Curated By Shelley

My aplogies to Krissy I just realized the link to her blog was missing off my page....I must have accidentally deleted it when i was trying to clean up the links. Also, be sure to check out The Lazy Chefs !

$5.48 at starbucks $5.xx at taco bell for lunch $15 on water bill $32.30 on my corporate visa for tolls while I was on the way to and in illinois over the holidays $15 to verizon

$5.68 for lunch $45 at knutty knitter for the size 2 double pointed needles I was waiting to come in and three skeins of sock yarn (20% off on the needles and 30% off on the yarn). And I opened up a special savings account to be my "christmas club" account. $100 from every paycheck (I get paid monthly) will get automatically moved into that account..and come Christmas I'll have lots of cash saved for christmas shopping and misc expenses while I'm at home -and anything left over will help pay for vacation in 2008 - mom and I are gonna see if we can swing the panama canal cruise on the disney magic while they move it to the west coast for another summer of mexican rivera crusing.

So I think I posted before about how I discovered this particular knitting needles I love....they are called "brittany" and they are made of birch. I bought some when i was working on all my christmas goodies and noticed I was able to knit a lot longer with these needles than I normally can in one sitting. The next time I was in my yarn store I mentioned it and they told me its because they're relatively soft needles....so they feel better in your hands. So....all these needles I've been buying lately are brittany birch needles to convert my entire selection of random needles to one good type of needle. I decided to pick up and make some socks again....so far I've actually only completed one pair like 2 years ago...and about half of a single sock that I haven't touched in over a year..... But I picked up some great pink/purple supermerino that I bought in Laguna Beach a while back and my size 5 double pointed needles and went to town....and I made a ...

$25 to a co-worker for a color me Mine gift card he can't use. $197 for 4Q estimated local income tax

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$24 at Michaels on little holders to hold knitting needles together.

$19 on Chinese (for lunch and LOTS of leftovers!)

$35 to HOA

$3.45 at Starbucks

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Okay...so my meeting last week..... As I mentioned in a previous post..it was 48 hours before I got to take a minute to enjoy my view...and it was brief because then we headed out for teambuilding..but I'm getting ahead of myself.... Tuesday night we had 10 minutes to change for the evening and then headed over for those activities.... we had to build a race car out of various fruits and vegatables. We had to use at least a part of every food item on our table - and could only attach them using wooden skewers. Despite the fact that half the team are engineerings - with 3 of us being MECHANICAL engineers...our car sucked. Although in our defense....we actually made something that resembled a car....some of the other items were crazy...not at all car like. It was this evening we learned about the "nosiqutos" as they called them there...because the mosquitos were SOOO tiny you can barely see them....so we had to COVER ourselves in Off..and then were sweaty and sti...

$333.91 on my HELOC

$5.29 at Taco Bell $86.34 on Groceries at Target

$89.98 on knitting needles - my local yarn store is going out of business...and I'd decided its time to replace all my old random knitting needles with the birch needles I love from brittany. The going out of business sale meant they were 20% off...so I bought every size of straight needles they had that I did not already have, and 2 sets of 2 sizes of double pointed needles. They're also calling me when the third size of double pointeds I want come in. $87.96 on cat food (its special food and will probably get me through 3 months) $12.16 on Breakfast at bob evans

$21.88 on Itunes

You'll understand why when I do get around to posting...but here's the view from my balcony...its a crime that the first time I got to see it in the daylight was today though!!!!

still nothing!!! gotta love expense books!

So our meeting started in Key Largo today. I left Hburg on a 6am flight....we got to Atlanta okay...but then sat on the tarmack for EVER trying to get takeoff clearance for Miami. Somehow we were only a little late....but by the time we got bags, and our rental cars...it was 1pm...the start time of the meeting. And we had a 90 minute drive to the resort. Luckily the HOST of our meeting was also on our flight from Altanta....so they couldn't start without us. I only had about 2 minutes in my room to change for the meeting while it was light out. Its an AMAZING view. I'm hoping to get a pic tomorrow...it was too dark when we got back to change for dinner and teambuilding. Not liking the BUGS! We had to cover ourselves in bug repellent so the entire group STUNK throughout teambuilding, drinks and dinner. Anyway....I was up at 3:30am today...so early night for me tonight. Here's the web page to the resort if you want to check it out: Ocean Reef

$0 All spending today was expensed! Yeah!!!

