Pumpkin Lane

Where’s the Juicy Celeb Gossip?

May 15, 2008 - Posted in Celebs

I wonder if the recession is even getting the best of the celebrities? Now, mind you — I am not, I repeat NOT one of these people who follows celebs’ every move. When I am totally bored I’ll browse celeb websites, mostly to read the whacked-out comments left by obsessive fans, but I guess it also keeps me in the loop so I don’t look like a complete idiot when people mention “the beautiful people.” I feel like not too long ago we were constantly hearing about this actress or that musician being busted for drugs, or needing to dry out, but it seems like you have to scroll through pages and pages on the fan sites before you even read anything about celebrities being hauled off to drug rehabs. I guess Amy Winehouse is your best bet for this kind of thing. And she’s just pathetic!

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Horsenappers!

May 15, 2008 - Posted in Blather

Even though I live about two hours away, I like to keep up with the news from my hometown. I frequently visit the online forum and read the local newspaper online. How is this for crazy news: someone stole a baby miniature horse from a local horse farm! How bizarre is that? Luckily, the police found her, but there is some concern that the horse might be infected with a potentially fatal disease. As a result, all of the horses on the farm have to be quarantined, and there is a risk for other horses because who knows if this little horse has had contact with others. I don’t know if there are horse supplements that can help prevent this particular disease or how treatable it is, but how sad. Now that the horse has been found, they’re going to do blood tests and hopefully find out whether or not the horse is healthy. Poor thing.

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Need to Hit CVS

May 15, 2008 - Posted in Health, Shopping

I have to remember to go to CVS this weekend. I want to pick up a couple of items so I can send away for my free bag of goodies from Glamour magazine! I have been wanting to try the Jergens Natural Glow moisturizer for a long time now. I also just want to browse the racks and see if I can find a good night time facial moisturizer. Luckily I don’t need to search for the best anti wrinkle cream yet, but my dry skin really could use some help in the moisture department! Figure I might as well burn up some of my ECBs and treat myself. There doesn’t seem to be anything super exciting in the next week’s sales flyer, unfortunately. Maybe I’ll do the Coke deal ($3 ECBs when you buy 4 12-packs), but that is all I see. I don’t need any more Garnier shampoo because although it’s often on specialy, it is a bitch to rinse out for some reason

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Weight Loss

May 15, 2008 - Posted in Health

Ever noticed how many weight-loss drugs there are out there? It is crazy! I just heard about this drug called Orovo, which I’d never heard of before. I am so nervous when it comes to taking medication, but I guess for some people this might provide a jump start and some motivation to lose weight the healthy way. As much as we’d all love to be able to pop a pill and look like movie stars, the reality is… that doesn’t happen. But I guess if someone has tried and tried and just can’t do it another way, as long as they are aware of the risks, diet pills are certainly a viable option.

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So tired…

May 15, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized

Ugh, I am having kind of a crappy week this week. Nothing seems to be going right, I’ve had a headache for like 3 days straight, and I am just so tired Luckily the weekend is near. I think tonight I am just going to veg out and play Alchemy on Drew’s laptop while watching the season finale of The Office. Things are looking up a little bit, but I’m still just ready for this week to end and start fresh with a new one.

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Free Southern-Style Chicken at McDonald’s

May 12, 2008 - Posted in Business/Finance, Free stuff

Have you ever considering looking into a fast food franchise opportunity? Drew did, briefly, once. I think that it could be lucrative if you’re in the right location, but there is so much work that has to go into it. I think I would rather just enjoy it as a treat once in a while.

Speaking of treats, on Thursday May 15th, did you know that you can get yourself a FREE treat at McDonald’s. In the morning, from 7 AM to 10:30 AM you can get a free southern-style chicken biscuit (with the purchase of a medium or large drink). In the afternoon, from 10:30 AM to 7 PM, you can get a free southern-style chicken sandwich (with the purchase of a medium or large drink). I heard about these new sandwiches, and I’m going to see about trying one of them.

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Waste of Money

May 12, 2008 - Posted in Business/Finance

I’m so frustrated. I’m sure you know lots of people who have received their economic stimulus payments. Because we split our tax refund to be direct deposited between two different accounts, it seems that we are on the list to receive a check. That’s fine. Granted, a bit of a waste of money, but I can understand the confusion there. We are scheduled to be in the first batch of checks, so we we saw an envelope with “Economic Stimulus Payment” in today’s mail, we assumed that was it. Wrong. It was yet another letter, this time telling us how it was computed and we should receive it soon. This is the second letter alerting us to the fact that we will receive a payment. How many millions of these other letters went out? Such a waste of money, and such a shame.

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Business Tools

May 12, 2008 - Posted in Business/Finance

Have you ever wondered how your company could benefit from Six Sigma Training? A company called Smarter Solutions, Inc. can help you. They offer their clients an innovative business process improvement system. This system show you where to start in Lean Six Sigma training and deployment, and helps you educate your employees about Learn Sigma Six history and techniques. There are certificate and training overviews as well as coaching and consulting services.

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Yay, CVS!

May 3, 2008 - Posted in Save your pennies, Shopping

Just to show you that I do practice what I preach, here is this week’s CVS haul. I only purchased the monthly deals (well, except the gum… that might be a weekly deal but I am a gum addict and had to have it). I got all this stuff for just $6.90 out of pocket ! I used $21 worth of ECBs and had $8 worth of manufacturer’s coupons, and got back $34.91 in ECBs. Not too shabby!

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Vacation, all I ever wanted…

May 3, 2008 - Posted in Travel & Vacations

Vaction, how I’d love to get away! That’s right. I can butcher Go-Go’s lyrics with the best of ‘em. Just thank your lucky stars you can’t hear me sing. As I mentioned in my last post, the “spring” weather up here has been kind of blah, and that’s pretty much how I’ve been feeling. It would be so great to get away someplace a little warmer, like Hilton Head, South Carolina. Although we can’t travel anytime soon, I enjoyed looking at Sea Pines rentals and day dreaming of lounging on a boat, soaking in the sun, and being totally relaxed. Doesn’t that sound wonderful?

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