Finding stuff we didn't even know we had

I got a letter on my door Monday informing me of a garage sale that our neighborhood is having in a week.

Friends you may not know this about me, but I love getting rid of junk in my home. It drives me crazy. Sometimes when I even visit other people's homes I envision decluttering their lives for them. It's so wrong I know. Now, boy could on the other hand live quite comfortably as a pack rat. He is insistant on keeping everything because ,well, you never know when 25 screw drivers may come in handy one day.

When we got married many of his items "accidentally" fell off the moving van when moving to our new apartment. So tragic it happened to his and not mine.

So over our married years he's adapted well to my "if you don't use it in a year, we sell it" policy. Our dining room has now happily turned into Operation 2007 Garage Sale.

I feel so light already.

How many more hours?

Y'all. You know I love me some t.v. I really don't know how I'm going to get through the day with these old friends on my mind. I've desperately been waiting 3 long months until we could be reunited.

Ads Part 2

Thank you all for your comments. I love hearing what you sweet ladies have to say. I menitoned in my previous post, in case you missed it, that I have stumbled across some negative comments on blog's where the owners have advertising columns. I was a little shocked to read such comments. I personally feel that there is nothing wrong with advertising on your site, just as long as it is appropriate and tasteful. I think when you do advertise you have to take into the risk that you will have more feeds and so more strangers viewing your blog and you may want to be more cautious of what you say. I think it is an amazing opportunity that bloggers are being paid to blog. Many of the well-known bloggers even inform on their site that this income as allowed them to stay at home. More power to them. I think it's great that women have the ability to stay at home with their children and support their families doing something that enjoy.

A lot of the negative comments I've found have been on extremely popular mom blogs. I guess these reader's feel that what once was just a fun read is now basically a business (or maybe do we sense jealousy) of the advertisements. It's up to the individual as with anything I think you will find people for and against it.

For me, even though I feel there is nothing wrong with it, you will not see an advertising column up anytime soon.

UPDATE: Tam! brought up a good question, how much do you make. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I sort of dug around www.blogher.com and found a calculator that ask you to punch in how many visits you have a month. Then you press calculate and it will tell you your estimated income. So if you have 5,000 hits you're looking at around $25 a month. I don't even know how to find out my hits a month, maybe 50...So I'd be making maybe a buck! :-) Anyone know anything about google's?

Crocodille tears and blogging advertising jeers and cheers

I'm just finishing up Francine River's "The Atonement Child".

And mascara is dripping down my face.

This book needs a major mascara alert.

Friends this is an amazing book, but I will not lie to you. You will be bawling your eyes out as you go on this emotional journey with the main character. I would not read this while traveling on an airplane. You might freak people out.

I'm really going to try to finish it tonight because it is just that good.

Next up,

I've been pondering some comments that I have read on numerous blogs about people allowing advertising on their blogs whether it's through www.blogher.com or even google's program. And no I'm not doing that; I'm just opening this post up to your feedback on advertising. I have my opinion which I'm going to hold back on because I don't want you to feel persuaded. I'd love for everyone to comment. If it's easier to go by a discussion question then use this: "If you were offered to get paid for blogging by adding an advertisement column to your blog skin would you? Why or why not?

This outta be good and please remember this is just for fun...be kind!

See ya' tomorrow.

Cheap Couture Cuisine- Teriyaki Noodles and Veggies

"Yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy!" (is that a jingle or a song?)

It's Cheap Couture Cuisine day! Whoa! I've got something delicious for y'all today...Teriyaki Noodles and Veggies. Remember y'all the Cheap Couture Cuisine is made for under $12. I'm on the hunt to find good meals that cost less than taking the family out for fast food. If you have one to share...do let me know.

Now you're going to have to mentally picture the dish in your head because due to my lack of computer skills and the randomness of my mac a picture is going to be coming soon...I promise. I'm thinking it's the usb cord so after I banged it a couple times on the desk and found no results I got frustrated and gave up. Trust me though you will dig this meal.

You need:
1/2 lb. of lean ground beef $3.99 (I bought a lb. and used the other half for another meal or you can double the receipe to feed more)
1 9oz. Green Giant Frozen Veggies in Teriyaki sauce $2.99
1 1/2 cups water
1 3oz. oriental flavored ramen noodle soup mix (a whooping .28)

1. Cook gound beef, drain.
2. Add water and veggies to a boil. Break noodles into 4 pieces and 1 tsp. of the seasoning that comes with the ramon noodles.
3. Simmer 5-6 minutes.

My total: $7.26
See, rockin' dinners don't have to break the bank. Now I'm back to watching the Bachelor!

*Receipe from Pillsbury

Maybe we should stop licking the Walmart shopping carts?

I hate being sick. I can tolerate a sinus infection, strep, and even a cold but not the stomach bug. Yuck. Nothing worse than that. oh wait!! yes there is having it 2 weekends in a row.

I kid you not on that.

We don't have kid's, we're really only around kiddos on Sundays and because I'm such a germ-a-phob I always drench my body in Purell coming out of any germ infested place.

I sort of feel like blaming someone for my misery...I'll blame Walmart. That's probably were we keep getting it. A few weeks ago at Walmart I was checking out and usually when I go to slide my debit card through, a question pops up asking "was your cashier friendly today?", this question was "Was your Walmart clean today?"

I immediately responded "no" and busted out loud laughing because when I think of Walmart the word clean doesn't necessary pop up with that. Sorry Walmart for dissing on you, but I don't think I'll ever lay down on your floors to take a nap.

So yesterday, I basically flopped on the sofa and stayed there all day flipping through the channels trying to find something decent on to make my misery go away. Poor boy has been hit with it twice also and he unfortunately had to go into the office that day. So it was just me and the pug all day watching HGTV.

What did y'all do this weekend?

Is this wrong that this is so funny?

Tam over at InProgress had a post this week about what makes you laugh. The first thing that came to mind was this stinkin' hilarious scene from an episode of Just for Laughs I remember watching. I had to go see if I could find it and sure enough youtube.com had it. I felt it would be so selfish of me not to share it with y'all. So enjoy...