Suburban Musings

Hubby’s job has been eliminated…Wait!  Does this sound like a recurring theme in the family story?!  Why yes, it is!  So, we should be pros at knowing how to handle it, right?  How to pay mortgage, college, and bills with less-than-half-income?  Whew!  Nope!  We have no clue!  We already do these:

• shop at Aldi’s
• shop at Goodwill and other resellers (craigslist!)
• cut (and color) our own hair (usually)
• don’t hire others for manicures, housecleaning, etc. etc.
• sell occasional items on Craigslist
• pack lunches (well, often, but not every day)
• carpool and
• bike to work
• apply for second jobs
• try to sell my handmade jewelry in a consignment store

What else?  Who else has some good ideas?

Meanwhile, here is the great website for hubby’s new business…please refer him, forward the site on to others, etc.  He is way too talented to not be utilized!  www.nealmoore.com  I just know that something good is bound to come to us soon….:)

Neal Moore, Principal, Neal Moore Communications

What do these have in common?  They both saw the beautiful view we have from the Indiana State Museum balcony and chose to use it for a special video shoot;  Peyton Manning, for a Master Card commercial last summer, and now WISH-TV for some news show promotional pieces.  What a fun day, just “babysitting” the crew as news anchors came and went all day.  I know a few of them from my husband’s days in tv news, so it was nice to catch up with old friends.  He won’t admit it, but I think hubby misses those days…especially since now his p.r. job has been eliminated and he’s pushing a new business….scary.  Please refer him, consider his business, etc.    Check it out!  Neal Moore Communications

We have weeds in our gardens!  Tall, prickly weeds and vine-y, clinging weeds.  I have Preen-ed, pulled, dug up, and STILL these 2 dasterdly weed-breeds keep coming back, nearly choking out the good stuff.  And to make matters worse, I can’t even figure out what they are…I’ve searched the Internet for photos, weed identifiers, etc.  Mostly, I just get marijuana sites :-0  but I still haven’t been able to identify them, to know how to best kill them off.

I’ll post pics soon….meantime, I guess I’ll just keep pulling weeds and wishing my garden looked like the ones in magazines.

Friday, July 3rd was an official state holiday, but I still got to go to work at 5:15 a.m. to meet WTHR’s Tim “Tree Boy” Bush for a couple of live cut-ins. I really didn’t mind;  any press coverage is good, and after 7 a.m. I had the rest of the day off!  However, I hate watching myself; suddenly I look like my sisters and suddenly gain about 40 pounds…..eeek.  I love the early morning sky, though…