Rite-Aid & Weis This Week

I hit Rite-Aid this Week.
I still had a $5 off $20 of Rite-Aid branded products eCoupon on my son's Wellness card so I bought....

8 x Big Win case of water(on sale-Rite Aid product)=$20 *not pictured*

Since this item was also a Blizzard Points qualifying item I now had $20 toward $30 spent to qualify for $10 in Plenti points back so I also bought.....

2 x Garnier Fructis shampoo on sale=$7.00
1 x Garnier Styling product on sale=$3.50
Subtotal......$30.50

Coupons Used
1 x $5 wyb $20 R-A items Load2CardQ=$5.00
2 x $2/1 Garnier IPQ=$4.00
1 x $2/1 Garnier styler Load2CardQ=$2.00
Coupon Total.....$11.00

$30.50-$11.00=$19.50 = .27¢tax=$19.77

I used one of my $15 R-A free Visa Debit Cards + $4.77 worth of Plenti points on that card to pay.
I received $10 in new Plenti points back.
Nothing spent OOP.
I also received a $2 cash rebate in SavingStar for buying the Garnier styler so this comes out to $2.77 spent "down" in Plenti points in the end.

Onward to my Weis(PMITA)Markets trip from Wednesday.
Here are the best deals I found........

4 x Progresso soups on sale $1=$4.00 used $2/4 Q=$2.00 or .50¢ a can
1 x A&H laundry detergent on sale=$1.97 used $1/1 Q=.97¢
1 x pork tenderloin w/$3 off instant sticker discount=$3.09($1.96 lb)
1 x steelhead trout w/$3 off instant sticker discount=$4.67($4.86 lb)

I also had a $2/4 Progresso rebate in savingstar so the soup will be free once that goes through.

Now I am off to do something outside since it's 60F here right now.

Sluggy

He's Legal!

I'm feeling kind of old today.
Today my "baby" turns 21.
Yep, that would be College Boy.

Here's some photos of him through the ages.......

(First photo-1996)

(2002)

(10th Birthday)

(Link costume in 2007)

(Easter Egg hunting in 2008)

(13th Birthday)

(In the sunglasses)

(Freshman Year photo)

(Next year at camp, still in sunglasses.)

                               (Junior Year photo)

(With his "axe".)

                                  (On the far left.)

                         (Marching Band Solo.)

      (French Honor Society-in the black striped shirt.)

                                       (Prom)

                          (High School graduation)

                                (Off to College.)

(Off to college again.)

                  (Performing at college-on the right.)

(Last Fall in concert.)

Happy 21st Birthday College Boy!
Here's hoping the next 21 years are even better!!!

Love,
Mom
aka Sluggy

Another February Giveaway!

Here it is.....another Giveaway!
Since I didn't get a Giveaway up in January, let's do TWO in February....unless some one out there has a problem with that.  ;-)

This is the second Sluggy's Boring Blog Box Giveaway for the year.
This time it's all about Girly Girls.....Make-Up and Chocolate!

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

1 x Crest toothpaste
1 x Oral-B toothbrush(medium softness)
1 x Aveeno lotion sample bottle
1 x Tag men's deodorant
1 x Pantene shampoo(w/bonus sample)
1 x Centrum Vitamints vitamins
1 x Max Freezer topical pain relief
2 x Nivea hand cream tins
1 x Nivea tinted lip balm(strawberry)
1 x Revlon lipstick(rosy nude)
1 x Wet n' Wild lipstick(dark pink frost)
1 x L'Oreal Infallible lip liner pencil(mauve)
2 x Cover Girl eye shadow(1 turquoise tempest, 1 purple pop)
5 x Sinful Colors nail polish(stormy, forget now, dream on, sugar sugar, let's talk)
1 x Rite-Aid brand tweezers
1 x Fiber Choice sample
1 x Revlon nail clippers
2 x Make-up remover packs
10 x Assorted Chocolate squares(Ghirardeli & Hershey's)

Closeup shots of the goodies up for grabs......

I'll leave this giveaway open until Tuesday, February 28th, at 11:59pm Eastern Time, so that gives everyone a full week to enter this one.  On March 1st I'll mark all the valid entries and use Random dotorg to pick a number and that corresponding person's entry wins.

You may get ONE ENTRY EVERY DAY by leaving a comment on this blog post every day until the Giveaway ends.
Tell me in your comment, what here is the thing you most like to win, what the weather has been like by you, your favorite brand and type of chocolate, your best frugal tip to share with our readers, your favorite brand and type of shampoo, if you consider yourself a "girly girl", your best tip for getting and staying out of debt, the name/link to a favorite blog you'd like to share, if you are better off now or 5 years ago and why, or anything else you'd like to share with everyone.

You can also get 3 BONUS ENTRIES by posting this Giveaway on your own Blog OR if you are a Follower of this blog.  Please leave 3 separate entries for these bonus entries with either a link to your blog post where you talk about the giveaway OR the name/ID you follow under so I can verify you follow the blog for these entries.

