Yay!!!! Our hurricane insurance company has finally settled. Sent us a detailed list of damages, depreciation percentage, and even a check.
How much is the check? Sit down, because man, I’m in the money.
For $200,000 worth of damages, the hurricane insurance company gave us…drumroll please…$3,600. Yep. We’re rolling in dough. […]

I. Am. So. Angry.
A little background:
Hurricane Katrina. House all but destroyed. FEMA useless. Required to apply for a Small Business Administration Loan to repair house and replace contents.
Okay, so we JUST get our SBA loan approval in the amount of $120,000. Great. However, it is SO restrictive that it’ll be […]

…for a couple of reasons.
First, the frustrating reason. FEMA. Argh!!!!! I know they have hundreds of thousands of people to deal with. And I know that every single one of those people are living in different situations, even if those situations are all related to hurricanes Katrina and Rita and every […]

I’m SO excited. I know, doesn’t seem like something to get all worked up over, but my parents are moving out of the house, and they took the bed with them so I’ve been sleeping on the floor, and a bed is just so thrilling! :mrgreen:
Wanna know what my sleep number is? […]

Ever since hurricane Katrina turned my life upside down, I’ve had good days and bad days. Thankfully, most of them have been good days. On the bad days, I give myself a good kick in the ass and remind myself that there are a lot of people who have it much worse than […]

So I’m watching President Bush’s address about hurricane Katrina last night, and I’ve got mixed emotions. Yay that he’s addressing Mississippi’s concerns! For a while I wondered if anyone even remembered it was there. But at the same time, he’s talking about all this help that Mississippi is getting. The loans […]

Every Christmas, Brennan builds a gingerbread house, and then the day after Christmas, he smashes it. This year, we had fun with the destroyed gingerbread house. We decided that it might as well mirror our real house. Yeah, we’re a little twisted.
Here’s the house before hurricane Brennan:

And here’s the […]

Well, the hurricane relief/military pay bill didn’t pass. But the good news is that it may be submitted again–WITHOUT the stupid ANWAR drilling proposal attached. I hope so. Fingers crossed.
But hey, all isn’t lost. I found a Christmas knowledge quiz. :mrgreen:
My score was perfect. How about you? Come […]