$6.50 on lunch

So I had my annual review this morning. As suspected..it was very positive. The only negative thing is that I take things to personally sometimes. Which I know...I tried to take a class this summer on managing emotions and thriving under pressure...but the class ended up NOT really hitting on the high points I needed.....so.....yeah...didn't do me any good. Anyway, my boss said he things I've learned everything from this job that I needed to and am ready for my next one (not that I get to take it until next year). We'll start trying to get more specific about my next move and exactly what that job will be in the June / July timeframe. AND the best news....a nice big fat 6% merit raise. Now....6% may not seem like a lot to some people...but its a VERY healthy raise for my company. In fact...the only time's I've gotten close to it are the 5% raises I got with the last two promotions....the biggest my annual raise has been outside of that is 3%.... ...

I had a GREAT quote yesterday on my 2007 "just the right shoe" calendar. "High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead." - Christopher Morley I still think they were invented by a man as a torture device....but maybe that's just me! Somebody asked me recently why girls wore them.....and I was like are you kidding....guys LOVE them. Thats a big factor in why girls wear them. I mean..I'm not super tall....5'5"....but I like a guy to be taller than me...and most of the guys that I meet are in the 5'7" to 5'10" range. So when I wear high heels...at puts me at almost the same height.....I'd rather be shorter (its a wanting to be "protected" thing). But guys LOVE the way girls look in heels..and hence..I wear them. Although sometimes its because my pants are too long and I am too lazy to hem them.......

HEHE....so not what you think. I got SMASHED on friday night. Like....I think I drank and entire bottle of wine by myself, and at one point I was chugging vodka...and oh yeah.....I didn't eat dinner! It occured to me as I was trying to recover from my crazy night that I hadn't been drunk since like last May....so I'm thinking I need to get a little drunk more often...and not get CRAZY drunk occasionally!!!!! I won't get into the details of my night....lets just say....I needed a drink....or 6 .... and had them. And at least I was in good company...my girls were all pretty drunk too!

$3.05 for bagel and hot chocolate at panera

$6 at McD's for a hangover curing breakfast

$13 on lunch (way more than I was expecting...I paid $6.50 for egg salad wrap and water at one stand at the farmers market...and then went over to another place for some tomato and mozzerella salad....and I saw the sign said $7 a pound....but I just ordered the smallest container..a half pint...and it was over $6!!!!!!) $14 on veggie tray for party

$8.50 on lunch $42 Quarterly Sewer bill

Actually....this advertises fun for BOTH men and women. If you are just dying for that one extra accessory for your ipod....perhaps this is the one for you! iBuzz (warning...you may not want to access this page while at work!) They make EVERYTHING for the ipod these days don't they???

1. Have you ever been searched by the cops? Nope 2. Do you close your eyes on roller coasters? Yeah...but its mostly because I'm afraid of losing my contacts, and a little because I'm scared 3. When's the last time you've been sledding? HEHE..Senior Year of college. We had this crazy big snow....so we went to the sledding hill by campus.....and we didn't have sleds...so we used these crazy big cardboard boxes we found. 4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone? With someone else.....but I have to settle for the cats for now. And my teddy bear. 5. Do you believe in ghosts? Definitely....the ghosts of my old dogs used to torture Chloe I'm convinced. There was this place in the house they always used to lay before they died. When we got Chloe she'd always stare at that place and sometimes she'd go NUTS barking at it. I'm convinced its because she saw Molly and Pepper. 6. Do you consider yourself creative? Not really 7. Do you thin...

$3.80 at Starbucks Bought a fabulous "Barefoot Dreams" robe at Nordy's....but I had a $171 credit from returning some uggs that didn't fit and they didn't have the other uggs I wanted...so I got the robe and still have a $37 credit left!!!!!

$.17 at Panera (hehehe...I had a $5 gift card and breakfast was $5.17.....so it was only $.17!!!)

$8.50 for lunch $100 for Roxio Toast 8 (yeah tivo2go!)

Now...those of you that know me know that I LOVE my tivo! And several of you know how much I love my mac. But I've been seriously dissapointed this past year that I could not use the famed Tivo2Go program to transfer stuff from my tivo to my mac - like I could with my laptop. Which I didn't even KNOW when I got my mac.....and when I got my new tivo's last February I intentially didn't order the ones with the built in DVD burner because I figured the new Imac had a DVD burner and I could just Tivo2Go and burn from there. And I was SOOOO upset when I learned I could not do it. And tivo's web site has just said "its coming" for ever. I got excited when I found out a beta version of it was shown at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show...but all of 2006 passed with no Tivo2Go for Mac. Fast forward to today, and Macworld starting. And I get an email from Roxio, that the new Toast 8 Titantium contains Tivo2Go for Mac OSX!!!!!!!!!!! I'm downloading...

