Iowa Gramma: You're lovely, just lovely.
Charlotte: I'm not lovely-YOU'RE lovely.
Iowa Gramma: If I'm lovely, then what are you?
Charlotte: I'm jealous!
Monday, December 27, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Fess Up Friday
This week after mopping the floors Greg mopped the floors, I flushed the water down the toilet, along with one of the rags! So, as you can guess this fess up post is two-fold, because I'm sure you can imagine how dirty the floors were so that I wasn't able to see the one rag in the water!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Fess Up Friday
Well, if you saw this post, you know I got really excited about an article about the Word Of Mouth programs I participate it. Well, if you were like me and ran out to get your Chicago Tribune and flipped right to the Money and Real Estate section to look for the aforementioned article, you would have NOT found it there! I guess God was humbling me a bit, by the article not being in the paper (at least not last week!) It did, however, get on frugalista's blog and you can find the link in my last post.
I got in a fender bender on the way to work on Wednesday. Fortunately no damage was done to either car. I do 'fess up though that at first I wasn't going to tell Greg, or at least save it for my blog post to tell him, which would have been an evil trick considering I know he doesn't read my blog and it would have been a test to see if he in fact does read my blog, which he doesn't. :)
So, what are you 'fessing up to this week?
I got in a fender bender on the way to work on Wednesday. Fortunately no damage was done to either car. I do 'fess up though that at first I wasn't going to tell Greg, or at least save it for my blog post to tell him, which would have been an evil trick considering I know he doesn't read my blog and it would have been a test to see if he in fact does read my blog, which he doesn't. :)
So, what are you 'fessing up to this week?
Friday, November 12, 2010
My 15 Minutes
When I read on Money Saving Mom last week, that another of her readers, Carrie, was looking for a person to interview regarding sample programs and word-of-mouth marketing programs for this little newspaper, I just KNEW I needed to contact her. So, on Sunday evening I spent some time eagerly telling Carrie about the many programs I participate in and the free items I receive. Instead of telling you all that we discussed, I'll let you check it out for yourself.
http://www.chicagoshopping.com/deals/frugalista/sc-food-1119-frugalista-samples-20101111,0,3192801.story
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't super excited about my fame and fortune.* In fact, I won't let it get to my head that I am going to be in the Sunday edition of the city's largest paper, in the Money and Real Estate section. But, please, let me just have my 15 minutes!
*I received no fortune from being interviewed by Carrie, and will probably not receive any fame from being interviewed by her either.
http://www.chicagoshopping.com/deals/frugalista/sc-food-1119-frugalista-samples-20101111,0,3192801.story
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't super excited about my fame and fortune.* In fact, I won't let it get to my head that I am going to be in the Sunday edition of the city's largest paper, in the Money and Real Estate section. But, please, let me just have my 15 minutes!
*I received no fortune from being interviewed by Carrie, and will probably not receive any fame from being interviewed by her either.
Fess Up Friday
Well, I confess that I no longer know how to make rice on the stove top since I have become so accustomed to making it in my handy dandy Pampered Chef Microwavable Rice Cooker. Because I no longer know how to make rice on the stove, I had to look up a "recipe" online. While I was looking up said "recipe" I left a plastic bowl on the stove top, which wouldn't have been a big deal had I not had the broiler on cooking our pork chops for dinner. So, yes, you guessed it, I melted a plastic bowl. And the really funny part? I had left the rice directions from the original packaging on the side of the Tupperware Modular Mate I keep the rice in. And I swear I checked there prior to going online!
Friday, November 5, 2010
Fess Up Friday
Lest anyone think I had a perfect week last week and had nothing to fess up to, I confess that I wrote down my faults and shortcomings last week so I could include them today, cause as it were, I was on my way to camp to scrapbook. First confession-I didn't really miss Greg and Charlotte and Elijah all that much. I was certainly glad to see them upon my return, but hardly thought about what they were up to, or what I would be missing out on at home. I know I definitely did NOT miss cleaning and cooking!
