Sam is Having a Birthday

I have worked with Sam for 11 years.  I consider him a good friend.  I hold the people I work with very close to my heart..  After all, we see them more than our family.  They are my extended family.  Since Wacker announced the closing of our site it has been sad around the office.  We know not only will our jobs come to an end, but also seeing the people we see everyday.  People that have shared there sad times and there good times together.

We have also lost 2 our our co-workers in the last month to suicide.  It is not like we needed anything else to dampen our spirits..  Wacker paid for a counsler to come in and speak with us on the deaths of our co-workers.  The sucides happened about 3 weeks apart..  I am not sure if it helped or not but I saw a few men tear up and I know it has affected us all.  Some are mad and some just don't understand. 

God gave me the gift of encouragement - so I have definitely put it to work.. I decided I would bake a cake and make the birthdays here very special. I also suggested that we meet once a week just to get us all in one room that way we can keep an eye on each other and see what state of mind people are in. Oh we are not shy around here.  We speak our minds pretty much so...

It was Sam's birthday on Wednesday.  It snuck up on me but we took him to lunch anyway.  I baked a cake last night and will celebrate again today.   I will add a couple of pics to the post when we cut the cake...

Sam is a great guy.  He is a wonderful husband to Elaine and a great father to his son Chris.  I have saw him mellow out in the last few years... His bark is loud, but deep down he is a softee. I am thankful the Lord allowed my path to cross with Sam.... When we part our seperate ways I know that he will always be a special friend. 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!!!!

Clutter Busting

I read the following statement the other day and I thought- So that is how you do it? But I can't part with some of my clutter

" Basically, for every new item you bring in to your home, you have to take one out. Give it as a gift, donate it to charity or put it into the garage sale/eBay box. It doesn’t matter where it goes, just as long as it goes!

What do you mean take one out? How do you do that?  - Identify your top clutter areas and use the “One in, One Out” rule for just these areas. If the clutter level in your home is high, you can use the “One in, Two Out” rule to get things under control even faster. For example, if the kids’ toys and mom’s shirts are 2 things that are overabundant in your house, first pare them down. Once you get to the right number, the only way to keep it at or close to that number is to enforce the rule. When you’re thinking of buying a new toy or shirt, think to yourself, “Am I really prepared to take an old one out and donate/sell it?” 

You may find it helps eliminate the “more is better” attitude so prevalent in our society and teach them to value what they have.

The “One in, One Out” rule will help you to keep your fantastic results after decluttering by maintaining the level of your stuff. We don’t want our possessions to be in charge of us!


Not sure I can do this- but it is worth a try...  You can read the article over here

Publix-2/24/2010

I made a trip to Publix today for the new weekly specials. 

2 boxes of ceral

2 bottles of Juicy Juice

2 boxes of brownie mix

2 Pam cooking spray

2 boxes of Bayer Asprin

4 containers of Right Guard deodorant

2 bags of Green Giant steamers veggies

2 colgate wisps

$41.64

Vendor coupon- $13.20

Store coupon-$3.70

Special Price Savings-$24.74

Total paid- $11.04

Wordless Wednesday

I thought I would join my friend/sister Ashlee on Wordless Wednesday... 

Erica and Justin on his 18th birthday.... Pimp Daddy Justin..LOL

Friends

When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship!!

Are you carrying someones burden for them?    

Food Lion- 2/22/2010

I was reading here today and saw some awesome closeout deals at Food Lion.  I gathered up my coupons and made the trip.  I had to go to two different Food Lions to find what I was looking for.  But I did very well

My first stop I purchased  1 box of Trix and 1 box of Cocoa Puffs, and two refills for the Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner

Ceral was $3.69 BOGO making it $1.65 each x MQ $1.00 off 2

final price of $1.15 each

Scrubbing Bubbles were marked down to $1.95 regular price of $4.49 x MQ BOGO

The coupon took off $4.49 so I ended up paying 0 for the refills with an .59 overage.

Total cost$ 2.06 includeing tax

Total Savings-$13.50

I stopped by the other Food Lion because the first one I stopped at did not have any of the Automatic Shower Cleaners which were marked down too.

I purchased a gallon of Milk, Diet Coke, and 2 automatic shower cleaners.

Milk- $2.49

Diet Coke-$.99

Shower Cleaner-$7.99 and I had a MQ-$7.00- making it .99 each

Shower cleaner was marked down from $16.99

Total paid- $6.83

Savings of $31.43

CVS Trip- 2/19/2010

I stopped by CVS today at lunch. I walked away spending 63 cents. 

The SOBE water is normally $1.59 each.  Toothpaste is $2.99.  I walked out of CVS paying 63 cents and $2.00 Extrabucks.  I had plans picking up some more items but they were out of stock..

I will try again tomorrow..