Disclaimer--This giveaway is open to those with mailing addresses within the US only.
As the cost of postage to foreign countries has gotten to high I can no longer afford to mail boxes outside the US, sorry.  These giveaways are not sponsored by any companies, I pay for it all out of my own pocket.

***PLEASE NOTE***

Please make sure there is a way for me to contact you in your comment.
If you're not a registered Blogger User with your contact information on your User page, please put your email addy in your comment or email me your email addy privately when you leave a comment so I can get ahold of you if you win. If your Blogger associated user profile is a GOOGLE one with those Google Circles nonsense I CAN NOT CONTACT YOU as Google Circles doesn't show your contact info.
I again had to disqualify some entrants in the last giveaway because their profile is linked through Google and not Blogger.  Please check your profile!  And if you ARE entering through a Blogger profile PLEASE have contact info(email addy)in that profile.  If I can't access your email addy I can't contact you so email me your email addy privately or add your email address to your User Profile.  If you have sent me your email addy privately for a previous giveaway I still have it on file so no need to resend it for this giveaway.

If I can't contact you then you can't win.  I have had to disqualify more readers than I care to due to this issue and I sure don't want it to happen again.  Thanks!

So let's get this started!

Sluggy

This Week on the Dining Table

The "Buried No More" Edition--

Before 11 days ago.......

After this morning........

What a difference a week+ makes.  Yesterday Hubs and I went out to run errands and it was 56 degrees when we got home.  The day before on Saturday it hit 63F, 1 degree short of the record for that date.
It's suppose to "dip" into the 40s this week and hit into the 50's again next weekend.  This a big time CRAZY hot for February here!!  We'll all be sick by March I suspect.

Moving on......

Onward to the meal planning!

Here's what was planned last week--

1. Sunday--Breakfast for Dinner

2. Monday--Kielbasa on Rolls, leftover Halushki

3. Tuesday--Salmon, Asparagus, Rice of some kind

4. Wednesday--Leftover Mushroom/Rice Soup or Chicken & Dumplings

5. Thursday--Shrimp Scampi w/Linguine, Caesar Salad *

6. Friday--Spinach Salad, Pork Tenderloin

7. Saturday--Leftovers

And this is what actually happened--

1. Sunday--Breakfast for Dinner

2. Monday--Kielbasa on Rolls, leftover Halushki

3. Tuesday--Leftovers or Fend for Yourself

4. Wednesday--Dinner Out for VD

5. Thursday--Steak, Baked Potatoes, Grilled Asparagus

6. Friday--Pizza

7. Saturday--Leftover Chicken N' Dumplings

Some things got served as planned, some things didn't happen or didn't get bought(like fresh spinach for Spinach Salad).

6 meals cooked at home, 2 of them a night of leftovers or Fend For Yourself, and 1 night of eating-out.

As for the grocery spending.....1 trip to Weis brought the food spending last week to $28.68 and brought my February food spending total to $221.31 for the month.  There are 8 days left in the month.
I will most likely stay under $300 for groceries in February.

My savings percentages last week was 62%.  

Leftovers going into this week.......Mushroom soup, Chicken and Dumplings.  Not much in the way of leftovers and these will probably get used up for lunches.

The Shrimp Scampi w/Linguine & Pork Tenderloin moves to this week.

Here is this week's "food plan"....
* Denotes "complicated" meals

1. Sunday--Pork Tenderloin Roast, Mixed Veggies, Corn Casserole

2. Monday--Shrimp Scampi w/Linquine, Salad *

3. Tuesday--Burgers or Sloppy Joes on Rolls, Macaroni Salad, Broccoli

4. Wednesday--Salmon, Cole Slaw, Squash

5. Thursday--Cheese Lasagna, Caesar Salad

6. Friday--Leftovers

7. Saturday--Leftovers or Cheese Ravioli w/Salad if no leftovers

This week will see 6 new meals cooked, 0 nights of Take-Out/Eating-Out and 2 nights of Leftovers.

What I need to buy for this menu?  Maybe some mac salad(if I don't make it myself) and milk.  I've got everything else already in the house.

What is getting fixed and served at your house this week?

Was last week's plan successful, did you go off plan or did you not even plan what was going to be eaten last week?

Any great deals on food at your stores this week?


Sluggy

I Finally Found One!

I have known since I was a small child that my maternal side, my mother's families, have deep roots in Virginian soil.
At least the last 5 generations had been born and raised in Virginia.  That was a fact passed down orally in the family.

Seems nobody in my mother's families nor her cousins had the genealogy bug.  Sure, there were "stories" that got passed down but nobody had any proof of anything, nor seemed interested in proving the stories were fact.

But little did I know beyond those generations how deep my maternal family trees had been planted in American soil until I began this genealogy quest in earnest.

I quickly was able to dive back into history 200 hundred+ years.
Progress slowed once I got back into the 18th century however.

