I know, I know... it's been awhile.

If you've been checking out my other blog, you need not do that for now. I'm not going to be working on it, but when I do I'll let ya know.

DH had Sunday night off from Kwik Trip since he worked Friday night, so we had a longer Monday than normal.

While our house was being shown on Monday, we were out and about running errands.

Took another load of garbage to the dump. It costed an extra $9 this time since it was heavier than the last two trips. It said that we had .69 tons of garbage. Don't know how much that is in pounds, but I'm sure it's a lot!

We also spent about $100 at Target. (Ugh...) We had to get printer ink, cat food and litter, so that was about half the cost. Plus some other things we needed like toilet paper, etc....

We went to JoAnn Fabrics too, and I finally spent my $25 gift card that was a Christmas present last year. We got four candles. Two are lemon (DH current favorite smell) and two candy corn that smell like some delicious dessert baking in the oven.

Talking about yummy smells from the oven, I'm baking chocolate chip cookies today. I made a double batch because I know DH will eat a lot of them and I want to still have some left for the weekend when Job and his girlfriend come down and stay at our house, so they can attend the tattoo convention down here. (We met Job through Kevin and Amber, and we've since came to enjoy his company.)

We still haven't decided if we're going to the tattoo convention yet or not. I think Spyros wants to, so we probably will. But I'm not one to go up to people to look at their tattoos, so I think it may get boring. Unless there is lots of people from Wisconsin Rapids coming down that we can talk with. So we'll see.....

We (Mainly DH) fixed a bad repair spot in a wall in one of the upstairs bedrooms and also put up new drywall on a section of the wall that had had peg board glued to it. We need to put one more coat of mud on one seam and sand it down. Then we get to paint.

Neil (Realtor) called yesterday. Jim (guy who wants to turn it into a duplex) is still working on his refinancing, but is getting closer. Family with four kids is trying to get an FHA loan so they only have to put 3% down (Application process can take up to two weeks). Another investor never called back, so is most likely not interested. And another investor is interested, but doesn't want to look at it until after the rezoning goes through.

Ugh.... Buy our house people.

Part of me almost doesn't want to sell it though, since we're finally getting the garages clean and the house painted, etc...

But I know it will be a lot easier financially if we do. And I would like to see my husband more and not have him working as hard or as much.

I've been typing up recipes found in various magazines that I've collected through the years to put into a binder. That's why I've been neglecting the blog! We're trying to eat healthier, so I want to have a variety of recipes so we don't get bored.

I won the Yoga DVD, so I'm excited about that. It should be here next week, so I'll only need to renew the one from the library one more time. I was going to bid on a Richard Simmons exercise tape, but I'm not going to since you can find them cheaper at garage sales. I'll have to wait until next May, when the sales start up again, but I'll just borrow other ones from the library and keep doing the Yoga.

Spyros started doing Yoga two days ago, and is enjoying it. I got up this morning earlier than normal so we could do it together. Then we ate breakfast and read afterwards. I think that will be an enjoyable morning ritual to keep doing.

Frugal Thought for the day: Bake and cook from scratch. There are so many cookbooks out there (stop by your library first, and when you find one your really like look around for the best deal, or save recipes from magazines and make a binder.), that finding recipes is not a problem. Or just hop on the internet.
This will save you lots of money, instead of buying cookies, cakes, etc... already made at the store.
Many things really do not take long to make. And with oven timers making sure nothing gets over-cooked is not a problem. A lot of things freeze well (including cookies) so make a double or triple batch and freeze the extras.