Happy Fall!

It is finally officially fall! The couple fall/Halloween decorations I have are out,(OK they have been for a couple weeks now) all that is left to do is hang my little ghosts outside on the bushes! :) We have started our plans for our annual trip to Robas(the pumpkin patch)/Halloween movie night, and I have all my Halloween candy ready and waiting for the trick or treaters(thanks to my coupons it was all free!). I just love this time of year! Bring on the pretty leaves.

39 days until Halloween

65 days until Thanksgiving

66 days until Black Friday

93 days until Christmas Eve

94 days until Christmas!

Get your coupons ready!!

I emailed Kmart the other day asking if they would be doing another double coupon event anytime soon and this is the response I got:

Dear Valued Customer,Thank you for your recent correspondence. We are always interested in hearing from our customers. We appreciate your interest in our Double Coupon Event. This event is for select participating Kmart locations from September 27-October 3, 2009. The participating stores in Pennsylvania are listed below:

4150 528 W PLANK ROAD ALTOONA PA 16602
7325 2660 CONSTITUTION BLVD BEAVER FALLS PA 15010
7120 780 ROSTRAVER RD BELLE VERNON PA 15012
3561 1837 STREET ROAD BENSALEM PA 19020
9161 1520 W FRONT ST BERWICK PA 18603
3141 1025 WASHINGTON PIKE BRIDGEVILLE PA 15017
3392 5005 EDGEMONT AVE BROOKHAVEN PA 19015
4772 331 WEST FREEDOM AVE BURNHAM PA 17009
4771 601 HANSEN AVE BUTLER PA 16001
7746 1180 WALNUT BOTTOM ROAD CARLISLE PA 17013
3225 1005 WAYNE AVE CHAMBERSBURG PA 17201
9642 CLARION MALL RD 3 BOX 171 CLARION PA 16214
7293 713 E BALTIMORE PIKE CLIFTON HEIGHTS PA 19018
3911 3975 COLUMBIA AVE COLUMBIA PA 17512
4445 825 BEAVER GRADE ROAD CORAOPOLIS PA 15108
3737 4377 ROUTE 313 DOYLESTOWN PA 18901
9733 RD 3 STATE RTE 255 N DUBOIS PA 15801
3406 300 LINCOLN AVENUE EAST STROUDSBURG PA 18301
3963 1605 S MARKET STREET ELIZABETHTOWN PA 17022
9123 463 N ENOLA RTS 11 15 SUMMERDALE PLZA CTR ENOLA PA 17025
9662 1127 S STATE ST EPHRATA PA 17522
3927 7200 PEACH STREET ERIE PA 16509
4113 2873 W 26TH STREET ERIE PA 16506
4334 4401 BUFFALO RD ERIE PA 16510
7187 1320 E GRANDVIEW BLVD ERIE PA 16504
3232 175 N POTTSTOWN EXTON PA 19341
3028 176 W STREET ROAD FEASTERVILLE PA 19053
3498 ROUTE 61 FRACKVILLE PA 17931
4874 100 SUGARCREEK TWP CTR. RD. FRANKLIN PA 16323
4479 5050 JONESTOWN ROAD HARRISBURG PA 17112
7708 5 LAUREL MALL HAZLETON PA 18201
3824 2235 EAST STATE STREET HERMITAGE PA 16148
3597 600 MACDADE BLVD HOLMES PA 19043
3885 US ROUTE 6 MALL HONESDALE PA 18431
7470 1170 MAE STREET HUMMELSTOWN PA 17036
7217 2334 OAKLAND AVE STE 6 INDIANA PA 15701
3266 18 MARK PLAZA KINGSTON PA 18704
3416 1 EAST TOWNE MALL LANCASTER PA 17602
4373 1890 FRUITVILLE PIKE LANCASTER PA 17601
3187 1776 EAST LINCOLN HWY LANGHORNE PA 19047
3912 200 MOUNTAIN LAUREL PLAZA LATROBE PA 15650
