Days Gone By..

The days seem to fly by lately, just trying to stop and catch my breath... This year is a make it happen kind of year or a stay put year and ride the storm out. Lately we have been trying to figure out ways to make our dream come true of living a self reliant life style on a small peice of property with all other issues aside health wise. We have decided we can do a small space living in a portable building. Some people are turning sheds into homes it is doable if you don't require alot of stuff. We have our children and even though they are grown they will continue to stay close to us. We figure 5 acres can do alot for us. My family can put up a few small cabin structures on the land and build it up to a homestead. At this point we would like to be out of the city by this time next year. I am raising backyard chickens and ducks and a turkey still, we already had our first loss a few months ago when somebody got into our yard and killed one of our ducks injured another. We took our duck to the vet and he treated our male duck but said it was at the hand of a human and not a racoon or another animal because there were no teeth marks. Well one thing for sure society is going to hell fast these days. One of the many reasons for leaving the city and one of the reasons it can't come fast enough... Already thinking about what to plant this year for the garden... as much as possible for sure. This year we will run some trial and error projects to prepare for homesteading. It is a beautiful day here in the Springs though... I am awaiting spring this year winter hasn't been much this year its kinda weird. I pray you all are having a beautiful day God Bless...

I Have Been MIA

So where to start???  well alot has happened since my last blog a million years ago lol.
My health has declined I was recently told I have Graves disease and Sinus Tachycardia, I lost my job in july turns out to be a blessing because my Endocrinologist said I was close to a Thyroid storm... meaning stroke or heartattack = death. I knew I was feeling horrible but refused to go to the doctor for years. At this point the doctor put me on a medication to put my thyroid to sleep she said to give it a year and she is hoping by then I will go into remission, If I don't go into remission then I will do radioactive therapy to kill my thyroid this can take upto 2 treatments. Yesterday I had an allergic reaction to the medication after 3 weeks and I had hives that made my face,ear and head look deformed... no joke! I had a fever and had to go to the hospital where they IV'ed me with a double dose of benedrly, steroids and antihistamine. I do feel better today, I will be starting a new med. in a few days. My husband is having internal problems with alot of different test ,scans, ultrasounds but everything keeps coming back normal however he is in desperate pain around his gallbladder area. My oldest daughter lost her job before Thanksgiving so you can imagine the stress we are under. So to top it off my 17 yr. old son quit school he is a junior I think so much stress with so many different things going on has taken him to the top and he just needs a break. I am signing him up to home school I think that will be better right now under the circumstances. So this must seem like a down post... I'm sorry I just had to get on here I feel so bad not keeping up with something I committed to. I will try to post more often depending on my days right now this issuse is affecting my brain but my doctor assures me I am not crazy even though I feel I am its just this graves disease. My family is trying to do what we can to get out of the city my hubby took a second job a few months ago its just part time but it helps right now and we would love to get self reliant on a peice of small land. I hope you all are doing well.... God Bless you all....

Promotion... Not.

Well I didnt get the promotion. I have been running that job for 5 weeks now and what a slap in the face. It is still a mans world. It was a hard decision for them it came down to me and one other guy so guess who they picked.... a man. So now I know what I have to do because no amount of blood, sweat or tears and much prayer helped me here, so now maybe God is trying to tell me its time to start that label.. what a hard lesson to learn hard work is not always rewarded when or where you want it to be..

Craziness

Life is crazy right now let me tell ya, I still don't know if I got the new position and I was suppose to find out today. I'm getting up at 3:30 am everyday for work however I sleep in on the weekens until 6 am. I an in the middle of creating a fabulous label for myself.... super excited about that but it has been slow  and I have a ways to go yet. If I don't get this promotion then I will not be working past September. Well thats a little update I want to say so much more but I'm sooo tired and I go to bed at 7pm. Thanks to all you who have stood by me :)

I'm still alive

Well I finally just got a new computer so I'm back on blogger.....
Its been a while but thanks to all of you who didnt delete me, I can now start catching up.
I'm now working full time on Post and I actually just had my final interview for a promotion.
I'm still in Colorado Springs.....
I will be posting soon, thanks for still being here.

When The SHTF.....

Yep the title is right.... When the Shit hits the fan you got it and I don't want to be behind it :) .

