Movies are EXPENSIVE!

So I took my kids to the free movie at our local theatre yesterday. Since the littlest one couldn't sit long enough we went out and walked the mall. While waiting for the rest of the family I stopped and read the prices of movie tickets. Talk about outrageous. Ten dollars per a person. You can by the DVD for less then the price of bringing a date to the movie.

Well thank goodness for survey sites. Click here to go the Lightspeed Consumer Panel. For 3300 points you can get two tickets (to any movie) and a $10 gift certificate for popcorn. Sounds like a deal to me. Most of their surveys are worth about 150 points, but I usually qualify for at least one a day. Check it out and enjoy your movie as we all just try to survive.

A better Day

So yesterday was not nearly as bad as I had anticipated, which made for a good day. My niece arrived Wednesday night, so I'm an Aunt. This is my very first niece/nephew so I'm very excited. Things are good today. I wish it would quit raining as I have to take the Girl Scouts to an outdoor function tonight, but oh well. My sister in law is in an uncoroporative hospital and feels like she is doing something wrong. She isn't and I hope her confidence grows. I want to go and be there for her, but with my little ones, they won't let me in. I wish this thing would get canceled tonight so I could go be with her. I hope all is well with you my readers, as we all just try to survive.

Worn Out

So I am starting to believe that all this financial stress is taking it's toll on me physically. I am so tired all the time. I am almost paralyzed from the stress. I know what I have to do but the thought of doing anything makes me head hurt. If I could just finish the taxes that would put me in a better place, since we are getting money back, but the thought of all that work makes me freeze up. I'm almost done I just need to finish itemizing the last of my donations. If only I could find all those Goodwill receipts. I went at least six times last year. Then once that's done I need to resubmit paperwork for the house. Then I need to fill out all kind of very invasive paperwork for the people who are trying to collect money for Jake's surgery. It's not that I don't want to pay them, I just can't pay them right now. I think it's crazy that they are not willing to take what I want to pay them. I guess they will just write it off, but it's not like I'm trying to get out of paying them. Whatever, but again the thought of all that paperwork has me paralyzed. I can normally lose myself in a game or a book or something, but all I want to do is sleep. I don't even want to see or talk to people. Which doesn't really work well when your in charge of a monthly cooking group. Oh and that reminds me. Now the preschool wants ten dollars from me because I was late on Friday. Now I know that I was late (Bella lost my keys) but I think every parent should get like a three strikes and your out deal or something. I know some people are late because that is their nature (Eppie) but most people are not. It just really sucks. Ten dollars is almost as much as her tuition. So now, because I'm a moose and I feel backed into a corner, I'm tempted to just pull her out of preschool. This way I won't have to pay tuition for the rest of the year and well then I can't be late can I? I know it's not really a rational way to think, but like I said the stress is getting to me. I really don't have much left to give. I'm wondering if when I run out I just drop dead or do I just continue like the zombie I have been? For my friends I'm sorry I haven't been around or very talkative. I also think it's the time of year. I always seemed to get really depressed and antisocial during this time in my life. Ironic thing is I used to love this time of year. Now after years of disappointment I think the depression starts earlier every year. Good thing is that hopefully this will all be over by next week. Maybe then I will feel better. Maybe I will have won the lottery. That would be awesome. If I won the lottery I would get out of debt. Then I would help my best friend out some. Then I would pay for my brother to go to college. Stupid parents messed up somewhere cause they have no college fund for him. Well I think I have rambled enough for today. Check back with me tomorrow. I might still be here, just trying to survive.

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Tuesday's Good Thing

Hmmm well I didn't have to take the kids with me to Walgreen's. Yeah me. And I only spent $3.00.

CVS photo card

Just a head's up, you can get a free Valentine's photo card at CVS. Pay $1 and get $1ECB back. Just make sure you go to a CVS with photo kiosk. The one closest to my house doesn't have one.

Today's good thing

Okay so today was a little more challeging so this is what I came up with. My good thing is that I quickly recovered from my hangover. Yeah me.

Hidden Winn Dixie special

So if you have a Winn Dixie around check out this hidden deal. Buy a 5lb bag of potatoes and get two things of Hormel bacon bits or pieces free. Awesome huh? Mine was sold out but I will definitely be checking back.

Saturday

So I've been trying to come up with "one good thing". Well nothing major happened today, but I did have some good things happen. I was able to use my coupons at Walgreens and scored 6 bags of chips and 3 dips for $2.00. I then found the Winn Dixie ad and was able to score 2 Red Baron pizzas, Tyson any'tizers, a pint of ice cream, lil smokies, 2L coke, 4 things of lunch meat, and 2 jars of peanuts for $17.01. Not bad for a day of shopping.

One good thing

So I was realizing that there is a lot of negativity out there on all these websites. MLIA and fmylife for example. So I want to try something new. I want to post at least one good thing a day that happened to me. So here is today's: While at Publix today I was able to find Tostito coupons. I plan to use these at Walgreen's. These allow me to buy 6 bags of chips and get 3 free dips. The cool part, the chips are two dollars a piece and the dip is like $3.00 something. So it will be $12 after the dip is taken off. I will use my $10 RR and pay like $2. Then cause my orginal total was over $20 I will get a $10 RR back. See, how cool is that. 6 bags of chips and 3 dips for $2. Can't beat that!

L'Oreal Lash Booster

Okay so you all know that I occasionally get free products from companies to try. Well I recently received a sample of the new L'Oreal Lash Booster set. It came with the serum and the mascara part. Anyways I wanted to tell you that I think this product is really cool. I'm not a big make up wearer and having to wear this for four weeks was really hard, but I think it works. At first I thought it might work only because mascara is hard to get off and I think it was just building on itself. But then I took some time off and I noticed that I have more lashes on the bottom now. It also works so well I don't need to curl my eyelashes. Not like I ever really did LOL, but you get the point. So if you want your eyelashes to really stand out check out L'Oreal's newest mascara. Sound like a commercial? Well kind of, but it's me and I'm only gonna tell you the truth.

P&G Community

So in my search to only put new information out there I have stumbled upon this. I joined the Proctor & Gamble community a few days ago and today I received an email asking to take a survey. It only took 10 minutes and I will receive a $10 itunes gift card. How cool is that?! Anyways if you would like to join click here. If you use that link they will donate $2 to the Children's Safe Drinking Water program. So do your part and help some kids who are just trying to survive.

New Year More Blog

Okay so even though I keep setting blog goals for myself I keep failing miserably. Part of the reason is I don't want to copy what is already on everyone else's blogs kwim. Trying to find things that are "new" is a little bit harder. So here's what's new with me. Having some trouble with our mortgage now and trying to come up with a solution. I will let you know how it all turns out, but after a few days of panic, we have decided to pray and do our part but let God work it out. It's always much easier that way. I have also decided to take Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University classes again. It always helps to have a refresher and Dave really knows his stuff. It's really funny seeing all these people being held hostage by their credit cards and "the man". So going to help others while working on myself too. I have also told my brother to take the course. If you are young, take it!!! It will teach you how to be a grown up like nothing else. So there's my plug of the day. Good luck to you all and God bless.