I do confess that I allowed the kids, me and Greg to wear our swimsuits at the end of October. I also confess that for a couple of hours I didn't care about how much energy we used in the house, as I kicked up the heat to 80 degrees. I also confess that I allowed the kids (and us adults) to hula hoop in the house. All this because I made Hawaiian Chicken for dinner and wanted to really create a Hawaiian theme. It was truly a blast!!!
I confess that I stood in the library for a good 10 minutes trying to figure out if I should return my library books or keep them and pay the fine. I had one I was still in the middle of, it was already late, and other people were requesting it. If I turned it in, I would of had to wait. So, yes, I was selfish, and not completely frugal, and decided to keep the book and pay the resulting larger fines. (I owed the library $2.80 today upon returning the book.) The other 2 books are new releases, and I seriously thought about keeping them, asking the librarian how many requests were out on each of the books, and even asking how many of each of these books are in the system so I could figure out when I might possibly get them in my hands again. I'm thinking 6 weeks at the most.
I also confess that I opened the garage door one night and could not for the life of me figure out why I did. It took a good 20 minutes to remember that I opened the garage so I could retrieve the hula hoops for our Hawaiian Night.
Geez, that was just last week!
This week our car broke down and was getting fixed up in Huntley by my grandparents house (that's where it was discovered it was broken). I didn't really need a car for any other reason but to take and pick up Charlotte from school, which isn't completely necessary because it is less than a 2 mile walk. I had every intention to walk on Monday, but I confess that I was too tired from my weekend of scrapbooking that I did take up my neighbor's offer of borrowing his car. I also confess that I decided not to pull out Charlotte's 2nd booster seat from the garage and was just going to buckle her straight into the seat. Well, as it happened, my neighbor's car did not have the car seat in it for Elijah to sit in (their son is just a year younger than Eli) and because time was tight I decided to drive to the school with my 2 oldest kids not properly restrained in car seats/booster seats, but just buckled into the car.
On Tuesday, as we were walking to school I realized that Charlotte did not brush her teeth at all that day. My solution? Winterfresh Mentos gum. Of course, I also need to confess that I forgot to have her spit it out before she got to school!
So, any confessions this week?
I do confess that I allowed the kids, me and Greg to wear our swimsuits at the end of October. I also confess that for a couple of hours I didn't care about how much energy we used in the house, as I kicked up the heat to 80 degrees. I also confess that I allowed the kids (and us adults) to hula hoop in the house. All this because I made Hawaiian Chicken for dinner and wanted to really create a Hawaiian theme. It was truly a blast!!!
I confess that I stood in the library for a good 10 minutes trying to figure out if I should return my library books or keep them and pay the fine. I had one I was still in the middle of, it was already late, and other people were requesting it. If I turned it in, I would of had to wait. So, yes, I was selfish, and not completely frugal, and decided to keep the book and pay the resulting larger fines. (I owed the library $2.80 today upon returning the book.) The other 2 books are new releases, and I seriously thought about keeping them, asking the librarian how many requests were out on each of the books, and even asking how many of each of these books are in the system so I could figure out when I might possibly get them in my hands again. I'm thinking 6 weeks at the most.
I also confess that I opened the garage door one night and could not for the life of me figure out why I did. It took a good 20 minutes to remember that I opened the garage so I could retrieve the hula hoops for our Hawaiian Night.
Geez, that was just last week!
This week our car broke down and was getting fixed up in Huntley by my grandparents house (that's where it was discovered it was broken). I didn't really need a car for any other reason but to take and pick up Charlotte from school, which isn't completely necessary because it is less than a 2 mile walk. I had every intention to walk on Monday, but I confess that I was too tired from my weekend of scrapbooking that I did take up my neighbor's offer of borrowing his car. I also confess that I decided not to pull out Charlotte's 2nd booster seat from the garage and was just going to buckle her straight into the seat. Well, as it happened, my neighbor's car did not have the car seat in it for Elijah to sit in (their son is just a year younger than Eli) and because time was tight I decided to drive to the school with my 2 oldest kids not properly restrained in car seats/booster seats, but just buckled into the car.
On Tuesday, as we were walking to school I realized that Charlotte did not brush her teeth at all that day. My solution? Winterfresh Mentos gum. Of course, I also need to confess that I forgot to have her spit it out before she got to school!
So, any confessions this week?
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