http://happytrails.today.com Happy Trails is another Today.com weblog Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:34:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since we are saving for a cruise and really watching our budget, we are not eating out as much.  It is giving me withdrawal symptoms!  Some hot and crunchy breaded chicken wings or some kind of appetizer would be nice. Likely the weather is getting to me as well.  Colder air ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/13/i-made-appetizers-for-dinner-tonight/ We officially opened a bank account to save for a cruise.  Most of the time we really do not travel that far away for vacations, or just work on the house.  Real exciting time painting, cleaning, fixing, forget it!  One more time this year we will stick close to home ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/12/we-are-saving-and-looking-for-cruise-lines/ Our gas company should be making quite a bonanza of money this winter, our temps are lucky if they are two digit and the forecast says it is going to be even lower this coming week.   We turned the thermostat down to a chilly 66 degrees to keep down our ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/11/it-is-so-cold-i-need-thermal-underwear-and-merino-wool-socks/ We have a winter wonderland outside tonight and by tomorrow we will have even more snow.  Hubs promised to teach me how to learn cross country skiing, but with all this snow, he is not going to have any more excuse to put it off. It is not as though we ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/10/cross-country-skiing-cannot-really-be-that-difficult/ Maybe I just do not go shopping enough?  Last year I ordered a pair of winter boots from Penney's on sale,  got my size, and the darn things did not fit, they were huge.  Disgusted, I put the box away and forgot to return them, so all that is left ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/09/sales-everywhere-but-i-cannot-find-the-winter-boots-i-want/ We had a lot of rain the other night and today was so cold, maybe 20 degrees for the high, but a little windy.  Just perfect weather to get a hot shower, bundle up and stay inside. We should have checked the car earlier today because Hubs forget to stop at ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/08/iced-shut-car-door-meets-hair-dryer/ Hubs and I were talking today about going to a bowling alley for some exercise.  We have not done that in ages, and neither of us has bowling shoes anymore.  I gave away our bowling shoes a long time ago because we just did not use them.  Rentals are usually ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/07/bowling-is-good-exercise/ It is cold today, raining and icing over everything since early afternoon, and not a good idea to try walking anywhere outside on the ice.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better, but hoping that has done nothing for me today; we were basically stuck in the house. It was a very good ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/06/use-a-neti-pot-and-become-famous/ Hubs needs to get up a bit earlier to find interesting (and I use that term rather loosely) things online to email me.  We have his and hers computers, because neither of us wants to share, so he emails it.  Anyway, I was at the already been there, done that ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/05/new-fart-tax-being-proposed/ This is our New Year's resolution for 2009, and we are going to see how well we can stick to it.  Hubs and I both love our coffee, but Hubs never misses a chance to bring the vacuum pot with him to get tea when picking up our order at ... http://happytrails.today.com/2009/01/04/more-tea-less-coffee-for-2009/