So, one of my favorite blogs, thenonconsumeradvocate, was hacked today. Who does that? I mean really…The Non Consumer Advocate! All I can picture is some angry factory worker from China or Taiwan worried that Katy might convince all of America to stop buying the useless junk they stock the various dollar stores with. Seriously…lame. Continue reading → 
Most of us would like to save money on groceries while not compromising our health. If it were just about maximizing calories it would be easy. One $0.69 box of generic store-bought macaroni and cheese contains almost a full day’s calories once prepared (for some of us with a slow metabolism, it actually is an entire [...] Continue reading → 
For a long time I was not frugal. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t extravagant either. I didn’t go out buying Gucci or Tiffany or any other “eee” for that matter. However, I was spending more than I earned, not saving, and was slowly building up credit card debt. I figured out after a minor [...] Continue reading → 
Cee has been a very busy bee. Work, friendship maintenance, book club, D&D sessions, lawn care, gardening prep…very busy. This past month’s book club selection was Death with Interruptions by José Saramago. Saramago (a Nobel prize-winning author) paints a picture of social disorder when death (with a little d) goes on vacation. It was an [...] Continue reading → 
This will be a quick post. I have worked late every night this week. I am finally done and am going out for a well earned coffee with friends. Things have been busy and work has eaten most of my time. I have a D&D campaign starting in a week and I am woefully under [...] Continue reading → 
I’ve worked a lot of hours this week so I didn’t have as much time to put this together as I would have like. But I’m sticking to my goal of responding to one writing prompt a week. This week’s writing prompt is to respond to this picture in 500 words or less. ___________ [...] Continue reading → 
I suffer from respiratory allergies. For the last 15 to 20 years, I’ve been using environmental adaptation to help reduce my allergy attacks and I thought I would share some of the techniques that have helped me. I’m allergic to just about everything so I use almost of these methods, but control techniques vary based [...] Continue reading → It’s been a long week with a lot of work deadlines and a book to finish for Sunday’s book club, and I am exhausted. Despite the excessive work load, however, I managed to do my push-ups twice every day. I focused a lot of my energy this week on maintaining proper form. This has resulted [...] Continue reading → It’s another writing prompt Wednesday, where I share a writing prompt and my response to it and invite you to share your response and feedback as well. If you aren’t sure what a writing prompt is, I explain it a bit more in the entry that started it all. Today’s writing prompt comes from Timothy [...] Continue reading → I’m having a rough day today, I’m all congested and having occasional bouts of sneezing. Days like today, I feel exhausted and have trouble concentrating on my work. No, I’m not getting sick, I suffer from airborne allergies. You name it and I’m probably at least mildly allergic to it. Dust mites, grass, weed pollen, [...] Continue reading → 
