44 Odd things about Me

44 Odd things about Me:

1. Do you like blue cheese dressing? Yes but I usually have ranch or italian

2. Have you ever smoked? I smoked from the time I was 16 until I was 25. I quit when I was pregnant with Emira back in 2000. 2 yrs later I started back again for a few mos til I realized how stupid I was and quit again – FOREVER! I am very anti-smoking now, since Emira almost died from an allergic reaction to my mom’s second hand smoke, when she was 2.

3. Do you own a gun? No but I know how to use them

4. What flavor Kool Aid was your favorite? Tropical punch

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? Usually but only because I have social anxiety

6. What do you think of hot dogs? I love them! Especially from Dairy Queen or on the grill

7. Favorite Christmas movie? Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas (Jim Henson)

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Milk or 7up since Im pg

9. Can you do push ups? maybe one

10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? wedding/engagement ring

11. Favorite hobby? Scrapbooking though I haven’t done it in months

12. Do you have A.D.D.? Probably

13. What's one trait you hate about yourself? I am overweight

14. Middle name? Nicole, my first name is Jaqualyn

15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment. I wish Ainsely would stop crying, where is Emira and how long is it going to take me to fill this out.

16. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink? 7up, Sweet tea and milk

17. Current worry? Ainsley won’t stop crying and I wish Shane would do something with her to help!

18. Current hate right now? My messy home

19. Favorite place to be? at home with my family

20. How did you bring in the New Year? I don’t remember, I think we watched the ball and went to bed

21. Where would you like to go? Europe or Australia

22. Name three people who will complete this 3 girls from Scrappy Chatters

23. Do you own slippers? no

24. What color shirt are you wearing right now? Red

25. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? Never have so I don’t know but I probably would

26. Can you whistle? yep

27. Favorite color? Green

28. Would you be a pirate? no – someone really thought long and hard on that one LOL

29. What songs do you sing in the shower? I don’t sing in the shower

30. Favorite Girl's Name? Working on that, we haven’t yet picked a girls name for this baby.

31. Favorite boy's name? Lincoln

32. what is in your pocket right now? Maybe some lint

33. Last thing that made you laugh? The girls

34. Best bed sheets as a child? Holly Hobby

35. Worst injury you've ever had? Broken nose

36. Do you love where you live? The address is fine I grew up here, but I would LOVE to have a double wide or a house!

37. How many TVs do you have in your house? 2 but we don’t usually watch the one in our bedroom

38. Who is your loudest friend? Angela when she is hyper – I love when she is in this mood!

39. How many dogs do you have? 2 little ones inside and 4 large ones outside

40. Does someone have a crush on you? Doubt it

41. What is your favorite book? The Bible

42. What is your favorite candy? Used to be Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for years, but now it’s Hersheys bars

43. Favorite sports team? WV Mountaineers college football, Dallas Cowboys pro, Atlanta Braves baseball and don’t like basketball

44. What song do you want played at your funeral? Probably something by Natalie Grant, she is so awesome!

And here's another one: ONE WORD!

1. Where is your cell phone? Kitchen

2. Your significant other? Shane

3. Your hair? Blonde

4. Your Mother? Susan

5. Your father? Danny

6. Your favorite thing? Laptop

7. Your dream last night? Forgotten

8. Your favorite drink? Tea

9. Your dream/goal? Godly

10. The room you're in? Family

11. Your hobby? Scrapbooking

12. Your fear? Tornadoes

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? House

14. Where were you last night? Home

15. What you're not? skinny

16. Someone must have stolen #16

17. One of your wish list items? diapers

18. Where you grew up? Shady

19. The last thing you did? laundry

20. What are you wearing? Tshirt

21. Your TV? old

22. Your pets? Buddy

23. Your computer? Acer

24. Your life? pregnant

25. Your mood? blah

26. Missing someone? grandma

27. Your car? Caravan

28. Something you're not wearing? socks

29. Favorite store? walmart

30. Your summer? Fun

31. Like someone? several

32. Your favorite color? green

33. When is the last time you laughed? today

34. Last time you cried? just now

35. Who will resend this? ScrappyChatters

Yay for Kodak and Networks!

I think I have had my laptop for about a year now - It's an ACER and I absolutely love it! Anywho we are also on a wireless network here in our home. For about as long as we have been wireless I have been trying to network my Kodak 5100 AiO printer and have had no success. I use Windows Vista on my laptop and the 2 desktops have Windows XP, so I have always figured it must be a communication problem between Vista and XP.

