Gray hair

Last night the kids came over for a visit.  Eloy is about to get his drivers license and needed help filling out paperwork.  Alexis got off work and then came over.  They stayed for awhile then left to go do homework.  We get a phone call from Eloy saying that they'd *almost* hit someone and now the lady was following them.  Long story short, the lady called the cops and Alexis got pulled over.  The lady had road rage (according to the cop) and they let them go.  It's things like this that make more gray hairs appear on my head! 

Angelica is a plus size woman.  Finding clothes that fit properly and look cute are hard so I was pleasantly surprised when Wal-mart had some really nice things for her on sale!  They had all their clearance for $3.  I got her 7 shirts and a pair of capri's plus a shirt and 2 pairs of capri's for me for about $30 (over a hundred dollars worth of clothes)!  Loving the clearance stuff!!!  If the income tax refund hits soon, I'm sure we'll get some more stuff for her.  She deserves it.

I've been couponing a lot lately.  I'm not a pro like those people on Extreme Couponing, but seeing a total come down $30-60 really is a high!  It's exciting and I don't hate shopping nearly as much now since I'm always looking for the good deal.  If only I could find a store locally that doubles coupons!

I've also been entering giveaways on Facebook and attending Twitter parties.  I love winning things, even if I can't really use them.  I always find someone who can or I donate it to charity.  The Twitter parties are amazing!  Great prizes to be won and thus far, I've gotten pretty lucky.  I won a Wholly Guacamole prize pack, 3 months worth of Activate Water and a Future Friendly Prize pack (which is arriving tomorrow).  I just need to figure out where to find the parties...like a list so I can keep up with them. :)

I guess that's about it for today.  More tomorrow...

Swiss Cheese & other things

Ya know how Swiss cheese has holes in it?  I think my brain looks like that!  I will go to the kitchen to get something and once I get there, I can't remember what it was.  I'm 34 yrs old and have to admit, that's embarrassing.  How do you explain to your kids that Suz can't remember things?  If I don't write things down, I'm totally screwed! 

The good part about writing things down is I have PROOF when things go bad.  I was in an accident back in October.  This girl rear-ended me & then tried to avoid the calls from the insurance company.  I wrote every detail of what happened down/wrote down phone calls/etc.  That turned out to help me when the insurance company tried to screw me over.  I can't go into much detail since I'm in a lawsuit, but I can say who would have thought that being hit would make you scared of stopping at the intersection where it happened.  I'm hoping this is resolved soon.

Not a lot has been going on here in the Vaughn household.  Esme & Jasper are spoiled rotten.  I can't resist buying them bones.  They are so cute and provide us with such joy so they deserve treats.  Esme has a birthday coming up on Valentine's Day.  She'll be 3.  Jasper's birthday is April 6th and he will be 6.  I've had him since he was 4 weeks old.  His mother had gotten run over when he was a week old so the girl who had him was bottle feeding him.  She wanted him gone asap so I happily took my little man.    

I did get an awesome new toy!  If you haven't heard of SodaStream, you really have to check out out.  You can make your own soda in 30 seconds!  You put tap water in the liter bottle, screw it onto the SodaStream, press the button on top 3 times (until it buzzes loudly), unscrew the bottle & pour the flavoring into the bottle.  Shake lightly and enjoy!  I got the flavoring that is like Mountain Dew and I gotta admit, it's pretty darn close.   They have 50+ flavors and I can't wait to try them all.  

More to come...