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26 December 2008 By Leave a Comment

1. I am trying not to spend money in January at all (no take away food, no fun extras, etc.. just food/bills) and really cut back after that. I like to buy stuff, but I think we can do without so much stuff.

2. I’d like to lose a bit of weight.

3. I’d like to move a little faster with my apprenticeship – it’s been left by the wayside the last few months due to other house-type things that needed to be done. I’d like to be working on real live people sometime next year.

4. I’d like to stick to my raw diet a little better (see #2). I’m aiming for a constant 80/20.

5. I’d like to keep my home cleaner (though I do know a clean home is not nec. a happy home)

6. I am sure there is more, but those are the really big ones that spring to mind.

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14 April 2004

14 April 2004 By

SPECIAL!! 25% off ALL Pulaski Place products! I need to make some sales this month. This is almost my entire discount, so I am not making anything on these (about enough to cover shipping materials), but I do need to get the word out about PP products! Use the code “25%offPP” (no quotes) for your discount on anything in the Pulaski Place section.

I love April. It smells so… good outside! Yep, even here in Florida. It smells clean and fresh, as well it should while everything is growing new again,

More new fun stuff on the site! Check out our Blue Dollars, the new incentive for buying from PJS! For every $10 (per order, not including shipping) you purchase in products; you receive a Blue Dollar. Each Blue Dollar is worth $1.00 off any future order. You can choose to spend your Blue Dollar(s) at anytime or save them and put them towards a larger purchase or even get products free! For more information, check out that link.

You can also hold an Online Party to earn free products. This can be a “live” party with an online chat and prizes, or simply a two week period of time for your friends & family to order and earn you free merchandise. Click on the link for more information or contact me at azxure@pjserendipity.com.

Our April Scent of the Month will be Rain (April showers bring May flowers!) I think it is a fairly soft scent, but not too soft. If you aren?t sure if you will like it, give it a test run with some tealights or a small pillar.

Also, the Hostess Thank You gift for April will be a 6″ pillar in the Rain scent. If you are interested in free merchandise, please read this page.

As always, please see the Pulaski Place site and we can also get anything on their site.

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25 January 2004

25 January 2004 By


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Bold=Actually read at least 80% of it
Italics=Listened to the audio book (alone or in combination with
reading)
Red=was supposed to read it, never did, but did
well on the test anyway
ALL CAPS=READ THE CLIFF’S NOTES
Underline=Never read, but understand content
enough for prolonged discussion.
*=Own a copy
+=Saw the movie, play, Masterpiece Theater version, etc.
!=Can produce a sufficiently entertaining anecdote about it to fool people at
parties into thinking I read it

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1. The
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien*+
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen*|
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams*+
5. Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling*
6. To Kill A?Mockingbird, Harper Lee*+
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne*+
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four,
George Orwell*+
9. The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis+
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte**
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller+
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte*
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger*
16. The Wind in the
Willows, Kenneth Grahame+
17. Great
Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott+
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo
Tolstoy!*
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell+
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, JK Rowling*+
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling*+
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling*
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien*+
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas
Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot,
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany,
John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice‘s Adventures In
Wonderland, Lewis Carroll*+
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield,
Charles Dickens*
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl+
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson+
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil
Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert*+
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery+
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams+
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of
Monte Cristo, Alexandre
Dumas*+
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell*+
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens+
48.
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy+!
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett+
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck+
53. The Stand, Stephen
King*+
54.
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna
Sewell*
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

60. Crime < span class=GramE>And Punishment,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie
Blackman
62. Memoirs Of
A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens*
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough+
65. Mort,
Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles* (But I HAVE read The
Magus by Francis Barrett)
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman*
69. Guards! Guards!,
Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding*+
71. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,
Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl*+
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie
Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar +
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley*
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons+
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo+!
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel*+
93. The Colour
Of Magic, Terry Pratchett-*
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot +
100. Midnight‘s Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracul
a, Bram Stoker*+
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth+
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13?, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo*+
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge,
Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde*+ (Do I get extra points for my
eldest child being named after Mr. Gray?)
119. Shogun, James Clavell+
120. The Day Of The Triffids,
John Wyndham+
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John
Galsworthy+
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of
The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle*+
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov! (But I am extremely familiar with the painting by
Giger)
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd
Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker+
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich
Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby+
144. It, Stephen King*+
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl+
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King+
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere+
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The
Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey*+
158. Heart Of Darkness,
Joseph Conrad+
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville*+
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World
According To Garp, John Irving*+
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl+
170. Charlotte‘s Web, E. B. White+
171. FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley*+
172.
They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon
Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco*+
175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder

