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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Blog Give Away Challenge!
It's time for another giveaway challenge and it starts right now. To enter the challenge you will have to actively be involved in saving our planet. You'll have to go above and beyond your norm. To enter you must do 5 things to help the Earth in some way. Two of the five things must be outside your home. Your everyday home recycling doesn't count, sorry. It's too easy. Drawing will be Saturday, October 3rd.
Some ideas:
- use reusable bags when you go shopping
- bring home any recyclables when you go out to eat (fast food restaurants paper bags your food comes in)
- walk your kids to school (if you are close enough to do so)
- pick up trash somewhere
- plant a tree
- take your lunch in reusable containers
- carpool
- combine your errands to one day
- time and shorten your showers
- turn off and unplug when you leave the house (your kids can do this)
- start a compost pile or contribute to someone elses
- Use cloth napkins
- Use old socks for cleaning with
- So many other things that I know you will think of......
There will be a drawing on Saturday, October 3rd for all who enter and the winner will get 2 reusable shopping bags from Whole Foods. They are big and strong and if they ever break Whole Foods will replace them for free. The winner will also get a Seventh Generation Tub and Tile Cleaner. I am super impressed with this product. It works great and smells great and the fumes won't make you high.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Anjolee, try not to let all those red flags smack you in the face!
September 1st I started Bootcamp. As in, I am now paying someone to kick my butt into shape because I can't seem to kick it my own self. Chris woke me up at 5:00 and I got ready and left. When I arrived at bootcamp I saw three other women there with mats and bands like I was told to bring, but I did not recognize the intructor. He was a tall, nice looking, black man dressed in athletic clothing and wearing a whistle and a stopwatch. I expected the instructor to be the blonde girl from church that I know. So, as I walk up I ask,
"Is this Angela's bootcamp?"
Instructor:"Yes, come on up, set your mat down."
We are all kind of standing there and then he says, "Y'all know Angela's out of town."
I think to myself, well, I guess she works with a group and she was inviting us to start the bootcamp, but she couldn't make the first session. Okay, no big deal. I would've thought she would have told us that she wasn't going to be here when she sent the e-mail just yesterday, but oh well. I knew that Angela used to or maybe still does work for the YMCA so I just thought well, maybe the Y is putting this on and she is an instructor.
The other ladies start talking to him about yesterday.
Hmmmm. Angela said the class was just Tuesdays and Thursdays and started today.
He then tells us to run the loop. Well, I don't know what the heck the loop is and so I just kind of stare at him blankly and he tells me just to follow the other ladies. There are two in front of me and one behind me. All of them have at least 15 years on me if not more. I haven't run in awhile, but since I don't know what the loop is I have to keep pace with the old ladies. I start out pretty good and then I begin to lose ground on them. Well, there's still the one behind me, but she's way back there and I don't want to wait on her to figure out where to go. She got the years plus probably 75 pounds so I dang sure ought to be able to smoke her. I am huffing and puffing and they're just up there chatting, I can tell, like this run is no big deal.
I finish the run.
My sister had shown up during the run. I'm impressed. This is a girl who doesn't even speak before 10am and she came to bootcamp with me. yay!
So then we get our hineys kicked hard. He has us doing push ups and then he blows the whistle and we flip over and do sit ups, whistle, push ups, whistle, sit ups..... I am dying!
After that we start doing this arm work with this ball. It is a heavy ball that is a little bit squishy. I can hardly even hold the thing up my arms are shaking so much, much less do the moves.
Here's where the story gets embarrassing. Sara leans over and tells me that she thinks she is going to throw up. I motion for her to go out in the grass. Aren't I a sweet sister? So, after she tells me that I start feeling crappy myself. Dang you Sara! I am starting to feel SO dizzy. I try and push through it, but I can't. I have to walk out and sit down. So, Sara is layed out on the picnic table and I am sitting on the ground and the old ladies are just working away kicking our hineys still! Oh man, did I feel stupid! That has never happened to me when I worked out!
Sara, and I were able to recover after awhile and finish the workout.
