OK so canning kinda scares me well maybe that is not the right word. But I do not know anything about it but I know I need to get into it, to save some money. I have certain sites I go to all the time about food storage and today i went to one blog and they had these videos posted about dehydrating foods so now i want a dehydrator LOL man i always have wants LOL
here is a link to the videos
click on this link to check out their food storage set up I am way jealous!
found this quote that I think is perfect!!!
"Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food . . . and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free"
Pres. Thomas S. Monson
I found this blog
I like that they do it as a RS and all the sisters can look at it. For me that is great cause I have not been to church all month because of wrestling and it would be a great way to stay informed of stuff going on. I think they have a good example of a 72 hour kit too
Katie tagged me to write 5 thing I like about today so far.....
1- That it is raining rather than snowing
2- That there is a 25% off coupon to shelfreliance in the food storage newsletter today- maybe I can afford to get a few basics
3- That Eddie is already in the process of making dinner - Pork Roast
4- That we do not have any activities tonight - no wrestling, no scouts, no achievement days, and no 4-H either - just time to study spelling words woo hoo
5-That I already went to town and did a little shopping- I was a dork standing in wally's writing down prices of items i normally buy so that I would know when they come on sale at places that the sale price is a good deal or not LOL
This time of year wrestling is our life. We eat sleep and breath wrestling. Practice is 3 nights a week and there is a tournament every weekend. On the non wrestling days Dallen runs on the treadmill for 15 min to keep up his cardio. (now if only I would do this too.)
This past Sunday, the tournament was in Fallon Nevada. Fallon is about 2 hours away from us, so we had to leave by 5 am. This was the hardest part of the day. I am soooo not a morning person. Dallen is definitely not a morning person! Eddie is not the greatest either. Claira on the other hand is fine with it, but this weekend she stayed at Julieann's house so she was not there to make the rest of us get up. We did it though. We got in the car and I drove to Fallon. We made it in just over 2 hours too. I passed up a few of our team members on the road. They claim I was driving 85 but I was only going 75 I mean come on the speed limit in Nevada is 70 so you can go 75!!!
Dallen pinned his first kid super fast. I even missed the whole thing it was so fast. I was taking pictures of another kid and was watching for Dallen to come out of staging and did not see him come out. So I thought I was all good. Then Eddie walked by me and said "He just pinned a kid" CRAP I missed it I was so bummed.
His second match was good. The kids were evenly matched. Those are the best ones cause you learn so much from having to struggle. Dallen came out on top tough and won that match too. I got to see that whole match.
His 3rd match we knew that if he was to win he would take first place. We did not want to jink it but Eddie told him anyways. Dallen said to me "Hey Mom the next kid I wrestle I have already beat before. So I am going to win" I told him not to get cocky cause that is when you loose. I told him you have to go out there and fight like you have never wrestled him before cause he could have gotten better since you wrestled him last. So he did. He went out and fought hard. I was able to be right on the edge of the mat for this match. The other kids mom was standing right next to me. She looked like a really nice person. LOL Then there was me LOL Dallen got the kid down right away and almost had him pinned so I started screaming at the top of my lungs to push " Push Push" He heard me and pushed a little harder and the kid got pinned. Once I knew it was a pin I yelled quite loud again because I knew that it ment that Dallen had won first place. The nice mom looked at me and gave me a weird look like I was crazy.
Usually you do not get trophies at the tournaments but they were giving out trophies for 1st place in all weight classes at this tournament. That was a big carrot for us to dangle in front of him so he would fight hard because he had never received a wrestling trophy before. Other wise it would not have been such a big deal I would not have yelled as much. Still a lot but not as much.
