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I thought I would make a quick post while I have a few minutes. Been so busy with the kids and their camps, t-ball, football - I haven't had time to breath. I am tired, lol. I hope to make my rounds and visit everyone tonight or tomorrow. It's amazing to me how time can fly by and I still feel as if I have accomplished nothing. I hope you are having a great summer. Below is my Wednesday's What's Your Price a day early.
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June
27, 2007 What's
Your Price
Where do you live? How much is...
1. One month of internet service? I have dial-up anhd it's $19.95
a month.
2. An 8 pack of AAA batteries? For the Rayovac brand it's $4.72 +
tax.
3. 1 Gallon of Vanilla Ice Cream? $4.98
4. 3 pounds of apples? Gala apples are $3.28.
5. A head of iceberg lettuce? 88¢
6.
A 24 pack of string cheese? $4.98
7. A bag of mini marshmellows (16 ounces/1 pound)? $1.04 for the
Wal-Mart store brand.
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Here's
my Wednesday's
What's Your Price! Click the logo below to join...
June
20, 2007
Where
do you live? Southwest Nebraska. How much is...
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1.
A can of golden sweet corn - (15.25 oz or 432 g)? 46¢
2. A bottle of water (20 fl oz, 1.25 PT, or 591 mL)? $1.00
3. To go swimming at the pool? $1.00
4. A copy of your local newspaper? 50¢
5. A box of saltine crackers (4 pack NET WT 16 OZ (1LB)
or 454 g)? 87¢
It's really late and I don't have much time on the computer
tonight, but hopefully I will get back on track. I will
definately have to schedule things even more so I can squeeze
this much needed and missed computer time! I also have to keep up
with the What's Your Price Meme - it's neat to see what's going
on in other places. 25 bloggers have joined already. Okay, time
to say goodnight and I hope to be by to visit soon.
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Wednesday
already - I just can't believe how time gets away from me. We are
having gloomy rainy weather here. We had a few days in the 90s
and now 70s. I actually had to turn the air conditioner on
Monday. You know it's going to be a hot day when you have every
single window open and it's still warm in the morning when you
get up. I'm not sure how hot it got, but I know somewhere in the
90s. One of the towns in our area has 11" of water from the
rains. Roads are closed - it's crazy. Fortunately in the towns
right around me as well as my village, we are ok. No flooding
here as of yet. It goes from one extreme to the other. It's
really humid, so my naturally curly hair is frizzy all over. It's
a ponytail kind of day. I'm enjoying the quiet here, drinking my
coffee and finally being able to blog. Hubby went to work, baby
is sleeping.
It's weird without my other three kids here. They are having a
good time though. It was hard to call Adelina on her birthday,
not having her here. I've never been away from her on a birthday.
It's hard to believe she is 7 now. I am going today to pick up
her gifts at the store. We plan to have a cake and go out to eat
when she and the boys come home, and a party at the park for her
and her little friends. I am getting her a new bike and a few
little things.
I am a little late, but Nancze and Susan tagged me and I didn't
get a chance to blog. Sorry. Ok, 7 Random facts/habits about
me...
1. I smoked for 16 years and I quit three months ago.
2. I am addicted to carbs I think - LOVE pizza, donuts, goldfish
crackers, pretzels, bagels, breads - No, I will not give them up.
I will just have to walk more.
3. I am a hopeless romantic - still believe in fairytales and
happy endings, even though everyone says life isn't that way.
4. Addicted to Chocolate. I especially love Dark chocolate.
5. I was born to shop - just wasn't born into money!
6. I have psoriasis.
7. I love blackhills gold more than any gemstone, even diamonds.
I am a boring person, lol.
Ok - baby is up. Here's my Wednesday's
What's Your Price! Click the logo below to join...
Where
do you live? Southwest Nebraska. How much is...
1. A gallon of milk? $2.94
for store brand Vitamin D and $3.12 for Name brand.
2. A gallon of gas? $3.26
3. A ticket to the movie theater? Oooh, I
haven't been to the movies since January - I think it was $6 or
$6.50.
4. A candy bar? At Super Wal-Mart it's 47¢.
5. A pound of bananas? 50¢.
Time to go!
I can't pick a sig tag - love them all. Have a great day!
It's
Friday! Where has the time gone? There's lots to read today, so
please keep scrolling down ladies. My three kids went with their
Dad on a vacation yesterday to Minnesota. I will be worried the
entire time they are gone. I always worried, but I will worry
extra now. After the tragedy last month, I will worry extra
forever. I know they will have a great time, but they will be so
far away. They come back on Father's Day. I thought that maybe
hubby and I could do something while they are gone - it's hard to
get a sitter for 4 kids and we don't do a lot most of the time.
