From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Rinse and Repeat

November 10, 2009

So… I’ve been frustrated with myself and my weight loss progress lately, so I kicked my own butt buckled down and got back to basics with my program this last week. I was sick and tired of losing the same two pounds over and over again.   Although I have the Weight Watchers Monthly Pass [...]

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I had to do it.

November 8, 2009

I was obsessed. I broke my budget and self-imposed prohibition of fabric stores because lord knows I have enough fabric to last a gazillion years. That $0.99 pattern sale at Hancock’s was just calling my name. All. morning. long. And today was the last day of the sale. Besides, all my old patterns – even [...]

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Thrifty Cooking: Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

November 7, 2009

This is the third dish I made out of a single store-bought roasted chicken, which means I was able to have three meals for $5.99. My first meal used one of the chicken breasts with a salad, the other meal used the other breast chopped up to make chicken salad (on an Oroweat Double Fiber [...]

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Oops – Sugar free, not points free

November 5, 2009

The weather’s getting cooler in my neck of the woods and one of the things I love to have, especially while curled up on the couch, is a cozy cup of hot chocolate. In fact, I’ve been having lots of this drink lately, and not counting the points because, well, I just wasn’t. Usually I [...]

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Spooky!

November 1, 2009

Check out this photo… I think this is so cool. Can you see the orbs in the picture? Think, Ghost Whisperer. I wonder if the larger orb is my father’s spirit and the smaller one is our kitty Merlin.

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Halloween’s over…Next!

November 1, 2009

This was the first year, really, that I sort of got into the spirit of Halloween. My daughter decorated the house really nice this time, and I even had a decent costume worked out (for free), but like all well-intentioned plans, it didn’t turn out like I had hoped. I had hoped to have a [...]

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