Tomorrow Phil (also known as Kimbo Husband) and I will have been married a month. Surprisingly, it seems like it has been a lot longer. Not in a bad way, mind you, but I suppose because even though the entire year we were together we weren't legally married, we felt married to each other.
A few people have asked me if married life feels different, and honestly, I have to say not really. At first, it seemed sort of strange. We talked so much about being married, but when it happened I remember looking at him thinking, "Wow, I actually have a husband", and then "Wow, we've really made a huge commitment". But overall, we really stepped into marriage as if it were already a comfortable old shoe, it was familiar and nice, and seemed like it was just the right thing to be doing.
Life really hasn't changed for us, I don't feel differently about him then I did before, and our normal day to day routine hasn't changed. We sort of just got married, and then went back to doing what we do. We've had our hard times though since being married, and it is all due to finances, which what couple doesn't get stressed about money. Work is slow and the gas prices are killing us, and we get frustrated over it and can at times take it out on each other, but we have never been a couple to yell and scream and fight at each other. A voice may be raised, but we love each other enough to take a step back and say let's take a look at what's really bothering us, or letting the other know your not upset with them, but this is what is bothering you.
The one thing I do love, though, is being able to say I am married. My whole life I have always wanted a husband, and a family. When I was younger, say my early twenties, I felt that the whole purpose of life was to meet someone and get married and start a family. As I grew up, I realized that getting married wasn't the most important thing in life, which is maybe why I ended up finding Phil and fulfilling my dream. I no longer hold marriage up on some pedestal where I thought life would be easy and blissful. Instead I know that it is full of rough patches and ups and downs, but if the love is there, you can make it through anything. But there are a few things I love, such as being able to, in conversation, make mention that "my husband did this", or "my husband and I went here". And of course, I love wearing my ring and being able to look down at my hand and see that symbol of our love and commitment to each other.
Now, I know that as our marriage continues, the newness will wear off and I won't look at my ring all the time and show it off, and won't keep saying the word husband in every other sentence, but right now I am just enjoying being a wife and looking forward to where our life is going to take us.
About Me
- Kimbo Central
- San Tan Valley, AZ, United States
- A wife and mommy to a beautiful three year old son, blogging about being a mommy, and taking care of my family.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Work from Home...Is this a reality?
With the gas prices soaring, and the economy in an obvious recession (thanks President Bush), trying to work and make a living for yourself is coming to almost be down right impossible.
I am sitting here with Kimbo Mom, searching through different work possibilities. Kimbo Mom delivers for the local newspaper and with the gas prices now about $4.03 a gallon here (I am sure it is higher then that now since it goes up throughout the day), it is because evident that she may have to find something else so she can save on gas.
Which brought up the idea of work from home jobs. Searching through Google and Indeed.com, there are many work from home opportunities out there, but none of them seem legit. They either want you to pay a fee upfront to be able to access their elusive member area (which any job that makes you pay to work for them is a scam right off the bat), or there are jobs where they want you to call people and sell them things. And my favorite, the "Wellness Catalog", where you can sell wellness products online.
I'd love to get in on a work from home thing too, seeing as my disability payment doesn't make very much and getting caught up financially is one of my main goals right now.
So I ask you, faithful blog friends, do any of you know of any legit work from home opportunities? I'm sure I will get spammers who will search the blogs and add their comments advertising their crap, but from those who actually take the time out of their day to read this, I wonder if anyone knows of anything, or even of another type of work opportunity.
Just leave a comment with your ideas!
I am sitting here with Kimbo Mom, searching through different work possibilities. Kimbo Mom delivers for the local newspaper and with the gas prices now about $4.03 a gallon here (I am sure it is higher then that now since it goes up throughout the day), it is because evident that she may have to find something else so she can save on gas.
Which brought up the idea of work from home jobs. Searching through Google and Indeed.com, there are many work from home opportunities out there, but none of them seem legit. They either want you to pay a fee upfront to be able to access their elusive member area (which any job that makes you pay to work for them is a scam right off the bat), or there are jobs where they want you to call people and sell them things. And my favorite, the "Wellness Catalog", where you can sell wellness products online.
I'd love to get in on a work from home thing too, seeing as my disability payment doesn't make very much and getting caught up financially is one of my main goals right now.
So I ask you, faithful blog friends, do any of you know of any legit work from home opportunities? I'm sure I will get spammers who will search the blogs and add their comments advertising their crap, but from those who actually take the time out of their day to read this, I wonder if anyone knows of anything, or even of another type of work opportunity.
