This may be the last post with a photo here on the Blue Hutch! Why?

BECAUSE I CAN’T FIND MY BATTERY RECHARGER!!

You know, the one I just bought a month or so ago. The devil is toying with me now. First my ability to take a brisk walk in the comfort of my own home with personal cheerleaders (aka my Leslie Sansone video)and now my camera.

I took a different approach this time and started looking where it was supposed to be. It is not there. I will now start checking behind couches, in toy boxes, and under toilet lids. If you are a praying people then PRAY I find my battery charger. For my own sanity, PRAAAAYYYY!

Okay, so now for today’s score. I must begin by telling you that our Libby has left us for another year of college and we have a new sitter. Libby seemed to have grown accustomed to my flushed face and 80mph verbal gush after returning from a Walgreens run. Libby either truly got excited with me or was eligible for an Oscar. Anna, our new sitter, is… well… new and doesn’t know what to do with me quite yet. She was not as emotionally . . . involved at this point and really might think I am a freak at this point. No worries, she’ll come around. (Especially when she realizes that she too can kick it in the coupon world. . .)

I digress….

This week’s coup is guaranteed to get a giggle. Not only is KB peaking from below the table warrant a grin, but the plethora of Preparation H cannot go without notice. . . and a smirk. Let me explain (no, let me sum up): Buying the P.H. and using the awesome coupon I had allowed each box of Cheerios to be free when coupled with the coupon I had for them. Does that make sense? I am going to donate the P. H. to a ministry in town we work with that helps new moms in hard circumstances and I am going to eat the Cheerios.

The whole purchase:
2 Poptarts
4 fruit snacks
4 boxes of Cheerios
2 V8 Splashes
2 Powerades
3 California Pizza Kitchen Pizzas
2 Bertolli Meals
2 Weber Marinade packets
1 Skippy Natural Peanut Butter
4 cookies from the bakery and
4 Preparation H Travel Wipes (tee hee)

Cost: $13.50

Libby, let me hear you say “HEEEEY HOOOO“
Anna, let me hear you say “HEEEY HOOO“
Everybody now. . .

And now I am off to search for that battery charger.

We have been living in our house for 17 months now and using an oven that has no ability to regulate temperature. I have burned all but two things I have cooked in it over the past 17 months but have just kept on trucking since my landlord has always scared me a bit.

Well, now that we are growing more amiable, I found the courage to ask him about a new oven. I just walked right up and asked if he and the wife would discuss replacing the oven. I let him know that I bought a thermometer and tried to determine how “off” the temperature was, but it was inconsistent and therefore inconclusive. His answer? “Okay – I didn’t know.”

One week later we have our new oven. New to us, that is. The wife got a brand new oven and gave the rental house their older one. Smart woman, I say. And I am thrilled to report that I have cooked in it two nights in a row and everything came out golden brown perfection. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Landlord.

They say it is the thought that counts and I am counting on that today.

I thought of you when I saw this:

I thought of you when I saw this:

And I thought of you when I saw this:

Too bad I didn’t think to send your card/gift a day earlier so you could have it today.