When it was over....which was at 6:30 and Angela had told us 6:15....He says he will see us tomorrow. I asked the guy if I could pay him or if I should just pay Angela on Thursday. He told me I could pay him so I make my check out and I write on it Tues/Thurs because I am noticing that the others are coming everday.
When he looks at the check he says so you are just coming two days a week? I told him that that's all Angela told me it was and he tells me that I can come 5 days a week if I want so I ask how much it will be and he says $299. What??!!! Then he tells me another price for just the two days and I told him that Angela told me it was just $35. He says, it is, for the week for Tues/Thurs. So now I am confused and I'm thinking maybe she meant to say $35 a week for a month and not $35 a month.
He also proceeds to ask us how we know Angela and tells us what she eats before she works out....blah, blah, blah. When I get home I notice that Angela has posted something like this on her Facebook page:
Bootcamp in the morning ladies! It's gonna be good!
I read it and think that that doesn't necessarily mean she's gonna be there and I wanted her to know that I went since I told her I was going to and so I posted this and then the conversation began.
Anjolee: Boot camp was great, except I felt like an idiot! I kept getting dizzy. That's never happened to me before. I need to remember to eat a little something before I go.
Angela: Anjolee...I'm not sure who you did bootcamp with this morning, but it wasn't my class!!! It was me, Misty, Sara A., Amy P., Jennifer and Pam...where in the world were you??? Please tell me you didn't go to somebody elses bootcamp! LOL Call me!
I called her and she told me that he knew she was there doing a bootcamp and she knows he is there and she has sent people to him before that have showed up at hers looking for his and he was scamming me on purpose! So, I realize that he isn't going to give me my check back because he did give me a workout which is what I paid him for and so I just put a stop payment on my check, which cost me $32, but I would rather pay that to my bank than have him get my $35 since he was being a butt!
On Thursday I showed up at the right plae and have been enjoying the real Angela's bootcamp!
"Is this Angela's bootcamp?"
Instructor:"Yes, come on up, set your mat down."
We are all kind of standing there and then he says, "Y'all know Angela's out of town."
I think to myself, well, I guess she works with a group and she was inviting us to start the bootcamp, but she couldn't make the first session. Okay, no big deal. I would've thought she would have told us that she wasn't going to be here when she sent the e-mail just yesterday, but oh well. I knew that Angela used to or maybe still does work for the YMCA so I just thought well, maybe the Y is putting this on and she is an instructor.
The other ladies start talking to him about yesterday.
Hmmmm. Angela said the class was just Tuesdays and Thursdays and started today.
He then tells us to run the loop. Well, I don't know what the heck the loop is and so I just kind of stare at him blankly and he tells me just to follow the other ladies. There are two in front of me and one behind me. All of them have at least 15 years on me if not more. I haven't run in awhile, but since I don't know what the loop is I have to keep pace with the old ladies. I start out pretty good and then I begin to lose ground on them. Well, there's still the one behind me, but she's way back there and I don't want to wait on her to figure out where to go. She got the years plus probably 75 pounds so I dang sure ought to be able to smoke her. I am huffing and puffing and they're just up there chatting, I can tell, like this run is no big deal.
I finish the run.
My sister had shown up during the run. I'm impressed. This is a girl who doesn't even speak before 10am and she came to bootcamp with me. yay!
So then we get our hineys kicked hard. He has us doing push ups and then he blows the whistle and we flip over and do sit ups, whistle, push ups, whistle, sit ups..... I am dying!
After that we start doing this arm work with this ball. It is a heavy ball that is a little bit squishy. I can hardly even hold the thing up my arms are shaking so much, much less do the moves.
Here's where the story gets embarrassing. Sara leans over and tells me that she thinks she is going to throw up. I motion for her to go out in the grass. Aren't I a sweet sister? So, after she tells me that I start feeling crappy myself. Dang you Sara! I am starting to feel SO dizzy. I try and push through it, but I can't. I have to walk out and sit down. So, Sara is layed out on the picnic table and I am sitting on the ground and the old ladies are just working away kicking our hineys still! Oh man, did I feel stupid! That has never happened to me when I worked out!
Sara, and I were able to recover after awhile and finish the workout.
