Starting a new Bullet Journal!

Today is the start of a new journal! I bought the bigger one - the smaller one was getting too cramped!  With 3 kids, all in sports, and a full-time job, I need more space for calendaring and notes!

Here we go!  #bulletJournal #bulletJournalJoy

Daily Fantasy Sports! DraftKings - someone tried it!

I've been WONDERING about this. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Fantasy Football, and football in general so this weekly fantasy sports stuff sounds good!  AND I'm decent at it! Maybe I could win money!  Thank goodness someone tried it and wrote about it to prevent fools like me from losing money trying it ourselves!!!

He tried it so we don't have to!

New App To Try: WayPoint Navigation

"The app uses your phone location, and a friend’s location, to coordinate a rendezvous point that allows you to meet up in the least amount of time possible. To do this, it uses crowd sourced traffic data to account for traffic jams, closures, etc. The app then gives you the most efficient meeting point, and then 'suggests' local waypoints, such as a coffee shop, gas station, hotel, etc, depending on your personal settings."

I can't wait to try this on my iPhone!!  Seems like a great idea!!

WayPoint Navigation http://itunes.com/apps/waypointnavigation

** Note: NOT a sponsored post!!!

Princess Loves: Asics Gel Kayano Running Shoes!

This post is NOT SPONSORED. I buy all my own running shoes!

These are my all-time favorite running shoes, and as I had my first run of the week where THERE IS NO CHEMO (YAY!), I actually ENJOYED running for the first time since June 16 (day I started Taxol).  So this is an ode to the shoes that get me there, and got me here.

Asics Gel Kayano!  I am always one number back of current year because I buy them cheaper, but hey, I would buy the new colors if I could!

These are mine! I slightly pronate and these shoes help a runner with a slight pronation.  Plenty of support, padding, and durability.  One pair generally lasts me about 250 miles - but that is more a function of my knees than the shoes lack of staying power.  I am a total nut about keeping my shoes clean also - my running shoes always still look brand new by the time I'm done with them!

Voyaging into better eating, trying to make sauteed carrots!

Trying to make healthier side dishes for the family - not tater tots or fries or bread for a side!  Let's try sauteed carrots maybe?

Will let you know if anyone (including me, hahaha) eats them!!

Recipe Review: Pioneer Woman Steak Fingers! OMG YUM!

So - in my quest to cook more I stumbled across this recipe for Pioneer Woman Steak Fingers!

I wasn't sure about them at first, seems like a lot of work!  But I gave it a whirl - they were good!  Not even good, great!  The hubby and the 2 sons declared them WINNERS, but the daughter not so much :-(

After making them about 6 times, she has come around (we are going with the taste it each time and if you still don't like it you don't have to eat it) - just like the getting-kids-to-eat guru said she would!

Couple of hints for when you cook them:

• the breading of them does take a long time.  I'm usually running out of flour by the end and have needed to add extra + seasonings.
• USE A CAST IRON Skillet!  This makes them so much better, really it does!
• I cook with organic coconut oil (refined) and a little organic salted butter - I do not, however, add any plain salt to it and they are PLENTY salty.

Give them a try, they definitely (by now) get a thumbs up from our entire house!  And it's SO NICE to have a recipe that everyone in the house is happy to eat (there are very few of those nights!)!

ENJOY!

A new look!

Nothing fancy, but new!  Let's see how this looks and if I like it!

Craft subscription service for kids: Crafting our kids

All I can say is "wow!".  I signed my 7 year old up for a monthly craft subscription service to help with summer boredom - I had no idea I was getting crafts that are keepsakes!!

Her first box is the July box and came right on time - it has 2 crafts - all the supplies needed and great instructions.

The first is Americana wind socks made from solo cups and streamers - she loved it.

But the second one!!  It's an American flag made from paint stirrers!!  It's amazing and she did it all on her own!

Crafting our kids -  a service we will probably use year round!!

2013 gmc Yukon Denali mirror replacement

This post is because we couldn't find the info on the internet anywhere on how to replace a cracked mirror!  This would be the same for a Cadillac escalade or a Chevy Tahoe or suburban.  It has the turn signal lights and the blind zone sensor.

You have to push the old Mirror up really hard to get it off - you will have to smash it to bits.  Here are reference pics of the back of the mirror

You can see the only way it will come up is to jam a screw driver under it and push.

