing their job of keeping water going and the pipes freezing so water froze. Our toilet has a big ol block of ice in there. I mean, seriously. Only my house would be capable of making it's own ICE. INDOORS!

This will all be worth it when we have our beautiful house in a couple of years and we will sit with the heater cranked up and a fire going and we'll laugh about the olden days in the shanty.