7699 1745 QUENTIN LEBANON PA 17042
7372 451 HYDE PARK RD LEECHBURG PA 15656
3884 111 HULST DR SUITE 722 MATAMORAS PA 18336
4770 4041 WASHINGTON ROAD MCMURRAY PA 15317
7129 16881 CONNEAUT LAKE RD MEADVILLE PA 16335
4275 5600 CARLISLE PIKE US 11 MECHANICSBURG PA 17050
4825 1 MILLBROOK PLAZA MILL HALL PA 17751
4429 120 MALL BLVD MONROEVILLE PA 15146
4935 2000 SCOTT BLVD MOON TOWNSHIP PA 15108
3264 3382 BIRNEY PLAZA MOOSIC PA 18507
9770 ROUTE 819 SOUTH MT PLEASANT PA 15666
3593 601 ROUTE 940 MT POCONO PA 18344
7083 2652 ELLWOOD ROAD NEW CASTLE PA 16101
4054 100 TARENTUM RD NEW KENSINGTON PA 15068
4064 1901 LINCOLN HWY NORTH VERSAILLES PA 15137
3454 900 ORTHODOX ST PHILADELPHIA PA 19124
3516 424 OREGON AVENUE WEST PHILADELPHIA PA 19148
3527 7101 ROOSEVELT BLVD PHILADELPHIA PA 19149
3953 901-99 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA PA 19107
3964 3000 ISLAND AVENUE PHILADELPHIA PA 19153
7198 3301 ARAMINGO AVENUE PHILADELPHIA PA 19134
9382 8800 FRANKFORD AVENUE PHILADELPHIA PA 19136
9409 1000 NUTT ROAD PHOENIXVILLE PA 19460
3529 996 WEST VIEW PARK DRIVE PITTSBURGH PA 15229
3616 875 GREEN TREE ROAD PITTSBURGH PA 15220
3895 7900 MCKNIGHT ROAD PITTSBURGH PA 15237
4010 880 BUTLER STREET PITTSBURGH PA 15223
4793 1775 SOUTH BRADDOCK AVE PITTSBURGH PA 15218
7142 1874 NORTH TOWNSHIP BLVD PITTSTON PA 18640
9438 720 CLAIRTON BOULEVARD ROUTE 51 PLAZA PLEASANT HILLS PA 15236
3196 2200 EAST HIGH ST POTTSTOWN PA 19464
4840 3045 FIFTH STREET HIGHWAY READING PA 19605
3710 300 BRIGHTON AVENUE ROCHESTER PA 15074
9166 1000 N ELMIRA ST SAYRE PA 18840
3047 1011 SCRANTON CARBONDALE SCRANTON PA 18508
7075 NORTH SUSQUEHANNA TRAIL TRAFFIC CIRCLE SHAMOKIN DAM PA 17876
3136 1 PARKSIDE AVE SHILLINGTON PA 19607
9769 40 SHIPPENSBURG SHOP CTR SHIPPENSBURG PA 17257
3418 704 WEST LANCASTER AVENUE STRAFFORD WAYNE PA 19087
9539 3205 LINCOLN HWY THORNDALE PA 19372
4713 RT #6 BRANDFORD TOWN CTR TOWANDA PA 18848
4936 99 MATTHEWS DRIVE UNIONTOWN PA 15401
3051 1133 YORK RD WARMINSTER PA 18974
9529 1666 MARKET ST EXTENSION WARREN PA 16365
9140 706 E MAIN ST WAYNESBORO PA 17268
7374 985 PAOLI PIKE WEST CHESTER PA 19380
3268 910 WILKES BARRE TWP BLVD WILKES BARRE PA 18702
3390 1915 E THIRD ST WILLIAMSPORT PA 17701
3117 2620 MORELAND RD WILLOW GROVE PA 19090
3810 2600 NORTH WILLOW ST PIKE WILLOW STREET PA 17584
4313 1094 HAINES ROAD YORK PA 17402

The rules for this event are:Manufacturer Coupons up to $2 Value Doubled Does not include Kmart Store Coupons Does not include Kmart Pharmacy Coupons Limit 10 total coupons per customer per day doubled ? additional couponsbeyond 11 will be redeemed at face value only Minimum purchase of $25 in grocery and drug store merchandise required NoteNo future double coupon events are scheduled at this time.

Again, thank you for your interest in our Kmart Double Coupon Event in Pennsylvania. We invite you to visit any of the participating stores.








