Beginning my blog

I decided to blog about everyday living and I want to include hopes and dreams. I think we all should have them. If not, then this blog will hopefully help you have hopes and dreams again.

As I sat down to write my 8 month old kitten, Abby, decided it was play time with mom.   She sat on the keyboard and messed up what I was typing then climbed all over me.     Now she is standing in front of the screen. This is a challenge to start a blog with Abby helping. I love this 8 month old kitten but she is so spoiled yet, I am not sure how that all happened. Well yes I do. I don’t seem to be able to say no to her when she is purring and cuddling. This is part of my everyday life a kitten and two cats, Olivia and Gracie. Olivia and Gracie are sisters by birth and they are a joy. Abby gets rather spoiled as Olivia and Gracie don’t always like this cuddly stuff.

Abby

Olivia

Gracie

One of my hopes is to one day get out of debt and I am working on that avenue, slowly but surely.  This will lead to my dream of getting a new car, going on longer vacations and maybe even moving into a new home. I want to make memories and have a lot of laughs along the way.

Also, as I journey through life I want to make new friends and hopefully this blog will help me. I would love to hear the hopes and dreams of anyone who wants to share. Please share your successes and hardships and we will learn from each other.  I may share a few recipes along the way but I don’t intend to tell you everything I eat and hope that is not what we talk about either. I want to hear the stories of your day and I will share my stories as well.

Take today for instance, my car is in the shop as the brake light on the dashboard kept coming on. After 3 weeks or so I decided I better have it looked at since it could really be a brake problem. I know why they call the dashboard lights dummy lights. It is dummies like me that wait 3 weeks to see if the light will go away before I take it in. Good thing it kept coming on and dinging at me each time I went from stop to accelerate. I might have forgotten about the problem. Well I found out my brake pads are worn and the brake fluid is low. Who knows what would have happened had I remained a dummy. Also, remember my hope of being debt-free, well this will push that hope further out for me. I guess I could look at it another way; if I don’t get the work done it may not matter if I get out of debt, as I may not be able to brake at a stop light and could be hurt or worse not be here to tell about it. So I am going into more debt again to get my brakes fixed. Oh yeah and while they were looking at those they found another problem with my oil pressure and losing oil so that has to also be fixed. I sure hope they don’t find anything else. I have had the car 10 years now and it is starting to get more costly. I just can’t afford a new car payment as that would really put me behind in my plans.

I want to leave you with a thought for the day: