This is a new Meme that I just found and thought I would join.

This Way Thurs Way is a weekly meme (on Thursdays) of roads & its signs, signage, paths, passages, street scenes & the likes.

 These pictures are of the new bridge that they are making to bypass the Hoover Dam.

This was on our 20 hr drive to Florida…  she had FINALLY fallen asleep.

• From the middle of the hot dog, slice it 1/2 lengthwise.
• Roll the hot dog 90 degrees and repeat so once you slice it you will have 4 legs.
• Roll the hot dog again and this is the tricky part cut each leg into 2 since so you will have 8 legs.
• Boil some water and put the octopus’ in the water and cook.
• If you watch, you will see the legs start to curl up.  Once they are curled up (it does take a little while) you can sit them up on a plate and there you go!  I did end up making some mac & cheese and put the octopus on that.. the kids just thought it was a hoot!

I hope you enjoy! 

Since then it still worked, but sometimes when you would start it you could hear it grind a little which would give me the chills and sometimes it would be a little hard to push the button 1/2 way down to focus.  Other than that it was still taking great pictures and video.   It actually still does except now for one thing.  There is one spot on the lens that looks as if I have a smudge/fingerprint or something there.  I’ve wiped the lens to get rid of it, but it’s still there so I’m assuming it’s on the inside?

 Here is an example… I hope the picture is big enough for you to see it.  See how Katie’s face is just a blur?

I’ve looked at Best Buy already along with browsing through the cameras at like Meijer, Wal-mart.. etc.  But I just don’t see anything I like, let alone love.  I really don’t care for the credit card size cameras, so that takes away most of them.  I don’t think I would want a huge camera like a cannon rebel.  While I would love one to get the great pictures, I would rather have something that I could put in my purse so if we are out and about and I want to snap a picture I have it. 

I know most of you are thinking why not get a phone that has a camera on it.  While I suppose I could, I really don’t know as if I feel like spending the $150 on a new phone when my phone works perfectly.  (I use it just for a phone.. no texting, no internet.. a phone)   Plus I still would have to buy a new camera anyways so it would end up costing me more in the long run.

So now I am back on the hunt for a camera.  It just makes me sick a lot of our vacation shots have the blur in them.  It’s hard enough getting that perfect shot let alone having to do it with the blur not being in a spot that will take away from the picture.   Why oh why did they have to change the cyber-shot to where there isn’t much of a grip on the right side.  (That’s the one reason why we bought that one)  They do have one with a good grip, but the camera is quit a bit bigger, but maybe I still will have to go that route.

So it looks like on Paul’s days off coming up we will be hitting Best Buy once again since I guess the new 2010 cameras are coming in, along with the other camera shops and maybe we will hit the office supplies stores as well since they do sell camera’s too!  (That’s actually where we either bought our first one or the one that Paul takes out hunting with him)   I just hope we can find something we really like!  So wish us luck!

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1.   No matter what’s going on in your life, what always makes you smile?   Snuggling with my kids!

2. What’s the biggest lie you’ve ever told?   I hate to say it, but it would be what I told the kids before.  That there was a boogie man and he comes to get kids that don’t go to bed, as long as you stayed in bed and had your eyes shut he wouldn’t come.  If you talk and goof around (get out of bed) when you are suppose to be sleeping he will come.  It was after that my kids would go to bed without any problems.    My parents made the mistake of telling them before that there wasn’t a boogie man up at their trailer and you should of seen the kids… they cheered and said good, then we don’t have to go to bed!   It was awful trying to get them go to sleep.    I did tell Kevin that there isn’t a boogie man anymore and he still goes to sleep great for me.   If I have a hard time trying to get Katie to sleep (which is very rare) he will scratch on the wall so she thinks it’s the boogie man and she will dive under the covers and you don’t hear a peep from her anymore.  LOL    The other day though she did tell Daddy that there wasn’t a boogie man.. she figured out the scratching noise was us scratching the wall.    I felt so terrible the first time I told them about it… it was over an hour of trying to get them to bed (Paul works 2nds so it was 2 versus 1) and i was exhausted.  When it worked I felt relieved but thought there would be no way I would do it again, then the next day they started in again so I brought it up and it worked again.  They never did have nightmares (thankfully) but I always wonder if that’s because I told them he only comes after naughty kids who don’t go to bed?

3. Do you hold a grudge?   Sometimes, but I honestly try not to.

4. What is the worst job you’ve ever had?   I’ve been pretty fortunate to of liked all my jobs.  I would have to say the worst of them would of been working for the phone company and being the only person to do move orders for 3 states!  I would get the orders for people phone lines to be moved to their new location and the due date would usually be the date I received it or even a few days earlier.  Needless to say I got yelled at a lot by customers.. that was no fun.

5. What would be your dream job?   I love what I’m doing… being a stay at home mom!  

6. What is the happiest event you’ve experienced?   Fist it was getting engaged, then getting married, then after a year of trying actually finding out I was pregnant, but my happiest days would have to be when Kevin & Katie was born.   

7. What is the saddest thing you’ve experienced?    When my Grandparents passed away.

8. Do you tend to exaggerate or underestimate?  I tend to do both.. guess it depends what you are talking about. 

9. List the cars that you have owned. Give us just a few words about each one.  (This list is the cars I bought, not the cars my parents owned and I drove or Paul’s truck)

Chevy Corsica ~ ran forever
 Olds 88 ~  gas guzzler
Ford Taurus ~  good gas millage

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Every day more and more Americans are loosing their jobs and what does that mean?  More and more Americans are loosing their health care (which I honestly think our government is happy for because the more people with out it the easier it will be to pass the bill) so my other question is why not work more on what we can do to start more jobs?   After all, if people started getting jobs, than more than likely they would have health insurance once again.

By looking at Unemployment averages from last year Michigan topped all the other states with an average of 13.6% and last I knew we were now getting close to (if not at) 15%!  I was talking to my friend the other day because they are debating on buying a business and we started talking about the small business tax here in Michigan and she flat out said that her friend who owns a heating & cooling business would love to hire a couple people, but unfortunately it’s the taxes that are keeping him from doing that.  I never really knew how bad they were until I had to claim the money I made this year from blogging as a business.  They ended up taking over 45% of what I made!   When I see that on just the little bit I made (under $2000), I can’t imagine how much they take out from businesses that are make a lot.  Do they get hit harder like the income tax where the more you make, the higher the tax bracket you are in.  All I know is, after seeing how much taxes they are taking from me is making me think twice about trying to make money by blogging because I’m trying to think is it really worth it?  

Something I think the Government could be doing for the health care would be to spend time finding and taking care of all the fraud that is going on in their other programs like Medicare and social security disability.  How many millions/billions are being paid to people they should be?   Here is one example.. last year four Raleigh students were charged with scamming $12 million since 2007 from false Medicare claims for the motorized scooters, powered wheelchairs.. etc.    To think.. that’s just 4 people!   Later on in the article it said…

That’s just in 2005 and just on powered wheelchairs!  How bad was it in 2006, 2007, 2008 or even last year?   Also how bad is it on things other than just powered wheelchairs?  Just by stopping that kind of fraud we could probably pay for the insurance of all the people that are with out and not have to start another Government agency!    It’s so funny how everyone running for office (Republicans & Democrats) say we need smaller Government, but what will be happening when this Health Care bill passes?  Yup, once again the Government will get bigger and bigger!  When will this madness stop?

Then you have the teenager years when they want to go out to movies and shopping with their friends, the acne starts so you have to start buying acne cleanser type stuff,  let alone all the clothes and school stuff.   Then the high school years come and  you have more expensive school things (now they want a laptop or they need a special calculator for math) they are old enough to take drivers education which means a lot more money.  Not just for the classes, but as soon as they can drive your insurance sky rockets, plus some kids might think they need to have a car of their own.  I know we used to just borrow our parents car when we needed to go to work and to school, but we were lucky as my Dad ended up getting a work car  so we had that extra car around our house.

Oh!  Another big thing I forgot about… TEETH!!!  Our kids dentist already gave us a heads up to start a slush fund for the kids teeth as BOTH of them will be needing braces!  UGH!  Why do I have a feeling it will never end?!?

Even though I never used Shutterfly yet (as you can see I said yet) I have had great experiances with other photo book places and I would think they are all the same.

Just today I got an email from Shutterfly letting me know about their special and I thought I would share with my readers since after all it’s FREE!   Link to deal

You can get a FREE* 8×8 photo book with hard cover ($29.99 value) if you just use coupon code SPRINGDEAL.  (Offer expires March 10th)

 * Offer valid for one time redemption per member per household. Offer valid for one free 20–page 8×8 photo book with hard cover. Any additional pages will incur a per–page fee. Offer not valid for licensed premium photo books or leather or padded books. Taxes, shipping and handling will apply. Enter promo code at checkout

So if you never tried making a photo book, right now would be the perfect time to do it!  I’m thinking it might be fun making a book for Kevin with all his karate pictures!   If you plan on taking advantage of this deal, what will your book consist of?