Reality is not my friend right now

So I've been really lucky over the last year. REALLY lucky. You see, the license plates on my truck expired last January. And in California, registration is VERY expensive. And Earl has been out of work for the last year, so there hasn't been any extra money laying around.

As I was driving Earl to his parents' house this morning before I had to be to work, I was pulled over. I was freaking out, my hands were shaking so bad! The cop was pretty nice, if you can consider a cop to be nice. But you know what the stop was for initially? A brake light that was out! Really? There are how many illegals here driving around, unlicensed, uninsured, and unregistered, driving like a bat out of hell and causing accidents and I get pulled over for a tail light????


I just love how our government works. Or doesn't work, for that matter. There are bigger problems going on and the locals are worried about tail lights. I have such confidence in where this country is going, let me tell you!


Earl and I have discussed moving to a small town out in the middle of nowhere. We've been thinking of moving to Montana, Utah, Wyoming, somewhere where there isn't so much concrete. I would love to live in a place where people care about one another. 


Sorry, I like to "ride the harley" as some people do. The cop wrote me a fix-it ticket for the light, and a fix-it ticket for my insurance card being expired. Even though we still pay it every month and have requested new cards but haven't gotten them yet. Just when Earl and I think that we're going to get just a little bit ahead in our bills. To be able to save some. To have a financial security blanket. Life just beat us down a little bit more. 


I'm so done with being an adult. Can I go back to kindergarten now? Those were good days...

A Time for Everything

Tis the season to be cold! Well, only sometimes. Earl and I decorated our first tree together this week. It's a little 3ft prelit guy from Target. It's absolutely perfect on a little wooden table that my mom gave me two years ago.

We picked out the ornaments. Earl picked out the garland. I'm not usually into garland-not that I'm against it, it's just that my family never used it. But he picked the sparkly red kind. I was skeptical. I wasn't sure if it would look okay or not. But once the garland and all the ornaments were on the tree and we plugged it in, it looked very nice.

Of course I had Earl take pictures. But of course I had him take the pictures before I pulled out the box of holiday decorations that had a little angel tree-topper in it. I unfortunately don't have time to post up the pictures right now-it takes for-ever for them to load. So those will be posted later.

Just had to share the joy of our first Christmas together as a married couple with the world!