***I'm so glad I still cut out a bunch of coupons I thought would be good for doubles the last time I got a batch from my grandmother! I knew they would have to do another! I would be OK with this one being the last one until after the Holidays. I know starting October 1 I will be very busy between work(going to work AS MUCH overtime as I can until March 31st), family, and everything else going on, I may be to busy to spend days getting ready before the doubling starts and then running to Kmart every day.

T.G.I. Friday's® Restaurants Say Thank God It's Football With Largest Kickoff Party in the U.S.A.

This made me very happy! Free wings at Fridays on Sept 10th, 13th, and 14th for sitting at the bar and watching football! Hoping I can convince Derek to go to watch the Chargers game on the 14th! Go Chargers!


T.G.I. Friday's® Restaurants Say Thank God It's Football With Largest Kickoff Party in the U.S.A.

Monthly Goals

OK first lets see how I did last month:

1. Sew all my ripped/torn clothes. They may only be appropriate to wear around the house but I did sew them :)

2. Go through my stockpile/basement and get things together for a Yard Sale. Thanks to my moms help I got this done in a day :)

3. Have Yard Sale. We did have our yard sale this past Saturday, I didn't make enough to pay off my next credit card but I made enough to make a good payment on it :)

4. Pay off 1 credit card. Done!! 7 more to go!

5. Find a place to keep my canning jars. -Oops. didn't get this one done! I guess it will carry over to September!

6. Return broken deep fryer and get a new one. -It's sitting on the kitchen table waiting to go back, does that count?

7. Get pictures together for Christmas presents. I got this done as much as I could, I am still begging other people to please give me copies of pictures they have!

8. Get addresses together for Christmas cards. -I would say this is half done, I dug through all my papers and found all the addresses I have, and requested addresses from others. It's not my fault if they never got back to me right?

9. Scan pictures. I got all the pictures I have so far scanned

10. Get new litter box. - Darn, haven't had the extra cash to get new one of these

11. Enter all coke caps. This one was easy :)

12. Wash all windows. I surprised myself and actually go this one done!

September goals:

1. Find a home for the canning jars!! Along with all the other stuff I didn't see at the yard sale.

2. Return the deep fryer.

3. Trim the front hedges. Our half looks like a jungle!!

4. Put out my fall/Halloween decorations! This one won't be hard to get myself to do :)

5. Don't start watching to many new shows. I feel like I watch to much TV already, and since 4 of my shows ended last year I don't want to start watching 4 more! I want to watch the new Melrose Place and Vampire diaries to see how they are but that is it. I can't watch as much TV as I did last year. (and I don't even have cable)

6. Pay of another credit card. This will show up every month until they are all gone!

7. Go through all cook books that were pulled out of the apartment after the fire, copy any recipes I want and through the stinky things away!

8. Get all Christmas cards signed and addresses with the addresses I have. (yes I get this done very early)

9. Scrub my garbage can. *yuck* but REALLY needs to be done before it gets to cold to be outside with the hose!

10. Clean all the blinds. I have to figure out the best way to do that though.

--I feel like there are more things I need to get done, so i might add to the list later but this is all I can remember right now.

Employee appreciation day

A few months ago Derek told me they had a bunch of toilet paper, paper towels, etc at work that they were going to be giving away to the workers for employee appreciation day. It was so long ago I pretty much forgot about it, until yesterday morning when I got up and started making Derek's lunch to take to work. He told me he didn't need a lunch because they were cooking for them today. I got soooo excited and couldn't wait for him to get home! I seriously jumped up and ran outside when I saw him pull up and start to unload the trunk:) Combined with all the stuff I already have that I got for free, we have enough paper products to last us a year or more!!

In other news I am soooo excited to go see H2 tomorrow! It looks awesome and I love Rob Zombie♥ I'm trying to convince Derek to go to the midnight showing tonight! We will see!

How do I do this?

I have been trying to figure out for months(years) how to cross out my typing! So in case you(mom) also want to know how to do it, here it is:


<> words go in here < / strike >


Remove all the spaces and there you(mom) have it :)

***Edit- in between the first set of <> there should be the word "strike" I don't know why it won't show up. *sigh*

Long picture filled update!

The past few weekends have been very calm(wonderful!) Don't mind all the bad phone pics! I can't get the pictures off my camera and onto my laptop so I have to use my phone and email them to myself!

We went to Sonic again! I'm loving finally having one about 30 minutes away!

