It's that time of year again, or really its slightly past that time of year, Income Tax Time!
The Bus Driver Who Lived in a Shoe
Monday, March 3, 2014
Its Ghetto Rich time (or income tax return time for the not as poor as me crowd)
It's that time of year again, or really its slightly past that time of year, Income Tax Time!
An Unexpected Snow Day brings a bit of organization...
Now I will do the firmware update to my 500g Western Digital Passport drive. And backup the computer to it once it is done... then reformat the computer... and put the data from the two smaller drives back on the computer, then retrieve the backup from the Passport drive and make sure that they are all there.
Then comes the work of organizing the photos. I am not looking forward to that. I need to find a system that is makes them easy to find, as well as eliminating duplicates. It is gonna take some googling to discover the best way.
Boy do I have my work cut out for me.
At least I have today to work on it.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
HomeMade Christmas Gifts
The adults were all stoked. We loved the idea. It was widely acknowledged that I was going to steal the show since I have been trying to do a homemade Christmas for at least a portion of my gifts every year. I guess they all figured I had a head start or something. (I really did. I have a pinterest board of gift ideas, and one of crafts I want to do....)
The kids procrastinated until the last week before the scheduled gift exchange. Luckily I had some ideas in reserve for them to use. I guess it will be back to the drawing board for ways to get them to think of others instead of just being so caught up in the I wants, and the gimme's. Is it too much to ask that they think of others instead of themselves and xbox?
This is a clock I made for my sister who is chronically late, to the point that we lie to her about the start time of events just to get her there closer to time. |
I made sugar scrubs for my mom and my MIL. I got some cute containers from the dollar store (just $1!). I combined melted coconut oil with a few tablespoons of Vitamin E oil, a tablespoon of Vanilla Extract, and a tablespoon of Peppermint Extract. I added regular sugar until it was the consistancy I wanted. Then I poured it onto the jars. Easy Peasy! And it is very moisturizing. Just be careful not to get any of the scrub on the outside of the plastic jar, it made it very greasy feeling.
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HomeMade Valentines Day favors
Sunday, January 12, 2014
2013 was kind of a bust...
I did complete a pin just yesterday. It's how to make your own refill for foaming hand soap.
It's ridiculously easy, and involves using the old hand soap dispenser, filling about an inch or 2 with regular liquid hand soap, then adding water, putting on the lid, and BAM! Refill. Seems silly that I would need a pin to think of that. But it works well. I bought a $1 bottle of raspberry hand soap from Shop N Save and I have enough for 8-9 refills.
So that is my lazy attempt at keeping up on a resolution from last year.
Like I said, maybe next year will be better. Next time I will tell you all about our homemade Christmas.
We've been BOO'ed!!!!
I saw this idea a few years back and wanted to do it ever since. In keeping with the theme for this year "There's no time like the present!" I got to work and we started boo'ing a few people.
Let me backtrack a bit---
You've been boo'ed is a kind of nice version of ding dong ditch, or n!@@&r knocking someone. Except you leave them a surprize. There is a cute poem that goes with it, and the idea is that you surprize your friends or neighbors with this treat, and a copy of the poem, which challenges them to do the same to 2 of THEIR friends and neighbors. After you get boo'ed you post a cute graphic on the window or door of your home so that you don't get boo'ed two times (although according to my kids that would be awesome!)
You do a google search for some of the many versions of the 'You've been Boo'ed" poem and just select one you like best. I used the free printables from beenbooed.com but you can go as elaborate as you like..
Saturday, June 22, 2013
A trip down memory lane
My 2 oldest sons had a rummage sale last weekend to support their boy scout troop. I was tired and bored out of my mind trying desparetely to wake up by smoking a cigarette outside of the church, when strolling in I saw a familiar face. Vern Dohm. The brother of an old friend of mine. Well, actually it was complicated, but for now I will stick to calling him a friend. Now, Vern and his brother Vance and I used to hang out quite a bit back when I was 18 or 19, or maybe it was when I was 17. I'm not exactly sure.
Anyways, Vern and I got to talking and I soon discovered that his brother was finally not in a relationship with a girl who, hmmmm, how should I say this..... threatened me to not be friends with him anymore. Really this chic was off her rocker. She introduced herself to people by saying ' I'm carrie, like the movie'
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