Jan 24, 2012
In a few short weeks, I’ll be visiting and finally meeting my bestie, Jenn! I am so excited and can hardly wait. We were supposed to meet years ago but a wrench was thrown into our plans and so we had to postpone so I’m really, really excited about this trip. Plus it will give me some time away from work which I desperately need. I know when I get back I’m going to be super stressed but I think it will definitely be worth it.
When we get out there, even though I detest it, I think I may go shopping with her. I want to get her a gift for her pregnancy and figure we can check out some discount maternity dresses or just some stuff for the baby. It’s crazy how many people are pregnant now a days. I can hardly believe it. Either way I am super excited for Jenn and her latest addition and cannot wait to meet her and her son. I’d like to go out when the baby is born but I’m not sure if that is possible so we’ll have to see.
Here’s to a few more days!
Jan 21, 2012
Anyone who knows me, knows that when it comes to certain things, I have OCD. One of which is yard signs, especially ones that are poorly made or just do not make any sense.
Months ago, we used to go out every Saturday morning and hit up garage sales. Well, I can tell you it was so dang frustrating to have signs that just didn’t make sense or were done on cheap, paper so it blew away or it was just too hard to read driving down the street.
Then there were the people who just left their signs up from previous weeks. Rude much?! If the sale is over take the sign down. It’s so infuriating to drive by a house thinking a sale is going on, only to find that isn’t the case.
Like I said– OCD. 
Jan 17, 2012
Every since I started watching Extreme Couponing, I have wanted to get into couponing myself. The biggest problem? Time. I have very little time to properly do it so as a result I try to save money where I can using things like sears coupons or deals online. It’s so frustrating because I do believe it would be a HUGE money saver, I just wish I had the time to properly do it.
For those of you who work full time jobs, go to school AND try to manage your household, how do you do it? What trips and tricks can you give a busy woman?
Jan 7, 2012
Guest post from: Constance Rodgers
Before college, the extent of my international knowledge was that Taco Bell was real Mexican food and that Olive Garden was real Italian food. Oh how wrong I was. While attending undergraduate school, I became very close friends with a foreign exchange student from France. As our time together drew towards a close, I found myself lost in conversations about his childhood and his home. With the job market being as dismal as it was when I graduated in May, I decided to go on an adventure and enroll in graduate school in Paris. After getting over the culture shock that the crescent rolls that my mom made out of the can back home does not qualify as French cuisine, it was time to get settled in. With a trip to the school library and an internet search for Wildblue Satellite Internetin Paris, I found a provider that could give me the connection to home that I so desperately needed, and it comes in handy for finding the nearest McDonald’s for when I want a taste of home.
Nov 27, 2011
Anyone who lives in Arizona knows that during the winter months, we get a break from the energy consumption that costs our electricity bills to sky rocket during the summer. It’s a nice break because having to pay $300-$500 for an electricity bill is not something that we enjoy. In fact, we hate it, so much that we are considering solar energy because it would save us money in the long run. Often times I envy those who live in the cooler climates because they do not have to deal with the astronomical bills we deal with but then I remember that just because they don’t deal with the heat doesn’t mean it’s not flipped and they don’t have to deal with the cold. I can only imagine the price of connecticut energy during the winter months in trying to keep the house warm.
I guess we all have different aspects that we have to consider and often times I forget that just because others don’t suffer through the stuff we do, doesn’t mean they don’t have their own concerns as well.
Nov 27, 2011
Those of you who follow political controversy, or controversy in general should be quite familiar with the topic of drug abusers and whether or not what they are suffering from can be considered a disease. For the most part the United States is one of the feel countries in the world that punishes abusers through jail time as opposed to alcohol rehab treatment centers or drug rehab treatment centers and as a result our jails are loaded with abusers.
I am still a little torn on the topic to be honest. I definitely can see how it could be viewed as a disease but I also see the other side that it would never had been a disease to begin with if the conscious choice to start abusing these substances had not been made. I am honestly not sure how I feel about the topic and whether a substance abuser should be jailed or treated. What about you? What are your thoughts? Is it a disease that should be treated or a choice that should be condemned?
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