Donations? Anybody?

           You ever get those annoying calls of people asking you for money? The worst is always after you've donated to a cause once. It's unbelievably hard to get of those calling lists. Every couple of months my phone rings. And I tell them all that same thing I am not interested if I choose to donate money again, not to worry I will do it without their calls. Please take me off your calling list and don't call again, thank you. And then about 20 minutes later my phone rings again somebody for the same organization with the same spill and this time I am slightly more annoyed because not even an hour earlier I had requested to be taken off the list. So this time I am slighty less friendly or polite. And of course it's not this new persons fault they are either doing their job or trying to get money for something they believe in. So every couple months for about a week I get calls over and over again from the same charities looking for money. No matter how often I request to no longer get those calls that I would donate when and IF I choose to, that I don't need there reminding of the charities. I obviously am quite aware they exist if I donated in the past. Especially when the past wasn't even a year ago. I almost want to change my numbers and never donate again. Unless it's done by given them no information at all, like a cash only donation.
           On a side note to my rant about calls for money. The last few days of the week really sucked. There was major drama at work on thursday and my dad fell ill the same day. The drama had to be dealt with by management. Why? Because we all couldn't be grown ups about it and needed a mediator. Go figure. I guess no matter how far away from high school some people get they mentally are stuck in that maturity range. Oh well que sera sera. My dad is doing better so all is good I guess in that front and life will proceed much the same as ever. It's tax season and we have all of our W-2's but we are still waiting on the 1099 or whatever it is from our mortgage company, then it's time to do the tax forms. My husband in all of his wisdom wants to send the taxes out this year. It might have to do with the fact that I was rather less then nice about it last year when he decided to "help" by moving half the papers when I told him I needed him to sign them and then forgetting where he moved them to.  Maybe I should jump at sending them to his dad's accountant this year, less stress for me. Besides if we sale this house this year I doubt I will want to deal with the taxes next year. Well, I am going to take my boys and go visit their papa.  Here is hoping to a nice uneventful weekend and a peaceful week this coming week.

Weekly Dinner Plan

So I have decided to make a weekly dinner plan. In theory this will save me some money going to the store once a week and overall make my life easier. Reality of this remains unseen. So time will tell and I will let you know how this works out. Hopefully this will make is so I blog at least once a week. I know I have slacked off majorly on this blog thing and the reality of the matter is life is too hectic for me. That and really I am just  not that interesting. I know shocking isn't it? Yeah not really but what the hell. So here is my dinner menu for this coming week starting Saturday. So yes I have one night for leftovers and I know this will bite me in the butt. Because in theory there will be left overs and during the week the plan is to use them for lunches but I figure we should have Almost Lasagna left over for mondays dinner, maybe. I guess if we don't I can just throw something together or we can order Chinese or well Pizza. But I would rather not since it would defeat the whole let's save money plan. lol.

Dinner Plan January 30th thru February 5th 2010


Saturday Jan 30th – Almost Lasagna, salad and garlic bread

Sunday Jan 31st – Garlic Cheddar Chicken with sour cream and garlic mashed potatoes, corn and rolls. (what can I say I like garlic, no vampire for me haha)

Monday February 1st – Left Over’s or something..

Tuesday February 2nd - Chicken Marsala with Fettuccini (slow cooker) with salad and rolls

Wednesday February 3rd – Baked Chicken Breast with Cheesy Baked Ziti and steamed green beans and homemade breadsticks

Thursday February 4th – Easy Chicken N Dumplings (slow cooker)

Friday February 5th - Pork Chops with twice baked potatoes, corn and you guessed it fresh rolls.

I guess you can see I like my carbs and starches especially when they come in the bread form..  So hopefully this will help me get better at being a good little blogger. And I will have to find more to blog about but since I don't really have any followers I guess it's not a large concern. : )