This way we only had baby to take with us. It ends up that
someone at work quit, so guess what?!?!? Hubby isn't expecting
time off for a while. UGHHH!! Guess Ariana and I will just find
things to do. Hopefully the weather is nice and we can work in
the yard and take walks to the park or something. Hit a few
garage sales next weekend maybe.
I plan on doing some housework today and putting some more items
for sale on ebay. I sold a few things, but figured out something
that will definately change how I sell things in the future. I
had the shipping set as calculated so that I made sure I didn't
end up not receiving enough for shipping and profit. Well, I
ended up paying extra on shipping for 2 transactions because that
calculating thingy did wrong! I bearly made anything. I will from
now on make sure that I take the item to the Post Office, find
out exactly the shipping cost and then have people pay. The whole
point of selling the stuff was for extra money for summer
activities, air conditioning bill (I don't like hot, hot temps,
so that runs when it gets over 85 here), and for school supplies.
It gets expensive with four kids and being a SAHM. Oh well. Life
is a learning experience. Here is my Friday Fun.
Which would be
your idea of fun,…?
1. A
mani/pedi or mountain biking? mani/pedi.
2. A day at the beach or a day on the slopes? A
day at the beach.
3. Dinner at a 5 star restaurant or homecooking at a
diner? homecooking at a diner.
4. Coffee and a good book at a coffee shop or a cold
drink and a good book in the park? Coffee and/or a cold
drink and a good book in the park. I love my coffee, but it
depends on the weather outside. Inside I drink it every single
day.
5. Musical theater a là Broadway or a movie in the
theater? Never been to one, but I think Musical theater
a là Broadway
6. An evening at the opera or a rock concert? a
rock concert
7. Manilow or Metallica? Hmmm, neither?!?! LOLOL
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All this talk of pirates, I found this site - The Pirate Name
Generator. Go here http://gangstaname.com/pirate_name.php
Using my first, middle and last name, this is what came up: Pirate Sophie the Black
Using my first name: Fartin'
Azriel Bonny
Using my first and last name: Cap'n Ramona Pegleg
LOLOLOL
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I started something new -
What's Your Price. It's a meme of questions for you to post and
answer in your blog. I thought it would be fun to find out a
little more about where other people live. Such as, costs of
milk, gas, food, trash service - you name it. It is open to
anyone with a blog. If you have ideas for questions, please email
me here! Click the logo below if you would like to join!
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I have lots of gifts from online friends to get up - haven't had
a chance, but I am very thankful for them all. Here are three of
my lovely gifts- I am going to try and get caught up this
weekend.
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Hi.
It's been a while. Seems like yesterday when I last posted. This
has been the worst thing I have ever experienced. I still can't
believe it. The other boy from the accident died this weeek, so
hubby's son is the only survivor. How horrible. I went to the
funeral home with him to see his son that passed away and it was
just aweful. It didn't even look like him and I had to walk away
from the casket. We just saw him on Mother's Day on his
graduation. To see him like that - it was beyond anything I could
have been prepared for. The next day was the funeral and that was
really hard. There was so many people that they had to have
several downstairs viewing on tv and the upstairs they set up
tons and tons of chairs, plus the pews were all full. The worst
was at the cemetary. He had a military funeral - was in the army
reserves for a year. When the guys from his platoon or whatver
it's called, folded up the flag and handed it to the family just
really made everyone cry harder. When the guns went off I jumped.
I think the cemetary is the worst part because then you know that
person is really gone and going to be buried. I will never ever
forget that day. I can't imagine losing a child. I pray to God I
never have to experience anything like this again. Everytime I go
anywhere, I am stopped by someone or stared at. I am tired of
people coming up to me at the store - the other day I was stopped
six times in a very short time period. I talk about it all with
hubby and my Mom, but I am just tired of hearing things from
other people. I know most of them mean well, but some I know are
just plain nosy. It's bad enough they stare at us when we go
anywhere. Hubby, baby and I went out to eat last weekend and I
wanted to smack them - stop staring! I know it's a tragedy and
one that everyone around here notices and so many are effected by
it, but enough is enough. Can you imagine what his surviving so
is going through? Can you imagine if we are having that happening
to us, how bad is it for the only survivor, the twin - hubby's
son. Just thinking about his pain and suffering and all the
family tears me up and brings so much pain to my heart. All the
articles and cards we put in a box away for the baby when she
grows up if she wants to know about it. Thankfully most of the
condolences went to the Mom and Step-Dad's house.
