If You Haven't Heard Yet, Teenagers Just Know Everything!

I hope someday to be as wise as teenagers.  They just know everything, don't they?
At least that is how my Daughter feels....at the ripe old age of 18, she knows it all.

She knew that she didn't need to waste her time applying to those Honors programs at the colleges she applied for, since she was sure she wouldn't need any additional financial awards to attend said colleges.

She knew that she didn't need to waste her time writing any optional essays on her college applications, because again, she wouldn't need any additional merit awards some of those aforementioned essays may have qualified her for.

She knew that she didn't need to waste her time searching out and applying for merit based scholarships that weren't connected to the specific schools she hoped to gain admittance to.  Surely, the schools she applied to would offer her more than ample piles of dough to cover any costs her parents college fund didn't.

She knew her superior brain, her sterling grades, her class rank, her ability to shine on standardized tests(the SAT) would have the powers-that-be at each of the colleges she applied for throwing scholarship money at her feet to get her to choose their school.

Even though her parents, who have the wisdom of having gone through all this themselves back when "dinosaurs roamed the Earth", told her she had better apply for things, write essays, and any other thing asked of her by the colleges' powers-that-be, to take advantage of any advantage she could uncover to find scholarships and/or grant money.

So guess what?  It turns out, she didn't know Jack!
Her dumb as dirt parents saw this day coming like a roaring freight train down the track, but she didn't heed our warnings.

To Be Continued.....

Sluggy

Giveaway Time!......My Boring Blog

Time for another Giveaway.
Remember my Birthday Bash Giveaway earlier this year?
Well, I've taken most of the items that were left, that the Giveaway winner didn't pick during the course of the Giveaway post, and fit them into a flat rate mailing box.
So I am giving all those items away for this Giveaway.

Here is what you will win if your entry is picked....

Sarah Micheals Tea Rose Gift Set bag
Avon Vanilla Shower Gel
Dove Shampoo
Pantene Styler
Box of mailing Envelopes
Old Spice Deodorant
Cinnamon Candle
Glade Scented Candle Tin
Airborne
Gax-X Prevention
Betty Boop Enameled Pen
Winnie the Pooh Gift Wrap
Hershey's Kisses with Almonds
LifeSavers Pep-O-Mint Candies
I also added in 2 Bottles of Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Polish, a pink shade and a coral shade.

Check out the rules.....
The Rules
1. You must be a "Follower" of my blog to enter and still be a Follower if/when you win.  Lookie on the right sidebar and press the big ol' FOLLOW button if you are not already a follower.
2.  Sorry but this Giveaway is open ONLY to those with a mailing address within the USA.  Hate to have to do that but the postal rates outside the country are KILLER.
3.  You must leave your email address on your comment OR have it linked to your account so that I can contact you.  If I can't email you, you can't win.

For your Required Entry.....Leave a Comment on this post with your Favorite Thing about my blog and the 1 thing you wish I did on this blog that I don't or something I do already that you'd like to see more of it.

You can earn EXTRA ENTRIES this way....

1.  Blog about my Giveaway on your blog.  This will earn you THREE extra entries. Please leave 3 separate comments that you did this with the url or link to the specific blog post where you mention this giveaway.


2.  Every person who comments/enters the Giveaway that mentions you sent them here to enter will earn TWO extra entries for themselves AND the person who referred them.  You only need to leave ONE comment only please.  I will add the 2nd entry for you and 2 extra entries for your referral person for you.


3.  If you would like to join a great company that provides cash for your opinion, use my referral HERE.  They provide participants for focus groups, product testers, as well as pay you to complete surveys online.  Use my referral to join up and then leave THREE comments on this post that you did this for 3 additional entries for the giveaway.


4.  If you haven't joined SWAGBUCKS, use my referral link HERE or go through the Swagbucks ad on the right sidebar on the blog here.   Use my referral to join up and then leave THREE comments on this post that you did this for 3 additional entries for the giveaway.

5.  Tweet about this Giveaway on Twitter.  Leave a comment on this post with a link to the tweet.  You may tweet once every other day(and leave a new comment with the tweet link)for additional Twitter entries. 


This Giveaway will be open until 11:59pm ET April 8th, at which time I'll randomly draw a winner.


As always, this is not a company sponsored or company supplied Giveaway.  Any costs associated with this Giveaway are coming out of my pocket because I'm just that kinda gal.  Please patronize our blog ads....I'm just sayin'.... ;-)


Sluggy

In a Bad Place......

I apologize if I haven't been posting much......or been my usual perky cheerful self(that part was sarcasm folks). ;-)
But stuff that's been going down lately with Daughter's college admissions/financial aid stuff has me in a bad place emotionally.  Let me rephrase that.....current difficulties in this area have brought up alot of suppressed emotions and events from my own life to the surface and that's why I am in a bad place.  The current 'stuff' we are dealing with sucks but I know we'll get through it.  It's the specter of my past that's been raised in my own head that's got me wanting to just go throw myself into a hole and die.

