Fit Friday

It's Almost Naptime has started an exercise program called Fit Friday . What a great way to head into the holidays. I couldn't figure out the Mr. Linky thing, I will when I have more time. I'm just going to join in on the exercise idea. Just so you know you can also download power yoga programs onto you ipod, itunes, media player etc. . I did this the other day and got a free 25 min. program at yogadownload.com. Pretty cool so check it out. Here are my goals

• eat breakfast
• walk on nice days so I can get some sunshine in me
• use my free weights
• do the yoga because it really makes me feel better
• keep it in perspective, I can't do all of this on one day, but I can do something
• no eating after 7pm (this has worked for me in the past, and I suffer from the have a beer thing too.

Well there it is for now. I'll atleast try to update on Fridays. My blogging record stinks. But thanks for the idea and if you even visit my site you should check out It's Almost Naptime.

Blessings,
kate

Prom 2008

The Loss of a Friend to Breast Cancer

My community lost a Friend to Breast Cancer May 19, 2008. Patty was also a Wife and Mother of to young daughters. So I write this post to remind everyone including men(to remind the women in their lives) that it is important to pay attention to our bodies. Go get a mammogram, do self breast examinations, go to your Gyn. once a year. Mom's are a special people and take care of so many often at the expense of their own health. Here is a link to the Breast Cancer organization. Hopefully this post will help all of us to take care of ourselves too.

Improving your Blog

Last month was Improve your blog month at Frugal Upstate. Only I didn't get the chance to mess with it. Thats the thing about blogging unless your really swift on the computer there is a lot of messing around. So I tried to get the banner it didn't work for me cause where do I put that code thingy in the first place. But oh well I did change the background of the blog and I did try to figure out some things. I made it so I can be emailed and just spent some time "messing" with it. I need to figure out how to take the old post and just clear them and put them under some labels, but it seemed that nothing really was in plain talk for me. However I have decided not only to speak of frugal things, but life in general. I thought this might be a blog about well everything that can come under the label as dirt. You know dirt that muddles up the house, relationships, finances, etc. . Even some more posts about religion...mostly Catholicism. So there you have it a change....seems as though there has been a lot of talk about change. This isn't a big change just me trying to blog a bit more as you can see its not been since February that I wrote anything. So here's to blogging.

Menu Plan Monday(Posted Tuesday)

Monday: Son's Birthday Crockpot Pork w/BBQ sauce w/egg noodles & broccoli
nobody liked the way the pork came out this ones is a dud....on a birthday no less

Tuesday:Chicken fingers w/green beans and rice

Wednesday: Spinach sausage soup w/biscuits

Thursday: Mac-n-Cheese w/ carrots maybe something else but I don't know whhhat!

Friday: Baked Fish w/ veggie and rice

Saturday: Calzones w/ salad

Sunday: Herbed country chicken stew

I have all the ingredients for all these recipes no reason to buy a thing....no reason....no reason......

Frugal Organization

Last night my very organized sister in law commented on some clementine boxes that I have. These clementine boxes (the wooden ones you get when you buy clementines) stack very nicely. I let my 5 year old paint them one day and I use them for storage. I will post some pictures soon. But for now use your imagination. I have a set of three the top one I store all phone chargers, ipod earphones, gameboy charges etc. , the second one is currently being use to store all the college letters being sent to my seventeen year old, the bottom one for papers to be signed and sent back to school etc. . The nice thing about this system is at night when I want to finally sit down, I can just take the bottom box with me fill out the papers and put them back in the box. The kids know to ask about the papers or where to look for them in the morning.
My next tip is my favorite. I don't know if anyone else has done this but here it is. I have always had trouble keeping all my bill organized. One is here, there, everywhere. But I was checking out some online products to keep you organized and basically this was the system, except I couldn't afford it. I went to the Dollar General and purchased two coupon organizers for a $1.00. They had attachable sticker labels. I wrote all my bills due on the 1st-4th on the first one and so on and so forth. With a calendar folded up in the back with all the Names of the companies, phone #'s, amount due all placed on the respective date. This is a great way to stay organized because while I'm waiting to pick up kids or at games I can review it and it fits into my purse. The Dollar General brand is vinyl so if you spilled something chances are it would wreck. The other coupon organizer I think will be used for envelopes, stamps, and return labels. I'll post some pictures.

Frugal Tip

If anyone checks out my blog.....here is a tip that could save you some money. Last week I was looking at my schedule, with six kids, work P/T, volunteering blah, blah, blah I try to give myself reminders. One way I do this is my cell phone. It has a calendar, I input the event and if I want a reminder. Now I have done this with appointment, games, meets, etc. but never to remind myself about paying bills. Because I pay almost all my bills online, I need to get to my computer to pay bills not blog or read someone else's blog. My JCpenney bill and a few others need to be done the day before they are due or it wont post to your account until a day late causing you to have to pay a hefty late charge or rush payment fee. So I set the reminders last week when I was "doing the bills". Ring a ling my reminder went off and I went to the computer and paid those bills. Great idea for folks trying to get out of debt and have to play the juggle game, like us.