Great Meijer Trip

I did such a great job the last time I went shopping at Meijers. I got it all for - drum roll please - $12.43!! The starting price before coupons was somewhere around $65.00! The receipt says that I saved 69.71! Isn't all this stuff crazy?!?

• 2 1/2 cases Pepsi
• 2 Juices
• 2 laundry detergents
• 2 block cheeses
• 2 mayos
• 2 dressings
• 2 A1's
• 3 sauces
• 4 rice packs
• 4 ragu's
• box of lemonade stixs
• box of trash bags
• box of dryer sheets

I was going to go back and get a couple things but the weekend started and I just never made it back. I'm hoping that this week has as good of a sale as last week! And my store doesn't double coupons (it's a new store and it's a test store - sucks for that and the layout!).

If you want to start saving like this just email me and we'll talk about how you can save big time.

I'm hoping to start keeping up better with the blogging - sorry to anyone who has been dropping by. I've been super busy. The place I use to volunteer at & now work at, Gilead Ministries, had their annual Crusin' To Care Car Show a couple weeks ago. Wow it was such a blast. We had it at a new location - 5 Points Mall - and we had lots of people there! It was a great sucess!! It was a really windy day but it was sunny and that always makes it nice for the car show people coming with their fancy cars! We had a tribute to Janet that was super nice, I think most of her family was there. We raised more than ever before so moving to the Mall was a great plan and we'll be there next year!

And for all you mom's out there here's my cutie GD! She's just the cutest darling! She's 7 months old and I just love her to pieces.

Have a blessed day!

Long Day - Gilead and Computer problems

Well last nite was the Gilead Ministries annual banquet and it was wonderful. We had a Christian ventriliquist (sp?), David Pendleton from Indy (& his beautiful wife Lynda came along too). He was really good and even had a little comparison between his puppets and our life without God. It was a great show! He is super nice and really good - so funny!! And we had almost 600 people there. One of our highest turnouts! I didn't yet hear today if the giving was one of the highest also but even if it wasn't, to God be the Glory cas our little ole town is not doing so great. I know lots of people are hurting in these tough times but apparently our town is one of the Forbes worst towns in the USA. (We've lost a lot of factories in the last ten yrs or so and are losing another one in the next few months.) So sad... But the city always seem to try so hard to help out Gilead. Our friends of Gilead really know that they are helping people when they really need it.

I didn't get down to the Gilead office today cas .... BOOHOO, I got my first virus ever in my main computer (almost 10 yrs online). I should have known that something was up (my Zone Alarm was acting hinky) and I did something really stupid - I did a reboot cas it was running slow and I had uploaded all the pix from the banquet before it crashed, so now no pictures til I figure out my machine!!! It's doing the login/logoff thing - not letting me get into the machine. I've started the process of searching the net for the fix. (I do have a laptop and can at least try and find the problem online with it but it is a hassle.)

I have spybot on it and apparently it's something that they have known about but haven't really told their users about... oh well live and learn! Plus I hate reading my email anywhere else but on my regular machine.... I may have to just bite the bullet tho with that! I'm 'jones' for my email!!

Hope your day is better than mine,