How About Some Freebies With Your Order?

I frequently peruse magazines for good deals and here and there I have tried to pass them on to you, my peeps. I read about this site: www.heyitsfree.net that supposedly lists all the truly no-strings-attached free deals out there. So I went on to check out the site...and I was hooked. I had to stop at some point because I was gaining such momentum in my freebie frenzy that I almost requested free samples of cooking spices! Me! They would look nice in the kitchen but I wouldn't have a clue what to do with them. Then I started thinking to myself..."in 6-8 weeks I'm either going to start getting all kinds of cool stuff in the mail, or my computer is going to start crashing from all the spam I'll be getting from these sites I just gave all my info to!"....so ask me how I'm doing in 6-8 weeks...

Another site I have mentioned before, but worth another mention is www.6pm.com
Sign up to get their daily deals emailed to you. You might get sick of seeing their email every day, but in the subject line is usually listed the 3 or 4 brands that are on sale for that day only. If you have children (like me) that will only wear certain brands or shoes or clothes, you can great some great deals. A good example: Dansko makes great shoes for people who need comfort, but they are expensive. This past Sunday they had a $115.00 pair of shoes for only $28! You heard me....a little word to the wise though, don't wait until later in the day to go back and order as they do run out of sizes.

My last little tid bit for you today is www.dailygrommet.com - this site features one little-known, yet useful product each day. At least that's how it was described in the article I was reading. I've checked it out...I would say some of the items should stay "little-known"...who needs an invisible belt?

Try To Remember People, I'm A Good, Catholic Girl...

There is nothing I can do now but apologize to all my adoring fans. I was hacked. I had not been on my blog since my last post on December 11, 2009...you know how it is, the Holidays, the stress, etc....so I went on the other night with the intention of posting something new and I thought I had accidentally clicked into someone else's site...it took me a few seconds to figure out my blog had been hacked. There, at the top of the screen, was an inappropriate cartoon with an unGodly amount of html code. So if you did happen to view my blog while this was posted and thought to yourself, "Hmm, she seems to have changed the general undertones of her postings"...shame on you! Remember, I'm a good, Catholic girl. I hope viewing this posting didn't cause any harm to anyone's computer...I have no idea how hacking works so I'm assuming it was just random and for the most part, harmless. If you didn't view the post while it was up, I'm not going to tell you what the cartoon was...no I'm not going to refer to the cartoon Avatar and Smurf at all nor what they were supposed to be doing...

Elvis Is In The House!

I know it's almost Christmas, but with so much going on, I completely missed Halloween. I had to post this photo of Bethany, my 9 yr old - she made a great Elvis! She had some moves and after each house gave her candy, she said, "Thank you, thank you very much".....of course.

My parents camp for the whole summer and the campground where they stay has a Halloween weekend we usually attend. They dress up and hand out candy, scaring all the little children....

Lovely couple, aren't they?

Supposubly, It's Just Allergies.....

OK, for the record, I'm not perfect....I know, I know, it's a shocker, but I'm afraid it's true. So the venting I'm about to unleash is not done without the knowledge that I'm sure at times I can be annoying and ridiculous. Probably not, but I don't want to sound arrogant.

Anyway, in case people don't know, I do not live in the ghetto, I do not run with a gang or hang with hoodlums. I have a professional job and interact with professional people on a daily basis. It never ceases to amaze me that people like this can use words such as "supposubly" (instead of supposedly)...I know this seems like a minor detail, but if you are an adult over the age of say...4, you have no excuse in pronouncing your words correctly. Whenever I am talking with someone and they use that word, I start talking to myself about how I can't believe they just said that word and I end up not hearing another thing the person says.

Moving on. You may also not know I am an ex-smoker. Ex-smoker's are the WORST non-smokers out there. We can't stand the smell of smoke even more than people who never smoked...not sure why, but it's true. Now because I was a smoker for 20+ years, I know what a smoker's cough is. I also have allergies and I know what a cough from allergies is like. They are not the same...not even close. So when I hear someone coughing up a lung on a daily basis, in between their smoking breaks, suddenly claim their cough must be due to an oncoming cold or allergies...I want to walk up to them, laugh in their face and say, "Are You Kidding????!!! Your cough is generated from your lungs trying to rid themselves of all the goop that is oozing from them because of your smoking!!!"....I mean seriously!

I think that's all for now....

I Went, I Saw, I Was Dragged In Deeper....

I will keep this short as I know I have some readers who are not big Twilight fans..I know it's hard to believe...but it's true. My friend and I decided to forego the opening night showings this time around in the hopes of escaping the screaming throngs of teenage girls every time the main character appeared on the screen. It opened Friday and we waited until today, Sunday, to go see the movie and I'm happy to say not only was there no screaming, but there were no lines and the theater wasn't even packed. Granted they were showing the movie about every 1/2 hour...anyway, at one point in the movie, I recognized the scene from a clip I had seen online and knowing the character "Jacob" was about to rip his shirt off and reveal quite a treat for us women, I said "here it comes" to my friend. As we were taking in this wonderful visual, my friend said to me, "I feel like a pedofile!". Yes that made me put the whole age thing into perspective...here we are, 40 year old women, gawking at teenage bodies...wow...when I actual put it in print we really sound like cougars! However, it's just a movie, nothing we would do in real life....we have some morals! So no matter what you think of us, we will continue to gawk and wait ever so patiently for the release of the next Twilight movie, "Eclipse" on June 30th....or maybe we'll wait until July 2nd....