Freaky Frugalite

Monday came and went with a blink of an eye! Since it was a holiday, of sorts (Columbus Day), we took a day trip up to the High Peaks area of the Adirondack Mountain Range in New York State. Autumn is glowing in all its splendor there. I’ll have more photos and some interesting stories [...]

1. You turn off your modem and get this awful, empty feeling… Yeahhhhh…. 2. You spent half of the plane trip with the laptop on your lap… and your child in the overhead compartment. 3. You start using smiles in your snail mail. I thought everyone did this?? 4. Your cat has its own home [...]

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This morning I learned what “swag” means. My husband saw the word the other day (probably reading a blog over my shoulder) and asked, “What is ‘swag’? Where does that word come from?” I explained that swag is the loot bloggers (or online folks) get, usually from companies– tote bags, buttons, pens, promotional stuff, etc. [...]

Saw this bumper sticker while out shopping and it make me bust laughing. Sorry it’s so blurry. The driver was still in the car in the parking lot. I felt uncomfortable stopping and snapping a photo of them, so I kept walking while taking the photo. LOL.

What a whirlwind of weeks. Just TOO MUCH to do lately, and it’s been so hot that I haven’t felt like doing anything. Today, the humidity is back down to “people level” (as opposed to “fish level” where we’re literally swimming through the atmosphere) and the temperature is down to 85 degrees (wahoo, yippee). I [...]

We’ve been laying low this week, due to the serious heat wave hitting the area. Hey, remember all those times I laughed at you folks in the South about the snow and cold? I take it back, all of it. :-p I’m a Northerner, my blood is too thick for this stuff! I saw on [...]

Yeah, it’s hit us at last: the blistering “heat dome” that the weather dudes and Drudge Report are hyperventilating about with breathless exuberance. I haven’t seen my local weatherman THIS excited since the 1993 blizzard… I’m sorry that all you guys in the west and mid west and slightly mid west and west-east have suffered…. [...]

Ever get those weeks where everything seems “off,” even though nothing really has happened? That’s been my week so far. My schedule was interrupted by the holiday. Yeah, I guess I consider holidays “interruptions.” I run a tight ship, so to speak, and when there’s disruption, I feel it. When I was a kid, I [...]

Earlier this week, I added a bunch of new blogs to my feed reader. Many of these blogs were ones I’d been to erratically in the past. Reading blogs keeps my mind fresh, it gives me ideas for my own blogs and reminds me of stories and jokes to share. For the past year, I’ve [...]