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.

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.

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 The only thing I can think it was would be his loan payment getting withdrawn.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.

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.

Hello

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

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

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.