Just leave a comment with your ideas!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
New look and sweatpant freaks
So as you can see, I have updated the look my blog. I figured it was about time, because frankly I was tired of looking at the same layout and thought you all might be too. I'm always one to try and spice things up.
Now, on to our blog. As I said in my last blog, I came across many interesting and fascinating things during my time away from the Internet, things in which as soon as I saw it, I thought to myself, "I need to blog this". Of course, I am sure many good ones I have forgot (which means maybe I should carry around paper and pen in case anymore good ideas creep up on me). But something I saw yesterday reminded me of one of my main ponderances right now, which is:
Why are people wearing sweatpants, with the legs scrunched up to their knees to make them look like Capri's?
I thought perhaps this girl was strange when I saw this the other day, where, in 90 degree weather, she was wearing a black tank top, and hot pink sweatpants, with the legs scrunched up to her knees. But now I have seen women wearing this same look all over, especially at the Walmart that is around the corner from my house. Yesterday, when it was 102 degrees outside, a woman walked into walked with the most hideous shade of green sweatpants I have ever seen, with the whole leg deal going on.
I suppose this must be some sort of trend now in fashion, although I am not sure. Where I once used to be completely up-to-date on the newest trends, as I get older I realize I don't care as much as long as what I am wearing fits and is comfortable. But what is it that is so exciting about sweatpants, that you feel the need to wear them during the summer? After all, you can go in the Walmart and for $10 pick out a pair on nice capri's or shorts that make much more sense. Can these people not live without their sweatpants that they must wear them year round.
Which brings me another point...sweatpants, on anyone, are not flattering. The are big, bulky, and make everyone look like they have a big, drooping ass. The girl, with the hot pink sweatpants, had a small, petite frame, but in those sweatpants, her ass looked the size of Texas.
My one piece of fashion advice to you ladies out there is, leave the sweatpants in the closet until winter, and then only wear them around the house. Of course, I am one to give advice as I am sitting here in jammy pants with cows and moons on them, but hey, tomato, tomatoe.
Now, on to our blog. As I said in my last blog, I came across many interesting and fascinating things during my time away from the Internet, things in which as soon as I saw it, I thought to myself, "I need to blog this". Of course, I am sure many good ones I have forgot (which means maybe I should carry around paper and pen in case anymore good ideas creep up on me). But something I saw yesterday reminded me of one of my main ponderances right now, which is:
Why are people wearing sweatpants, with the legs scrunched up to their knees to make them look like Capri's?
I thought perhaps this girl was strange when I saw this the other day, where, in 90 degree weather, she was wearing a black tank top, and hot pink sweatpants, with the legs scrunched up to her knees. But now I have seen women wearing this same look all over, especially at the Walmart that is around the corner from my house. Yesterday, when it was 102 degrees outside, a woman walked into walked with the most hideous shade of green sweatpants I have ever seen, with the whole leg deal going on.
I suppose this must be some sort of trend now in fashion, although I am not sure. Where I once used to be completely up-to-date on the newest trends, as I get older I realize I don't care as much as long as what I am wearing fits and is comfortable. But what is it that is so exciting about sweatpants, that you feel the need to wear them during the summer? After all, you can go in the Walmart and for $10 pick out a pair on nice capri's or shorts that make much more sense. Can these people not live without their sweatpants that they must wear them year round.
Which brings me another point...sweatpants, on anyone, are not flattering. The are big, bulky, and make everyone look like they have a big, drooping ass. The girl, with the hot pink sweatpants, had a small, petite frame, but in those sweatpants, her ass looked the size of Texas.
My one piece of fashion advice to you ladies out there is, leave the sweatpants in the closet until winter, and then only wear them around the house. Of course, I am one to give advice as I am sitting here in jammy pants with cows and moons on them, but hey, tomato, tomatoe.
Monday, June 2, 2008
She's back!!
Kimbo is back in business here at Kimbo Central...and it's about time, dontcha think!?
We finally got the cable and Internet hooked up today. The installer showed up around 8am and we explained that in the living room we were hooking up just a regular digital DVR box and in our bedroom we were hooking up an HD-DVR box since we got a High-Def TV as a Christmas/Wedding Present from my Grandma Joan. We also told the guy where we were hooking up the cable modem and telephone.
We had to explain this about five times....
After he finally gets it, he goes outside turn the lines on, and then he said he'd be back in to hook up everything. He had to be outside about 20-30 mins. I'm not sure what he was doing out there. He comes back in, and we explain again where the equipment is going, and now he has a machine where he is tuning each line, and says he isn't getting enough power, so he goes back outside. By this point he's been here for an hour.
