Oct 21 2008
My Thoughts, Recommendations and $5,000 smackers
I haven’t posted anything recently because I have been a very busy momma! Much like many of the mommas I know, there is endless laundry, endless homework and endless responsibilities!
Being that I write a blog about getting free samples and trying to connect with others about current topics which tug at my heartstrings I wanted to just go over a few of the samples which I have applied for and actually received so far.
true lemon arrived quickly. I LOVE this product and if I find it in the stores I will purchase it. I added it to my water and it was GREAT!
Commit actually arrived in less than a week! Anyone who is contemplating quitting smoking and wants a little help, here it is!
All Walmart samples arrive witin about two weeks.
And to be honest, for the numerous coupons I printed out online to try and save money…well, forget it! I had almost 50 coupons which I had selected and printed. I went shopping in Walmart because in my area, the only two stores which accept printed out coupons with the Veri-fy barcodes is Walmart and Shop Rite. I decided to go to Walmart because not only do they adjust pricing when you bring a flyer from other stores showing a lower price, they accept the online coupons…OOOps! wait a minute, or so I thought! As I planned my shopping (recipes and meal plans) around the money I thought I would save by using the coupons, it turns out that Walmart no longer accepts them! Iwas pissed! Apparently it was a recent decision because people are printing the coupons out and using more than one. More than one???? If these companies who offer thier products online with printable coupons didn’t expect people to print at will…AND MORE THAN ONE…then they wouldn’t offer them.
I swear I was so upset that I put all the items back. I refused to purchase them without the coupons. I realy felt it was unfair of Walmart to just stop accepting the coupons and I asked if they put notice out to thier consumers…you know what they told me???
“We don’t think that many people knew we accepted them anyway.”
If they didn’t think many people used them, then why stop accepting them if they were being used more than once!?
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
Anyway, once I got over that, life continued.
On Thursday, the kids and I went to East Stroudsburg University and participated in the annual Pink Light Walk in honor of my grandfather. He didn’t have breast cancer, but her did have colon cancer and it spread to other parts of the body. I didn’t realize that my youngest son was unaware of his illness when he passed. My grandpa passing was the first major death in his life and still a year and a half later, he is in a way mourning for him. He was very upset, he hugged me and almost walked the entire way like that. He kept saying, “I thought it was just old age.” I did hide it from the kids and when it appeared the end was coming closer, I took them to see him to make sure they told him they loved him. So they could have that closure while he was alert and able to respond. It was soon after that he left this world to be with the Lord. I thought at one point I had disclosed the nature of his illness and battle at one point, but perhaps it hadn’t absorbed until now. I was okay during the walk. I do it every year just to support others. It wasn’t until last week when I watched the Lifetime movie Living Proof with an all star cast, featuring harry Connick, Jr. It is the true story of a doctor who made sacrifice after sacrifice with never ending determination to find a CURE for breat cancer. While watching the movie, there was a scene, as most movies have that is the dramatic climax. It made me think of grandpa, and for the first time in a long time I felt very sad. How scared he must have been, what a disgusting disease. How much he suffered and he just didn’t deserve it. Nobody does, but I have always viewed my grandpa as a stoic man, hard working, honest with good morals and family values and for his demise to be the way it was, well it just seems unfair and the only comfort I have is knowing he is with God.
damn cancer.
Click Here to “shop for the cause” through Lifetime Shops.
Sign up with Lifetime and enter to win a Nintendo Wii, Rock Band 2 and $5,000 smackers! by clicking here, brought to you by the new Lifetime show, Rita Rocks and Lifetime.
