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 A little catching up...  A few things have happened that were worthy of blogging about I supposed...First of all, a few weeks ago (don't recall if I said this yet or not), two of our kids got hired at separate libraries on the same day! Rhiannon has her bachelors degree from Maryville College and a Masters from UT in Information Science, and is now the Children's Programmer for a

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 A few days after we'd visited the pumpkin patch, Christopher and Zoe got to work on carving our pumpkins. We let Zoe pick one, and she chose the big orange one, so Christopher did the striped gourd. I'll just let the pictures tell most of the story...Zoe said she didn't mean to make him look so worried LOL!Isn't it cute?!   A day or two later, Corina (my oldest daughter

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 Since the apple orchard and pumpkin patch we had wanted to visit on our anniversary had both been closed, we decided to go do those two things the next day. The first stop was Carver's Apple Orchard in Cosby, Tennessee. We had seen notices online about apple orchards in this area not having Pick Your Own due to the killing frost we had in the spring, but we hoped it would still be a fun

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 Years of hopes and plans had fallen through. We did not have a big celebration with many friends and family. We didn't renew our vows or rent out a large cabin to host everyone for the weekend. We didn't even get each other a gift. Such is life though, abundance one moment - struggle to make ends meet, the next.Instead, we managed to fill our gas tank and headed to an area of the Smokies

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 Hello friends.This past Tuesday was October 19, 2021 - our 30th wedding anniversary. The day was as perfect and beautiful as our wedding day had been. A high of 70 degrees and nothing but blue skies. The beautiful day was welcome, but it hid a darker problem we had going on. Very late the night before, Zoe (our 19 yr old daughter who still lives with us) realized Sophie wasn't in the

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 So last night I posted on here for the first time in almost three years. I noticed a bit has changed on Blogger in that time, and I figured I’d check out blogging from my phone as well. Today, Christopher and I are out Instacarting until he goes to his D&D game this afternoon. On our way to do a delivery, we passed by this fairy ring, and just had to stop and check it out when we

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 I'm not sure anyone will even read this, but I figure, why not give it another try. I have some co-workers who stumbled upon my blog recently and wanted me to post again, and my oldest daughter, Corina, had been asking about it for a while as well. So, here goes ... something.I feel like so much has changed since I stopped blogging, and I'm not sure where to start. I'm likely going to just

Pattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04808645031109207630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-675332465610240898.post-39513240463714514642019-04-19T13:21:00.000-04:002019-04-19T13:22:58.160-04:00

First of all, I want to apologize to anyone who was looking forward to the posts I was going to do on dealing with Unemployment and job hunting etc. I was way more optimistic when I wrote about doing that than I ended up being about the reality of it. The whole Unemployment benefits thing was done online, which was nice. I had to apply to at least 3 places each week and sign in and list them all

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I finally did it!  It took 2-3 days to film, and my camera isn't very good, but I just went ahead and did it anyway. If you'd like to check it out, and maybe clean along with me, head over HERE  (I'll embed it below as well). I'm nervous! Let me know what you think! Thanks. Patty

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I haven't fallen off the face of the earth or anything. I do intend to do the blog posts and videos about the whole unemployment process.  It's actually just been a whole lot of waiting, so not a lot to share yet, but there should be soon. Fortunately I got a package in the mail recently.  As a perk at my recent job, they would hand out tickets for spins on a wheel.  The tickets

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I'm sitting here at work on a break. There were 5 of us remaining when I clocked in.  The day shift guy has now left,  It just leaves me and the mid shift guy and our super visor.  Soon, the mid shift guy and our super will leave. Then the overnight guy comes in and I leave, and he'll be the last one. The supervisors will be around a few more days to officially pass the tasks

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If you've been following along, you'll know that my husband quit his job in July 2018. His salary had been about $46,000/year.  He was unemployed for 3 months with no income (couldn't draw unemployment since he quit), and finally got a part time job working 24-32 hours a week, making est $14,700/year.  I was working full time at the job I've had for 12 years (plus another 6 as part