Here is a pic with his trophy. It is Cody (Dallen's best friend) 1st place also, Kyle (Cody's brother) 2nd place, Dallen 1st place and Darrell (in the back- one of Dallen's other best friends) 2nd place
After the tournament we stopped in Reno for gas and dinner. It was Dallen's turn to decide where to eat but he did not want to eat. Cody was going to spend the night at our house as soon as we got home so he wanted to hurry up and get home. But Eddie was starving so we had to eat. So that ment I got to choose. I suggested Sushi. Eddie was not too excited about my idea but he said I would try it. So we went to Sushi Pier in Reno. Eddie was very weary. He said well I can always eat at home again. Once we ordered our first thing he loved it. It was sooo stinking good I wasn't to go back today. But going to Sushi is not going to be something we do often. It is kinda expensive. Dallen really liked it too. I have a picture of Eddie at the restaurant on my phone He said "none of my friends are going to believe I ate here" So I took a pic I will try and see if I can upload it later
Sorry but I have to put one of those stupid spam blocker things on my comments. I was hoping to not do it but I have been hacked and it keeps happening. So now you have to do the password thing when you make a comment. It sucks I know, Sorry.
Nothing new since my post last night. Just went to work this morning and am home checking my emails and such. We have sewing class this afternoon, then 4-H meeting, then scouts and achievement girls. So it will be a busy busy afternoon.
I am already falling way behind on project 365 I will go one or 2 days and then forget again. This book is going to be really lame if I keep this up. Keeping up with adding my pics to the photo groups has not been too bad i just have to do it every week since we have a wrestling tournament every week this month. As soon as I finish getting my house organized I hope to start doing some pages for the 2006 and 2007 albums so I can finish that this year.
Dallen took 3rd place at the wrestling tournament this week. He was even wrestling in a weight class above him LOL ( they did not have any kids there his age that were as skinny as him LOL ) We think he could have had 2nd but they were not doing challenges this time. He did not actually have to wrestle the kid that got 2nd place but he has wrestled him before and won, plus the other kid had one less match then Dallen so we think that 2nd really should have gone to Dallen but oh well. It was a lot of fun. We sit as a team in the stands and we cheer for each kid like they are our own. It really helps you to forget that you are sitting smushed in with a million strangers at each tournament. That gets kinda annoying and it is always loud. If I have a good recording of one of his matches I will upload it. I am planning to go through all the pics of this last tournament tonight while I watch BL.
So I have a list of "wants" it is not too big but big enough that I can not just go out and buy them all. So a little at a time. I was going to focus on getting a laptop, so I could be on it while Eddie is watching TV and at least be able to be in the same room ( let alone in the same building). That was at least until yesterday....
We got the oh so lovely news that Arni is for sure taking away 10% of our paychecks. Now for some people that means that means that they will not be able to work 2 days a month, equaling 10% cut in pay because they are not working it. But for us lovely people in jobs that can not close down for 2 days a month, that means 2 days of working without pay. Yeah nice huh. How they plan to make this "legal" is to then put 2 days of "furlough" on your books each month. What that means is that once this 18month long pay cut is over with, you will be able to take the days off that you have already worked but did not get paid for. These days on the books will not increase in value (smart move on the states part but not good at all for us people who will get pay raises in the mean time.) These days are only valid for 2 years. at the end of the 18 months you will have 36 days of "furlough" on the books to use. In order to use your "furloughs" you have to write a memo asking for the days off. If granted great you can have a day off and not worry cause you will still be making your full paycheck. So it sound fair right? yea sure sounds good, now stop and think about it.... at our location we have 839 guys working there. We have 819 positions to fill each day. That leaves an extra 20 guys to fill in for people who are sick, on comp, or who have taken a hospital. That is not many extras so there is still some OT not much though. ( ok I got off track with that) There are 839 people they will each get 36 "furlough" days. 839*36=30,204 days to be taken off. Now they can not let everyone take off the days at the same time so of course that would be asinine. So say they let 20 people a day take off, because there are 20 "extra" guys to fill in those positions that will not create the OT to replace people for those "furlough" days. so 20*365= 7,300 so 7,300 days will be able to be used in one years time. You only have 2 years to use your days in so 7,300*2= 14,600 only 14,600 days will be able to be used. That is less than half of the 30,204 available to be used so you will loose most likely half of your "furlough" days. So you are working for FREE. Granted during this time variables will change, people will get fired people will die and some will retire all changing variables here and there. Notice I did not say people will be hired... because they are putting hiring freeze on again ( or maybe it is still I can not keep up with it) I agree you should not taken on more mouths if you can not afford to pay them. But by doing all this you are creating more OT and now do we make our money OT. Sure we make a decent wage without OT, you can live but if you want anything extra you work the OT. Put the life of your childrens father or mother at risk everyday and see if you feel we are overpaid. Most people have no clue what goes on behind those walls or out on the streets and until you live it you do not understand it in the least.
