Give Up

This new cooking phase I am trying has busted for the 3rd night in a row. Monday - the Spinach Ricotta Parsels were terrible. Tuesday - The Pineapple Chicken & Sweet Potatoes blew. Today - I turned on the slow cooker but forgot to plug it in, so we arrived home to raw meat sitting in the slow cooker.

TGI Friday's was our back-up tonight. We opted for te 3 courses for $12.99, which with tea and tip still turned out to be $40.00 (bummer). It was good though. Quite tasty indeed, and nice not to have to cook.

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day. I have to be at Moore School at 9:30 to do OpenCms v6 training, and then at 10:30 we have a meeting about a potential project that sounds really neat. After that my day is free until 4:00 when Justin and I are scooting to meet Sammy Odom to finalize the sales contract on the property. :-)

I hate payroll taxes. Justin and I got our new pay stubs today that show our raises for the year. When I was estimating the net pay I was taking off 20% - in the long run I was $300 off in estimating what the taxes would be. Which is VERY uncool. I have about decided that it will just be late 2008 before we can worry about buiding the house, and well - that is just the way it will be.

After TGI's this evening Justin and I hopped in Barnes & Nobel to poke around. I almost bought a "Building Houses for Dummies" book since Justin and I are going to self contract the construction of the garage/apartment unit we plan to build on the property. To goal is to get this house rented (or sold) and move in there as soon as we can in order to save some money. I imagine that once we get the land cleared we will go ahead and put up a FSBO or FOR RENT sign in front of the house. Maybe even run an ad or two.

Friday I have a doctor's appointment and a meeting with a prospective client. Then Saturday Justin and I are going to Summerville to pick up some stuff. There is also a tractor place Justin wants to stop by. Apparently they have a really good deal on a tractor and accessories. His brother turned him on to it. NorTrac is the brand. As Justin correctly puts it - we have to have a way to maintain the land before we can build on it. He is correct. We do.

Well, it is getting well into the evening and I have to go exercise still. I will leave it at this for now. Have a most righteous day bra!