Fantastic!

Amy is so excited -- she got hired at Fantastic Sams!  She gets to quit Burger King after five looooong years and begin cutting hair.  She loves the owner, and the girls that all work there have been so nice.

Our car case settled with Ford.  They bought back our 2012 Ford Explorer under the Lemon Laws of California due to non repair during a reasonable about of time (they had our brand new Explorer for eight weeks when the power steering inexplicably went out).  It basically came down to them refunding all our payments we had made so far.  With that money we bought new living room furniture, so that was nice.  We bought a new Toyota Highlander on the last day of the year for zero down and zero percent financing.  So we are pretty happy with that.

I lost ten pounds in January by cutting out most processed foods, diet soda, and caffeine.  I am counting calories instead of doing Weight Watcher's this time.  So, we will see.