Being a company owner for several years, I could write a book on everything I have learned over that time. I’ve made a lot of mistakes along the way but have also made a lot of friends along the way too. Our contractor has been in company here in neighborhood for 25 years plus our
Working in a sales office can be really hectic. My great friend and I are consistently trying to entice current clients as well as much of the time is spent in meetings with them. Getting ready for those meetings takes up the rest of my toil afternoons. Before I can even set the appointment I
My coworker that I have known for the past four years at my current job invited me to her home the other day. She is much younger than me so I have been able to live vicariously through her. She and her husband just bought their first home together. My husband and I bought our
It has been over twenty five years since we bought out home. It was a fixer upper for sure but we knew that we could do a lot of the labor ourselves to save currency. My spouse and his family all have experience in one part or another so that made fixing things up a
I spend a lot of time inside the zone controlled Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C of the office trying to find a better way. What I mean is that my job is to find ways to cut costs plus take advantage of weaknesses. That sounds worse than it is however that’s basic to my work! However,
My mom talked me into going to a flea market with her on one of the hottest afternoons of the year as well as most of the booths did not have a/c. My buddy and I spent hours walking around looking at other peoples’ junk with a heat index over 120. Every once in a
Last summer I was pregnant. Being pregnant, at least for me, was already a very miserable experience. But to be pregnant in the summer when it is hot and muggy? That is the worst. I was sitting upstairs in my room, feeling uncomfortable and rather large, fanning myself with a paper. It suddenly occurred to
Even though I do not like road trips, I do love staying in hotels. My husband is more of a rustic kind of guy, so he prefers to stay in cabins or tents, but I hate staying in both cabins and tents. I love hotels. They are luxury to me. I do a lot of
I spend a fortune on candles and air fresheners at this point I know that I’m going to save money on candles and air fresheners once we get our whole home air purification system installed! I know that this really sounds like a terrible thing when I say it out loud, but the truth of
This afternoon when I got up and left the apartment I saw there was a flyer on my door. At first I grabbed it off the door and was about to throw it away without even looking at it, and we have sales people that come by all the time here and I figured it
This winter has been brutal on me and my home. It seems like it’s been snowing at least once per week and there is a tremendous amount of ice covering everything. I’ve been living up north for most of my life, so I understand how cold it gets and I’m accustomed to the snow and
I had to make one of the toughest decisions of my life last year, and that was the decision to move away from my family and friends to further my career. I would not have made it except for the fact that I had to in order to move ahead in my career, and I
A few years ago, our family started kicking around the idea of installing a swimming pool. Our three children were all for it, imagining pool parties, floating on foam chairs getting suntans, and generally staying cool during the hottest months of the summer. As the parents, we played devil’s advocate, pointing out the downsides of
These afternoons it seems like everything is doomed to be incredibly uncomfortable. The new state of the world is panic inducing no matter how you look at it. I feel like there are no right moves because it’s bad to stay inside plus keep your shops shuttered. At the same time, it’s incredibly dangerous plus
My new system was much more involved than my old one plus I now have three separate zones so that I can save money on Heating plus Cooling spaces that are unoccupied This past winter time I made a new neighbor that I never expected to meet. It all started when my HVAC system broke
I wasn’t so sure that work on this household would ever end. But going into this project, I knew there was going to be a lot of work. My husband plus I have tackled other house renovations in other houses, yet, my buddy and I had never taken on a project of this scale plus