Today's useful and fun sites

Hi Everybody

I have found a few cool sites I wanted to share:

If you ever need to resize a photo easily check out this site, it is easy and free: www.resize.it

Your daily click to help feed shelter animals: www.theanimalrescuesite.com

You want to save money on groceries right? Just download their coupon printer software and you are all set to go, note this does not have spyware or mess up your computer I have been using it for a while and you just pick the coupons you want to print: www.coupons.com

I put this up on Facebook yesterday but it is true...1200 FREE photo prints: www.artscow.com

My new favorite blog, one of the most read blogs she gets like a million hits a day! City girl who met, fell in love and married a live real cowboy she has wonderful recipes, photo tips, and much more so check it out: www.thepioneerwoman.com

Another oldie but goody, Free current and older tv programs and hundreds of free movies to watch on your pc : www.hulu.com

Well I hope someone can get some use out of these sites. Enjoy!

Quick link to share....Old Time products

Here is a link for a store that sells products from the olden times. Check it out:
http://www9.mailordercentral.com/cumberlandgeneral/

Has it really been almost 2 months since my last post!?

Hi Peeps!

Wow I really have been a major slacker when it comes to my blog. Yesterday I finally changed my blog layout from HALLOWEEN!

I have been good, wonderful, great if any body is wondering. The holidays have come and gone now we just have to deal with the crappy never ending part of winter that seems to last for a century. I do not know about you but I am ready to sit out on my deck and enjoy a nice warm spring day already. I have a lot of friends in Florida you all know who you are (I hope) and I know this winter has been cold for you too. I was bummed because we did not go on our annual Florida vacation but the week we would of went would of been that cold, cold week and I would of just been pissed I spent thousands of dollars to be cold so in a way it is a good thing.

Not too much is new on the home front we work, and on the weekends we hang out at home as it is too cold to venture out. Dave did work on his bike this weekend in the garage and I did not even ask why he stomped into the house covered from head to toe in oil (tee hee.... shhhhh).

Work has just been work you know long and boring. I have been on a crazy shopping kick lately I may have to seek help soon....I am solely keeping amazon and a few other shopping sites in business. Note I do not go to stores as people bug the crap out of me I do it all online....at work! Lets see since after Christmas I have gotten: 2 more pairs of boots, 2 train cases (see my you tube or face book page for my reviews on those), all kinds of make-up, a nice pair of senshauser (spelling is totally wrong) headphones, jogging pants (for wearing while I lounge on the couch), paw slippers, accesories for my kindle the Ebook reader (I love love love), a jewelry pouch that was 3 sizes smaller than the picture, an over the door organizer for traveling, corel photo shop X2 and the Corel video software too, at CVS I got a $36 wet/dry hair iron for only $19.99!(I know I am forgetting a few this so that is just the stuff I can remember I literally have stuff delivered to my house at least twice a week I am on a first name basis with the UPS and fedex guy. Oh I also got a mini epilator now if you do not know what this is let me tell you it is a little device kind of like a portable shaver that has all these tweezer things on wheels that rips the hair out of your body, it is like medieval torture device, why do I do these things to myself???? I need an intervention!!!!
Here are my Sasquatch boots and leather riding boots I got, The Doo was checking them out too.

Now even though I have been buying this stuff, I always pay my bills first and pay for everything in cash, no charge cards in my house. I also set up an ING savings account where I have $25 deposited from my regular checking it may not be much but in a year it will be $1,300 which will be vacation money....I also plan on making extra deposits too.

Me and the Davemiester have really gotten into the HGTV shows like househunters and the international version, and the first time home buyers episodes. We eat our dinner in front of the tv and watch these shows and Dave loves to yell at the people telling them how stupid they are for picking the wrong house. We always guess which house they will buy and I am 90% right all the time and he is usually wrong....yes this pisses him off.....LOL.

I wanted to start doing videos for blogs and you tube and I am so mad as I have 2 perfectly good tripods for my camera's and wouldn't you know it I put them some where when I was on a cleaning kick and can not find one of them. It drives me crazy when I can't find things as I am anal in the sense I have a place for everything in the house.

I wrote on Facebook last week how I was so upset Friday as we where driving home after work a car in front of us hit a kitty! I saw it fly out from the car and it was like in slow motion it was traumatic for me. We stopped the car and went to look for the kitty but it was gone I hope it was not too badly hurt and went home and got help. That just pisses me off to no end when people let their cats out, especially if you live near a very busy street. I was crying the whole way home and I ran in the house to see Delilah and hug and kiss her. I still can't get the image out of my mind....brrrrr it gives me chills!

Well I guess I have babbled enough to make up for the last two months I hope everyone one is just peachy!

Where did Christmas cards come from???

Hi everyone,

Hope you are well, I have not been blogging much as no one else seems to be either. I see you all on faceBook :) Any how I just thought this was a great article *From old fashioned living*

Christmas cards abound each year as friends wish one another holiday cheer. These colorful greetings are displayed on tabletops, mantlepieces, and sometimes strung around the room. They're often collected and pasted in albums or used the following year for making Christmas decorations.

