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">Save Big At Thanksgiving!

by Jill Cooper www.LivingOnADime.com Thanksgiving can be a great opportunity to enjoy time with family and friends, but it’s easy to get overwhelmed at the thought of everything that you need to do. By making some simple changes to the way you approach some of the Thanksgiving preparation, you can save time and money and [...]

">Menu Plan Monday

The Easy Creamy Spicy Beef Enchiladas via this recipe were awesome! I messed up a little on the directions because I skimmed them more than reading them, but Andrew and I agreed that they were great. The step I missed was I was supposed to put half the green chilies in meat and half in [...]

">CONTEST ALERT: 11×14 Premium Calendar from Picaboo

With more than 40 themes and hundreds of backgrounds to choose from, and the ability to create your own from scratch, Picaboo makes it easy and fun to create gorgeous calendars that will make it hard to resist flipping to the next month.  Photo pages are completely customizable allowing you to move photos and captions [...]

">Going back to Cali

I was born in California. I lived there until the summer before 6th grade. I spent almost every weekend and much of the summer out at Grandma and Grandpa’s house up until then. Grandpa had named it Lackalotta Ranch. I guess he felt it was pretty small and insignificant compared to some. I thought it [...]

">Blogging from my phone

I recently downloaded the WordPress app for my phone and wanted to test it out. I’m looking forward to blogging more this year, and this will surely help. On a side note, this post would have been published days ago if I had figured out earlier how to actually get it from my phone to [...]

">10 Years Ago – A Night I’ll Never Forget

10 years ago today I had a decent day job working in the accounting department of the local newspaper. I was working in a bowling alley as a bartender on the weekend. I had just found out a few days before that I was pregnant. I hadn’t even told the soon to be father yet. [...]

">Wordless Wednesday

">Weekly Weigh In – Meh

I really need to try harder. I need to stop letting things like snow and pain get in my way. Sigh. Nothing lost. Nothing gained. I guess that’s a plus. Follow my progress and those I’ve teamed up with over at Plus Size Bloggers.

">Weekly Weigh In – Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Right? I mean come on already. It’s a good thing Tishia is doing such a great job and keeps me motivated or I would have given up already. One pound down. Follow my progress and those I’ve teamed up with over at Plus Size Bloggers.

">My New Look

It’s finally here! I finished about one o’clock in the morning. I still have some changes and tweaking to do. I’ve been working on it in the wee hours and then changing it back to the old theme, but I’m happy with it enough to show it off now and quit switching back and forth [...]