But today I was determined to figure it out, I knew it could be done! So after Shane and I did our checking and double checking, and trying over and over again, and googling everything possible (only to find that Kodak and tech support say it's not possible) - I FOUND IT!! Someone on CNET (we will call him Mr.Genius) had it figured out and it was so simple! Thanks to Mr. Genius, my stress level is way down!! LOL

Here is the forum post I found. Just in case someone is reading this and is having the same trouble, I am going to post how to do it!

Keep in mind our network is already set up and our printer is already set up to be shared.

Go to Control Panel. Choose printer. Then choose Add Printer.

Do not use the add network printer option in Add Printer!
Choose Add a local printer. Click on Create a new port. The default in the drop down box is Local Port. Do not change that. Click Next.

A dialogue box will appear asking for you to enter a port name. Type in the \\computer name\printer name ie. My computer's name is SHANE and the printer name is KODAK 5100 AiO so I typed in \\Shane\KODAK 5100 AiO (Names are case sensitive)

And it worked! Mr. Genius' guess is that Microsoft thinks printers on a intranet are local. Microsoft no so smart after all! LOL

Oh and btw, my new print head for my Kodak printer was overnighted to me and promptly delivered by the great UPS man this morning!! Also in the box was brand new ink and some photo paper to boot! Yay for Kodak! My new printer head installed perfectly and now my printer is once again showing me LOVE!

Sorry for the pictureless post!

I got up this morning planning to get started with housework and school but my dad came over to my back door and said we had to go. This was news to me, Go where? He said he had to go pay his taxes then we were going to eat at Cracker Barrel and then to Starbucks. STARBUCKS? Why on earth I asked? He said no, not starbucks, BIG bucks! Again, I was like HUH? Turns out he was talking about CVS (extra care bucks) LMBO!!! Yeah he thinks it's cool what I do at CVS!

So we went to RiteAid first so I could get my free shampoos and use my SCRs. I ended up with 2 Garnier products, 2 Aussie products, 1 Colgate toothpaste and a Diet Coke. Used my $10.57 SCR and paid $1.16 for my Diet Coke! Not bad!

Then we went to drop off old clothes at the Salvation Army, pay the taxes at the courthouse and then to eat at Cracker Barrel. Dad had a $25 gift card from Christmas (he just remembered he still had it obviously lol) and we paid $5 for the four of us (Dad, me and the girls - Shane was working today) to eat! Again not bad!

We were tired after we ate so Dad and Emira went it Family Dollar to get a few things and I skipped my CVS trip - will go tomorrow or friday since I am not so excited about this week's deals anyway.

When we got home, Emira helped me clean up and then we realized her movies from Amazon were here. So she went next door to my dad's to watch them. I still haven't seen them! Then I decided to fiddle with my printer (Kodak AIO 5100 which I have loved until this week). After trying everything to get it to stop skipping when it prints, I called tech support. After a long explanation and of course doing all that troubleshooting over again TWICE more, they told me what I knew all along (and told them what I needed). I should be receiving a new printer head in the mail in the next few day. I sure hope it works again after the new part, I have lots of coupon printing to catch up on!

Next I started cleaning out Ainsley's closet. {decluttorganization} I found 6 large bags of clothes, some that she has grown out of and some that are larger sizes she will grow into. I went through them all and only kept the very best items that I knew I would use or use again with the next baby. So now I have 3 bags of clothes to post on FreeCycle. I also found a large tub of yarn and unfinished crochet projects from years ago. I posted that on FreeCycle as well. Last I have a large box of stuff - really good stuff- but still stuff I don't HAVE to have. So I am going to have to decide what to do with that box. I would like to give them to my nieces to sell in their yard sale - a bigger chance of making some money for the girls. I don't have near enough to have my own yard sale, and franky I don't want the hassle LOL.

And now it's time for bed -and time to start a new book woo hoo! Tomorrow we will do more cleaning and tossing, and school of course. But if our payday get deposited tomorrow instead of Friday, I will be going grocery shopping!

Well…

We didn't get to go on our adventure to Summersville today Some personal issues came up involving my dad and we decided not to go today. But we will go sometime in the coming weeks.

Instead we took the girls to McDs and then to the park to play. Emira was surprised to see her cousins were there too! She was so excited to play with them that I don't think she cared that we didn't get to go on our trip. And I was so busy running my mouth to my friends about great ways to save money using coupons and moneysavingmom hehe, that I totally forgot to take photos of the kids, yikes!

