i hate packing

but look what i found on ebay

description says lot of 7, but i count 8. 8 is great.

she's a bad mamajama

the other day i bought a new bag of dog food and put it on the floor of the closet. mr. heat and i were doing stuff in the yard and around the house and we came back inside and noticed that penny found the bag of dog food, ripped it open and had eaten, oh, maybe 1/3 of the 10 pound bag.

how do i know it was penny? jackson's teeth are all rotten and nasty and he doesn't have the physical strength or energy to first sniff out the bag, come up with a game plan and execute. plus, he's an angel.

i found penny stretched out on the daybed, stomach hard as a rock. i couldn't discipline her because i know in exactly one week from today, i will have done some serious overeating myself, and i really don't want anyone rubbing my nose in it.

also, she's too cute to punish.

isn't she lovely?

the bungalow wants a card catalogue for christmas.
photo from apartment therapy

play on playa!

for the last couple of years mr. heat and i have been doing all our grocery shopping at the friggin wal-marts, yall.

why? because i love those everyday low prices. because i love a good old fashioned rollback. because it's way cheaper than the decent, clean, uncrowded, grocery stores in town-- you know the ones that don't make you seriously fear for the direction of American society on the car trip home.

but a few weeks ago, i found out about the grocery game. and i decided to be a player. my goal: to save enough money shopping at the regular, decent grocery store so that shopping at wal-mart was no longer necessary.

so i signed up for a free trial, actioned mr. heat to please purchase a sunday newspaper, and then i clipped, clipped, clipped those little coupons right out of it. then, i told the good folks at the grocery game the store i wanted to shop. you see, the grocery game peeps compile lists of all the advertised and not advertised sales in the store {whatever store you choose}, combine them with the coupons floating around in the sunday papers, and give you a list for the store you choose that helps you (1) know what's going to be the best way to maximize your coupons and the sales and (2) gives you this information before going into the store so you can plan your meals for the week. check out the instructional video here.

so anyway, away i go to the grocery store with my stack of coupons and my grocery game list, wearing my mom jeans. but check it out, on my first week I saved $41.68.

proof:
this calls for a song:



i scored even more savings this week:

yall, i hate grocery shopping. despise it. but this little game with the list and the coupons and whatnot makes it fun for me, sort of a challenge. and i think it helps that i'm no longer shlepping it through the wal-marts.

a lil saturday afternoon before and after

*apple butter recipe snarked from darby

a lil saturday morning before and after

friday featured question

it's friday folks! you know what that means. time for me to hit you up for an answer to a question that's been plaguing me.

this one's been eating at me for the past 13 months:

why does my nephew live so far away?

{it's not a rhetorical question.}