cultivating me

They found me. Ok Ok I admit it….I’m sick!  Completely and utterly sick.  Stay in bed and whine about how bad I feel sick.  Everything aches.  Everything!  I am pretty miserable  I do try to not complain but today really sucks! Oh why now? Why this week? I guess in all being sick this week [...]

I wouldn’t say that I am cheap. Perhaps fugal might be a better term?  Either way, the reason I pinch pennies more often than tossing them is that my budget is tight. On average, my bills equal 40 dollars more than I take in.  The reality means that I must find ways to make ends [...]

every once in a while i will take a look at my stats and check the list of keywords used to link to my blog.  sometimes they are very very entertaining. here are recent ways people found me i call times! me too! all of the time… on top of spaghetti i usually prefer my [...]

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. — John Albert Michener What a good reminder to keep working at my personal goals.  It’s a good reminder to keep trying my best at the same time.  I guess, what kind of character do I really have if I slack off? Definitely a [...]

Apparently Oil of Olay says!  I was home today because my youngest was unable to go to school due to pink eye (isn’t that fun?!) and while here, I spent some time in front of the T.V.    Imagine my surprise when I saw an anti aging commercial featuring a woman who is 33 – that’s [...]

The family question at dinner tonight was: “If you had the power to change the world, what would you change first?” The little guy said:  “I would change the homeless people to have money.  Not really to be rich but to be able to have what they need: homes, food, clothes, school” The older boy:  [...]

One of my current obsessions, along with handbags and boots,  is cookbooks.  Imagine how happy I was to find a box full of them waiting for me when I returned home on Saturday night!  It certainly made planning dinners for the much more fun.  All the dinners this week are new recipes which I know [...]

Yesterday, Jerr and I had lunch with his family.  Afterwards, we went to his parents to spend the rest of the afternoon.  While there, Jerr went to get his haircut leaving the monkeys to hang out.  While he was gone, the girl did some school work on the computer, the oldest boy watched wrestling with [...]

Today was a good day.  I spent it with Jerr, the kids and his family. I had some insightful thoughts about the day and the people I spent time with but then I came home to a package on my doorstep.  It was full of cookbooks!!!!! oh lucky me ) So my thoughts will have [...]

Tonight I rented “My Dog Skp” to watch w/ the littlest monkey while his sister was at a slumber party and his brother was at a friend’s house. It was fun having time with just him.  One on one time is hard to get around here and when I get it, I try to make [...]