The other night we went out somewhere and I heard that song “What Might Have Been” by Little Texas. Back in the day Scott and I were HUGE country music fans. In fact, we were even into the line dancing and all. We’d go out every single Wednesday, sometimes Thursday and Friday nights to a country club in Charlotte. Anyway, I realized that song is a lot like one of my favorite Rascal Flatts songs on my iPod “What Hurts the Most”. Donchathink? OK, so Little Texas and Rascall Flatts don’t even compare but I really think the songs do. I’ve never had the opportunity to see Rascal Flatts in concert but if I could ever get Rascal Flatts tickets, I would love to see that song performed live.
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Tip to ward off telemarketers
I’m standing at the stove cooking dinner tonight (because YES I do that every night) and the phone rings. Scott answers and you can tell it’s a telemarketer. I’m starting to mouth to him, "I don’t want to talk to anybody." And he says to the telemarketer…"No hablo Ingles." and hangs up. LOL. He cracks me up sometimes.
Computer Backup
I will downright cry if one day I try to turn on my computer and it doesn’t work and ALL my files, pictures, videos, everything will be gone. I haven’t backed up in SO long it’s pathetic. In fact, I hope I haven’t jinxed myself just typing that. I just checked and I have over 32GB of pictures on this computer. I’m in some serious need of a backup.
I was thinking I might go the DVD route, but that would take way too much time. I was thinking the external hard drive route, but I don’t know, something could happen to that as well. I’m thinking Online Storage might be the trick. I really like the fact that it shows up just like a mapped drive and you can access it anywhere and can even share it. I know my parents and sister would love to have access to my pictures at any time. What do you guys do for your file storage?
Drama SO not over
So Monday I posted about the youth leaders having a smackdown meeting and supposedly getting everything out in the open. I don’t think that’s necessarily true as the pastor is still going to talk to the leadership team. Looks like the pastor is trying to get everything resolved before the new youth pastor gets here. Could be more drama coming.
FYI, this post was edited to make it non-password protected
Password Protected Posts
Look at THAT alliteration. Ok, so I have some password protected posts recently and I really don’t mind people reading them, I just want to know WHO is reading them. So post a comment or email me and I’d be glad to give it to you.
The Icing Makes the Difference
"By far my favorite food my mom has ever made is her chocolate cake. She’s made it for several of my birthdays, my Dad’s birthdays, my sister’s birthday, even her own birthday. The cake itself is not what’s the best though. She just uses a box chocolate cake mix. It’s the icing that makes the difference. I remember my friend Melissa tasting it when we were younger. She loved it so much she got the recipe, proceeded to make it, refrigerate it and then eat it more like fudge. The stuff is good. And with the Hamilton Beach® Eclectrics® Mixer, if you did want to refrigerate it, all you’d have to do is move the bowl to the refrigerator.
To make this yummy icing either for you cake or for your fudge eating pleasure, here’s the recipe:
Melt one stick of butter and 4 tablespoons of cocoa in a small pan on medium heat.
Pour this into the Hamilton Beach® Mixer and slowly mix in one box of powdered sugar, 4 tablespoons of milk and 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer makes it so great because you don’t have to hold up the mixer, you let it do all the work!
Thankful Thursday
Today I’m thankful for:
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Simply the fact that we’ll be getting a new youth pastor soon barring any drama that might ensue.
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The new camera we were able to buy for the youth group and even more importantly the gifts of the people that helped us buy it.
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Good news concerning my grandmother. She won’t have to have more surgery, just chemo and radiation.
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All the money I’ve saved this week and my awareness of how much money I tend to waste. Our bank account is thankful.
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Great friends that I can be honest with.
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Good news concerning my raise. I may be getting something after all.
Works for me: Moneysavingmom.com
I tried to come up with a works for me that was "homegrown". Some new trick I had learned for cooking or my laundry or something original. But looking back over the past week, what has worked for me is simply a web site….moneysavingmom.com. Actually it is more of Crystal’s willingness to share what she’s found as the "best deals" at CVS and Walgreens that have saved me a TON of money. I’ve saved well over 50% every time I’ve followed her advice and plan to save a ton more in the future. If you’re at all curious about how to save some money and have a CVS, Walgreens or Kroger close by, her site is the place to go. I don’t have a Kroger but I do have a CVS and Walgreens right across from each other about a mile away so I take advantage of every deal that I can that makes sense for us.
My family is astounded that first of all I’m even doing this but second of all, how much I’ve saved. My sister has now given me a list of all her regular items and wants to keep an eye for it if I can get a good deal on it. So far, moneysavingmom.com works for me!!