I am sure you have all heard the expression “When it rains it pours”.  That’s always rung true in our home, as does the saying that my husband familiarized me with that “bad things happen in 3’s”.  Well, I’m here to tell you, we have hit the trifecta and we need a man named Noah to come along offering us a ride on a big boat.  None of it has been life-altering, terrible things that we just can’t get over or things that we will ook back on in a year that we will even probably remember as being one of the roughest times of our lives.  They have simply been major annoyances that we could do without, during a time when I’ve already been afflicted by my depression and anxiety disorder and have already been hiding out under the covers as much as I could.  The things that have been going on have been big enough that they have kept me from going about my everyday business, like my grocery matches, and will likely leave us in a financial bind for awhile since our income is so little.  That’s just really not the point.  The point is that I’m ready for a break, for some sort of reprieve from the trials and tribulations of life as we’ve come to know it, and for my husband to finally be able to find a little peace so that he can rest his poor mind for a bit because he bares the brunt of worry in our relationship.  We passed the point of a Manic Monday about 8 hours ago )

 So needless to say life never returned to normal this week as I thought it would.  I’m still hopeful that it soon will because my e-mail is seriously neglected, and I’m not able lately to stay up until 3 AM to take care of it.  When I conk out, I’m out, and I’m just not safe near any way of communicating with others as there’s just no way to tell what I will type or say when I’m in such a deep, far off place.  That won’t affect you guys too much, but it will mean that since today I’m going to be sitting at my uncle’s house for awhile while he looks at our van to try to figure out what’s wrong with it, then we run by to pick up a prescription that wasn’t in stock yesterday,  I won’t have grocery matches finished yet again till tomorrow morning.  I WILL have these done on Thursday morning when life goes back to normal.  That is my plan and that will be what happens; however I got my ad late this week plus, well, life happened.  I’m almost finished constructing a schedule that will be good for all of us and I think you’ll be happy with, and I’m going to have some time to stay at home and finish checking e-mail and finding some freebies soon.  So once again please bare with me and don’t run off just yet.  I may have to do a re-launch of our site to let everyone know we’re still alive after all of the “time off” I have had to take!

So if you’re reading these “personal” posts, I’m still here and I’m still trying to get things back to normal.  Just keep on checking your newsletter so you’ll know when we add something new, because I do try to at least give you one new thing each day.  I have product reviews and giveaways coming up still, but they’ll probably not happen until Sunday.  Don’t forget to enter my Valentine giveaway to win your Crocs, which ends on March 6th!

Thanks for everything!! 

If you ever want to chat, or share your story, or have questions or comments, you can always catch me on Twitter (@KristinBrianne) or through e-mail at makingcentsoutoflife (at) gmail.com. 

I hope everyone’s week *including mine* is either full of wonderful, happy events or completely calm and uneventful!

KT