But sending Christmas greetings in the form of a card is not a centuries old custom. Actually the first real Christmas card supposedly appeared in the 1840s.

First Christmas Card

Henry Cole, an Englishman, found himself pressed for time at Christmas. So he wasn't able to send the personal Christmas letters (a tradition at that time) to his friends. Thus he asked well-known artist J.C. Horsley to design a Christmas message that could be printed up and mailed.

One source says that Mr. Horsley designed and sold more than 1,000 copies of that first card. Did Mr. Cole send so many cards himself, or did Mr. Horsley interest others in buying and sending cards, too?

Design of the First Card

This first Christmas card apparently was constructed of stiff cardboard, illustrated with a drawing of a family seated around the table eating Christmas dinner. Then the side panels depicted poor Londoners receiving food and clothing from the more well-to-do.

The card carried the message, "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You" as many cards do today.

Christmas Cards of Many Types

Louis Prang, a German immigrant, started printing commercially the first Christmas cards in America in 1875. By 1881, Prang was printing five million cards a year.

The smallest card ever made was perhaps the one sent to the Duke of Windsor in 1929. A grain of rice was inscribed with Christmas greetings.

This inscription could be seen only through a magnifying glass. Over the years, Christmas cards have come in all shapes and sizes and were made from a variety of materials. Some early Christmas cards were no larger than a postage stamp.

A Christmas Tradition That Continues

Sending Christmas cards is a tradition that isn't likely to die out even though postage keeps increasing. When you include a personal note or annual family letter you add something of yourself to the greeting. In today's computer world, we're finding computer designed and generated cards, as well as online greetings.

No matter how we send them, Christmas greetings bring people closer together at this time of year.

(c)Mary Emma Allen


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I will some day get to changing my blog to a Christmas theme, all is well. If you are on facebook and would like me to add you as a friend please send me your email as I have myself blocked as private. Hope everybody is in the Christmas spirit as I am BIG time this year.

I want my Woobie!

Hi Everyone,

Long time no blog or something like that. See the picture above to see how I feel right now. I just want to go home and snuggle on the couch with my woobie. Woobie is my special feathered filled mini-comforter my sister gave me years ago as a gift. I am like Linus and his blanket with that thing, I have to sew it as it has a small tear from being washed so many times the feathers come out a bit.

It is only 3 and I still have 1 1/2 left of work then I have to schlepp off to the Doctors office AGAIN. This is just my regular doctor I am seeing for refills of my prescriptions etc etc.... seeing all those specialist basically did nothing for me except give me a $1000 bill for my insurance co-payment isn't that a lovely gift just in time for Christmas. Some of you already now this but I just have to live with the pain and life goes on. The only thing I do hate is the meds cause me to feel like I am going to be sick all of the time and over the counter products do not seem to stop the nauseau so I will ask for a RX for that tonight. Enough about that it is depressing.

How has everybody been? Well I hope good as I have been trying to get caught up on my blogs and there are still a few I have to get up to date on. I just love google reader as it keeps all the entries there so I never lose the ones I have not read yet. It sure seems like a lot of people have made the transition over to face book and are hardly blogging any more. I do have to say I love Facebook.

All is well on the home front Dave has returned to work full time last week and is looking and feeling great. Life is funny how it throws things at you sometimes and when you do not think you can take any more things suddenly change. I hate this time of year when it is dark by the time you leave work and it is cold out it makes we wonder why I stay in the north east as I hate the cold....but I hate the heat too so I do not know where to live. Not too mention since Dave is back at work he has to travel to the office the every day now so I am home way earlier than him so I always have to cook now.....BLAH!!! I miss him being home and having my dinner on the table every night :) That is why we order out at least 3 times a week! Delilah is not happy at all either with this arrangement she misses her daddy being home during the day so she can snuggle up on his lap.....she just misses me because I am her walking and talking giant mouse she hunts; oh and of course the provider of the Kitty Treats. No matter what she is doing being bad, sleeping or whatever all I have to say is Kitty Treats (in the special voice) and she comes bolting to the cabinet they are kept in. She is getting a little pudgy but I am not dealing with the wrath of Delilah if I deny her them!

I have been looking at all those Halloween Decorations I put up because I am getting sick of seeing them but do not have the energy to take it all down.....oh well we will Halloween until Thanksgiving then I will switch it to Christmas Decorations which will probably stay up until February :) You also see my blog is still decorated in Halloween stuff I can not promise when I will change that.

Well I just wanted to check in and say hi to everyone and I will catch up with all your posts and then have to restart again. Hey look at that only 50 minutes until quitting time.....cool!

CHANGING MY BLOG LINK

Hi Everyone,

I want to change my blog link to: www.isittheweekendyet2.blogspot.com, nothing else is changing. Please come follow me at my new name:) I am behind on reading some blogs do not worry I will catch up some day :) I am deleting this post after a week so please jot down my new name thanks !