After hitting a few potholes, you’re finally on the road to financial recovery, and thank goodness. Staying on the right track should be easy so long as you stick to your budget. Be firm but fair with yourself.

Some times these are right on. See my last post. Freaky.

Friday is this really you?
Oh, how I have missed you. Has it really only been a week since you’ve been here?
It feels much more like a month.

The ham was bought on Saturday and baked on Sunday.
When can I stop eating the leftovers for lunch?
I am thinking today.

You know it’s Humpday when you are pulling out of the drive way late for work and realise that you rubbed Vics Vapor Cream on your hands as you ran out the door instead of hand cream.

Yeah, my day could have started better.

I cleaned behind my living room drapes this evening and I found a 5 foot blow up lighted snowman I bought on a whim a couple days before Christmas. I totally forgot all about him. I guess I need to clean back there more often. Poor guy never even made it out of the box. Oh well, I guess there’s always next year.

I have been out of my parents house for over fifteen years.  But only over the past three years have I owned a dishwasher.  Let me tell you, since owning this miracle machine if some thing is not dishwasher safe it has no place in my kitchen. Might as well pitch it. Because to get out my sponge and dish soap now is like pulling teeth. I just washed a set of measuring spoons last night that has been moved from one side of my sink to other for about a week now. I even had thoughts of throwing them away, telling myself I don’t really cook or bake that much so I wont miss them or I’ll just pick up another set that is dishwasher safe. How lazy is that ?

It’s just past 8:30am and I am sitting here drinking my Diet Coke and doing a little blog surfing before I hop in the shower. I have a busy day of groucey shopping, house cleaning and second grade homework planned for today.  It’s so cold and windy out side, I would like nothing more then to crawl back under the warm covers and fall back to sleep for a while. But I know from experince how fast a while can turn into most of the day and I am not letting myself do that his time. My house and family are screaming for my attention.

I’ve been feeling kind of moody and down in the dumps lately.
Feeling fat and yucky about myself.
So I made a hair appointment at a new salon for Saturday afternoon, think I’ll try something different then the same old boring cut. I spent all this time growing my hair out and have no idea what the heck to do with it. I sure hope this lady has a clue.

The radio station we listen to here at work is giving away Goo Goo Dolls and Justin Timberlake tickets all week.
It is my mission to win a pair to one of them!

Well, my daughter showed up a little too late for us to see the movie Friday night. So we ended up renting a few movies instead.
Two duds and one we really liked.

Then we spent all day yesterday, hanging out, shopping, getting locked out of my car but not really and getting pulled over.
These things could only happen to me.
We stood in the dollar store parking lot, in 4 degree weather, on hold with AAA on my half a cell left cell phone for ten minutes in a panic before realizing I was trying to use the wrong key to open my car door. Where was my magic clicker that I have always used? I took it off my keyring so when I start my car in the cold mornings I wont get locked out and of course I some how misplaced it.
Finally back in the car I realized I was out of money and had only ten minutes before the bank closes at noon.
Bethany says to me, drive fast mom, you can make it, we’re not far.
Em, it was close. The cop wrote me out my speeding ticket in the parking lot next to the bank at 12:05. That’s when I called it a day and we came home for lunch.

Some how we still had fun though and I did come home with a big bag of new clothes which is the important thing.

Today, the girls and I are going to visit with my girlfriend and her daughters for a while before making dinner and then there will be card playing with junk food bets while we watch The Puppy Bowl.

My husband puts a cup of coffee in the microwave everyday as soon as he walks in from work. Yesterday he missed a loaf of bread that I left in there and walked away after hitting start. The smell was so bad and the plastic is cooked on the walls to no return.

Guess who will be shopping at Sears this weekend for a new one?

The best medicine for a bad day,
ending it with a forty minute phone call from a girlfriend.
Even after you ditched her twice in one week.

Thanks Barb!