It has been quite a few weeks for me but luckily I happened upon a cute video to amuse. Enjoy.
clearance sales
Disneyoutlet.com has two codes listed for an extra 10% off online (OUTLET10) with $5.00 for shipping on orders of 50 or more (SHIPFOR5). I love their clearance sales though the shipping can be slow.
Hot Topic has reduced their clearance items by an additional 50%.
free stuff for today
So far today:
10,000 free Pogo tokens when you sign up
free sample Knex Building Bricks
free information on diabetes, celiac disease and other digestive and kidney/urological diseases from the
NIDDK Clearinghouses Publications Catalog
Popular Science magazine free after you watch some video ads from AdPerk. You have to enter a code that pops up after each video runs to get the credits.
Football games
We had our first game yesterday. After driving around for awhile we finally found the field only to be left with trying to find a parking space. For some reason the field, playground and pool area was put in the middle of town with no parking area designated for it. So every side street and alley was packed. When did it become a normal practice to charge an admittance fee for elementary grade level football games? Is it not enough that we pay for the uniforms and do all the fund raising activities (and there are alot of them) and drive all over the three counties for the games, not to mention the concession stands that charge 2 dollars for fries? Maybe I wouldn’t have minded if someone had mentioned this before the game but no one did. Thankfully I had some cash in my wallet and could pay to get in but normally I don’t carry cash. I’ve got my checkbook, my cards and that’s it. I don’t know how much the next game is going to cost me or if 2 dollars per person is the norm.
We didn’t win our game but the girls had fun. Hopefully Saturday’s game will go better. At this point as long as we score it’s a step up.
The first game
Today is the first football game my daughter will be cheering at. I’m not sure where we are going but hopefully we will get there and not be too late. I somehow managed to sign her up for the traveling team. I didn’t realize we had two different teams but what are you going to do when your child loves it and you can’t transfer her to the other one. I’m trying to put the positive spin on it for myself and say that I’ll learn where everything is around here since we’ve only been in the area for a year. Of course I’ve never been great at doing that so I have to keep reminding myself she’s happy and having fun, she’s happy and having fun. We have to be there an hour early and stay after our game. It’s going to be hot today so hopefully she doesn’t sweat to death in her outfit. Who decided polyester was a good material? And it’s long sleeves!
Well I’m off to the store to buy water and a ton of gatorade. Wish us luck.