176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald
Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov+!
179. Jonathan
Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens*
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho,
Bret Easton Ellis+
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine
Welsh+!
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Trut
h, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G.
Wells*+
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry

197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future
King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle (WTF?
My son has it!)*
200. Flowers In
The Attic, Virginia Andrews

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31 October 2003

31 October 2003 By

So there’s that. Now, my life questions. It does get better, right? I am 24 years old. My husband is 33. We have a 3 y/o and a 1 y/o. I/We have lived in my parents house on and off since April of 2000. This time, we’ve been here since around February 2002. I expected to be out by now. I don?t know what to do anymore. We do not have enough money right now. Business was slow this time lat year as well, but he was at least bringing in the 400$. There is nothing to cut back. We do not pay rent, utilities, cable, etc… I give my mom 400$ a month for my car payment, and usually anywhere from 50-300$ more for food & stuff, which she does not require, I just like to give it to her. We do buy a lot of our own food. 90% of our incoming money goes to bills. We do not live on credit. We hardly use it. We have been trying to pay it all down, so I send in as much as I can each month in that attempt. The last 3 months have wiped all but 50$ from our savings. I just don’t know what to cut back on to save money. We cut back on eating out. We cut back on impulse buys. I am not stocking anything for PJS anymore, so no more major purchases there. I am the queen of saving money, and if we had a normal paycheck, we’d have a small fortune, but since it’s been so low, even my scrimping hasn’t worked miracles. Perhaps we should have stayed in DC. But even then… Fish was working 3 jobs, we hardly saw him, and rent was outrageous, and we weren’t even *in* the city. I want him to look for an office job somewhere so we can move and start over. I feel like we are in a rut. This is by far the best job he has had *in this field*. It will be the best shop he will ever be in, shy of opening our own (pipe dream!). I feel like my mom pushes us down sometimes, or perhaps doesn’t push us hard enough? She always says she loves having the boys here (not us, the boys) and if we do move, it has to be near by, but she is in no hurry for us to leave. Everyone else in the family (extended, grandparents, aunt, uncles) thinks how?ve outstayed out welcome. They ask when we are moving. It’s usually the first thing out of their mouths after they say hello.

I want someone to wave a magick wand and make it all better. I know there are people out there worse off than we are. I am just so miserable here, and in this situation. I keep thinking about the awesome job I had just before I found out I was pregnant with Dorian, and I gave it up (and haven’t worked since) to be a sahm. I married someone who would be better off as a bachelor (if only b/c of the income, not how he acts) with just himself to support. I know I am prone to depression, anxiety attacks, and a zillion other mental illnesses, and I let myself fall open to them sneak back in.

Maybe it’s me. Sorry this is so jumbled.

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03 October 2003

3 October 2003 By

i uploaded some printable on my site

you can get them here

http://www.azxuredawn.com/download.html

for the PSD files you have to do a right click save as because as far as i know psd’s do not display in browsers

there are only 2 for now, but one is up in jpg or psd format. that one is a to do list. the other is something i thought up tonight. i finally got one of those 31 day slot sorters for my desk. you know the ones you can put mail in so it goes out on the correct date? well, i made paid/unpaid ill labels, and put the name o the bill on each on, and one end says pain, or flip it over for unpaid. so at a glance i can see if i am caught up or not. i think it will work out fantastically! that one is a psd format, so you can fill in the names of what needs o be paid. like i have our credit cards, twice monthly mom payments (for the car b/c it’s in my dads & my name, but the bill goes to him) twice monthly savings days (to transfer at least 25$ into the savings account, more if possible) and some other misc. stuff. you could put monthly errands on them and change the paid/unpaid to done/undone or something like that.

as i make more, i will put more up.

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