Time goes bye!!!

Wow, time is flying. It's been quite a ride the past week. I had a great weekend and I'm slowly coming off the high and lost of energy because I had a long time waiting for a girls night out without kids and a hubby. It's not like the old days where you go out to bars to drink and just do stupid stuff and us girls watched a good movie and ate some junk food. This was Saturday night and Sunday we went to a birthday party. Nothing new on the home front and because I'm in Birthday mode seeing how Birthday season is upon my family I'm think of cool toys to get various kids in my family for their up and coming birthdays. It's funny over the years how many babies have been born in a matter of 10 years. When the hubby and I were together there were maybe 6 little kids in our family to now a whooping 22 kids to buy birthday presents for and I'm not including friends of mine with kids. I enjoy buying presents and I like thinking of the person when I buy a gift. Who they are and what they like. I didn't like it as a kid to get a gift from someone who didn't think to stop and ask themselves if I would like it but just gave me a gift because it was cheap or something. Of course, I was polite and said my thank you's but it's not a gift I would use or play with or be caught dead in. My parents were a hit and miss with me. I think the sky lit up when I got my downhill ski's for Christmas because the look on my face with delight must have been priceless. The ugly yellow/blue gym suit I got when I was 12 or something was not a great gift. I don't know what my mother was thinking when she picked that outfit out. I'm glad it got exchanged for something I did enjoy. So with all the gift shopping I just love shopping and trying to find good deals so the next couple of months will be fun for me....so please give me the energy to get out and shop like crazy :) Oh I forgot to mention the hubby and I are going to get rid of our land line phone and cable. It's not like we're hurting for money but being more aware of how we are throwing away the hubby's hard earned money. We have cable, Internet and phone in one package which when we signed up for was a great deal but now not so much. Our 3-in-one package is outrageous and a rip off and now we're looking for other solutions. Most of the shows we watch on TV you can watch online now so it's not like we'll miss our favorite shows. No one calls us on our regular phone line but someone trying to sell us something. We do have cell phones so it's kind of silly to have both now plus we have roll over minutes in the thousands. The people who do call us in a blue moon can call our cell phones instead once we decide to end our service. So if we lose our cable and phone it's saving us roughly $100 a month. Now I just need to cut back on my huge Diet Pepsi habit and the savings will add up. It's always a good thing to have a large safely net in the bank and with the economy going down the toilet and the prices of things going up faster then I can type this I think it's better to be smart and get rid of the non essential expenses and focus on expenses you can't live without like the basic..shelter and food. I think we'll adjust just fine and realize we didn't need all that stuff in the first place and now the Internet is getting better showing all the cable shows like Hulu.com I think maybe I'll be more inclined to watch less TV...I don't know but we'll see...HA!!!! Take care, Peace!!!!