Dave's Wife

What's Been Going On

2009-05-24T05:09:00.000-07:00

So, softball season ended. It's very bittersweet. I already miss the girls, but I don't miss the league. It's a horrible league that teaches winning at all costs and no sportsmanship. I hate those types of leagues. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Dave has been working part-time. He's starting a new job that is supposed to give him 30 hours, so that's excellent. He's looking for another job with fewer hours to work after the first since it will end at 3PM. He loves working. Plus, we need to get our own place.

I am very close to getting a nanny job in Orange County. Yes, Dave's job is also there. As long as I pass the background check and the couple trial days I'm in. I hope they don't run a credit check. A background check without the credit part is not a problem. The little girl is seven months and is absolutely adorable.

Now, if I get that job, we will be moving into Orange County as soon as we can. Our jobs will be in south county, but there is no way we can afford to live down there. As such, we will have to live in north county. In order to avoid as much traffic as possible, because the 5 during rush hour is not something I wish on my worst enemy, we will do one toll road. It will lessen the trip sooooooooooooooooooooooo much. The five bucks is completely worth it I say.

That's about all that is going on with us. It has been a lot of work and looking for work. Hopefully I'll have more interesting things to post if I get the job.

They're So Cute

2009-03-04T16:23:00.000-08:00

So, the kids are so cute when they play softball. All of my kids are either 6 or 7. That is a very adorable age when playing sports. They have gotten a lot better, too. We didn't have the scrimmage, though. The other team scheduled a different scrimmage that wasn't on the schedule.

Oh My Wow, It's Been Awhile

2009-03-03T02:23:00.000-08:00

It's been a month and half since I last updated. Not much happens here. I'm pretty boring. Every day consists of being depressed because we have no money and no jobs. I had to get some money from my dad for books for my stupid class. Seriously, this class is the useless class they make everyone take to prove they know how to use the Internet. The books cost $150 for the ridiculous class. It isn't even an academic class. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I started coaching an 8 and under softball team with my mom. I am sooooooooooooo not happy with the league, though. This upcoming week we have four games. That's way too much for six and seven year olds. I'm deciding if I should say something to the board or not. What do you guys think?

As I mentioned, Dave and I still haven't found jobs. For goodness' sake, we interviewed at job fair at the baseball stadium. We were practically the only ones there over 16, and we were actually dressed nicely. We still didn't get hired. This is getting a bit ridiculous. I know they hired inexperienced high school kids over us. It's really maddening. Don't people know that we actually need money? Those high school kids don't. I heard many of them in line. They just want extra cash. We need money to live. I also don't like the people there who were getting a second job so they could keep living the lifestyle they were living before. It's one thing if you need two jobs to survive, but these people just wanted the extra security. I'm sorry, but when so many people can't find one job, they don't need two jobs just so they can still get the latte everyday.

Sorry, I'm ranting. It's just upsetting to me. Dave has had interviews, but yet no one calls. I can't even get interviews.

I'll try to make the next post happier. Maybe I'll post about how cute my team is in our scrimmage Tuesday night.

Everybody Say Yay

2009-01-16T11:52:00.001-08:00

Dave finally got his license. Yay for him. Now I don't have to drive everywhere. Woot woot. In other car news, we have to replace ALL of our lights. Let's see. Two headlights, two front side lights, two front blinkers, two tail lights, two brake lights, one high brake light, two rear side lights, and two rear blinkers. That's a lot of lights. Who knew there were so many darn lights on a car. Then there are the other ones that I'm not replacing such as the dome light, license plate light, and glove compartment light.

Vista

2009-01-12T15:07:00.000-08:00

Seriously, who thought Vista was a good idea? I'm sorry, it's not making me happy right now. It won't play my Sims 2 properly. I spent good money on this computer and Sims, and it won't play it. I found out that a lot of people are having the same problem I'm having. Plus, none of the solutions you can find online work for me. Now I'm stuck. Dh isn't starting work until Saturday, and it's going to take forever to save up to get something else. It just makes me mad because we've spent soooooooooooo much money on these things. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. We're going to save up for a Mac, though. It's too hard to find a computer without Vista. And, Sims 3 is coming out sometime this year. As such, I will not buy a Mac version until that one comes out.

Giveaway

2009-01-04T04:11:00.000-08:00

Here's a giveaway for a Smart Shopper. It's just about closed, though. Oh yay, the link thing that thursdayschild told me worked. Thanks.

Some Family Pictures

2008-12-17T16:24:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of my family. They are all a little old.

1. My favorite person besides Dave. I love my niece. This was her fourth birthday party in August. She was really excited to get her pages I hear. Methinks she is going to be a nerd as I.
2. My sister, mom, and me. My other sister wasn't there. This one is recent. It's from October.
3.This was Thanksgiving last year. It's how Christmas normally is for my family. Earlier there were more people, but they left before the picture. I believe nine people left before the picture.

