1-19-13

11:45am

Got up early and went to scrap some metal.

We all guessed about $60 worth.

Turns out it was all worth $86.65!

I love it when we are wrong.

Next stop was H&R Block.

Waste of time to try and get taxes done early

thanks to Obama and all the crap he has going on.

Our taxes along with others have been delayed

due to not having certain forms just yet

and not being able to file them til after a certain date.

So we have to go back again yet a second time.

I'm thinking at the latest we'll get our tax refund

mid to end of February, another month to month and a half, sigh.

Hellooo Obama we're struggling as it is

while you are spending our money living

the luxurious lifestyle.  Couldn't ya just cut us a little

break with taxes, health care costs and the everyday things

we need like gas and food to survive.

Stopped by the bank top put the scrap check in

and then stopped in Save-A-Lot

to get some milk and a few other things

since it was close by.

Now we're back home cleaning house.

Don't that sound like fun?!

I got groceries put away and hubby is on kitchen

duty with dishes and cleaning it up.

Me, I'm working on getting some clothes put away.

During the Winter months if the boys school

pants and shirts aren't too soiled up I'll rehang

them back in the closet for another wear.

I am also working on sweeping and vacuuming floors.

I also decided to clean out the return air vent.

Keeping your air vents clean will help your furnace

and hopefully not spread sickness throughout the house.

I need to check the filter also.

Before on left and After on right.

I vacuumed it out, then wiped down any more

dust with a cleaner sprayed on a rag as far as I could

reach into the vent, vacuumed again, then went over everything

with another rag sprayed with clorox clean up

to disinfect it.

All done.  Sometime I'll get around

to doing the other vents.

I sometimes put vent filters in them to 

keep dust and germs that get passed the furnace

filter from returning to the air we breathe.

I'm thinking of making these this week with deer burger

and some homemade rolls.

Almost White Castle Sliders for a Crowd. 
I plan to sprinkle a packet of onion soup mix
with seasoning into the bottom of a casserole
dish then put the burger on top.

Jiffy Yeast Rolls.

If you make these with a regular white or butter cake

mix you only need half the cake mix

or double the recipe for an entire regular box of cake mix.

1:20pm

Got my everything done that I set out to do today.

I am so tired.  I fought with a cat throughout the night

who decided to come in our room on several ocassions

and meow at the top of his lungs wanting us

to get up and play.  Then when that wouldn't work

he would come along my side of the bed and

make a bunch of noise.  Nothing like swinging blindly,

half asleep, at a cat beside the bed, several times,

to make him go away.  If we shut the door to our

room he'll stand out there and meow his head off.

Ahhh, can't win.  You can bet your sweet butt

that we wake his little butt up throughout the 

day when he wants to sleep!

Doesn't work though to make him sleep at night.


3:00pm


Went over to Kroger to get my pop.
They have pillsbury cookie dough
marked down to .50 cents a pack.
There is a $1.00 off 3 coupon
that was in one of the Sunday's papers.
It would make it .50 cents for 3 cookie doughs. 
I don't care if it has a Christmas or Cinderella
print on them, they all taste like sugar cookies
and all end up in the same place when
we get a hankering for a sweet treat. 


11:15pm


Well we managed to go at least 11 hours or more today
without the furnace kicking on.
I set the thermostat on 70 and it
stayed 73 in the house most of the day.
Hoping that little bit will help the gas bill
next month especially when the cold
temperatures arrive for about the next three days or more.
BRRR!