By year three of digging I had compiled a list of my immigrant ancestral lines that all arrived in the 17th century(pre-1700).  Jamestown was founded in 1607 so all these ancestors arrived within the first 100 years of the English occupation of the New World.

These are my earliest ancestor lines in my direct descent for each surname with the date of, or at least an approximation if records haven't pinpointed, their entry year to America.

Now these are only those ancestral surnames that arrived in Virginia.  I do have some other early arrivals(pre-1700) in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts too. I also have a handful of 18th century arrivals too.


ALLEN-1635 to Virginia Colony
ASTON-1628 to Jamestown/Virginia Colony *
BANNISTER-1635 to Jamestown
BATHURST-1680 to Virginia Colony
BOWMAN-1666 to Virginia Colony
BURTON-1624 to Jamestown
CHAPPELL-1635 to Jamestown
CLEIBORNE-1635 to Virginia Colony
CRIPPS-1664 to Virginia colony
DICKSON/DIXON-bef. 1688 to Virginia Colony
DUDLEY-1637 to Virginia Colony
DUKE-1638 to Virginia Colony
FLIPPEN-bef. 1699 to Virginia
FOSTER-bef. 1675 to Virginia Colony
FOSTER or FORESTER-1648 to Virginia Colony
GARNETT-1610 to Jamestown *
GAYNEY-1622 to Jamestown/Virginia Colony
GREVILLE-1620 to Jamestown *
HARRISON-1632 to Jamestown/Virginia Colony *
HAYES-1637 to Jamestown
HOLLOWAY-bef. 1635 to Jamestown
HOSKINS-1624 to Jamestown *
HUDSON-1635 to Jamestown
HUNT-1635 to Jamestown/Virginia Colony
MASON-1613 to Jamestown/Virginia Colony *
MATHEWS-1622 to Jamestown *
MEADOR-bef. 1635 to Virginia Colony
MERIWETHER-1652 to Virginia Colony *
MILLS or MYHILL-bef. 1647 to Virginia Colony
MOULSON-1663 to Virginia Colony
PUCKETT-1665 to Virginia Colony
RAGSDALE-bef. 1644 to Virginia Colony
RUDD-1698 to Virginia Colony
SEWELL or SEAWELL-1637 to Virginia Colony *
SHEPPY/SHIPPY-bef. 1633 to Virginia Colony *
SNEAD-1635 to Jamestown
STITH-1656 to Virginia Colony *
STRINGER-Before 1644 to Virginia Colony
TAVERNER-1618 to Jamestown
VASSER-1635 to Jamestown/Virginia Colony
WADE/WAAD-1655 to Virginia Colony *
WHITE-1651 to Virginia Colony
WOMACK-before 1655, no port listed but settled in Henrico County(Richmond area)


The Jamestowne Society(a private genealogical society for people with ancestors who were early settlers to Virginia)has a list of criteria it uses to see whether your direct ancestor qualifies you for membership in this "club".

As far as my list above goes all the surnames with astericks are currently qualifying ancestors.  Ten ancestors, whom, if I wanted to spent the time and money on gathering records for, would gain me membership in that club.

Though I've got lots of direct ancestors who came to Virginia very early on in it's settlement by the English I had yet to find one of the original 105 settlers who made the voyage on the first fleet of three ships in 1607 to the shores of the new world.

Until now......

Meet my 3rd Cousin, 13 x removed, George Percy.
George's 2 x Great Grandfather was Richard Neville, 2nd Baron of Latimer.
Richard was also my 15 x Great Grandfather, so our common ancestor.

Born the youngest son to Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland and Lady Catherine Neville he had to make his own way in life due to primogeniture inheritance laws in England.

A graduate of Oxford he made the military his vocation.  He served in Ireland and fought in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain in the early 1600's.
He was also interested in the world of exploration as it was an exciting time as England tried to play catch up in this arena in the first decade of the 17th century.
He bought shares in the Virginia Company and signed on to venture to the New World in 1607, embarking onto the flagship, Susan Constant, piloted by Christopher Newport.

George Percy was there during the infamous "Starving Time" in the Winter of 1609-1610 and survived.  He kept journals of his experiences during his time in Jamestown which were published.
You can read excerpts from his journals HERE .

George Percy left Jamestown 22 April 1612 to return the England due to ill health and I suspect the tenuousness of life in the colony then.
He sold his Virginia Company shares in 1620 and went back into military service serving for the Dutch forces in their war against Spain.  There is debate on where he died and when, those most seen to think he died around 1627 somewhere in the Netherlands area.

He did marry while in Jamestown to Anne Floyd, and they had a daughter, Anne Percy, who married John West, a subsequent Governor of Jamestown.
Incidentally, John West is also my 6th cousin 13 x removed, through our common ancestor of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick.

You will notice that in the portrait of George Percy he is missing part of his middle finger on his left hand.  The story goes that he lost it during one of the battles in the Low Countries against the Spanish.

So the digging continues and I hope to unearth more ancestral connections to explore.

Sluggy