The rest of the time was spent like this. He brought in the boxes, hooked everything up, and then spent time outside trying to turn up the levels, and amping up things and putting three and eight way splitters on things. He kept saying the power level was just to high, which made me wonder, if the power level is too high, will the Cox Cable building, I don't know,explode perhaps?
When it came to the cable modem, he tried hooking it up to one computer, even though I told him it went to the other computer and that I wouldn't mind hooking that computer up. He fiddles around and finally allows me to hook it up, so I do and after a few tries, I get the Internet up and running.
I should have gotten paid to be his assistant.
A total of four and a half hours later, he is finally done, everything is working, and he heads out.
Phew....
Until the TV in the living room TV started having audio stuttering problems and the Internet kept going in and out.
Back comes the guy...
Now he's unhooking my TV (which I was watching at the time, and it wasn't even the TV that was having the problem) and shuts off the Internet and spends more time outside fiddling. By this time my husband comes home from work and wonders what is going on. I think he was here about hour or so, and finally everything finally worked.
Problem was...when he came back, he came from helping his friend dig a trench..in a hundred degree weather...
And he smelled, for lack of a better term...like ass sweat.
And I even have one of those Air Wick air fresheners that goes off every 36 mins and it still didn't help the smell.
But, in the end, I have my Internet back and I have spent the entire night ignoring my husband so I can play online and blog. But it is good to be back, and keep checking back often since now I will be able to blog more frequently, and I have a lot I can blog about from the time I was away from here.
We finally got the cable and Internet hooked up today. The installer showed up around 8am and we explained that in the living room we were hooking up just a regular digital DVR box and in our bedroom we were hooking up an HD-DVR box since we got a High-Def TV as a Christmas/Wedding Present from my Grandma Joan. We also told the guy where we were hooking up the cable modem and telephone.
We had to explain this about five times....
After he finally gets it, he goes outside turn the lines on, and then he said he'd be back in to hook up everything. He had to be outside about 20-30 mins. I'm not sure what he was doing out there. He comes back in, and we explain again where the equipment is going, and now he has a machine where he is tuning each line, and says he isn't getting enough power, so he goes back outside. By this point he's been here for an hour.
The rest of the time was spent like this. He brought in the boxes, hooked everything up, and then spent time outside trying to turn up the levels, and amping up things and putting three and eight way splitters on things. He kept saying the power level was just to high, which made me wonder, if the power level is too high, will the Cox Cable building, I don't know,explode perhaps?
When it came to the cable modem, he tried hooking it up to one computer, even though I told him it went to the other computer and that I wouldn't mind hooking that computer up. He fiddles around and finally allows me to hook it up, so I do and after a few tries, I get the Internet up and running.
I should have gotten paid to be his assistant.
A total of four and a half hours later, he is finally done, everything is working, and he heads out.
Phew....
Until the TV in the living room TV started having audio stuttering problems and the Internet kept going in and out.
Back comes the guy...
Now he's unhooking my TV (which I was watching at the time, and it wasn't even the TV that was having the problem) and shuts off the Internet and spends more time outside fiddling. By this time my husband comes home from work and wonders what is going on. I think he was here about hour or so, and finally everything finally worked.
Problem was...when he came back, he came from helping his friend dig a trench..in a hundred degree weather...
And he smelled, for lack of a better term...like ass sweat.
And I even have one of those Air Wick air fresheners that goes off every 36 mins and it still didn't help the smell.
But, in the end, I have my Internet back and I have spent the entire night ignoring my husband so I can play online and blog. But it is good to be back, and keep checking back often since now I will be able to blog more frequently, and I have a lot I can blog about from the time I was away from here.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
I now pronouce you Mr. and Mrs. Kimbo
Well blog friends, I am proud to announce that as of 5pm yesterday, Phil and I were pronounced husband and wife. I am now officially Mrs. Phillip Fry.
May 9th was our one year anniversary of the day we first met, and we decided what better day to get married then on our anniversary. As much as we wanted to have a bigger celebration with our families, money didn't permit it, and instead we had a very small, intimate ceremony with my parents with a justice of the peace. He performed a very beautiful ceremony, he had some wonderful things to say about marriage and the commitment we were making to each other and he actually had a tear in his eye as he performed it. We figure after a day of having to deal with court and sending people to jail, it must be so nice to end the day by marrying couples.