My family seemed pretty normal until I hit my teen years(yah, my parents were fairly good at keeping up appearances)and for too many reasons I can't list here, it spiraled into quite the disfunctional disaster zone.  And it continued through my college years and beyond, shaping me in ways that people should not be shaped.  Under my sarcastic exterior lies one broken damage bill of goods.
So yes, I am one of those people you meet in life with a lot of emotional baggage.  Mostly due to lack of parental support in all ways conceivable. If not for my Hubs and his unflagging love and support, I don't know where or what I'd be at this point in my life.
I guess I should go find a therapist and pay them to sit and listen to my tales of woe at $200 an hour.
Hubs sympathizes but he has no patience for listening AGAIN and AGAIN to me rehashing all this stuff when I find myself in this bad place every few years.  And he just doesn't "get it" really since he came from a totally different world where things like what I went through didn't happen.  And I sure don't want to burden my kids(even though 2 of them are adults now)with what haunts me because well, that wouldn't add anything positive to their lives now, would it?
So I just suffer silently and go to this bad place when life events bring it up again and relive these painful times alone.

Gawd, this is getting depressing even for me!lol  I'll stop now before anybody who's still reading this goes and takes a razor to their wrists. 8-P
I've thought about writing a book about my life.....no, I don't think anybody would pay good money to buy it!  I just think it might be cathartic to get it out on paper.  It might help me get past some of this stuff to deal with it in that way.
When I'm feeling a little better maybe I'll carve some time out to scribble down my thoughts.....

Anyway, this was all just my much too long way to let y'all know I may not be posting much in the next week or so.
I am going to put up a Giveaway soon but other than that I'll be off in my dark corner sorting through my baggage.  Hopefully one day I'll be able to declutter some of that as well as the physical baggage hanging around here! ;-)

Sluggy

The Groundhog Must Die!

Which Ground Hog?
Punxsutawney Phil of course.
Why?
Because of this......

Eight inches of snow!  And there's more coming!?

Early Spring this year my ass.....

Sluggy

Boring Shopping Post

I hit the local small market on Monday to do the Cheesy Deal....

The deal was spend $30(after coupons) on Kraft cheese(and/or other select products)and get $10 off instantly.  So it wasn't a Catalina Deal but an Instant Savings Deal, which was better since this store Catalina Deals suck.  Why?  Because they figure your total AFTER Qs to see if you qualify for the Cat,  AND the Cat is also based on sale prices not reg. shelf price.  Those 2 things make a BIG difference!

Some of the mozzarella bags had $1 off wyb a bag of cheese and a block of cheese(included Cracker Barrel and reg. Kraft branded blocks)Qs too but otherwise I had no Qs for the cheese deal.
I ended up getting 13 cheese items for $21.58 after sale prices, $3 in Qs and $10 discount.  This made each item $1.66.  I may go back and do it again before Saturday and just get the shredded cheese, which would make them $1.50 each.
The Healthy Choice dinners were on sale 3 for $5 and there was a $1/3 blinkie machine on the door, making them $1.33 each.  At that price, how could I say no to Lobster Ravioli?lol
The broccoli was for Monday night's dinner and we needed the celery...both were on sale.
The total was $28.39 for all.  Regularly priced at $61.66 which means a savings of 54%.

Then I went back to Rite-Aid.....

Used some more Johnson's rainchecks(got me free stuff after raincheck and Qs), redeemed a free Coke Q, got some more free Toothbrushes and I broke down and bought a Night Guard.  I'll get a raincheck for another one for BIL's account to use after the April $3 SCR kicks in on it.

I'm working on rolling next week's expiring +Ups at this point, so I didn't have to roll any +Ups but I did roll $22 so I am a little more ahead for the upcoming sales week.
The total came to $22.55 after Qs/sales.  I used $22 in +Ups and put the .55 on my gift card.  I received back $27 in +Up Rewards(6 x $2 Toothbrushes, $15 Night Guard) so I am 'up' $5 on this transaction.
I have $52.65 left on my gift card.

THIS TRIP
Number of Transactions.....1
Total Spent....$.55 (put on free Rite-Aid gift card)
Value of Items....$86.78
SCR qualified for...$0.00
Other Rebates earned...$0.00
Gift Cards earned....$00.00
+Up Rewards earned...$27.00
+Up Rewards spent....$22.00
+Up Rewards left to spend.....$110.00

TOTALS--March Rebate Period

Number of Transactions......12
Total Spent....$3.93 put on free Gift Cards/Certificates so ZERO OOP
Value of Items purchased....$613.85
SCR qualified for....$45.00
Other Cash....$0.00
Additional Rebates....$0.00
Additional Non-Cash Rewards....$0.00

+UPS Totals for March SCR period
+Up Rewards carryover from 3/20.....$105.00
+Up Rewards spent....$234.76
+Up Rewards earned....$95.76
+Up Rewards left....$110.00  includes ALL +Ups not just ones from this SCR period

Sluggy