So now we are home and watching the Gosselins, and the girls played in the water outside when we came home. So we will just relax for the rest of the day (and I will play online and print coupons!)

$10 FREE at Amazon.com TODAY ONLY!

Amazon is offering a free 1-month trial membership of Amazon Prime, plus you will get a $10.00 credit on your next order. (Amazon Prime gives you free 2-day shipping.) I normally don't do trial offers because I'm afraid I'll forget to cancel them, but this is easier than easy! After you sign up for your free trial, log into your account, and click the button that says "do not upgrade automatically". Your free trial will automatically cancel after a month. There are plenty of things you can order for $10.00 and under that you can get for free! Although it must be sold by Amazon and not another seller there. Just put what you want in your cart, and when you get to the checkout, your $10.00 credit should show up there. Go here to sign up.
(Hurry, though; this offer is only good through 11:59pm est and only for new Prime subscribers.)

I purchased 2 Shirley Temple movies, Heidi and The Little Princess. My total was 12.95 so I did have to pay the 2.95 but 2 day shipping is free! Another tip; Turn off the 1ClickAddtoCart setting in your account settings, so you can be sure to see if it takes the $10 off

Teacher Rewards Anyone?

Thanks to Lesley for the reminder! If you are a homeschooler, you can sign up at Staples and JoAnns Teacher Rewards programs to get teacher discounts in stores and online!

Go HERE to sign up for Staples Teacher's Rewards program, then you can print you card. Then visit JoAnns HERE to sign up there and get 15% off all your purchases. This card will be mailed to you. (Also you will need to enter an EIN number, I just used my social. Then you will need to enter a PEAH number. If you don't have one, you can enter your info to get a temp number to add to the application

Staples Teacher Appreciation Day

Staples is having Teacher Appreciation Day soon for all teachers--including homeschooling moms! Go here to see when your Staples event is scheduled.

At the event, you'll get a beautiful tote bag filled to the brim with all sorts of goodies. There are also doorprizes and coupons and discounts!

Staples in Beckley will be having their Teacher's Appreciation Day on Saturday Aug 16 from 9am to 1pm and Homeschool teachers are included!

I emailed Staples to be sure we as homeschool moms would be included as teachers and here is what they said:

Quote:
I appreciate the time you have taken to contact Staples, Nikki.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. I have contacted your local store and was advised by the manager, Roger, and was advised that if you asked for a manager, the special pricing would be extended to you as a homeschool teacher.

Please contact us with any further concerns. Thank you for your patience concerning this matter.

Susan,
Customer Service Representative

Now if I can just remember to go LOL! We usually stop in on payday shopping day, to pick up their 1 and 5 cent deals.

Very Cool Tool{bar}

I was hesitant for a long while about downloading yet another toolbar (I already use the yahoo because I like the bookmarks, groups, myspace and amazon buttons!). But when I read that I can listen to KLOVE - my fave station -I tried it out. And I'm sold! I love it, so many links and if I'm ever bored (not that I have time to be bored) I can always blog hop too. I also like the weather update as well. It's just a great toolbar for homeschoolers! Here is more info:



It's free of spyware or viruses, does not open pop-ups or hijack your searches,allows you to control your privacy features such as cookies and cache from the toolbar and no personal information is required. It has a Google powered search box, includes an email notifier where you can add all of your emails accounts in one convenient place such as Yahoo, Google, personal or business. Plus, it will notify you when one of your accounts receives mail!

The Homeschool Toolbar features include:

* Homeschool Resources
* The Latest homeschool & Parenting News
* Web search using Google
* Integrated RSS feeds
* Homeschool blogs
* Category browsing
* Search highlighter
* Other quick shortcuts
* Weather forecast
* Organizing tools such as a To do list, notepad, calculator, conversion charts, maps and more
* Radio connected to "Positive & Encouraging K-LOVE" , NPR or your favorite local radio station (this feature is optional and can be added or removed as can all toolbar features.)

Lastly, it will NOT slow your computer down!

Click HERE to learn more and download the toolbar!

Do you have a blog or website that you would like to share with the homeschool community? Do you have of a favorite site that the homeschool community must see? Let them know by visiting their website and using the Contact Us link, so they can add you! My blog is soon to be listed! Thanks Homeschool Toolbar!