Archive for April, 2008

April 6th, 2008

Enjoying The Morning

Good morning everyone!  I hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday morning.  I’m just a little too cheery this morning.  I found myself wide awake at 4am, and I don’t know why.  That’s 3 mornings in a row now I’ve been awake before 5am with no rhyme or reason.

Anywho, what is everyone up to today?

I’m using today to catch up on my reading.  I’ve noticed I’ve been really slack lately, and I’ve got a huge stack of new books sitting here ready to be flipped open.  I decided I’m going to start devoting a few hours each Sunday to reading before I end up neglecting my passion for books even more.

9780060517243.jpgSo this morning I started a book I received yesterday from Paperbackswap.com.  The book is Hot Stuff by Elaine Fox, and even though I’m only already caught up in it.

I read the first 8 chapters this morning, but now I’m going to take a break.  I hear a chicken biscuit calling my name, so I feel a trip to Hardees is in order!

April 4th, 2008

Preventing Junk Mail With ProQuo

Whether it be in my inbox or in my plain old on the street mailbox, I’ve been dealing with a lot of extra junk mail lately. I’ve been trying to take precautions to stop the paper mail, but no matter how many times I call that number listed on the back of credit card offers, the junk doesn’t seem to stop rolling in.

Not only is all this paper junk mail a big waste in terms of our environment, but it’s a pesky little problem to deal with. On top of that, it can be dangerous. Do you know how easy it is for someone to snatch a credit card offer from your mailbox, fill it out, and receive a card in your name? If you’re not home everyday when the mail arrives it’s super simple. All they have to do is wait for the mail person to deliver, and they can check the mail until the new card arrives.

But wouldn’t it be nice if we could stop the junk mail all together? My friend Kim told me about a very handy site that helps you do just that. This will probably be one of many handy sites you’ll hear about that Kim has shared with me with week, but it’s definitely worth passing on.

ProQuo.com

The site is ProQuo and signing up for a free account helps you opt out of junk mail by removing your name and information from tons of mailing lists and online mailing databases.

You could also do this by searching for the mailing lists yourself, but that takes time and effort that a lot of us just don’t want to spend. ProQuo makes it easy by giving you the resources to do this in one easy place!

April 2nd, 2008

Washing It All Again

Bless my poor little Grandpa, but I could totally strangle him right now. He’s walked down here 4 times already today, and twice while I was outside hanging out laundry. He sees all my freshly washed laundry drying on the line, so what does he do?

He decides to cut grass!

He keeps his lawn mowers in the garage down here, so when I heard the lawn mower crank up I figured he was riding it back to their house to cut grass up there. When the sound didn’t go away after a couple minutes I walked outside to investigate, and there he is cutting the grass right under my clothesline!

I’m sure my Grandma has been driving him crazy this morning about cutting the grass. She’s really anal about stuff like that, but really, did he have to start on that side of the yard? It’s not like we don’t have another 5 acres of grass between the two houses for him to cut Wouldn’t it have made more sense to start at his house and work his way back since he’s going to have to put the mower back in the garage down here anyway?

You’re probably sitting there thinking why the hell is she even complaining about it? Her poor old Grandpa is cutting her grass for her.

It’s not because I want him to cut it for us. Right after we moved in here hubby and I invested in our very first riding mower. Hubby loves mowing grass, and before we had an apartment. He was excited to get his mower, but that lasted all of 2 months. My Grandpa would race to get the grass cut before Hubby could come home to cut it. I finally asked my Grandpa why he had such a problem with us cutting on our grass, and he confessed to me that it’s his time to get out of the house and away from my OCD Grandma for awhile. It’s his sanctuary in a way.

I just still think he should have started on the other side of our 2 yards. I mean come on! Now I’ve got to wash all those clothes (and my 1 solid white comforter) again.


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