From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Bargain Books

by jolyn on April 28, 2009

in On Shopping

I love books. Love, love, love. Since you’re reading this in this crazy bloggity world of ours, I’m sure many of you can relate.
Recently my mom and dad were here for a visit from out-of-state, and one of the things my mom and I had on our list of Things to Do was check out [...]

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…that done gone up and went. Is anyone still out there? (tap-tap) Is this thing still on?
Apparently the best time to start a new blog is not right before you go on a cross-country road trip and then have family come stay for a while almost as soon as you get home. Blogging has taken [...]

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Watch the Rachael Ray show This Tuesday!

by jolyn on April 20, 2009

in On Eating

My friend Erin from $5 Dinners is going to be on the Rachael Ray show tomorrow! (Tuesday, April 21st.) As the title of her blog suggests, she’s all about preparing economical meals, and she got herself a gig up in the big city to tell all about it on national television.
Erin wrote to the Rachael [...]

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We’re getting a pretty sizable tax refund this year and most of it will be going straight onto my teenager’s teeth. I’m very thankful to be able to pay for his braces in cash, but it is a bummer to flit it away like that: easy come, easy go! I had honestly thought we had [...]

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The Hubs is a Captain in the Air Force. He was recently boarded for Major and made the cut. Yea!
This is cause for happiness on so many different levels. Yes, it is very exciting that he made the cut the first go-around. The percentage of Captains making the board in his AFSC (aka “job field”) [...]

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Not even three weeks have passed since I impulsively started this blog, and I’m already feeling discouraged. The tally is in from our trip and it’s not pretty.
Now, I know that we would have been spending money even if we hadn’t been traveling. And this figure does include everything. Is it terrible to admit that [...]

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“Remember the Snow Cones!”

by jolyn on April 3, 2009

in Travel and Vacay

We’ve been in San Antonio for the past week visiting with my dear MIL as well as with some dear friends we knew from our time we lived in Italy who had moved to San Antonio the same time we moved to Ohio. (Follow that?)
We haven’t actually been staying with any of these friends or [...]

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