The lip around the motor at the top stops you from pulling it down as well as the 4 anchors.

Gift for child: age 6-10!!

Rainbow loom!!!!  The 2 smaller children love this!!  They have made at least a hundred bracelets!  Tyler puts 2 together and makes necklaces!  Jess is 6 and 1/2 and has no trouble using it and my almost 12 year old has also been caught using it to make a bracelet in his football team's colors!

Hello?? Been a while eh??

Wow it's been a while! Let's see if we can make use of these tools and get things started around here!!!  

Who's in??!! ME!

Thanksgiving is in 3 days, it's going to snow and I've got football to watch!  Since I last posted I've fallen into the football trap and I can't wait to tell you all about it!!

Princess Loves: Bolthouse Farms' GREEN GOODNESS!

It's good for you!

I eat TERRIBLY.  I do not like any (ANY!) fruits or veggies!  I love red meats and potatoes!  I drink too much diet coke.

So the one thing I CAN tolerate is Green Goodness - to me, it's yummy, but my normal food eating friends actually don't like it?

It's full of good stuff that there is NO WAY I could eat on it's own: Kiwi, mango, banana (ok, I could suffer thru one of these if I had to), pineapple, spinach, broccoli, spirulina, barley grass, wheat grass, garlic, blue green algae, artichoke and apples.

Seriously.  It's delicious.

Please VOTE!

I have 2 sick kids today.  I am going to find a way to get to the polls anyway!  Some how, some way.

GO VOTE!

hello?  is this thing on??  Blogger has changed!  Let me see if I can figure out all their new features!!  :-)

Bad luck...

• Last month - upstairs heat pump dies. $200 for temp fix,  $6,000 for new unit
• Kitchen faucet springs a leak and fills lower cabinet - new faucet at 11 p.m. (also not cheap!)
• Truck mirror and door handle break. $200 (thank GOODNESS for the extended warranty)
• Last week: downstairs furnace breaks.  $200 for a temporary fix, HVAC guy suggests $3,200 for a new unit (also, thank goodness we have an HVAC guy in the family or this would be a MUCH SADDER post)
• 10 year old HE3T washer (the first production year) makes an AWFUL noise w/each load but is still washing - is it next??  PLEASE NO!

Today we re-do the boys rooms!

They both want Clone Wars rooms - so we're doing away with the shades of baby blue and off while and going with: Clone blue, black and white.  Also moving beds and furniture!  SHOULD BE FUN!

wow....

it's been a while eh?  Let's start with updating the about me!

Princess Loves: Magic Mouse

So...today I started an Android training class.  I have my MacBook Pro (from work) for programming, but I'm a Windows programmer because that's all the customer lets us use.  So I haven't developed on my Mac in 2 years.  So to do the training, which requires switching from PDF to Eclipse, to the Android Emulator, to the error catcher, to Firefox and coding, it is a PAIN to use the touchpad when you're out of practice.  I texted my hubby, thinking he'd pick me up a tiny mouse from Target...what I got was this:



He is wonderful.  It is a Magic Mouse - it just WORKS with my laptop and you can swipe to control instead of using a track wheel!  It is TEH BOMB, Seriously.  GET ONE.

(this post is in NO WAY compensated.  My hubby just bought me something nice.)

JC PENNY, here comes the bad review!

In the email I rec'd for my DEC 17 order it says "Most items ship from our warehouse the next business day after your order is submitted. Orders containing back ordered items may be consolidated and ship on the back ordered date indicated."

I purchased these items for a CHRISTMAS PROMOTION on Dec. 17, for FREE SHIPPING DAY.  NO WHERE was it indicated that the items would NOT be delivered for Christmas and furthermore, it took 4 business days for my items to get to UPS, meaning they are scheduled for DEC 28 with is DECIDEDLY Not useful.

1. The promotion SHOULD State that even though it is a CHRISTMAS promotion, items are NOT for Christmas delivery.
2. Why did my items take SO  long to leave your warehouse?   If they had left on time, they might have made it.

So now my grandfather, with his wife newly in a nursing home, will not have a gift from me. THANK YOU JC Penny.  I will remember this as well as I will post it to my blog, twitter, and tumblr accounts.

Best Buy made it all GOOD!! YAY! Full post coming soon!!!