Amy Currioman

Content by Kyle Lowe

What can I say about living here? I love it! California’s always been a dream of mine and I can’t believe I actually get to live here all the time. Thanks to the market taking a nosedive I got in on a great townhome at an unbelievable price and I’m making some improvements, too, that should help up its value even more when I eventually try to sell it. I added http://Homesecurity101.com security and some new windows and I’m going to put hardwood floors throughout the place so it should be really nice when I’m done. I wish sometimes that I was closer to the ocean but that’s what’s great about this state – you’re never far from the water! Living so close to LA makes it easy for me to go on auditions and really eat at great restaurants and enjoy concerts and all that which are all things I was looking forward to before I moved here. Unless something big changes I think I’ll live here for the rest of my adult life!

Sometimes I get so angry at my hubby for his total disregard for my requests not to take his red Crystal Light drink into our bedroom at night. I keep telling him that he should put water by the bed to drink if he gets thirsty, not Crystal Light. I explain that he should brush his teeth before going to bed and not drink anything but water until the morning, and I explain that if he accidentally spills the glass, the water won’t stain the carpet, but the red Crystal Light WILL stain the carpet. But does he listen to me? Of course not!

So this morning I get up from bed and am going around to his side to make up the bed and what do I see on the carpet? His glass of red Crystal Light on its side. And a big red stain on the carpet. I was so angry I could have spit nails! When I went out into the kitchen I told him that he had stained the carpet and that he is going to have to clean the mess. I suggested that he start out by getting carpet cleaning tips from the http://www.thesteamteam.com/ website. He just stared at me like I had three heads. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother trying to live in a clean house!

Thanks to Maureen Smythers for the guest post

I’ve never been one to want to be home alone.  I guess when I was a young child some traumatic event happened that ingrained abandonment fears or some kind of phobia about home invasions, I don’t know.  But whatever it is, I do not enjoy being home alone.  I get very anxious, to put it mildly.  So when Thomas was told by his company that he was going to have to travel one week a month, and that was non-negotiable I was one very unhappy camper!

Fortunately the company is giving Thomas a travel allowance generous enough that we could install a home security bear system.  I still don’t like being home alone, but when I have to be alone, I feel less vulnerable and try to distract myself by watching special “chick flick” shows on our Direct TV that I would not normally be able to watch if Thomas was home,  eating Edy’s vanilla caramel ice cream, and pamper myself by doing special beauty things like manicures, pedicures, dye my hair, avocado masks.  And sometimes I invite Laura over for a “ladies night” and sleep-over.

All of those things help to keep me distracted from the anxiety that I feel when I’m home alone.  Hopefully as the months go on the anxiety will slowly disappear.

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that for at least the past ten years I’ve been hearing my friends and families tell me that they are no longer getting raises at work because the employer is claiming that they can’t afford to give out raises and keep the doors to the business open.

They are not even being given cost of living adjustments, so their purchasing power keeps decreasing while the cost of living keeps increasing. I keep hearing on the news that there are a lot of people living in illegal tent cities around the country because they can no longer afford to live in a house or apartment. And the police keep rousting these tent cities. Where are these families supposed to go? The shelters are full, or in some cases refuse to take them because many of these people are disabled and can’t work and the shelters won’t take anyone that won’t or can’t look for work.

This is so very sad. I don’t know what the answer is, but this is really a tragedy on our own soil.

I’m not saying that I want guns and I’m not saying that I am against guns. This isn’t even my house. But I have neighbors who deserve the same kind of sign that I found on a friends site. They are a pain in my butt and a sign like this would be great revenge!