After the wedding my parents took us out to dinner and we had a great time. There was a balloon artist there who came up to us and asked if we wanted a balloon and my mom told them that we had just gotten married, so he made me a balloon that looked like a whip and Phil one that was handcuffs haha! And my mom also told the waitress that we had just gotten married so at the end of the meal she brought the both of us a dish of ice cream, on the house.
It was a very fun day and night, and even though we didn't do anything special or have a big fancy celebration, it was perfect for us. We have already felt like we were married for the past year, but now we just made it officially. I never thought that I would have the chance to get married but now that I am it feels nice to know that I have a family of my own now. I have always wanted someone to stand by my side and support me through life's ups and downs and it is so nice to look at him and know that he loves me unconditionally and that we have our whole life together to make wonderful memories.
May 9th was our one year anniversary of the day we first met, and we decided what better day to get married then on our anniversary. As much as we wanted to have a bigger celebration with our families, money didn't permit it, and instead we had a very small, intimate ceremony with my parents with a justice of the peace. He performed a very beautiful ceremony, he had some wonderful things to say about marriage and the commitment we were making to each other and he actually had a tear in his eye as he performed it. We figure after a day of having to deal with court and sending people to jail, it must be so nice to end the day by marrying couples.
After the wedding my parents took us out to dinner and we had a great time. There was a balloon artist there who came up to us and asked if we wanted a balloon and my mom told them that we had just gotten married, so he made me a balloon that looked like a whip and Phil one that was handcuffs haha! And my mom also told the waitress that we had just gotten married so at the end of the meal she brought the both of us a dish of ice cream, on the house.
It was a very fun day and night, and even though we didn't do anything special or have a big fancy celebration, it was perfect for us. We have already felt like we were married for the past year, but now we just made it officially. I never thought that I would have the chance to get married but now that I am it feels nice to know that I have a family of my own now. I have always wanted someone to stand by my side and support me through life's ups and downs and it is so nice to look at him and know that he loves me unconditionally and that we have our whole life together to make wonderful memories.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wedding, Arthritis Walk, and More!
Hello blog friends!
I am so sorry I haven't been blogging, from what I can see here, it looks like the last time I posted was back in March!
The reason for not posting is because Phil and I moved back into Queen Creek and where we are at, I haven't been able to pick up a wireless Internet signal. So the only chance I get right now to come online is when I am over at my parent's house. But within the next month I will be getting Internet at the house, so I will be up and running and back to normal blogging.
Things have been going well for Phil and I. We are coming up on our one year anniversary and we decided what better way to celebrate the day then to get married on the day we met a year ago. So he called up the Justice of the Peace on Friday and scheduled Friday, May 9th as the big day. Even though we had thought about saving up and having a bigger affair, but in the end we could really use the money we can save for other things in our life, and we want just a simple ceremony to celebrate our love and new life together.
We also are finally getting the chance to start the business we've been wanting to start. Phil has been wanting to become a licensed contractor and work for either Lowe's or Home Depot installing doors and windows, which are his speciality. So he has been taking study classes so he can pass the business license test and then after he passes that he will be filing the papers to get the LLC and to get bonded. There is a lot of money that can be made in being a licensed contractor and doing the type of work he will be doing, and I am looking forward to being the office manager and running the business, getting the work in and scheduling appointments and doing the bookkeeping. I have always loved doing office work and this is going to be so great having work to do again.
Phil and I are also excited about participating in the 2008 Arthritis Walk this Saturday, May 3rd, at the Phoenix Zoo. So far we have raised $250! Thank you to everyone who has donated, it really means a lot that you have supported a cause that is very near and dear to my heart.
As soon as I get full time Internet, I will let you all know and I will be back to regular blogging. I hope this blog finds you all well!
I am so sorry I haven't been blogging, from what I can see here, it looks like the last time I posted was back in March!
The reason for not posting is because Phil and I moved back into Queen Creek and where we are at, I haven't been able to pick up a wireless Internet signal. So the only chance I get right now to come online is when I am over at my parent's house. But within the next month I will be getting Internet at the house, so I will be up and running and back to normal blogging.
Things have been going well for Phil and I. We are coming up on our one year anniversary and we decided what better way to celebrate the day then to get married on the day we met a year ago. So he called up the Justice of the Peace on Friday and scheduled Friday, May 9th as the big day. Even though we had thought about saving up and having a bigger affair, but in the end we could really use the money we can save for other things in our life, and we want just a simple ceremony to celebrate our love and new life together.