So my family is starting to get ready for winter, we are closing in the back porch with visqueen plastic and once closer to snow or really cold weather we will put the plastic around the windows. I have already started my stock pile, I have emergency stuff like flash lights, sleeping bags, tent, hiking bags, and propane its small but its a start. I'm learning a lot of things from looking at a few new blogs and I'm a daily reader of TheEconomicalCollapseBlog.com, I knew the government was screwed up but WOW!. My husband resigned from the prison, he is no longer a Correctional Officer after the riot on his pod and only one other officer responded, well that was pretty much it! and I would rather have my man at home with me and the family then having to bury him and have a million in the bank... So hubby now works on Post at Fort Carson Army Base. My husband now has the title of Building Manager for the school on base, No its not a huge career change and its not glamour and glitz there is no pressing of an officers uniform anymore but there also isn't any 19 hour days and wondering if my babe will come home tonight ya know what I mean. I have decided that money can't buy happiness, it only buys more consumer crap we don't need and that I keep having to donate to goodwill. My new focus is staying a float and looking to secure my children's future as well as ours. So we are now officially what you call Poor folk not that we were rich before but there is less money BUT! we were able to afford medical insurance so for that I'm thankful because that was weighing on my mind when we decided he should quit the Prison. We paid $187.00 a month through the prison for the entire family that was medical,vision,dental,life insurance and disability for everybody! NOW we pay $359.00 a month for medical and dental with life insurance and accidental death insurance because my hubby hunts. So thats what is going on in my part of the mountains.... nothing exciting just a little bit of humble living and I am a better person for it.

Thank you to all my new followers I was so happy you joined me and I enjoy all your blogs and I'm learning a few things to :) God Bless you all...

I lost my direction

When I moved to Colorado my dream was to buy some land and build something to live in cheaply or heck even pitch a tent. All I want is self reliance, but I have lost my direction I'm not sure what to do or where to go. After living here for a little over a year now it just doesn't seem like home. I'm still feeling lost now wondering if we made the right choice. I'm feeling a bit discouraged because every time we get up something pulls us back down. My car was in the shop last week it cost $994.00 to fix it but I was able to get them down to $843.00. It was my daughters 25th birthday on the 19th so we went to dinner at Joe's Crab Shack it wasn't what we thought it would be at $174.00 later :( maybe I'm just not happy right now I mean I guess I'm entitled to feel down in the dumps right?. We are paying all the bills as our kids jobs are not giving them any good hours and yet we are still reaping the disrespect from the kids... I don't get it! I can't throw them in the street because they will never make it and yet me and hubby have tried to reason,yell,scream and nothing works. In a perfect world I would win the power ball lottery tonight buy my land build a house and live happily ever after, but we all know this is no perfect world. I need to refocus myself and get a grip.

Thanks for listening. God Bless you all...........

Happy Saturday

Wow its a beautiful day outside, nice and cloudy it is suppose to rain today. I love Fall the feeling of the holidays makes me feel joy. I hope I get to go to Hobby Lobby today. You all have a great day.

We Made IT !!

Well its Friday ya'll and it smells so sweet. I'm not sure what this weekend has in store for us but I'm hoping for atleast one lazy day. I really want to go for a drive outside of Pueblo, somebody told me you can buy huge sacks of potatoes and rice and beans plus I figure I can probably find some big bushels of fruit. I hope all of you have a glorious weekend God Bless.

Life as we know it today...

So I have been reading a few blogs and have discovered there are a lot of depressed people out there. People are really not that different from one another, some just choose to voice how they feel. We all have the same concerns and fears about what is going on with our world today. This very day even though I have been following the news, I realized the Dow is down over 2000 points in the last 14 trading days WOW!. I don't have a 401k and I was thinking about starting one but now seeing what is happening not only in America but foreign countries I will not do it. Many people are just concerned about keeping their families fed, putting food on the table and who can blame them. The jobs are just not there right now and I know a lot of you will disagree with that statement but it is true! if there were so many jobs then don't you think people would choose to work for minimum wage rather then watch their families starve?. I have really been following the news a lot lately because I don't want to put my family in harms way so i have decided to stock up on everything I can!!! I'm not gonna be one who heard about it but brushed it off and then not be able to feed my family or keep some kind of shelter over their heads. So at this point we are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst because there are no guarantees in life. I'm gonna start doing some raw food and natural remedies, I want to start experiencing with a few things. Now don't get what I'm saying wrong I'm not an extremist I am still buying for the holidays and leading a normal life but I'm gonna be smart about everything now. I did find a place to get 20 pounds of potatoes for $6.40 instead of the $5.00 I was paying for 10 pounds :) Everybody have a blessed day and think smart.