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Two updates and a long-awaited realization

Updates on the blog are few and far between these days. Life is busy. Anxiety runs high while coping mechanisms continue to fail me. But that’s another post for another…

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This pandemic is making me do crazy things. Like math.

Ever think that there is nothing you can do about your food costs? Well, with this one little change, you can save over $1000 a year and still have pizza…

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A day late and a dollar short, but I’m still here.

Mother's Day 2020; Quarantine-Style.

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Quitting Diet Soda and Finding a company with AMAZING customer service. The two events are related, I promise.

Good bye Diet Pepsi As many people know, I have been drinking diet pop for as long as I can remember. For the past fifteen years, I have seldom been…

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Perhaps my most favourite spam email of all time has arrived.

In this day and age, it is rare that I see any of the spam emails that come through my Inbox. These new finagled Junk Mail filters have greatly improved…

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Is that WEED?

Ugh. So, this is 2020? I spend a fair amount (read: half) of my life driving my people from place to place, mediating arguments and pulling over to allow any…

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Pretty sure that this is a true story

Now, I don’t like to brag (kind of lying to you, right out of the gate here ??‍♀️), but I’m almost positive that last summer I was a too-cool, quasi-popular,…

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She would have been 106 years-old today and I miss her still.

My grandma would have turned 106 years-old today. I spent every weekend from the age of two until twelve with my grandparents. She loved me unconditionally, confided in me, listened…

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WEEK 4 Update and Wrap Up: Bringing the Grocery Budget Back to Reality: A Four Week Challenge

The final week of a four-week-long grocery budget challenge. The update and wrap up.

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WEEK 2 Update: Bringing the Grocery Budget Back to Reality: A Four Week Challenge

Last week, I posted this grocery budget challenge for the month of May. You can read that post here. If you want to skip the preamble, scroll down for the…

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