You get an A for effort

We have some smarties that live on the second floor! They also use military time. Not too common around here.

Just Die Already?

I guess the best place to keep fresh flowers is the lavatory. I think these have been shining bright for over 3 weeks now, maybe even over a month!  I don't even remember!  I wonder if they are trying to outlast their neighbors. Poor things don't know they were cut out of a magazine and stuck in a frame. The ones next to our kitchen sink didn't barely last a week! 

Do I like Cereal?

The grocery store in town is having a sale on General Mills Cereal so Nat and I jumped on it.  Can you tell?
If you buy 6 boxes you get an instant $10.00 in savings and then a $6.00 coupon to use in the store. 

I feel like this picture in color makes it looks like we have a Reese's Puffs problem.  Hey it is my favorite treat.  As you can see their cereals are even Whole Grain Guaranteed.  

Candle Shmandle

On Thursday I had the old RA staff that I worked with last year over for dinner. I lit some candles and went about making dinner. Normal thing.  After dinner one of the guys told me that my candle was burning in the bathroom.  Normal thing.  Then he said "No Leigh, wax is everywhere." Getting less normal.  I just told him to blow it out.  Smart thing.  When everyone was leaving he asked if I had seen the candle in the bathroom and I said no what's the big deal...I didn't understand why he was so hooked on this dang candle in the bathroom.  He took me down the hallway and as soon as I peaked around the corner in the bathroom this is what I saw.

NOT normal.

I completely ruined our bathroom countertop.

Just kidding, it didn't adhere one bit so now it stays as it is.

This reminds me of when I bought my jeep.  In the car salesmen's office he had one of these and I COMPLETELY fell for it.  I felt so stupid after I rushed over while saying "OH NO!"

He said don't worry it happens a lot.

The Worst-Best Thing

The past month we have kept our heat OFF because we are all frugal and don't want to pay for it (more on this at the bottom).  Wearing my smartwools and carrying a blanket around is something that I have absolutely no problem with. My only grudge was how cold my room is between 5:30-6:30am when I have to pull back the covers in order to reach my first goal of the day.  


Believe me this goal is extremely hard to reach. 


 I had all my blankets on my bed and it wasn't quit doin' it for me so I decided to run to one of the four stores in Winona that sell blankets.  This is how I purchased the "worst-best thing."  The engineering in down comforters is something that I will now cherish for a lifetime.   I can be now categorized as a down comforter geek.  Yes, I know I am a geek of many things.

You know when you sleep in a hotel that has really nice bedding?... and you are always like "man I wish I could steal these and take them with me!"...that's what I have in the comfort of my own room.

But this thing is too good to be true. Now my goal of pulling down the covers is close to impossible.  It traps me in.  So much that I press the snooze button on my alarm about 6 times. 


This Worst-Best Thing was quit a deal though. I even had a 15% off coupon.  Otherwise I wouldn't have purchased it.

***We realized this week that heat is INCLUDED in our rent so we have that baby cranked.  And cranked it will stay because it hasn't gotten any warmer. 

L as in L-Shaped Pillows

IF ONLY my brain would have thought that the way I arrange my pillows every night could have been sewn together in one pillow case and sold as and L.  This is how I sleep at night in order to satisfy my comfort requirements and now it can be purchased.  I don't think I need to buy one though. Where the heck do you put it when you make your bed?

Autumn Photoshoot

I am clearly NOT a photographer.  On Saturday I went out to try and take some cool "fall pics" since the bluffs are starting to change.  Needless to say, I am glad no one else was around.  I started at a place near Garvin that had a pretty steep slope to climb and my clogs were not fond of the terrain.  With all the rain we have been getting most areas on this hill were pretty washed out.  I ended up falling more than 5 times both on the way up and down and with my camera around me neck it most likely looked like I was trying to save an egg from hitting the ground.  Here are some of the pictures, the sweetest thing is that all of these below are completely untouched.  My favorite is the yellow leaf on the ground.  

I need to learn how to not have the Sun make that circle in the middle of the picture.

"completely untouched" does not apply to this one.

Dirty and Thirsty

Right now the river is pretty high and also living up to the "Dirty Mississipp" nickname.  There are whirlpools everywhere.

Wanna go to the beach?

Oh shucks, you can't even step foot on the sand!

Latsch Island is pretty bad.  A lot of people have had to re-locate and it even looked as if some are living out of conversion vans.  The have to get to their homes by boat.

There is still a few feet before the water hits the bridge.

You can see the whirlpools, they are everywhere.

Good thing Jim didn't choose to live here.  He would have to go on a dingy ride just to use the port-a-potty.  

Wanna go fishing in the parking lot?!

The Glasses Make the Outfit

Top Two

1-Pottery

2- Malt-o-meal

I have no idea what it is about this strange breakfast food but I could eat it for Breakfast and dinner 4 times a week (and I often do because it is so cheap). It could be the fact that it is fool proof. If I take it off the stove a few minutes too late I can just add water and WALAA it is the right consistency. Or that it is packed with nutrients and keeps my hunger away for more than 3 hours. I do have to top it with brown sugar though otherwise it tastes too bland, and I only buy the maple sugar flavor-Original is not good and it even cooks differently. I just found out that their headquarters are in Minneapolis. How did I not know this? I also went on their website and they have a position open for an executive adm. assistant. hmmm...very tempting. I wonder if I would get free maple sugar m.o.m. for LIFE? But right now would not be a good time to quit my job. It is customer service week starting Monday and that means a full blown celebration in our dept. Its a full out jean's WEEK instead of jeans FRIDAY and on Monday morning we are being served pancakes. I will let you know other treatment we will be given. On Friday we received a professional day to day activity planner for cust. service week and on Friday it simply said, "relax" so I said "Wow, we don't even have to come into work on Friday!" ...I tried but it didn't work.


P.S. Do you find it as funny as I do that ever since I posted all the deer pictures that my ads have turned strictly to the subject of deer?  I wonder how long before it switches to something different?  Maybe if I keep talking about malt-o-meal...