When it was over....which was at 6:30 and Angela had told us 6:15....He says he will see us tomorrow. I asked the guy if I could pay him or if I should just pay Angela on Thursday. He told me I could pay him so I make my check out and I write on it Tues/Thurs because I am noticing that the others are coming everday.
When he looks at the check he says so you are just coming two days a week? I told him that that's all Angela told me it was and he tells me that I can come 5 days a week if I want so I ask how much it will be and he says $299. What??!!! Then he tells me another price for just the two days and I told him that Angela told me it was just $35. He says, it is, for the week for Tues/Thurs. So now I am confused and I'm thinking maybe she meant to say $35 a week for a month and not $35 a month.
He also proceeds to ask us how we know Angela and tells us what she eats before she works out....blah, blah, blah. When I get home I notice that Angela has posted something like this on her Facebook page:
Bootcamp in the morning ladies! It's gonna be good!
I read it and think that that doesn't necessarily mean she's gonna be there and I wanted her to know that I went since I told her I was going to and so I posted this and then the conversation began.
Anjolee: Boot camp was great, except I felt like an idiot! I kept getting dizzy. That's never happened to me before. I need to remember to eat a little something before I go.
Angela: Anjolee...I'm not sure who you did bootcamp with this morning, but it wasn't my class!!! It was me, Misty, Sara A., Amy P., Jennifer and Pam...where in the world were you??? Please tell me you didn't go to somebody elses bootcamp! LOL Call me!
I called her and she told me that he knew she was there doing a bootcamp and she knows he is there and she has sent people to him before that have showed up at hers looking for his and he was scamming me on purpose! So, I realize that he isn't going to give me my check back because he did give me a workout which is what I paid him for and so I just put a stop payment on my check, which cost me $32, but I would rather pay that to my bank than have him get my $35 since he was being a butt!
On Thursday I showed up at the right plae and have been enjoying the real Angela's bootcamp!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Everyday Life
Found this in my drafts and decided I would post it. It has poop parts so if you don't like to read poop stories then don't read it.
We set off for our bi-weekly grocery trip to Whole Foods. It was pretty late and we expected the kids to go to sleep on the way there and then Chris would sit in the car with them and I would go in and get groceries. Before we hit up Whole Foods we had to pay a visit to Chipotle. When Chris came out with our burrito Mckenzee had woken up and he had to go back in and get her a burrito. We then went over to Whole Foods, finished our burritos and I was ready to go in, except Riley-man woke up too. So, we all got out and I decided to change Riley first, opened the diaper and Crap! It was full of poop. I told Chris that I didn't have any wipes and asked him to go in and buy some and bring them out. I also offered to go in myself while he stayed outside with the poop boy, but he said he didn't mind....ha! Anyway, when he went around to get Mckenzee who wanted to go too he found a bottle of water and asked if we could just pour that water on the Chipotle napkins to clean him up. That's what we did and it worked! Thank you to Connie for leaving your nice Fiji Starbucks water in my car so I could clean my baby's butt with it.
We set off for our bi-weekly grocery trip to Whole Foods. It was pretty late and we expected the kids to go to sleep on the way there and then Chris would sit in the car with them and I would go in and get groceries. Before we hit up Whole Foods we had to pay a visit to Chipotle. When Chris came out with our burrito Mckenzee had woken up and he had to go back in and get her a burrito. We then went over to Whole Foods, finished our burritos and I was ready to go in, except Riley-man woke up too. So, we all got out and I decided to change Riley first, opened the diaper and Crap! It was full of poop. I told Chris that I didn't have any wipes and asked him to go in and buy some and bring them out. I also offered to go in myself while he stayed outside with the poop boy, but he said he didn't mind....ha! Anyway, when he went around to get Mckenzee who wanted to go too he found a bottle of water and asked if we could just pour that water on the Chipotle napkins to clean him up. That's what we did and it worked! Thank you to Connie for leaving your nice Fiji Starbucks water in my car so I could clean my baby's butt with it.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
First Day of Ballet
Mckenzee started Ballet class again and this time she is ready! She listens to her teacher and follows directions instead of running around the room like she did in her trial class in January. I am so proud of her. She does such a great job. I enjoy watching her on the monitor and peeking at her through the one way glass. My beautiful ballerina!
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