Much To My Surprise

Last night after work I had a few errands to run, one of them was to get gas. The one thing most people used to dread was getting gas, well not anymore. I actually paid $1.89 a gallon for gas. It was a good thing though, the pump moved so slow that it took almost 10 minutes to put in $20.00! I had every intention of filling the Gas Hog up but as soon as I saw how slow the pump was moving I scratched that idea. After I managed to squeeze $20.00 worth of gas out of the pump I got in the truck and thought, geez how much gas will I really get out of this? Well, I started it up and it came in a hair under a 1/2 a tank! I was shocked, I remember not to long a ago it gave me just under a quarter of a tank. Feels nice to not dump $98.00 in the gas tank.

My parents live in New Hamphire and the gas up there is more than what we pay down here! I remember when gas up there was 99 cents a gallon and we were about 25 cents more than them, not anymore. So my curiousity got the best of me and I took a peak at what California was paying, $1.75 in some places...hmm sounds nice wonder what California car insurance cost out there?? Not that it has anything to do with gas but man I thought California would still have pretty high gas.

Thought For The Day

SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES.....NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS.


If this statement is not true for several people I know, then I don't know what is. Here is to all the useless people in the world!

Need Blog Pictures?

There are all kinds of rules to making your blog successful. I have read them and do I follow them, usually not. One of the ideas be hind a successful blog is have pictures in your posts. I try to add pictures but most of the time I don't have any, why, not particular reason.

If you like to add pictures and ever find yourself stuck without one then checkout this site I found. It is called Acobox and the have a good selection of blog pictures you can use and it is free! All you need to do is register and voila, you are ready to add pictures to your blog. All the pictures are all properly licensed, you don't want to be "stealing" anyone's pictures and they are optimized to use for blogging. They have also made it very easy to use the pictures, no resizing, downloading..etc..just add the link to your post and you are done..easy as pie! I have used them a few times already and it is as easy as they said it would be. I look forward to using Acobox more for blog pictures and hope that eventually their picture selection gets even larger. So if you need pictures click the link or visit acobox.com and check them out.

Time for me to go make some breakfast..Have a Great Day...

A Roll Of The Dice

Lately things have been crazy at work. Everyone is worried about their job and it feels like las vegas, almost like the odds are against you and at any moment you could lose everything you have. No one is really sure if seniority means a thing. I guess when they decide it is your time, then it is your time. I hope we make it through the end of this year. Nobody wants to be with out a job right now, Thanksgiving, Christmas they are just weeks away and I can't fathom what it would be like to not have a job. As of right now I am trying like hell to squirrel some money away. It is so hard to save money, bills are ridiculous and the truck payment is what kills us out side of rent. What kills me even more are food prices. Yesterday I went to the grocery store, Stop and Shop and I was looking at the yogurt. They had their brand of yogurt in sale, 8 for $4.00, ok, sounds like a good deal right? WRONG...a good deal is when they keep the amount of ounces the same and lower the price not when they remove 2 ounces and keep the price the same. Stop and Shops yogurt went from 8 ounces to 6 ounces and the price never changed a bit!

Ugh..it so frustrating, I guess I should be happy that gas has dropped like a rock, consudering I drive a Ford Expedtion. It is nice to know I can save a ton of money at the pump. But for how long??

This Was In Today's Paper

My son is in this picture...suprisingly. I was disappointed to see that it was not the whole team. Doesn't it take the whole team to play/win a game??