Farewell Ticker

I was hoping mine was just a wee glitch and would get better soon, but alas, my ticker ticked it's last tock.

I tried adding one of the blogger 'real time counter' gadgets this morning and it hijacked my blog with a weird spammy message.

anyone have any good, safe, easy to add html tickers they would suggest??

One minute

I found this link as I followed from a blog I read to a blog they read to a blog they read :-)

I haven't been to this blog before but I LOVED the post I was led to.

For a proctrastinator like me, it hits home!


31 things you can do in one minute

A wee bit of shopping

 So I did go out yesterday and get a few groceries so I felt ready for the week ahead. I havent' ever done a grocery post so it makes me respect more those who do this on a regular basis. I wanted to do a picture but my kitchen was taken over by DS2 and his father working on his scout truck so that was out of luck.

I stopped at three different places and spent a total on $108.00. This doesn't include the pet food or the hair jel I got.


I bought
Meat - 1 large roast and 1 warehousepack of stewing beef.

Dairy
- 2 x 4L of milk
- 1- 8 pack of activia

Fruit and Veggies
- 1 bunch of bananas
- 2 medium pineapple
- 8 mac apples and 5 granny smith
- 1 bunch of celery
- 3 heads of lettuce
- 1 long english cucumber
- 1bunch of  broccoli
- 3 bell peppers
- 5 kiwi
- 2 lbs grapes
- 4 grapefruit
- 5 lbs of navel oranges
- 1 canteloupe
- 2.5 kg box of clementines

Misc
- family box of cheerios
- 2 frozen healthy choice steamer dinners
- 2 L apple juice
- 1 box almond granola bars
- 1 box of waffles

I think that's all.

Gorgeous Spring day

I love spring in northern canada. It is scorching out there at a whopping 2 C. It may not be much above zero, but every little bit makes the snow slowly melt, wee puddles form and teeny lil patches of grass showing at the edge of my lawn. After a winter of shoveling snow OFF my sidewalk and driveway, it seems incredibly ironic to run out there with a shovel and toss a dozen or so shovelfuls of snow ONTO the sidewalk and driveway. I  know but I do so enjoy watching it melt and helping those lil green patches expand.

I may just do it again later LOL

with that lovely spring breeze out there and the bright sunshine it's time to go for a grocery run and perhaps squeeze in a walk before  I head back to the land of report cards.

Enjoy your sunday!

Where the money stands

I know I know I've been horribly delinquent of late. It's not that I have been horribly swamped. I mean I have had tons of things on my to do list, however I haven't been doing many of them. I've been incredibly unmotivated. The four letter L word comes to mind.

But the work piles up and no little fairies have come round to give me a hand or even a nudge with their wand, and the urgent cries of 'get er done!!!' echo through my mind. Add to that the looming presence of report cards and I know it is time to get up off my keister and get down to business.

In many ways I love report card time. Things in my house get clean then, as I procrastinate. My fridge is all pretty and shiny and organized this morning after last night's procrastination.

I ran to the bank yesterday after work with $160 in snowflakes. It felt good to apply that to my loan. I have a little tiny slip of orange paper in my wallet with the loan account number on it. When I in to lump sum, I hand them that for easy reference. It's getting quite ragged and the teller, whom I've known for years, laughs and says 'good thing you're close to the end on this. I don't think your paper is going to make it'

Debt
Mortgage - $37 600.36
Consolidated Loan - $1658.34
Vehicle Loan - $25 865.86

Total Debt - $65 124.56

Regular Savings
EF - $1300
RRSP 2010 - $325
Summer 2010 - $1000
Xmas 2010 - 360

Total Regular Savings - $2895

Special Savings
RESPs - $400
RRSP portfolio - $1000

My debt this month was reduced by $1784.40