So on Saturday it was 70 degrees out!!!!!! It was amazing! I had plans to go to the driving range, but decided to take a look at the Coach outlet in Hershey first. I'd read online that some of the "legacy" collection in the whiskey color (now discontinued) would soon be hitting the outlets and had a credit I needed to use....so I tossed the golf clubs in the truck, rolled down all the windows..and off to Hershey I went! Overall I wasn't impressed by the offerings this trip...but I did luck out and find the vintage flight back from back in 2004 in the blue (I have a demi in the bronze that was part of this collection too). It was marked down to $103 and I had a $45 credit from some gloves I returned after Christmas....so it was a steal!!!! Then I headed off to the driving range to meet my friend Nik. It was so amazing outside! And Nik and I hadn't talked in ages...so we got a large bucket each and spent an hour or so swinging and just having girl talk. ...

$148 at Target on assorted clearanced workout clothing, foods $43.26 on shampoo and conditoner at salon savings.com (great web site for discounted professional hair products!)

$65 on new purse at the coach outlet (thanks to a credit from mom!!!) $7 on a bucket of balls at the driving range

Orange County You're rich, pretty, and living a charmed life. (Or you seriously wish you were.) From Disneyland to Laguna Beach, you're all about living the California dream life. Just make sure to marry rich - so you don't have to work for it! Where Does Your Inner Californian Belong?

$9 on lunch at El Rodeo

Are you in a relationship? No, but as I get closer to 30 I'm thinking about it a LOT more..... 2. Do you hate more then 3 ppl? I hate to say I HATE people...but I definitely have an extreme dislike for more than 3 people. 3. How many houses have you lived in? Hm...actual houses....the one I was born in, the two I grew up in, the one I lived in Senior year of college, and the one I own now....5 houses. I've also lived in 4 different apartments, and a dorm. 4. What is your favorite candy? Hershey's Milk Chocolate 5. What are your favorite shoes? My black python and microsuede Coach pumps 6. Have you ever tripped someone? hehe...probably.... 7. Favorite summer trip this year? the only non-work trip was to LA for a wedding...so I guess that one!!! 8. Have you ever been in love? Twice 9. Do you own a Britney Spears CD? Not a physical CD...but several songs from ITunes 10. Have you ever thrown up in public? Oh yeah...on my 21st birthday I threw up outside the bar we were at...and...

$6 on lunch at Roly Poly $25 at Color Me Mine $4 on milk and a powerball ticket

Especially one that my CAR fits in!!!!! I've started this new thing where I go for a brisk walk in the morning wearing my MBT shoes and carrying some small weights. Believe it or not, I'm up and walking around 6:30am - and try to walk for a half hour. So I've noticed the last few chilly mornings all the frosted over cars, people coming out to start their cars so they'll defrost, and people scraping. And the whole time I've been SOOO thankful for my garage. I mean - when I left the house to head to work at 8am - it was 32degrees out. So imagine it was at least a few degrees colder at 6:30am. And I've NEVER had a garage to park a car in before....so I used to be one of those people that was standing outside scraping...or starting the car 20 minutes early so it would defrost and warm up on its own WITHOUT me having to do the scraping. And even last winter I didn't get to take advantage of my garage...because there was so much stuff EVERYWHERE insid...

$2.00 on bagel and apple juice for breakfast $73.02 electric bill (how can it be that high when I wasn't HOME for 2 weeks of the cycle?????) $30 to Michelle for retirement present for an old co-worker $99.95 to Apple to renew .mac subscription for 2007

$8.14 on lunch at Panera $1.10 on pop and a snack at the office $911.56 on mortgage (reduced for this month and next due to overfunding of my escrow account - hopefully they figured THAT right so I don't have to PAY extra later!)

You Scored 50% Correct You are a solid child of the 80s You'd never confuse Tiffany from Debbie And while you may not know Prince's first #1 hit You know every word to Little Red Corvette How Much Do You Know About 80s Music?

$2 at Panera for hot chocolate and donation of change (yeah for my free egg souffle coupon!) $100 at Target on asssorted necessities (again yeah coupons! I actually got a target mailing that like HALF the coupons were stuff I needed. I saved $10!). $54.65 on groceries $400 to credit card $50 to Waste Management $20 for Water bill $14.92 for phone bill $58.82 for cell phone bill Wow...between that stuff, my mortgage payments for this month and school...I don't have a ton left. Why did they change my tax on the company car to hitting December paycheck? Better yet...why can't they spread it out over every month??? I took a pretty big hit again this year...and I didn't even think I drove that much.....DAMN...forgot...I'll have to pay for the miles to go home over the holidays....OOH...except I won't process that expense book til February...so I can use THAT paycheck to pay for those!

Welcome to 2007 everyone! Hope you all had fun and safe evenings and a healthy and happy new year!