People of their word

I have been on disability for almost 10 yrs and Mike quite a bit shorter then that. And if there is one thing that we have painfully discovered is that there is no way we can live on our disability. We just found out today that the government in its infinite wisdom has decided that we need to pay out $95 a month for Medicare. Mike will opt out of Medicare because he has the VA, but I have to have this and we can ill afford to loose close to 100 dollars a month. So to this end we have been trying to get some work at home gigs going. We thought we had a sure thing going. About a month ago we got a free dinner and had to listen to a sales pitch for Master Guard fire alarms. To make a long story short Mike got a job offer from one of the gentleman in charge of selling this Master Guard alarms. It took us two weeks just to get an interview set up with this guy. He tells Mike that he will pay to get us set up with Ignite Electric(another long story), give Mike a cell phone to make calls and contacts to call. We were suppose (according to this bozo) be able to make good money. Well we were suckered. The old adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn't proved true to us. Mike has been calling this guy leaving phone messages at his home and on his cell phone and has been sending him emails but he has not bothered to return one phone call. Not even a "Hey I'm really busy but I haven't forgotten about you". So Mike is going to call this guy and tell him to stuff his job where the sun doesn't shine. And we were really counting on this money to pay bills and pay to bring Tara & Elisa out here for the summer. We are currently talking to a lady online who will pay us for posting on forums. I can only hope that this isn't a scam either. If it is we will be in a world of hurt. It is frustrating and annoying to have people tell you something and not keep their word. I can't stand liars.

Spring storms yet again

Spring has definitely come to the state of Texas. For the past month we have been having storms once a week, usually on a Tuesday. For us in The Colony we have been fortunate in that the worse we have gotten was lots of rain and lightening. Others in the area have gotten tornados and flooding. This evening was not much different with the exception that we actually had tornado sirens going off in our area. We had a friend of ours from our church over for a visit and first we had to power go off. Then I was standing at the back door listening and could hear the sirens. At first Mike thought that it was a police siren, but then it got louder and we realized that we had to move to the hallway. We had candles lit in the living room and we just sat and talked for about 5 minutes or so, then Mike opened the front door and the sirens were off. We got power back about half an hour later. We were lucky there also. Just down the street from where we live, the power had not been restored as of about 9 pm. I will be curious to see if any of the other cities got tornados. I know some areas had a lot of flooding. This will help the drought immensely.