We also are finally getting the chance to start the business we've been wanting to start. Phil has been wanting to become a licensed contractor and work for either Lowe's or Home Depot installing doors and windows, which are his speciality. So he has been taking study classes so he can pass the business license test and then after he passes that he will be filing the papers to get the LLC and to get bonded. There is a lot of money that can be made in being a licensed contractor and doing the type of work he will be doing, and I am looking forward to being the office manager and running the business, getting the work in and scheduling appointments and doing the bookkeeping. I have always loved doing office work and this is going to be so great having work to do again.
Phil and I are also excited about participating in the 2008 Arthritis Walk this Saturday, May 3rd, at the Phoenix Zoo. So far we have raised $250! Thank you to everyone who has donated, it really means a lot that you have supported a cause that is very near and dear to my heart.
As soon as I get full time Internet, I will let you all know and I will be back to regular blogging. I hope this blog finds you all well!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Where in the world is Kimbo??
Don't worry guys...Kimbo is still here!!
I STILL can not pick up WiFi at home, which means no Internet access for me unless I come over to my parents house, which is where I am today. I can't tell you how much I miss the Internet and blogging and chatting with all my friends. I hope this gets fixed soon so I can get back to my regular online schedule :)
Nothing new has been going on really. I've been feeling a lot better since seeing the specialist who advised that the pain in my side was no longer the kidney infection, but just back pain. I have been off the antibiotics for three weeks now and am doing fine, just occasional pain in my side that feels better with Tylenol. Then again, after sitting in a wheelchair for three years, I guess your back would start hurting lol.
I did do something that I love this past weekend, and that was go to the Renaissance Festival with Mindy. Her and I go at least once every year and we love it each time. The Renaissance Period has always been my favorite and the festival each year is like a shire, with lots of food and artisan vendors who make jewelry and wood-working, and other beautiful things. I had so much fun and since Phil has never been to the festival before, I am hoping that I can take him the weekend after next, which is the last weekend that it is here.
Phil and I have been thinking about getting married on our one-year anniversary, which is May 9th. We've had to postpone our wedding twice, both times because I had that stupid kidney infection and had ended up back in the hospital. Now that I have a clean bill of health and our anniversary is coming up, we thought that might be the perfect day. But nothing is set in stone yet, I am just so looking forward to getting married.
Well, that's about all that's going on around here, I will blog again either when I get my Internet back working, or next time I am over at my parent's house. And a reminder, Phil and I are still participating in the Arthritis Walk on May 3rd at the Phoenix Zoo and right now we have raised $225!!! Thank you to everyone so far who has donated and if you are able to donate to our cause, then please check out the blog that is underneath this one titled "Phoenix Arthritis Walk 2008" to find the link to my team site.
Until next time!!
I STILL can not pick up WiFi at home, which means no Internet access for me unless I come over to my parents house, which is where I am today. I can't tell you how much I miss the Internet and blogging and chatting with all my friends. I hope this gets fixed soon so I can get back to my regular online schedule :)
Nothing new has been going on really. I've been feeling a lot better since seeing the specialist who advised that the pain in my side was no longer the kidney infection, but just back pain. I have been off the antibiotics for three weeks now and am doing fine, just occasional pain in my side that feels better with Tylenol. Then again, after sitting in a wheelchair for three years, I guess your back would start hurting lol.
I did do something that I love this past weekend, and that was go to the Renaissance Festival with Mindy. Her and I go at least once every year and we love it each time. The Renaissance Period has always been my favorite and the festival each year is like a shire, with lots of food and artisan vendors who make jewelry and wood-working, and other beautiful things. I had so much fun and since Phil has never been to the festival before, I am hoping that I can take him the weekend after next, which is the last weekend that it is here.
Phil and I have been thinking about getting married on our one-year anniversary, which is May 9th. We've had to postpone our wedding twice, both times because I had that stupid kidney infection and had ended up back in the hospital. Now that I have a clean bill of health and our anniversary is coming up, we thought that might be the perfect day. But nothing is set in stone yet, I am just so looking forward to getting married.
Well, that's about all that's going on around here, I will blog again either when I get my Internet back working, or next time I am over at my parent's house. And a reminder, Phil and I are still participating in the Arthritis Walk on May 3rd at the Phoenix Zoo and right now we have raised $225!!! Thank you to everyone so far who has donated and if you are able to donate to our cause, then please check out the blog that is underneath this one titled "Phoenix Arthritis Walk 2008" to find the link to my team site.
Until next time!!
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