We've started decorating for Christmas.
(We still have Halloween decorations on the door)
Nov 28, 2010
Deck the Halls
We've started decorating for Christmas.
(We still have Halloween decorations on the door)
Nov 25, 2010
I Love Saving Money!
After a scare of almost losing my job back in September I started looking for ways to save money. I had played around with The Grocery Game for a while, but was never serious about it. My cousin turned me on to CouponMom.com and Hip2Save.com. While The Grocery Game does feature a store that isn't on the other sites, you have to pay. Yep, the other two are free. Oh -- and ever since the list got a "facelift" it has made it hard to use. Yes, the sort and print feature is easier. It is harder however to find which deals to use to get your +UP Rewards or Register Rewards.
I was particularly proud of my shopping trip this weekend.
I spent a total of $5.98 at Rite Aid and $8.17 at Walgreens.
Oh, and that's not even counting the +UP Rewards and Register Rewards I earned on that trip!
Not pictured below:
Rite Aid - 2 packages of French's French Fried Onions
Walgreens - Diet Coke, Pretzel M&M's
I keep running into the problems of stores being out of great deals.
Here is what I ended up getting.
First photo is from Rite Aid, the second from Walgreens.
Want to see the receipts?
Rite Aid
Walgreens
I was particularly proud of my shopping trip this weekend.
I spent a total of $5.98 at Rite Aid and $8.17 at Walgreens.
Oh, and that's not even counting the +UP Rewards and Register Rewards I earned on that trip!
Not pictured below:
Rite Aid - 2 packages of French's French Fried Onions
Walgreens - Diet Coke, Pretzel M&M's
I keep running into the problems of stores being out of great deals.
Here is what I ended up getting.
First photo is from Rite Aid, the second from Walgreens.
Want to see the receipts?
Rite Aid
Walgreens
Nov 23, 2010
Why Dr Oz Annoys The Crap Out of Me!
I swear Dr Oz is a leader of a cult.
If he was to say, "Hey drink arsenic" there are probably thousands who would. I was going to say millions, but I honestly hope that there are people who would question that.
I may be bitter about his conflicts of interest regarding vaccines.
What has really been getting on my nerves, is that I've been having customers left and right asking for products that they have no idea about. You know how acetaminophen and Tylenol are the same thing, just one is a brand name? Yeah. I get that all the time. No not Tylenol specifically.
There are so many customers that refuse to buy a product because either Dr Oz used a specific brand name. They don't realize that (like Tylenol) most supplements go by their "real" name. They also don't realize that herbs and supplements can be used for more than one ailment.
Anytime Dr Oz has one of his "amazing" miracle cures, there are at least five people that day that ask for it. When we don't have that brand, or I offer a similar product they go into their "Well Dr Oz said that this is what will work". As if to say that because he didn't say that another product which has been shown to be just as effective won't work because it doesn't have his "seal of approval".
Don't get me wrong, I am glad that people are taking an interest in alternative medicine. I just feel like it should be a genuine interest. Taking something cause some guy says to sounds like a bad idea to me. If said product doesn't work as well on you as it did someone is optimal health, do you quit taking it and try to discredit natural remedies? Would you seek out vitamins that work synergestically? Do you think that being healthy is as easy as popping a pill? Do you not realize that you may need to quit smoking, eat healthier and exercise?
It's like nails on a chalk board to hear someone come in and say "I'm looking for ______, it was on Dr Oz today". It also means I will be hearing it several more times during my shift.
If he was to say, "Hey drink arsenic" there are probably thousands who would. I was going to say millions, but I honestly hope that there are people who would question that.
I may be bitter about his conflicts of interest regarding vaccines.
What has really been getting on my nerves, is that I've been having customers left and right asking for products that they have no idea about. You know how acetaminophen and Tylenol are the same thing, just one is a brand name? Yeah. I get that all the time. No not Tylenol specifically.
There are so many customers that refuse to buy a product because either Dr Oz used a specific brand name. They don't realize that (like Tylenol) most supplements go by their "real" name. They also don't realize that herbs and supplements can be used for more than one ailment.
Anytime Dr Oz has one of his "amazing" miracle cures, there are at least five people that day that ask for it. When we don't have that brand, or I offer a similar product they go into their "Well Dr Oz said that this is what will work". As if to say that because he didn't say that another product which has been shown to be just as effective won't work because it doesn't have his "seal of approval".
Don't get me wrong, I am glad that people are taking an interest in alternative medicine. I just feel like it should be a genuine interest. Taking something cause some guy says to sounds like a bad idea to me. If said product doesn't work as well on you as it did someone is optimal health, do you quit taking it and try to discredit natural remedies? Would you seek out vitamins that work synergestically? Do you think that being healthy is as easy as popping a pill? Do you not realize that you may need to quit smoking, eat healthier and exercise?
It's like nails on a chalk board to hear someone come in and say "I'm looking for ______, it was on Dr Oz today". It also means I will be hearing it several more times during my shift.