Applying for Job Manana

2008-12-17T16:16:00.000-08:00

So, the county is hiring seven clerks. No experience is required, so I'm going to apply manana. I have a few months of experience in office and type way above the required speed. That makes me hopeful. This job would be perfect for us. It would allow us to get an apartment. I would be able to get some dresses, skirts, and headcoverings. I would also be able to get the oh so important right now thermal underwear. We would have enough money for Dave to take some classes this semester. The few of you who read this, please pray that I get this job. Thank you guys. It's almost the day of the birth of Jesus.

Oh yes, Ginger already knows this, but Dave and I are going to go to a Conservative Mennonite church sometime. It's only an hour and a half away. I'm so excited. I've always wanted to go to one. We'll see how Dave does with it. I'm not sure how he's going to do because it's quite different from a Catholic Mass.

Skirts In Winter

2008-12-13T15:45:00.000-08:00

So I took the plunge and for the last few days have been wearing skirts. I am currently wearing jeans under them, though, because I don't have the money to buy something else for the time being. It is quite warm this way. Just the extra layer of the skirt helps a ton. I'm going to keep wearing them this way until I cam get some money to get some other things to go under them.

Us

2008-11-27T21:18:00.000-08:00

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.

Can't Sleep

2008-11-22T23:54:00.000-08:00

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.

CitiBank

2008-11-14T19:47:00.000-08:00

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.

Nifty Patterns

2008-11-06T14:33:00.000-08:00

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.

Hello

2008-10-27T03:06:00.000-07:00

So, New York didn't happen. We decided we weren't ready to move that far yet. So, we moved to the Chicago area instead. It's really nice here. Lots of trees and fewer people. I need to figure out the whole winter with skirts thing. We don't have much money at all for me to get new clothes. I guess we'll have to see if the thrift store has any good thicker skirts on sale. I went to WalMart to look for long underwear and couldn't find any. This socal girl is completely clueless.

Vacation and Skirts

2008-06-24T20:08:00.000-07:00

Here is what happened on my vacation. Dh and I just got back a few hours ago. We drove four hours north of here to the lovely town of Cayucos, CA. It's the last little beach town left in CA. I love it there. I've been going there every year since I was born. Never missed a year. I finally got dh up there. We loved it so much we decided to move there. There's a really good college, affordable rentals, lots of jobs, and it's just a great place. We looked at an apartment on the main drag (of course there really is only one drag in town) with an ocean view that's being comepletely redone for 1050. We were there since Friday night. Most of what was done was just my grandma and me showing him around. We stayed in Cayucos. One day we went to Morro Bay, and I showed him the dorment volcano that he doesn't believe is a volcano. The next day we went to Cambria. It's a foresty town that is a few feet away from the ocean. We also went into San Luis Obispo because dh wanted to see a movie.

In other news the test I previously mentioned has been working well. I've worn a skirt everyday since then. I even did on my vacation even though it was quite cold. The first day my grandma said I looked liked I was in the FLDS. I was wearing a long skirt and a shirt with long sleeves. I think I'll stick with these. I've also ordered three headcoverings.

A Test

2008-06-18T23:39:00.000-07:00

I've been really drawn to switching to skirts/dresses only. Up until now I've really only been wearing them to church. Starting manana I'm going to wear them for as many days straight as I can. I'll post pictures if I remember to.

NYC

2008-06-16T10:55:00.000-07:00

So, dh and I are moving to NYC sometime next month. The tentative date is July 28 because we have tickets to go to Chicago that day. From there we will drive his sisters car that she's giving him to NY. We can change the date, though, if we find jobs in advanced. We will be selling the car when we get there. Don't worry. We aren't going to be trying to drive around the city. You know, moving across the country is difficult. We look at apartments just to see what we can expect to get and then fall in love with one. That does no good because it won't be available in a month. Most places there require three months rent when you move in, too. That's going to be the most difficult part. We know it's going to work out, though. It's up to God.

We are planning on adoption in the near future. We have found a few sibling sets that we are very much interested in. One is a set of three boys from California, and one is a set of three girls from NY. We're just in the planning stages, though, since we can't get a homestudy done until we move. So, look for some more information about that to come in the future.

Well, gotta go to work. Thanks for reading.

Hi

2008-06-13T18:59:00.000-07:00

What's up? After many years of Internet I decided to start a blog. In case you don't know me I'll let you know some basic information. My name is Kimberly. I'm 22, and was married in December. I was born and raised in southern California, but will soon be leaving for the big city. I love sports, tv, movies, reading, writing, and learning. I was raised a non-denominational Christian, but recently converted to Catholicsm. I do not believe in everything the Catholic church believes in, but it was the closest to my beliefs. Also, my dh is Catholic and it would make things less confusing for any future children. I probably won't talk a lot about my faith on here because I am leery of bashing. I get it from my family all the time. That's all I can think of. Go Dodgers.