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sick
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happy
I love those Clorox disinfecting wipes- they make cleaning SO much easier, but they are so expensive! I've been making my own, and you can, too!!! You need:
roll of paper towels
large serrated knife
container with lid (I reuse one from store-bought disinfecting wipes)
1/2 cup generic disinfecting cleaner (works just as well for le$$)
2 3/4 cup water
Cut the roll of paper towels in half with the knife. Remove the cardboard tube. Add water and cleaner to container. Put 1/2 roll paper towels in container. You may need to remove a few paper towels in order to fit the roll inside the container. Place lid on container and turn over to soak to paper towels; turn right side up and allow to sit until paper towels have absorbed the cleaning mixture. To dispense, draw your wipes from the center. Presto!
I have tons of baby washcloths that I don't really need anymore, but are too stained to give away, so I'm going to try using them in place of paper towels for reuseable wipes once I use up the ones I've already made with paper towels. Going green is often cheaper, too! I can't wait to spend less on paper towels.
I also make my own baby wipes. You can use the other half of your roll of paper towels for these!
1/2 roll paper towels
container with lid (I reuse plastic containers from store-bought baby wipes)
2 cups water
1 tbsp baby bath/shampoo
1 tsp baby oil
These are made basically the same way as the disinfecting wipes. I suggest pouring out the excess liquid, so that they aren't dripping wet when you use them- I just prefer my wipes to be damp, not wet. I also unroll the paper towels after soaking them in the liquid and fold them up like store-bought baby wipes (without tearing them apart, that is), because they don't dispense very easily when you try to pull them from the center in the baby wipes container. This takes extra time, but I think the money saved is worth it. If you want them to smell pretty, you can add a few drops of essential oil (like lavender), though I haven't tried it yet. Homemade baby wipes take a little getting used to- they aren't as durable as store-bought. I've been using them for about a year now, and they work just fine. Ryan complained about them for awhile- mainly about them being difficult to dispense, but folding them solved that. My sis-in-law made evident her preference of store-bought the other day, but she isn't the one who has to pay for them, is she! What I'm saying is, they aren't perfect, but they do the job for a whole lot less money.
I also use a lot of baking soda, Borax and vinegar in my cleaning. These all go further than store-bought cleaners for less money. You can sprinkle your carpets with baking soda, let it sit for about 15-30 minutes, and then vacuum it up to get rid of carpet odors. I scrub my sinks and bathtubs with baking soda, and make my own all-purpose spray cleaner and glass cleaner with vinegar. Baking soda is also good for exfoliating- I scrub myself allover with it about once a week in the shower. I buy generic/store-brand stuff whenever I can, because they work just as well or betterthan the big brands. This is not true for everything, though- Wal-Mart brand bread sucks, so bread is one thing I splurge on. And even when you use coupons for the name brands, the store brand is almost always cheaper.
- Location:office!
- Mood: good
The rest of the news leaves me neutral.
- Location:the office
- Mood:
sad
With Halloween on the horizon, burning questions about the undead need to be answered: Can being a zombie be considered suffering? Submitted By |
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hopeful
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tired
The fall harvest is showing up in markets now, including many of the green vegetables children find so disgusting and yet are forced to eat. What is the most disgusting thing you’ve eaten, either by choice or against your will? Submitted By |
Canned spinach ranks up there, too. Slimy, sludgy... how can anyone eat that? It looks (and probably tastes) like the forgotten bag of decomposing salad mix in the back of the fridge.
BLEH!
- Location:the office
- Mood: happy
who matters,
who never did,
who won't anymore...
and who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past,
there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets
So love the people who treat you right
Forget about the ones who don't
And believe that everything happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.
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- Mood: tired
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Servers are people too! The next time you're out eating at a restaurant, look at your server. Do you think they are really happy to be doing that job? The answer is no, they are not, but it's what we do, and we do it for the money so please help them out. It's a tougher job than you think and you should pay them accordingly!
There are SO many people out there flooding the restaurants w/o any knowledge of how to tip. Here is a short guide for the general public to follow. Feel free to print out and store in your wallet and/or purse.
1. CHILDREN "THE LITTLE DEVILS":
If you have children, DO NOT let them, open and dump anything on the table (ie; salt, sugar, etc). IF YOU DO, you must leave an extra $5 for the server to clean up YOUR CHILD'S mess & to restock the now unusable wasted items. We are neither their babysitter nor their parent. The least you can do is pay us for the extra work. Also make sure you control your kids and don't let them scream or run around the restaurant. It's very distracting not to mention dangerous if they get ran over by a server with hot food in their hands.
2. "THE CAMPERS":
If you feel the necessity to stay for longer than 15 minutes after you pay, its an extra $3 every 30 minutes. We make our money from the tables. If you are in one and we can't seat it, we don't make money.
