Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Jello - everybody needs a little wiggle room???

Ohhh mylanta!!! LOL ya'all!!! I just worked out for the first time in ..... years. Yes, I am ashamed lol to openly admit that. I got a lot of weight off in 2000, down to a size 14 from a 22. After that I bounced back and forth between a size 14 and 20 for a few years. Then our revamp on the house started and I lost a ton, a TON of wieght!!! Got down to a size 10 wooo hoooo!!! Wasn't even trying to lose wieght, it was just a natural effect of working on the house. I suppose 14+ hours a day of physical labor will do that to a girl!!! That was in ... August 2007. I cant remember the month as most things are not important for me to commit to memory and those things that are I end up forgetting anyways LOL. Now, I don't mention weight (pounds) because I never weigh myself. I could care less what number pops up on a scale, not even so much about size although I have to admit I do like it when I get to say "size 12". For me, it's about how I feel physical.

Well, right now sitting her in my computer chair I can feel my big ol' pot belly (had 2 c-sections so I will always have a small pot belly no matter what)and fat rolls on my sides and might I add, the feeling SUCKS!!!! My 14s are feeling tight even though they don't like tight. So what am I going to do about it? Glad you asked LOL

I started by doing my first workout tonight. I taped Denise Austin on my DVR, she's on at 4:30 am and as much as I am a night owl, even for me that is pushing it. I am usually in lala land by then. So, I am hot, sweaty and outta breath LOL :) But I feel good --- NOW that it's over LMBO!!!!

Let me tell you - during the workout I had things giggling and a shaking that I didn't even know I had. I felt muscles that I never knew existed. And Praise God her 30 min show is really only about 15 plus or minus minutes of actual workout. I don't think I could have went much longer :) When I finished my body felt like Jello and I am positive I don't want my body to have wiggle room any longer hehehehe

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Tonights Rockin Smoking Hot Shopping!!!!

I have to admit, there is nothing that relaxs me quite like shopping - especially the easy way!!! No Marah with me LOL!!! I am so excited about tonights shopping!!! Here's what I did:

Wal-Greens::::
Wal-Greens Chocolate Nutrition drink $4.00(donate to food bank)& a $4.00 rebate
two rolls of 20sqft Reynolds aluminum foil $0.89 each & (2)$1 off q's = FREE + $0.11
Nivea Body Oil for Marah's sensitive skin, clearance $4.19 each & (2)$1 off q's
no slip ponytail holders 20 count, clearance $1.19
two Hershey's candy bars & (2) BuyOneGetOneFree q's - somehow I ended paying $0.20 for both but didn't want to make a fuss over $0.20.....
Shelf price = $32.49
Total spent = $12.53
Rebate coming = $4.00
Total OOP (out of pocket) = $8.53

RiteAid::::
Garnier Frutis Conditioner $2.99 & a $2.99 rebate
two packs of tooth/gum pain reliever swabs $4.99 each & two $4.99 rebates
ten soy joy bars $5.00 & a $5.00 rebate (doante to food bank)
Total spent = $18.10
Rebate coming = $17.97
Total OOP = $0.13

Albertsons Transaction 1::::
three pillsbury biscuits
five Nature Valley granola bars
Shelf price = $34.88
Total OOP = $17.75
Catalinas = $13.50 off you next order

Albertsons Transaction 2::::
two warm delights
eight fruit roll ups
Shelf price = $28.50
Total OOP = $16.79
Catalinas = $13.50 off your next order

Albertsons Transaction 3::::
five chicken broths
two bags chips
one 6oz fresh blueberries
Shelf price = $14.93
Total OOP = $2.83
No catalinas on this one :(

I figure I spent $68.00 out of pocket, have $25.96 coming in rebates and $23.50 left of my "off your next order". As far as my savings (not counting RiteAid) I saved $60.90 from the shelf price by using the sales, rebates and coupons!! As Mel says, woooo hooooo!

Monday, February 9, 2009

Wowwww Ohhh mylanta!

I received an email from a dear online friend of mine that just sent me into ...... I can't even describe it. Anger? Frustration? Humilitation? These are just a few of the things I felt. Ok, ok - I have to admit it made me laugh as well, I mean really? Really? People really did this? Is there no common sense left in America? I mean not only was it the stupidity and lack of foresite by the ... plantiff, but the what about the juries??? I mean COME ON PEOPLE!!!! What happened to be responsible for yourself?? It amazes and appalls me that out of your own stupid choices you can profit. Here is what I am talking about.

7TH PLACE : Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

6TH PLACE : Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

5TH PLACE : Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to
the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.

4TH PLACE : Jerry Williams, of Little Rock , Arkansas , garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog
with a pellet gun. ***My own note on this: he's lucky I wasnt' on the jury because I've had charged him with trepassing and animal cruelty. Think he would have been surprised????****

3RD PLACE : Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?

2ND PLACE : Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000.....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure. ***My note, yes I can't refrain myself. If I was on the jury I would have recommended breaking and entering charges against her and the labor it cost to clean the bathroom where I am sure her two front teeth made quite a little mess.****

1ST PLACE : (May I have a fanfare played on 50 kazoos please)This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the
freeway, crashed and overturned.

Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting
in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat
while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you
sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually
changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs.
Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home. *****All I can say is, "HELLO PEOPLE - IT"S CRUISE CONTROL NOT AUTOPILOT*****

LOL, I actually feel kinda sorry for the poor sap who gets me as a jurer because I firmly and fully believe in every action has an equal and opposite reaction and you will have consiquences for every choice you make, whether good or bad.