Lady Madaysia

Another great deal the other day was stopping by Meijer on my way home from storage to grab diapers.

I bought a box of 60 diapers for $18, which is decent. An air filter for $6, and some oreo cookies for hubby to snack on added to that to make it $27.

Then I stopped on by the “household” cleaner aisle, as I heard that they had lysol products on sale half off. As I needed some toilet bowl cleaner, I found that this was an opportune time. (Plus, I had coupons!)

I bought:

4 Lysol toilet bowl cleaners
1 Lysol bathroom cleaner
1 Lysol all-purpose cleaner

Which totalled to (with coupons):
$2.78

So with buying brand-name diapers, splurging on cookies, getting a new air-filter, and buying cleaning supplies, my total came to about $32, including tax. Great stuff.

Since I’ve been “couponing”, I have found some really, really great deals.

Last week I went to the store for the local food pantry with a budget of $20. This is all that I bought with only going over budget by $3.62:

2 half gallons of whole milk
2 half gallons of 2% milk
4 yoplait yogurts
3 mini Pillsbury crescent rolls
2 cups of Easy Mac
2 Cups of Easy Velveeta
1 Warm Delights by Betty Crocker
1 Box of Supreme Hershey Chocolate Betty Crocker Brownies
2 Fudge Striped Cookies
2 Boxes of Spaghetti
1 Pineapple
3 lbs of Bananas
2 Kraft Suddenly Salads
5lb bag of Flour
2lb bag of sugar
2 2-liters of various Coke Products
10 Packets of Kool-Aid
2 Ocean Spray Cranberry-Grape Juice
2 Apple Juices

I just find that I bought all of that stuff for a little over $20. Amazing, isn’t it?

I feel like I haven’t had time to even sit, let alone blog! So I am doing it at work. Shhhh….

I’ve been decorating cakes for hire, babysitting, anniversary, working, going swimming with the family, housekeeping (and cleaning my own house, too!), music auditions, church “Life Groups”, couponing class, and Andy went out of town (to Minnesota, without me, that stink…hahaha) and playing tennis with some friends, and the list just goes on and on.

So I’ve been tired. I’ve recently ramped down the activities. The last two weeks I had something going on EVERY NIGHT, which was just too much for me.

I still have a cake for hire that I have to do this month, along with teaching a class on basic cake decorating. I am doing a garage sale with a friend this weekend.

Do you see? I’m still busy!

And I eventually hope to go down and see my sister-in-law who is back across the pond for a few weeks.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know what I was doing.

Yesterday I went it to get my wisdom teeth pulled. I had two impacted, and the other two were just normal extractions. I thought that I had all four impacted, but the oral surgeon told me that it was in fact two.

I don’t quite remember getting out of the office, nor the ride home. I do remember a brief period where I told Andy that I was no long seeing double and a short minute where Andy went through the drive through at Walgreens to drop off my prescriptions. That was about it.

Once I got home, I took a nice long nap and woke up when Andy came home to check on me, and then again when he came home from work.

My mouth is actually feeling less painful that I expected it to be. The surgeon called me last night and asked how I was feeling. I told him I was doing fine and asked a couple of questions about my recovery, because you know, I don’t remember what he told me earlier. During the end of our conversation he asked me, “So I bet those painkillers have taken the edge off your pain, because you sound pretty good, huh?” in which I replied, “I haven’t needed to take the painkillers.” The response I got was “WOW. You must have I high tolerance to pain.”, although the undertone in his voice said, “What planet did YOU come from?”

To be honest, I think I have a pretty average tolerance to pain, but I think my mouth was bothering me so bad due to my wisdom teeth, that when they got pulled out my mouth said, “Ahhhhhhh…relief…..” and that was about it.

Sure it still hurts, but it isn’t something I’ve needed to take oxycodone for, either.

The only thing is that now I’ve come done with a miserable cold. Sore through, drainage, foggy brain, etc. I guess this is my body’s way of saying, “Hey, you aren’t getting off THAT easy.”

Ah well, such is life.

At least my mouth doesn’t hurt as bad as I thought.

About a few weeks ago I started having difficulty fixing my hair in the morning. It usually will straighten out whenever I take the flat iron to it, but it wouldn’t do it anymore. It would still stay curly/wavy. I finally figured out that the heating element on one of the sides of the flat iron wasn’t heating properly. I then decided it was time to buy a new one the next time we went to the store.

That weekend, while we were at Target, I took a look at the selection they had. Andy was standing there looking a little bit lost. (Hey, he is a guy in the women’s section of the store.) Target had a wide range of selection of hair irons: Cheap, Moderately Price and would last a little longer, expensively overpriced and wouldn’t last much longer than the moderately priced, and then the really expensive salon one that would last, well, forever, and if it didn’t, you get your money back. Andy asked me about the really expensive one, The Chi. He wanted to know if paying $130 for a hair iron was actually worth it. You know, because he is the type of man that likes to buy the expensive, yet durable items that last a long time. I looked at him, almost with disbelief, and began explaining to him that the Chi iron is THE de facto iron of the professional salon industry, and that I was supremely shocked that they were selling a model at Target. Since we were at the end of a very tight month, money wise, he told me to wait on buying a flat iron until I got paid. He said he’d rather me not by a $30 one that will break in the next year.

I was shocked because I never thought I would ever convince him of buying such a pricey piece of hair equipment. I had never even tried. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I could have convinced him all along.

A few nights later, the evening before I would be paid, we started talking about it a little more. About how I’ve spent about $250 over the last 5 years on hair irons that lasted 8 months to 15 months. He asked me if I was sure this was a durable iron and whether it really had a good warranty. I assured him that, yes, it is and it does. I decided that I would go and buy one from a salon, just to make sure that I was getting the warranty and the correct model.

The next morning I woke up and turned on my flat iron to fix my hair.

It didn’t work.

The light was one, but no heat. I was in shock. I had just blown dry my hair into this massive lion’s mane and I didn’t have anything to tame it down!

And maybe some of you don’t believe me, but trust me, my hair is afro city after a blow dry.

So I spent the next hour “straightening” my hair with a curling iron. Because for some reason my curling iron doesn’t want to curl. -_-

So I think that my flat iron decided to protest or get back at me for discussing buying a new one.

Luckily, that was the day I got paid. I went straight to the spa across the street and bought my new Chi, with lifetime warranty and it works GREAT. It is THE BEST hair iron in the world. The next morning, I finished my hair in 10 minutes! As opposed to the 30 that it normally takes me!

So, lesson learned. Don’t talk about replacing appliances unless you can afford for them to break the next day