Got all of this at the last Kmart double coupons for $10.86

Link finally got himself into the basket in the bookshelf :)


My parents got a new dog Jazzy(Sassy). The black one! The other is Sammy.

We have also been having a lot of game nights :) Nice cheap fun!

My brother and a couple friends stayed over recently and decided to order pizza. I laughed my bum off when I looked over and saw the 2 of them like this! hehehe "Growing" boys are apparently really hungry!

We were supposed to have a yard sale this past weekend but how can you when it looks like this outside everyday?

But it worked out OK because now my mother and aunt putting an ad in the paper for next weekend and I will hopefully make enough to take a good chunk out of the next credit card in line!!

Other than that we have basically been taking turns and playing Fable 2 nonstop :) We are so easy to amuse! Derek had to take some time off from racing to catch up on some bills which I hate! But it had to be done. He should start up again the first weekend in September. Oh and I'm also very excited about football season coming up! I don't know where it came from but last year I developed a new love for it? Go Chargers!!

Membership fee?

So we paid off one of our credit cards last month that we have had a balance on for a long time and today I get a bill for $45.50?? So i call the credit card company and ask what it is and they tell me it's my membership fee! What?!?! Have I been paying $45.50 on top of the ridiculous interest every year!! I told the guy to please cancel my account, and that I do not want to pay any membership fee! Luckily he was very nice and did it without any problem. We have 3 other credit cards with this company(2 have a balance and 1 doesn't) so I asked him to check and see if they all have membership fees. He tells me that the one we don't have a balance on does not, and neither does the one we owe the most money on, but the other one we owe a few hundred on has a $125 membership fee!!! That's insane!! I need to get that paid off and cancelled ASAP! I'm not sure how we are going to do it yet because we already have a payment set up for 8/28 to pay off another credit card(YAY) but we will find a way because I will NOT pay $125 just to have a credit card! Believe me we have enough other ones that we won't miss these 2!

Kmart doubles 8/16-8/22

I just got a confirmation email from Kmart that they will be doing doubles up to $2 from 8/16 to 8/22! Time to get those coupons ready :)

Redbox!

Sorry this is so late but I can't access my blog from the computer I work on all the time(long story). But it's the first Monday of the month which means free Redbox rentals!! Today's code is 27HZ4KT. You can use the code one time per debit/credit card so we usually get a few each time :) You can never have to many movies!

Monthly Goals

So I stopped doing my Monday goals last month and just made a list of monthly goals, it worked much better! So here is my list of August goals and at the end of the month I will post what I got done :)


1. Sew all my ripped/torn clothes.

2. Go through my stockpile/basement and get things together for a Yard Sale.

3. Have Yard Sale.

4. Pay off 1 credit card.

5. Find a place to keep my canning jars.

6. Return broken deep fryer and get a new one.

7. Get pictures together for Christmas presents.

8. Get addresses together for Christmas cards.

9. Scan pictures.

10. Get new litter box.

11. Enter all coke caps.

12. Wash all windows.

6 Years♥

I wrote this days ago and forgot to post it!!


Tuesday the 28th was our 6 year anniversary. Since we are trying to cut back on everything we decided just to go to dinner at Red Robin, and apparently we went on kids night because there were lots of screaming kids and Red wandering around :) After dinner we went to Famous Footwear because they were having a buy one get on half off sale. Derek needed sneakers since he has been wearing the same old pair of shoes since the fire and I needed sandals since the only summer shoes I have are flip flops! After that we went home and watched movies for the rest of the night :) It was definitely a nice relaxing night!

Derek's Birthday!

OK so now that I have spent the past 5 days cleaning(I'm trying to get things together for a yard sale) I can finally post about Derek's 27th birthday! He isn't really that much of a birthday person so he slept in, woke up and got on the computer for a little bit. Then he went to see his Grandma who had just got out of the hospital, went to the Garage to work on his Kart and then once I got done working he came home and we went out to dinner with his parents and my brother.

He's probably on Myspace here, lol

After dinner we dropped my brother off and went for a drive over the mountain to check out the area and see if it's one of the places we will consider buying a house, of course I already knew I like the area it was just a matter of convincing Derek! We ended up stopping at the cemetery to were a friend of mine from high school is buried. Still can't believe it's been 7 years!!

