For Courtney--Ikea Queen

Life's Expenses-Sometimes Less is More.

Britney's Expenses:

• $102,000 on entertainment, gifts and vacation
• $49,267 on mortgage payments
• $16,000 on clothes
• $4,758 on eating out
• $2,500 on phone bills

Kevin's Expenses:

• $5,000 on entertainment, gifts and vacation
• $7,500 on rent
• $2,000 on clothes
• $1,500 on eating out
• $750 on phone bills

(above numbers as released by the court on Thursday, Nov 1)

Jan's Expenses

• $23 on entertainment, gifts and vacation (one movie and popcorn)
• $545 on mortgage (not including taxes and insurance)
• $6 on clothing (mostly running race shirts from races I do)
• $200 on eating out (unless I have extra mouths to feed)
• $32 cell phone bill (unless I get a text message-10 cents each)

I do spend a lot on hobbies-books, rubber stamps, scrapping supplies, and my gym membership, so let's add another $450 as a mental therapy charge not covered by health insurance.

So does that mean that the self gratifying and overly immature couple above need to take up rubber stamping or maybe running as hobbies? I would gladly have them over for a card stamping demo or a vegetarian supper to discuss the newest parenting manuals.

Snot Faced Pumpkin

This is what happens when you are bored to death, it's pouring rain and you have tons of Halloween goodies and no takers. You photograph candles with runny noses. I need to raid the ice box-there is Witch's Brew in there! Might take the edge off, ya think?

Take A Witch Trick or Treating...

Sorry but I am busy tonight unless you want to wait until after 8PM....

Creepy Places Around The Globe

I personally find most of these off the wall places quite interesting but if you are in the vicinity of them, have a whirl.

Creepy Places

Stats and Visitors

I just noticed tonight that my stat counter was gone. This must have happened when I upgraded my template to the new Blogger a few weeks ago. I hadn't noticed any real visitors until I installed the Live Traffic Feed. I don't particularly like this one, but it will stay for now.It only records the last 100 visitors, so when I got all excited about a visit from Moscow and another from Iran, it was for naught. As more people clicked here, they were wiped off my map. If anyone knows of a visitor's map or a similar thing to it that will retain all visits, let me know.

In the meantime, I am also trying to figure out what to do with this blog. I have my other blog of paper crafting which gets more hits and I try to keep it on topic, but that's hard sometimes. Any ideas for here? Everyone has recipes, I don't have photos of family, so let me know if you have any grand ideas. I can scour the Internet for cool stuff maybe or get very political. Or just the whole jumble that is my life but I wont be posting here everyday. I like my stamps too much to neglect them for long. Go visit sometimes and tell me what you think of my other blog.

Scary Stuff! Home May Be House of Horrors

This was in my local paper Sunday. It's not a great paper by any means but once in a while, a writer will get it right. Rose Mary Reiz gets my "Great Write" of the week! Be sure to see her musings about Sweetest Day in the above link. Or email her below and let her know other stuff that creeps you out.

Sunday, October 28, 2007 By Rose Mary Reiz rreiz@flintjournal.com •

Forget creepy corn mazes and haunted hayrides; whats really scary is whats lurking in the back of your refrigerator. Or on your toilet plunger. Or under your clothes dryer. The household gunk and grunge were talking about would send even Freddy Kruger running for
cover.

But for the rest of us, there's no escape. In honor of the spookiest holiday of the year, here are some of the scariest home chores we can think of.

• Be afraid. Be very afraid of any clean-up that involves human or animal waste or other bodily secretions especially anything to which the word projectile applies. Cleaning up stinky accidents can test your devotion to your spouse, your child or your golden retriever. But it builds character.
  
  
• Under every oven there lurks a Tater Tot that rolled there circa 1982. The cat and dog have tried in vain to scoop it out with a paw, and you've occasionally swatted at it with a broom. Due to grease and
  dust, its double its original size. It'll stay there until you move.
  
  
• At the bottom of the kitchen sink there's something like a smashed lima bean and corn kernel tightly tied to the stopper with a few strands of human hair and some unidentifiable goo. Have fun teasing it out with your fingers.
  
  
• To save time, you might as well scream before you even enter the bathroom. Between the dirty caulk, soap scum, toilet stains and requisite hair in the soap, the bathroom is a treasure trove of terror.
  
  
• In a similar vein, you can grit your teeth, hold your nose and look the other way while you plunge a clogged toilet. Once that problems solved, you've still got the dripping rubber plunger to deal with. Some are designed with a curved lip around the edge for maximum suction. Try not to think about whats under there, or what would be required to remove it.
  
  
• Metal door and window tracks are sad little cemeteries for the lady bugs and flies that lie in a row on their backs, legs in the air. They make creepy crunching sounds when you remove them.
  
  
• A garage or basement floor becomes a grisly miniature crime scene after Fluffy's caught, played with, killed and decapitated a mouse. Try to remember: Cats only leave such gifts for those they love.
  
  
• Each once-pristine silk or straw flower arrangement is doomed yes, doomed! to become a trap for every minute particle of grease and dust that's ever drifted through the air of your home.
  
  
• How is it possible for so many dried and greasy crumbs to remain in a toaster or inside the crack of a dining room table?
  
  
• How do fresh vegetables become a gray-ish, half-solidified pool in the bottom of your vegetable crisper drawer overnight?
  
  
• Its a law: Even after its been through the dishwasher, at least one tidbit of cooked pasta must remain cemented in the colander.
  
  
• And you don't think you'll ever get those dried bits of-- well, we're scared to speculate about exactly what they are --out of your nylon dish scrubby, do you?
  
  
• Likewise, the goo that drips down the side of your saucepan and puddles in the pan under the burner also has oozed into some frightening chamber far below. You will never get it out, and you will always know its there. Just sniff.
  
  
• No amount of scrubbing will eliminate the stain (once chili) that has fused with the molecules of your plastic storage containers. A
  
  

• And finally, one last scary thought, what is that black stuff stuck to the bottom of the kitchen trash bin when you remove the plastic
  bag? And how long do you plan to ignore it?
  

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Free Tacos-Hold the Beef.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Many Americans will be wagering on this week's baseball World Series. For Taco Bell, the stakes are a free taco for everyone in the United States.

The fast-food chain on Monday unveiled a promotion it is calling "Steal a Base, Steal a Taco," which will run through the best-of-seven matchup.

"Millions and millions of people will be watching the Series and hopefully tuning in to see when they are going to get their taco," said Taco Bell spokesman Rob Poetsch.

There has been at least one stolen base in every World Series matchup since 1990. When the first base is stolen, the unit of Yum Brands Inc, will announce a Tuesday afternoon when consumers will be able to walk into the chain's participating 5,800 outlets and ask for a free taco. Anyone who walks into a participating outlet during the give-away period would be eligible for a free taco.

Despite the promotion's name, stealing the taco will not be

Hey Tofu Eaters...Read This Recall.

A tofu recall (why should we vegetarians be exempt?) and all the details are here !