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So, my boss sent out a heart felt email yesterday, letting us know he's got the budget to keep us through January 27th, but then that's it unless he finds enough for maybe one or two more shifts for someone. I've seen on the internal pages at work that they've already gotten with the new outsourcing company and getting ready to take over. It's all become very real. I've been working on my

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I did it!  I managed to record it, mostly keep it in frame, keep it under 30 minutes, and even figured out how to cut out a long rambly bit I didn't want to keep in it.  And it's now live on my channel!  I'm excited and nervous! If you want to check it out, here it is... if you're not into journaling, you probably won't be interested at all, and that's cool.  If you've

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I cleaned off my husband's craft table. I set up as much lighting on the area as I could. I rigged a way to suspend my iPhone to be able to film the video.  It all seemed to be going well.  But the first video was totally out of frame. I did another one, and it ended up being half out of frame and over an hour long. I did a third, and it was in frame until about halfway through and I

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So, if you saw my last post, you'll know, the company I have worked for, for over 11 years lost the contract with the company we do customer service for, and after 16 co-workers were immediately laid off, myself and a handful of others are being kept on through the end of the month, and then we're gone as well.  The company we do customer service work for is one that has been a big part of

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Well, the title says it all really.  Sixteen of my dearest co-workers were laid off today, and the rest of us will be gone by the end of the month. My employer's contract with the big company we do customer service for has been terminated.  We've been their customer service from the beginning. We originally worked directly for them, but they decided to contract it out and we all got

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope your 2018 was a good one.  I know it wasn't for a lot of people, including us. But, to be honest, we haven't ended a year in a long time, and been able to say "That was a great year!" .  I'm REALLY hoping 2019 changes that. Today, I wanted to share our January 2019 budget with you all.  (This ended up being much longer than expected, but I wanted to

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I'm still here!  I didn't forget the blog.  Life has been ridiculously crazy around here over the last two weeks, and I was also kind of down about not sticking to the budget like I'd wanted to. But to be honest, those two weeks included kids coming home for the winter break, and Christmas, and our daughter Faelyn GOT MARRIED!  WOOHOO! We did budget the wedding gift into our

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So, today was the day we got Paycheck #1 of the December Budget that I showed you a few days ago.  Of course, before this, we did have the HSA reimbursement money, as well as the money we had left from November.  And to be honest, since that money was not put down in the budget we did on paper, when I went to follow the Allocation pages, I was completely lost.  I wasn't sure if I

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Hi y'all!  Welcome back! I will try to catch y'all up with other stuff going on, besides just the finances.  I know that can get super boring. This ended up being SUPER long, sorry! Let's see, my second oldest daughter, Rhiannon just announced that after nervously sending in applications to grad schools and waiting to hear back, that she has been accepted into the Master of Science

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I've gotten quite a bit of feedback about the comments form on my blog.  The Google+ comment thing was just awful!  So, after some old fashioned Internet searching and HTML editing, I think I finally got rid of it, and have gone back to the IntenseDebate comment form. It should be much easier to use.  Please let me know via email if you can't access it.  pattyann.campbell@

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Hello all! Welcome to my blog, or welcome back if you've been here before!  This is going to be a long one.  Go get a mug of tea or coffee, and then come back.  I'll be here. I've been talking about our financial situation until I'm sure everyone is sick of hearing about it, but right now, it's a very important thing going on in our lives. Our current total debt is $46,049.46 (

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Hello everyone!  Thanks for dropping by my blog! Today, I wanted to talk about my husband and my answers to the "Why?" question. Why do we want to do this?  Why do we want to get out of debt and live and give like no other? It was strangely difficult to really answer this at first. It was sort of a known thing in my head, but having to put it to words took some thinking. But

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Hello again! I am SO tired and sleepy!  But I wanted to finally get this post written. So, as a refresher, or if you're new to my blog, here's the meal plan starting earlier this past week: This is just dinners: Mon 11/26: Mom's homemade veggie soup with ground beef  and corn bread on the side Tues 11/27: Mom's soup beans, mustard greens and corn bread Wed 11/28: Sloppy Joes (with

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