After that we came home and had dessert, since I wasn't able to bake him a cake I found this awesome ice cream from Schwans, I think it was called confetti or something? But anyway it had pieces of cake, icing, and sprinkles in it! It really was much better than I expected it to be!

Friday- Derek had the day off again so I woke up at 6:00am to start working so I could get done at 2:00. We didn't do much of anything, just drove around for a bit, then went to the garage to get everything ready for Saturday and then we went up to my parents because it was my dads birthday but he ended up not being there!

Saturday- We of course went to Derek's race which was fun as usual! We stayed there later than we usually do so they could watch the other people race and I was able to read the rest of my book. Then back to the garage to clean up and home to bed!

Sunday- Derek went to the garage to work on his Kart and I stayed home and cleaned all day! I was exhausted! But it was worth it because now I have 3 boxes overflowing with stuff for the yard sale!

Gilette Fusion Razor .99 at Target!

I just got back from target where I found Manual Fusion Razors for $4.99 and there are $4 coupons out there so I was able to get a few razors for .99! This is the razor Derek uses so I will be taking the rest of the $4 coupons I have and stocking up! :)

Happy Birthday Derek!

Today is Derek's 27th birthday, I'm not sure yet what we will be doing because he isn't much of a Birthday person, so I just let him do whatever he wants on his birthdays. He informed me last night that he took today and tomorrow off so right now he is still in bed♥ We might go out to dinner with his parents but it all depends on if he will be racing tomorrow or Saturday so we will see whats going on in a few hours when he wakes up!

I wanted to share the cake I made Derek last year because I loved it so much. It was probably my all time favorite cake, now if you know me you know how much I love to bake. But since the fire I don't have much baking supplies or recipes, just whatever has been given to me, so I was not able to make Derek a cake this year. But last year I spent hours making him a Batman cake!

I had some trouble with his face but I still love it♥

And so did he!

PS. I miss my beautiful comfortable couches :(

Changes!

I have finally figured out how to do some things to my blog!

• Got a fancy new signature!
• A pretty layout finally! (not sure if I'm keeping this one, I'm still looking around)
• Some pictures and buttons on my sidebar!!
• And a playlist! Which I made so it doesn't start playing automatically because I personally don't like it when music starts blasting when I go to someones blog.

I've only been using blogger since 2007 and just figured all this out now. haha

♥

***WE PAID OFF ANOTHER CREDIT CARD***

I love days like this! I think this makes 5th one this year(9 more to go....what were we thinking?) It finally feels like all of our hard work is paying off and we are that much closer to being debt free, buying a home, and finally being able to start our family♥

4th of July weekend

Derek and I both had off July 3rd so we had a wonderful long weekend ♥



Thursday night we finally were able to go see Transformers Revenge of the Fallen(using our free tickets again of course) I have to say it wasn't as good as the first one but it was very funny! There were some crude jokes that were not needed and it got a little long at the end, but I will definitely be seeing it again!

Friday morning we woke up with no real plans except I wanted to see fireworks somewhere that night. Derek decided that he wanted to go drive around Wilkes-Barre and see where we ended up, and I was all for that because a Sonic just opened up down there and I haven't been to one since I was in Texas! We got there around 11:00 just before the lunch rush and were able to find an open stall right away. Derek wasn't impressed with the food but he loved his Lime aid and the fact that they brought us our food on skates :-) after Sonic we stopped at a couple other stores to pick up a few things we needed for the house and headed home to watch a couple movies we had from Redbox.

Once it started to get dark we headed to the Casino to watch some great fireworks!

I couldn't get a good picture but this one below is of my favorite one of the night

Saturday we spent the day at Derek race and I "forgot" my sunscreen and got a nice burn(when we got home I found it in the bottom of my bag). But other than that it was a wonderful day!

Sunday morning I woke up in pain from my sunburn so I was late to K-Mart for double and missed out on a couple of the deals I wanted :-( But at least my K-Karts don't stick to the 10 coupon limit so I still got a bunch of good deals. My mother and I usually go to all 3 of our local K-Marts but since I wasn't feeling well we just did one and called it a day. After K-Mart I went to the garage with Derek and Bryon while they cleaned up their karts and got them ready for the next race! It ended up being a pretty amazing weekend, and there's so much stuff coming up in July I'm sure we are going to have a bunch more amazing weekends!