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22
Feb

Pizza Hut cinnamon sticks

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Tonight we ordered pizza from the local Pizza Hut. Meat lover’s pan pizza – my favorite. And a large order of cheesy bread sticks. In addition I had found a coupon code for an order of bread sticks and a 2 liter bottle of Pepsi, so I decided to go ahead and order that as well. I decided to order their cinnamon bread sticks.

When I went to pick up the order, something told me to open the boxes to check and make sure that I got the right order. They had forgotten to put the marinara sauce in with the cheese bread sticks. When I asked the lady at the counter for some marinara sauce she snarled at me that they were included. I told her I couldn’t see any and so she jerked open the box of bread sticks and started to say “they’re right he…..” she stopped when she saw they there weren’t any little cups of sauce. So she went and got some for me, and I thanked her.

When we got home after my two slices of pizza and some cheese bread sticks I tried one of the cinnamon sticks. They were very sweet. Normally I like sweet things, but to be honest I really did not care for them very much because of the consistency of the pizza dough. I guess I’ll just stick to pizza and cheesy bread at Pizza Hut and stick to a bakery for cinnamon sticks.

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22
Feb

Saving for college tuition

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Back when I was concerned about saving money for my children’s college tuition, there was only one online program that I knew about – the Upromise website. I signed up for that but in the decades of shopping I only managed to raise about forty dollars for my children’s college expenses. Now I understand that there is a new website called Mission Tuition that is designed to do the same thing – help consumers save money for their children’s college expenses.

Looking at their list of participating retailers, I have to admit that if I were to be opening a new account to save money for someone’s college expenses that I would not hesitate to join this site. They offer some coupons and discounts at a lot of the stores that I normally frequent. If you are a young parent, I think that checking out this website would be a smart thing to do if you are concerned about saving money for your children’s college expenses. It’s sooner than you think.

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22
Feb

Chocolate cake with chocolate fudge icing

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Today we celebrated Randy’s 30th birthday. I stopped at the local supermarket and asked them to decorate a chocolate cake with chocolate fudge icing with blue icing and the words “Happy Birthday Randy” on it. I wanted to have them write “30th” on the cake too, but I didn’t want to call extra attention to the age milestone. I know that he has not been looking forward to turning 30. I don’t understand why that is the case, but I do know that he has been cranky all week about it. I hope that he gets over it pretty soon. No one likes being around a gloomy Gus.

The cake was VERY chocolate-y. I usually can eat a large piece of cake, but since I had two slices of pizza before we had cake I only had room for a small slice. I hope there will be some leftover to raid tomorrow!

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17
Feb

The banks are not as neighborly as before

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A few months ago I had noticed that a couple of the banks that I go into frequently had bulletin boards in them where they had a sign welcoming people to put their business cards. At the time I had no need of them myself, but I looked at the cards that were there, just to see if there was anything spectacular on any of them that screamed my name.

So when Linda asked me to post her business cards around town on bulletin boards like that, I said “sure, no problem” and took a bunch. Now I’m finding that the banks have taken down their community bulletin boards. What’s up with that? Not interested in being as neighborly anymore? Seems to me with all of the bad publicity that banks have been having lately that they would bend over backwards to make their customers feel as if their bank branch was a vital part of the community. What are your thoughts on the subject?

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15
Feb

Future steel buildings

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Guest post by Craig Redfield

My wife and I have decided that we are going to put a large storage building out in the back yard. One large enough to be used as a two car garage and storage to boot. We’ve been taking a look at the code requirements and expense of having one stick built versus buying a kit from a company like Future Steel Buildings and have it delivered. One of the advantages of the Future steel buildings over a stick built wood building is that with a metal building there is never any concern about termites or carpenter ants or carpenter bees or woodpeckers destroying the building.

Having seen the front door of my mother-in-law’s house destroyed by carpenter bees, and my brother-in-law’s wood siding ruined by termites, I think that we will save ourselves a lot of aggravation by going with metal. Checking with the code enforcement officer of the town, there is nothing standing in the way of us getting a building permit for the building once we decide which one we are going to want to order. We will need a set of plans to show the town code inspector to make sure that they will be approved, but that should be as easy as pie. From what I understand their biggest concern is the snow load rating of the roof.

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