I finally got a paycheck! Two, actually! They are having some kind of trouble with the system they use to pay me  and it doesn’t like my name change (maybe because they put it in with my maiden name – hyphen – my married name… which is not my name at all, and also makes my name in their system… 17 letters long). They finally got it to pay me for two of the three (well, now four) invoices yesterday, and we totally went shopping. After we paid bills, of course. Yesterday was also Jeff’s payday, so it was kind of awesome going from having (at most) $40 in the bank to SKILLIONS OF DOLLARS! Okay, not skillions. But enough to pay every single bill that was here, and have money for gas and groceries, etc. You just can’t appreciate the amazingness until you have spent one entire month on one income, with bills for two. I am just going to be glad it was only one month! Anyway, so we totally went shopping, and it was exciting as all hell. Our cart was so full I could barely turn it! We got:


A fancy new covered litter box for Chewy!

Who is still cute, by the way:


A pretty new blue collar for Dale! (Who has only ever had blue collars, and probably always will! He is just a blue collar kind of dog. PS He thought he was going to get a tummy rub here… and then was pretty sad when it was just another stupid picture.)

A “boot tray”… but we are using it for this instead:

Genius, right?

Jeffy got a ton of new socks:

We got some cleaning things, because every once in a great while? I do actually clean things. But you’re right, not often.

Ant traps! We had an ant problem this time last year too, and these worked. So we got more! Again, yes. We are geniuses.

Groceries, for us, means a lot of beverages… This is our beverage corner.

And we also have a full freezer!

The fridge is pretty well stocked too… but you can’t see that. It might be dirty in there.

We also discovered these:

Which are amazing. But 96 cents for a package with only FIVE kisses! But did I mention amazing?

And… the most fantastic thing in the entire cart…

Finally! I can’t wait to play in the snow with my Sims!

Besides finally getting paid, and buying lots of boring things at Walmart, we have tons of things going on. Or will, soon. This weekend is a nothing is happening weekend, and that is fine by me and my seasons-discovering Sims! But next weekend my friend Kendra is getting married, so we have that. The weekend-ish after that she and Damien are moving. RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD FROM US! I am super excited about that, she has been an hour drive away for the past 2 or 3 years, and now she will be close enough for me to actually WALK to her house! So, there will probably be some helping out going on for the next couple weekends. Then we are going to go camping with my parents, and pretty much everyone they have ever met it sounds like! Including both my sisters, my step-brother, and maybe our friends Teresa and Rex. They still aren’t sure if they can come yet though. After that we are planning on doing a barbecue probably the next weekend, kind of using Kendra and Damien moving down here (and my friend Jamie coming home from Japan finally, she has been there for the last year) as an excuse. After that? I wanted to go to the Great Escape sometime this summer, so if we are going to go this year, that is the only time left at this point. But we might just not go. No big deal, it will be there next year I’m sure!