I’m getting off easy for Halloween tonight. Tonight is MIL’s normal night to get them so they will be handing out candy with her. We are helping host movie night for the youth group. So yay. I get to get back and relax for the evening.
Works for me Wednesday – Clean Face
This is going to probably be the MOST IDIOTIC WFMW post you’ve ever read.
I’m glad you’re here too.
Ever since I was in my early twenties (Wahhh…I’m getting old) I’ve had issues with my skin breaking out. And not just annoying little pimples, like cyst type stuff. After trying different kinds of skin care treatment, I visited a dermatologist and finally got put on Tazorac and Duac after I got done with all my babies and breastfeeding (as the dr put it). It helped a great deal but I still had these little tiny bumps on my forehead I could never get rid of. The dr suggested I increase my Tazorac but for some reason I can never make myself do it twice a day. My normal routine is to wash my face with Cetaphil and then put it on but I never used a washcloth for my face-just water and soap with my hands-because I thought it would irritate my face. Anyway, a couple weeks ago I started using a washcloth with my soap to scrub my forehead and voila, my tiny bumps are almost gone! Major improvement!
So what is my WFMW?? Wash your face with a washcloth. Some great stuff there.
Giveaway comments in your inbox
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Dancing with the Stars October 30 Results
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
OH MY GOSH.
OH MY GOSH.
I’m a little shocked on the results of tonight.
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What do you see?
Laptop, laptop, what do you see?
I see a lot of production problems coming at me.
Tummy, tummy, what do you see?
I see a lot of shrimp friend rice coming at me.
Odyssey, Odyssey, what do you see?
I see a lot of traffic coming at me.
Tv, tv, what do you see?
I see a lot of cable coming at me.
P2P, P2P, what do you see?
I see a lot of comments coming at me.
Amy, Amy, what do you see?
I see a lot of sleep coming at me.
No Amy Tomorrow
I’m headed to work in the morning. Yes, I know, same ‘ol, same ‘ol for a lot of you. And I work every day too but normally it’s in the comfort of my sunroom at home and tomorrow I’ll be headed up to the "big city" to the office to work. And just last week my domain got put on the big no-no firewall list and I can’t view any of my site from the network. So until about 5pm tomorrow, I will not have access to my site. This will be a record I think and I’m really not looking forward to it. AT. ALL. Especially since I’m enjoying SO MANY of you commenting to enter my giveaway and I’m just lovin’ seeing it all come in and visiting your sites. So, it’s almost 1AM and I am going to be TIRED tomorrow at work. So Adios for now.
Drug store savings contemplation
I’m starting to think I may need some serious addiction treatment from these store savings I’ve been getting. I say that in jest but tonight I bought eye drops. We’ve probably used eye drops like 3 times in this house since we’ve been married. What was I doing? A lot of people are really interested in how it works and are amazed and supportive of my savings but at the same time, a lot of people are very skeptical I think. I think the big question is are you actually wasting time and money buying things you don’t need?
I had to think hard about this one. It’s true. I bought eye drops tonight and I don’t know if I’ll use them. But I got $4.99 in ECBs because of it. Is that ok that I bought them and basically was given a rebate for them? I don’t know. It almost seems like a vicious circle. Buy things you don’t need just so you can buy things you don’t need right?
Well, I started to add up what I’ve spent in the past 3 weeks or so I’ve been doing this and comparing it to the price of anything I bought that I would have normally bought and it seems to me if I’ve spent the same or similar, then I’m doing well. In the past few weeks, I would have had to buy more body wash, shampoo and conditioner, face wash and batteries. I’ve gotten all of these things during the last 3 weeks from CVS or Walgreens. Now before all of this, I would have NEVER used a coupon of any sort. I would have just gone to Target to get what I needed. And from my guess, that would have cost me around $25. From what I can tell, I’ve spent out of pocket around $50. That’s twice as much. A pretty big gap. But from what I can tell, I’ve brought home about $190 worth of stuff. So my choices are spend $25 and get $25 worth of products or spend $50 and get $190 worth of products. To me, I’d like to spend $50 and get $190 worth of stuff. And 95% of all I’ve bought, I will use. Jury’s still out on the eye drops. (If you need eye drops, let me know and I’ll mail them to you.)
I really, honestly enjoy saving the money. I can stop doing it at any time. My "pantry" is stocked. I don’t freak out and have to wash my face with shampoo because I forgot AGAIN to go buy more facial soap. I’m able to donate things I wouldn’t have before. And I honestly and truly get free stuff. And the thing is I’ve spent more, but I’m stocked up for much longer than what I would have bought in the last 3 weeks so if I count the amount of money I will have to spend to keep us stocked up, I really think I’m doing well.
And you might not believe this but before when I felt the need to shop, I would load up the kids to Target and not walk out of there with less than $100 bill–ask Heather, she’ll tell you. But now, I can walk in CVS, spend a few dollars and possibly make money and get the same feeling. Is it healthy to have a shopping "need"? I don’t know and probably not. But this helps and it’s WAY cheaper.
I’ve just gone over and over it and with CVS especially, you either have to buy the ECB earners, roll the money to the next week and keep buying ECB earners or it doesn’t work. Maybe one week you can get away with earning and get a little bit free the next week but to really rack up, you have to do it continuously.
So for now, I think I’m staying in. I certainly don’t think I’ve wasted any money. The very worst you can say is I’ve wasted $25. And what’s that? One Isaac Mizrahi shirt that doesn’t even fit right?
My jobs
Google is not cooperating but I once heard that a person changes careers 7 times in their lifetime. Maybe I’m way off on that because I have a lot of jobs left to do if that’s the case. So far in my life, these are the jobs I’ve held.
- I worked a few times at a movie rental place but I was fired because I wouldn’t work the Christmas holiday. Their loss. I could have been a fabulous DVD checker outer.
- I worked at a ice cream parlor. I was named the Banana Split Queen and I still have a strong right arm from scooping the frozen ice cream.
- I worked for a realtor as an assistant. I worked mainly on her flyers. I also worked for the real estate as the secretary on Saturdays. But I did everything from balancing her checkbook, getting her car washed, licking envelopes to making copies of contracts.
- I worked as an intern at a paper manufacturer. I was a developer there. Did some small stuff in Access but actually learned some top-notch object-oriented programming there.
- My first job out of college was a IT consultant as a developer and I’ve only had two contracts. One for 6 months for a small shipping company that was based out of Lebanon and this one for 6 1/2 years for a large financial company.
So that’s it. Five jobs total and two of them in the same field. Wonder what else I’ll do…