Great Smoky Mountains Family Vacation 2012
Kyle, me and the girls took a vacation to Gatlinburg, TN. The Great Smoky Mountains! We had a blast. Spent to much money but that is what vacation is about. The girls had some much fun, we all did. Kyle and I truly do love our family.
I hate buying laundry detergent. I feel like it is a waste of money and I wash so many clothes a bottle of detergent doesn’t last very long for the price it cost. I went online to find out how to make my own and I found so many different “recipes” I couldn’t hardly wait to start. I found one “recipe” I liked and edited it to my liking. I went to my local Wal-Mart and was able to find everything I needed for such a super cheap price.
This makes 1/2 gallon. I doubled it and made 1 gallon due the fact the jar I bought was a 1 gallon jar. Glass jar was $4.97 and the coffee scoop was $1.64 (1 tablespoon).
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Side note: I have a front loading washer and I add it right in the drum. I use two scoops. It seems to make my clothes smell amazing and gets them just as clean or more as store bought. If you are wondering about the smell it smells like lavender and just clean. . .due to the Purex is lavender scented.
Cost of just ingredients total: $16.90 And I still have a lot of extra borax and washing soda for my next use. Which I found pretty awesome!
Things I must do; I really want to move all my entries from all my blogs, including the ones from back in 2000 over to EverNote just because. That way I have them, but I don’t have to go “live” with them. If I don’t want too. Also, I want to move start keeping better notes over all. I think maybe getting a real laptop, not a netbook might help this. I don’t even know. I have been wanting to blog for days but have had the time or energy to really do it.
Also, I finally have enough knowledge to start writing some simple PHP scripts, but I don’t know what to use them for. I fail. Every project I want to do has a script already. But maybe I could write one for my. . .wait, no. . .shit. Lost my thought all together. Don’t you hate when that happens?!?
Blah!! I have felt blah for a few days. Not sure what’s wrong. You ever just get that feeling like something bad is going to happen or something. Yeah, I feel that way.
PS: I get to see Alex tomorrow then this weekend I get to go to his birthday. He turns 6. I can’t believe he was just 4 when me and Kyle got together. Life is happening so fast around us. I miss that kid so much at times.
Here I am again blogging on Evernote because my blog won’t load. All my other sites load, so I know it’s not my server. It’s an issue on my end. I have done everything I can think of but it’s really starting to get old. We pay extra to have faster internet and half the time it doesn’t work at all or it’s slower then what we would be paying for “regular” speed internet. I am so mad because we pay $49.99 a month. That isn’t cheap.
What is really messed up? I can visit my site with a proxy and it shows fine, I can ping it, shows online. I go to it just in a normal browser, shows Server not found. WTF??? :-((
I guess I will work on another domain. I bought jennifer-cowles.me and got jennifer-cowles.org free with a NameCheap.Com promo going on the month I got married. (November of last year) Oops! I know what I want to do with it. Make it my portfolio, with resume and all. I have all these wonderful ideas but never no time to do it. I have to turn in one more page of homework and do one more test for my SQL class tonight. Then I will be done with it, then take one last test in my Data-Driven Design class Monday. Then this semester is done with. Shit, I have my math final but whatever. I am almost done. There is light at the end of this semester.
reminder: find out how to speed up Firefox or get a new browser like ASAP. I am sick and tired of every time I go to load a page, it freezes and waits about 30 secs or longer depending on it’s own sweet time. Then it un-freezes and decides to work. WTF? WHY? WHY would you do this to me???
/end reminder
I want to upload my #photoadayapril photos and start doing quotes every Tuesday again. Maybe I can get some together tonight.
Also, I am really enjoying using Evernote. I have had it downloaded for months now. Using it for this or that but it works nice for times like these. I can write, it saves the time, entry, title and I can just copy/paste it over. Edit the time in WordPress and move on. I can add tags and all. I am in love all over again. Score one for Jenn.