Ok, now back to me real post....
I was going to get a laptop but then I decided that maybe I should wait on that I have a puter that works great so why do I need a laptop right now. So here is what I do want though...
It is a shelf to put your canned food on for food storage. It is 18 inches wide which is perfect I have a spot in my pantry that this would fit perfect in. I just have to take out 4 little shelfs ( which could then be used in Dallen's room so they would not be wasted) But Costco has a bigger one that is 36 inches wide ( so double wide) it too would fit in my pantry well. The one from Costco is only 65 bucks more too. Now I just have to talk Eddie into it and find the money. Anyone want to pitch in for it?
While I am working on my "Goals" for the year, I am going to post my progress and my tips well not my tips but tips I have found or people have shared with me. My go to food storage girl and honorary Mormon, Jana shared a site with me yesterday. I checked it out this morning and I am really liking it. They have lots of tips and they are going to be sending out email reminders every 2 weeks of what you should be buying those weeks to help you get your food storage bought throughout the year. They are also running some contests currently so head over and check them out Fun with Food Storage
That is all for now I have a billion things to do today but who wants to Clean? NOT ME I am thinking I will just work on my scraproom today, since it is suppose to be my room. I think it has turned into an extra family room just without a TV. You know the room with the computer and the treadmill and all the mish mash stuff that you do not know where to put. That is what my room has turned into. I don't deal with mess well! So this room is driving me nuts.
It is windy as all get up over here Looks like a storm is going to roll in- just checked yep it is suppose to rain today. At least it is not snow I do not want more snow yet.
So I did not really make any resolutions this year. I do not really think I ever do. But today I have been wasting time on the net ( not like I do not do that everyday) and I am seeing a lot about Project 365 in the scrapping world. I know there are a billion P365 things out there but I was mainly looking at the stuff that pertains to the scrapping world. So it got me thinking maybe I should do this.... but then when do I have time..... but it would be a great way to document our year.... but i will probably only last a week so why bother.... it would help me learn how to use my new camera better and better my skills....but printing all the pages out would cost a fortune..... but then they always have specials randomly in the year and I did already prepay for some albums in shutterfly.... So I am thinking now maybe I should attempt it. Then I start thinking I have a lot of scrapping wants for this year.... maybe I should list them so I can make sure I work on all of them LOL
1- create and upload all wrestling pics to a group for the team parents
2- create a Schwab group and upload all pics that pertain to Schwab family activities
3- continue to upload all pics to the Sorenson group
4-Get all 2006 and 2007 pictures scrapped and into a book ( either bound and printed or printed and slipped into the remaining slots of the paper albums already started)
5-Create a year in review album for MIL for Christmas 2009 with all Schwab families included(I think this is what we are planning to do for my MIL from now on for Christmas presents)
6- Set up to have my blog printed out ( working on this a little at a time and having it ready so that when a good sale price comes along I will be ready)
7- Do a wrestling album for Dallen
8- Do a soccer album for each kid
9- Do project 365 in an 8x8 size
OH HECK WHY NOT MAKE IT AN EVEN 10
10- Make a Sorenson album (this will require the other Sorenson girls help!!!!)
