Your Husband Might Be a Redneck If...

The deer meat is taking up all the room in my freezer, rifles are taking up precious shoe space in my closet and even our guest closet is plagued with camouflage. How did this happen?

In a previous blog I talked about how the hubby went hunting and killed a doe and how I believe that he is turning into a redneck. I must mention that this is the first time he has been hunting out of the 4.5 years we have been together. However, he claims that he used to go hunting all the time and it is just one of the many hobbies that he has always enjoyed.

This is the man I married.

Notice how neatly groomed and handsome he looks. How cute!

This is the man he turned into.

Whoever said men don't change is a liar. They do! And sometimes they morph into a redneck.

I've already forewarned him that he is not allowed to hang any type of carcass on my walls. He can show off his testosterone-driven hobbies in the shed where all the other dirty man things are located.

In the beginning, I thought if he wants to go hunting that's fine. I will spend some weekends alone and eat nothing but deer meat during the winter. But when he started wearing wife-beaters, shaving his head and cutting up the body of a dead deer in my white porcelain sink I had enough.

I want my husband back...oh, and my closet space :)

No More Paper Money No More Paper Money No More...

Read here >>>> Ditch the Plastic, Pay with your Phone

Ummm, can I say cool!? I knew the world would be doing away with dollars and coins one day, but I never dreamed this would be the end result. With the unveiling of the smartphone, the world is bursting with endless possibilities. This article names five ways you can use your phone to pay for things:

1) Starbucks has an app (free) where you can load money from your PayPal account, order your latte, scan your barcode and enjoy.

2) A few stadiums and ballparks have picked up a concession stand app (types and prices vary). The New Orleans Saints were the first to experiment with this back in 2001 (Shout out. Who dat!?). Basically, the app will allow you to order and pay for the food from your seat and then alert you when the food is ready to be picked up. No more waiting in lines :)

3) Ever try splitting the bill at dinner because those waiters are too lazy to figure it out themselves? Now you don't have to worry about it. The new Venmo app (free) allows you to connect your bank account straight to your phone and transfer money to friend's accounts through text. How awesome is that?

4) Running a small business from your phone or just need someone to pay you directly? There's a gadget for that. The Square is a small gadget (gadget-$1, app-free) that hooks into your iPhone or Android and allows people to swipe and pay you directly to your phone.

5) Okay, I've heard of bumping phones, but nothing ever happens when I bump mine with others. That's because you have to have the Bump app (free) which allows you to swap information with your friends such as contact information, photos and money when you simply bump your phones together. So get to bumpin!

Pretty soon we will be doing everything on our smartphones-going to school, conducting business, grocery shopping, watching the kid's soccer game, even exercising. We'll never have to leave our homes again.

Might I add that the iPhone has to be the greatest invention of the century.

To get a second job, or to not get a second job?

I am currently considering taking on a second job. The one I have is nice, but it's only a student position which means I'll be out on my butt come May 20 (eeeeek!). I've been searching desperately for a full-time position, all over the country in fact, but needless to say...nada. I get some replies (all rejections of course), but I haven't even had a single interview. And I know my resumé looks good!

So basically, I need a simple second job now so I can save up some money. Because who knows what the future holds. I was looking into doing some freelance writing but apparently freelance translates into free labor.

My sister, B, and I did some brainstorming over my dilemna, and here are a few jobs that we came up with:

1) I could work night shift at the front desk of the local hospital. But I really don't want to be around sick people all the time. Yuck!

2) I could work dispatch. This could be a really interesting job. Except, do I have to direct people on how to give the Heimlich or CPR? Because if I do that might not end up too well for the person on the other end of the line.

3) A bouncer at a local bar (haha!). If you know me you're probably laughing too. Then, we decided that maybe I don't even have to be hired. I can just stand outside of the bar and tell people who's allowed to come in and who's not. Of course this wouldn't benefit me, but wouldn't that be hilarious?

4) A comedian. I can just call up local restaurants and bars and tell them I'm a comedian and ask if they would mind giving me a gig. But then I guess there would be too much pressure to actually be funny. (As you can tell from this article I'm not that great at it.)

5) An artist. I can buy some paint, squirt different colors all over a blank canvas and sell it. That's what artists do isn't it?

6) A dog walker. But I don't have time to walk my own dog. On second thought, how am I going to get a second job when I don't even have time to walk my dog?