3. COMPLIMENTS:
Telling a server they are the best server they've ever had is not a tip. If we are good, let us know by leaving us more money. We can't pay our bills on compliments. Its not that we don't appreciate the praise, its just that if you say that and then leave 10% it's an insult.
4. THE SALVATION PAMPHLETS:
Prayer cards and any other religious pamphlet is NOT a tip. It is insulting that you assume we are w/o religion and must save us. Again, like ..3, we cant pay bills w/prayer cards. We'd go to church on Sundays if it wasn't mandatory to work on Sundays because EVERYONE who goes to church follows it by eating out.
5. TIPPING:
It is not 1960. Cost of living has gone up dramatically since then. 18% is the MINIMUM amount of what you should be tipping your servers. Just look at the tax line and multiply by 2-3, this gives you your minimum tip amount. Remember, our companies pay us minimum wage (minumum wage for servers is $2.13) And we are taxed on 10 percent of your meal automatically anyway. So if your meal is $100 and you leave $10 and we tip out $4-5 to the busser, bartender, and whoever else then we pay tax on 10 dollars and we make $5. It seems small but it adds up. How many times do you eat out per week and do this?
6. THE COMPLAINERS:
If you get a discount because of your food was prepared wrong or something, do not take it out of our tip. We didn't cook it. The cooks get paid hourly regardless if the food sucks. However, we only make what you give us.
7. THE FREE STUFF:
If you happen to get anything for free and you did not have a problem with your dining experience, most of the time it is because the server thinks you will realize that they are giving it to you for free. There should be extra tip thanking the server for the free item. They could get in a lot of trouble giving away free stuff. You should give them hazard pay for it.
8. THE LATE ONES:
If you come into the restaurant 10 mins before closing or any time near closing hurry up and order your food and get out. Closed means closed, not social hour. It is so rude to sit there and take your sweet ass time. We can't leave until you leave because we have to do sidework and clean the table you are sitting at. We don't want to stand there waiting for you for an extra hour just because you don't want to go home. We recommend 24 hour establishments such as Dennys if you wish to sit into the wee hours of the night.
9. THE TABLE HOGGERS:
If you only come in for coffee or a dessert, to do paper work, or to have a meeting, don't sit there taking up our booths for hours. We are not Starbucks or a hotel restraunt. If you want to sit for hours, go there or else you better leave a good tip for us and camping fee included.
Jenny's Number One Serving Pet Peeve.....
10. THE GREET:
When we come up to the table to greet you and we ask how you are doing please let us know. We honestly want to know how you are doing. If you are in a bad mood we want to know that from the beginning. A confused stare or complete silence does not suffice as a reply to "How are you doing?". Also most of us are REQUIRED to say certain things during the greeting, so please don't interrupt our greeting and say "I want coffee", "Can we get some bread?", or "What are the soups?" Another thing that is very rude is to start talking on your cell phone or to other people in your group when your server comes to greet you. Your server doesn't want to hear your life story!
11. THOSE DAMN CELL PHONES:
Don't ever talk on your cell phone in a restaurant. This is probably the rudest thing to do. If you must be on your cell, at least keep your voice down in respect for other customers. If you are on your cell phone when we walk up to greet your table we will walk away and not return until you get off your phone. Just show some respect and give us your attention for a couple of minutes.
12. TAKE-AWAY OR TO-GOS:
Always remember to tip the take-out order servers! They work just as hard as a server, and hardly ever get tips for it! WE DESERVE TO BE TIPPED TOO!
****If you are a server, have ever been a server, know any servers, or have ever had a server that you liked, please repost this so the word can get out, since so many people are uneducated about tips****
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annoyed
I shopped! I cooked! I cleaned the house!
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- Mood: okay
What was the first music album you ever bought or owned? Do you still listen to it or have you moved on? Submitted By |
I moved on from that quite some time ago.
- Location:home
- Mood:
bored
I don't know if I would want to attempt to survive or just off myself.
I wouldn't want to leave my kids on their own, and I couldn't kill them so they don't end up zombie fodder.... so try and survive it is.
- Location:home
- Mood: bored
- Music:kid noise
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- Location:home
- Mood: bored
- Music:elevator music...
EDIT- Um, when I answered this question, it was asking what I would do with a newborn baby if I found one! I wonder why it changed...
GASP!
I'm just hanging out at home with the kids. Probably going to work on a crochet project I started the other day. Ryan is supposed to call later and let me know when his family is having dinner, so I can head on over for a burger. Totally exciting.
- Location:home
- Mood: tired
- Music:Annabelle's rendition of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
My dad used to call me Pookies. Sometimes he still does. I don't know where he got that from.
I don't have any other nicknames, unless you count "Mama/Mommy/Mom".... Which I got by bearing children.
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- Mood: bored
- Music:A/C hum
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