This last week the kiddos and I drove down to Long Island to visit with family (Hi Mom!). It’s about a 4 hour drive (plus a stop at the McD’s with playland to eat and stretch our legs at the halfway point), and includes several tolls etc. While driving down the road, the kiddos happily… Keep Reading

Well I had tons of things I wanted to do this afternoon, both personal and in the blogosphere. So of course I spent the last hour browsing free fonts at 1001 Free Fonts. Sigh. Things like that just suck me in. I downloaded about 30 new fonts (well, ok, it turns out it was 130)…. Keep Reading

Well here we sit this morning-Buddy is laying on the couch running a low grade fever. It’s 9:51 and the little guy hasn’t even eaten breakfast (and for anyone who knows Buddy, that really shows he’s not feeling well. He usually has had breakfast and 2 snacks by 10 am!). I thought it would be… Keep Reading

Who did I vote for? Well the short answer is-I’m not telling. There are no two things in the world that cause as much difference of opionion, emotion and plain old decisiveness as Religion and Politics. Although I have deeply held beliefs in both areas, I really do try to keep them, for the most… Keep Reading

My laptop is back! Also, I just recorded my podcast interview with Meredith-she says it will be about 3 hours before the link is officially available. So check back this evening and I’ll have the link up.

Today Meredith over at Like Merchant Ships is going to do a podcast/interview/talkradio thing with me. Once it’s up online I’ll give you all the link to it. Should be interesting. . . .

Is anyone else having an issue with the spell check feature in Blogger? It doesn’t seem to be working. . . .still. . . and I’m a bad speller. . .

Dear Frugal Upstate,I decided that this year would be the year that I begin my journey to becoming frugal. I have read several of your posts and I have enjoyed them all. I was glad to see that one I came across was one were you stated that this was a five year journey for… Keep Reading

School has been pretty much cancelled everywhere around here due to freezing rain and sleet this morning! Guess the kids get ANOTHER 3 day weekend. They don’t seem to have gone to school much this month with MLK day, 1 Teachers workshop, 2 scheduled half days and now a “snow” day. Oh well, we’ll work… Keep Reading

Every month FIRE Finance compiles the Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs based on data from Sitemeter, Quancast and Compete. This month I’ve come in 23rd and 21st in the Sitemeter and Quancast lists respectively. (I don’t appear in the Compete list. Not quite sure why) Go over and check it out! You may find some… Keep Reading