Nov 20, 2010
Have you read more than 6 of these books?
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
Yes, I borrowed this meme from someone on Facebook.
I thought it was interesting. I used to be such a bookworm. Most of these were read in school. While most found them boring, I enjoyed them. Most people read "To Kill a Mockingbird" in High School, I took my sister's copy and read it in elementary. I did the same thing with "The Diary of Anne Frank". Elementary school teachers were a bit shocked when I did my book report on that one.
I thought it was interesting. I used to be such a bookworm. Most of these were read in school. While most found them boring, I enjoyed them. Most people read "To Kill a Mockingbird" in High School, I took my sister's copy and read it in elementary. I did the same thing with "The Diary of Anne Frank". Elementary school teachers were a bit shocked when I did my book report on that one.
Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (read in french)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
How did you stack up?
Nov 16, 2010
Goodbyn Lunchbox Only $2.95 Shipped [Hip2Save.com]
I have to share this!
I have gotten so many awesome deals from there! Lots of free stuff, including a Tag Jr book (which should get here anytime) and a free condensed version of the information you pay to get from the grocery game. I also got started on free Blockbuster Express codes. I put my email address in while I was using a code and now they email several codes a week. Only had to pay for one.
Now, back to the reason for this post.
If you check out this post, you can lean how to get a “Goodbyn: The ‘IT’ Lunchbox" for $2.95 shipped!
Awesome, right?!?
Really easy to do, I just wish they had one in red -- Brye's "first favorite colour!"
They did have listed as orange, but not sure if that would be red enough for him.
Nov 1, 2010
Melinda ... 100+ Pounds Lighter
It's been a while since I've updated about my weight loss.
It's November 1st.
Time to update.
Last Friday, I was down to 156 lbs. The combination of a pizza/movie date night, Halloween and the stress of getting my period being almost a week late made me weigh in at 161 lbs this morning. That sucked.
As for working out, I'm on week three of KettleWorx. My sister bought it for my birthday. I started P90X (again) today too. I have to say that the last three weeks has made a bit of a difference. While I couldn't do all the push ups and I had to use bands for the pull ups, I did manage the WHOLE work out. Usually everything hits the fan half way through the first set.
To compare measurements
First set is from Sept 26th 2009.
Waist: 45", 29.5" -15.5" (WOW)
Hips: 50", 38.5" -11.5"
Chest: 40", 31.5" -8.5"
Thigh: 27.5"/28", 20" -7.5"/8"
Arm: 14"/14.5, 10.5" -4"/4.5"
Body Fat:
50% Sept 2009
24.67% Nov 2010
Weight loss?
Holding out at about 108 lbs gone.
So what now?
Well, I am going to finish the 6 weeks of KettleWorx... and I will probably do it again!
I've also started P90X. I only plan on doing it 4 days a week. Bad, I know. I need a break sometime. KettleWorx is 10 or 20 minutes (depending on the day) so it's easier to do it 6 days a week.
Compared to before, 3 days a week of anything is great for me!
I also plan on trying to do 50 push ups a day, each day, this month. Right now, they're still the girlie-knee kind. But hey, it's a start. I'm also getting pretty awesome at the plank.
A word to the wise:
Don't make flour-less peanut butter cookies late at night.
Especially if peanut butter cookies are your favorite.
You will through your eating out the window for the whole day.
It's November 1st.
Time to update.
Last Friday, I was down to 156 lbs. The combination of a pizza/movie date night, Halloween and the stress of getting my period being almost a week late made me weigh in at 161 lbs this morning. That sucked.
As for working out, I'm on week three of KettleWorx. My sister bought it for my birthday. I started P90X (again) today too. I have to say that the last three weeks has made a bit of a difference. While I couldn't do all the push ups and I had to use bands for the pull ups, I did manage the WHOLE work out. Usually everything hits the fan half way through the first set.
To compare measurements
First set is from Sept 26th 2009.
Waist: 45", 29.5" -15.5" (WOW)
Hips: 50", 38.5" -11.5"
Chest: 40", 31.5" -8.5"
Thigh: 27.5"/28", 20" -7.5"/8"
Arm: 14"/14.5, 10.5" -4"/4.5"
Body Fat:
50% Sept 2009
24.67% Nov 2010
Weight loss?
Holding out at about 108 lbs gone.
So what now?
Well, I am going to finish the 6 weeks of KettleWorx... and I will probably do it again!
I've also started P90X. I only plan on doing it 4 days a week. Bad, I know. I need a break sometime. KettleWorx is 10 or 20 minutes (depending on the day) so it's easier to do it 6 days a week.
Compared to before, 3 days a week of anything is great for me!
I also plan on trying to do 50 push ups a day, each day, this month. Right now, they're still the girlie-knee kind. But hey, it's a start. I'm also getting pretty awesome at the plank.
A word to the wise:
Don't make flour-less peanut butter cookies late at night.
Especially if peanut butter cookies are your favorite.
You will through your eating out the window for the whole day.
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