Category Archives: True Confessions

The Time I Almost Married An Amway Salesman

Carnivals, True Confessions
Come close, my pretties, and let me tell you a scary and financially disastrous Halloween love story. I rarely dated during the years Mr. A and I were divorced. Getting married again was not my first priority.  Being the best parent I could be was a lot more important. However, I did date a guy I met online for a brief period of time. I'd met this really neat lady that was a relationship coach.   Michelle was also starting an… Read the rest

I Received a Duplicate Shipment from Amazon

True Confessions
I ordered three cookbooks, one for me, one for AJ and one for my boss for a Christmas present from Amazon.com. I was so excited to see they had arrived! Two boxes.  I picked up the one, opened it up and looked inside. Pulled out the plastic bags of air and thought I saw two cookbooks.  I assumed the second box had only one cookbook. So I walked back over and picked it up.  Immediately I knew something was wrong.… Read the rest

Answers to Mrs. A’s Q&A

True Confessions
Last Monday I asked if my readers had anything to ask, so here are the answers. Mrs. Gardener asked how my garden was doing. It's coming along, here let me show you a picture of the delicious baby greens that are doing wonderfully. I've already harvested one bunch of radishes, too!  I'm going to plant peas this weekend, and a few more things. Lettuce is definitely on the list. Nancy asked two questions: 1. I’d love to know what are… Read the rest

Oh Shoot! Overdrafted Our Checking!

True Confessions
This is why I'm so danged paranoid about taking our checking account down to under $200.  Last weekend, our checking account showed that we had over $3000.  I paid some bills, made some credit card payments and took it down to $295.28. I wasn't sure if a payment was due for Mr. A's COBRA; I wasn't sure if last month was the last payment, or this month. A call on Monday confirmed it was this month, so I had a… Read the rest