Thursday, November 27, 2008

Us


I thought I'd share a recent picture of Dave and me. It was taken in October when we went back to California for his immigration interview. My mom has a friend who is a professional photographer, and she took pictures of my mom, my middle sister, Dave, and me. My oldest sister and niece were supposed to be there, but somehow my niece has a black eye and huge scratch under her other eye.



Saturday, November 22, 2008

Can't Sleep

It is now almost 2 AM, and I can not sleep. Sure, I'm usually still awake right now. However, I have to work from 6 AM-2:30 this morning. This is not going to be fun. I have to take dh to work at 3:30AM. At least he only has to work five hours, though. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I despise how my body works sometimes.

Friday, November 14, 2008

CitiBank

Please, never ever use CitiBank. We have had it for under six months and have had nothing but problems with them. We often have missing money. Then when we check the statements it doesn't add up. No one is using the account, so that isn't an issue. Yesterday Dave called and asked how much we had in our account. They said we had 130. Then today he called and they said we were overdrawn 55. Hello. We didn't use that much money in one day. All we bought was McDonalds, and we didn't have any previous charges that hadn't already cleared. This has happened numerous times before. Now we aren't going to be able to make this week's rent because we have to pay the stupid overdraft fee and everything else. Plus, we needed the money that was already in there. The only thing I can think it was would be his loan payment getting withdrawn. However, they told him that wasn't going to be taken out until the 29th. So, this is a word of warning. CitiBank is a bad bank that will steal your money. Yes, we are switching banks. All we have to do is send in the money to the new bank. This one is supposed to be a better bank. Plus, it isn't a national bank. Those ones are supposed to be better. Yes, I am sure this bank won't go under. It just bought another bank, so I'm pretty sure this one is fine.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Nifty Patterns

Ok, I got this from you Ginger. I love these patterns, and they really make me yearn for my sewing machine. I will get it shipped as soon as I can. However, she makes ePatterns now. My favorite part of that is that if you lose it you can just print another. Once I get some extra money I foresee ordering many of them. I plan to make at least one dress for my niece eventually. Here is the pattern site. http://www.sensibility.com/pattern/main/?page_id=50 . Sorry, I don't know how to turn the link into a work like you others do. I really like all of them, but since I'm new to it I'm going to get the Edwardian Apron. It'll help improve my skills until I can tackle the bigger projects.