So I guess those are my scrapping goals - Yikes that is a lot I am going to be spending all my time on the puter how am I going to finish all my other goals?
other goals to work on this year-
1-Organize the Pantry- I want to put a big chunk of our food storage in the pantry for easy rotation
2- Work on food storage - right now we have enough to get through one month just fine and we could survive longer but that is with eating some boring meals and who wants to have a boring food storage- what good is it if you do not want to eat it
3- Learn to eat more fresh veggies and fruit and get a little more fiber in the diet- this is not something I am really good at I rather eat sweets than healthy stuff but I do not want to have multiple health problems as the years go on so I need to work on getting more variety
4- To blog more often - after all I am using this as my journal so I need to write in it more often- now if only I could upload pictures I would be happier with this blogger thing
of course there is always the regular pay off debt and loose weight issues which I am constantly working on but those go without saying
ok Blogger is seriously killing me I am trying to upload these pics and it will not do it URRRGG
Katie- Lips I have is 360 i do not know if they make it for regular Xbox?
Denise- thanks for the compliment - I want to take that class too they are offering it again this semester - Last year they did it in a 6 week class the first weeks of Summer I would love to take it then but then the kids are out of school and what do you do with them? I got a Nikon D90
oh my hell I can not get anything to upload URRR
got a video to upload and then right before I saved it WHAM I lost it ---- now I am trying the jump rope one remember I just got this camera and I did not know that they recorded one direction and I have yet to figure out if I can rotate them after I record them sorry.
ok trying the pics one more time..... nope still nothing urrr
woo hoo it is working now.....
Dallen against Aunt Brit
Claira
I did have another uploaded of Dallen and one of Eddie and then the darn system went down - I guess this is good for now LOL
I am wondering Why? Why do I take so many dang pictures? I have spent 5 hours today on the puter uploading pictures, rotating them ( I switch my camera position often) and weeding out the blurry ones. Now honestly I have not been just sitting here the entire 5 hours, but a good portion I am sure. Because I take so many pictures of things my kids do with other peoples kids,they say "oh well since you are taking pictures I will just put my camera away because you take better pictures." Well yes I do have some good pictures partially because I have a really good camera, and partly cause I take "eleventy billion" and just post the few cute ones. So now I have to upload my pics to snapfish or shutterfly for the other parents so they can see the pics and have a chance to print them out. Either that or burn them a disk of the pictures. Which is fine I do not mind sharing it just takes forever to upload. It is killing me! So today I am creating a Wrestling group page on snapfish and then after that is done I am going to create a Schwab page. (We already have a Sorenson page.)
So I am starting to learn all the new features on my new camera - man there are a million. It also takes video. I am still not good at making that too clear but it has been really nice having that option. I made a video of Dallen singing with aunt Brit. Once I figure out how to, I will upload it here. And one of Dallen trying to jump rope at wrestling practice. He soooo can not jump rope it was too funny.
Last night as I was walking into wrestling practice I went to place my new camera on my shoulder. BAM it dropped straight off the shoulder strap and to the ground. I was not very happy. Luckily it did not break, cause I had my brand new $300 lense on the front. There is no way I could replace that for a while. My lense cover has some big gashes in it and my lense itself has a few but at least not on the actual glass portion so I think it will survive.
Claira got this new Xbox game for Christmas, Lips. It is so much fun if you have an Xbox you have to get it!!! It is like a karaoke game, you can sing by yourself or you can sing against others it is so much fun. We showed it to Brit when she came over on New Years Day. We played that thing for hours and now Brit is thinking she will let Zach get that Xbox that he has been asking for.
One of the best thing about Brit and Zach coming up to visit was miss Ellaree. (Sorry Brit you are second place now LOL) I took elenty billion pictures of Ella. Many of them are really cute. Of course though they are of a baby LOL so here are a few that I love.
ok That is all for now uploading to Blogger is stinking slower than molasses... more next time.