During all of this I got to thinking, I haven't really lost
anyone in my family or close friends since I was a kid. The only
family funeral I was able to attend was my Grandfather in 1982. I
was in 3rd grade I think. My Grandparents on my Dad's side - I
really didn't know my Nonna at all, but my Nonnu - he never spoke
English, but I saw him most every year as a kid when we went to
New York to visit our family. Anyway, I didn't go to their
funerals. We lived in Colorado - Nonna's was when I was in
elementary school - I think in Kindergarten. Nonnu's was when I
was in high school. Mom and Dad went back, but my brother's and I
didn't get to go. I have been very fortunate in my life.
Ok - I have to talk about something else and change my train of
thought. School was officially out Thursday, May 24th. Good Lord
I will go crazy. They have already started and it's been only a
week. The weather had not been warm enough, so the pool has been
open one day. It's been storming - my flowers are trashed. I have
been working really hard on the flower garden and I am so mad! I
planted 2 salvia plants last year and they have grown probably 6
times the original size. I bought two more this year and planted
those a few weeks ago, Violets last month, Mums a few weeks ago.
They are so beat up - not sure if the mum's and new salvia will
make it. The warmest it has gotten was 74 once in the past week
or so. Finally today there is sunshine, but the wind has blown
all week as well - that takes some of the warmth away. Half the
time they couldn't go outside because of the weather - rain,
thunderstorms kept them in and giving me more grey hairs. They
went camping Memorial weekend with theird Dad and had only one
nice day. It stormed that weekend too. We had power go out for 4
hours the night my flowers were trashed. YUCK!!!!
Today Ariana woke up at 6 am, so I decided to go grocery
shopping, lol. Didn't even shower. Got dressed and went. Boy was
that nice. No one at Super Wal-Mart. Woohoo!! So nice not to get
interrupted. Now I am finally online and have just read and
deleted 480 emails! Ughhh. Still have some to respond to, but so
far, getting somewhat caught up.
I have signed the kids up in some things to keep them busy
though. Giuseppe and Montana will be in a football camp this week
over in the next town. Well city I guess. Four mornings from
10:30 to 12:30. Adelina will have t-ball Monday and Wednesday
nights from 7 to 8 pm - 2 blocks from home here in our little
village. They go with their Dad June 7 to 17th on a trip to
Minnesota. The 18th Adelina will be in a two day Volleyball camp
from 8 am to Noon in the next city. The 20th she will be in a 4-H
camp - that was only $4!!! 12:30 to 4pm. The 22nd the boys will
be in a 4-H camp from 10am to 4pm. That was $5. In July for 3
weeks the boys will be in full contact Youth Football. That's
going to be every weeknight from 7 to 8:30. That will be nice if
it's hot out. They will go to the pool every afternoon if it
warms up. They love that. You can't get them out of the pool. I
have some plans too - I printed tons of things online - coloring
pages, puzzles, workbooks, math problems, for all the kids. The
boys requested some things on certain states, so I got those
printed off too. They also picked out a book to do a book report
on. I told them they will use their brains this summer - not just
drive me crazy, lol. I plan on a few "field trips"
also. We are going on a Bug Safari. We have 2 nets, three bug
catchers and a little paper for each with bugs pictures so we can
mark off what we find, and then some coloring pages. I am going
to take them to a local museum, some picnics, etc. I will squeeze
online time in during baby naps, hopefully early mornings and
weekend when hubby is working. We are going to take a little 2 or
3 day trip as well, hopefully. Last year we went to Omaha and
visited the zoo, Children's musuem - can't remember what else off
the top of my head. They always take longs trips with their Dad,
so we like to take little trips around Nebraska to see things we
haven't seen yet. I also got the kids each a journal with a foam
cover. We are going to decorate them and they can keep a journal
of their summer.
one day late 
:: Friday Favorites ::
What is your
favorite,…?
1. Flavor
of ice cream? Can't pick just one. Mint Chocolate Chip
and Chocolate
2. Cold beverage? Diet Dr. Pepper or Ice water
3. TV show? Men In Trees, Jericho, Lost, Las
Vegas, Deal or No Deal
4. Hobby? creating graphics, scrapbooking
5. Place to visit? Niagra Falls, New York
6. Pizza? Supreme
7. Online news source? CNN or my local paper
8. Online game? Don't play any online - just my
own games for pc
I better go. I have to get my summer set up for the members and
hopefully visit some of my blog friends. Have a good weekend.
Some Graphics by Cute Countryside Graphics (No longer online),
and The
Doll House.
