tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85776318346805658182025-05-24T01:59:30.058-05:00Surviving mild insanity in a slightly sane manner. Preppin' for the worst, hoping for the best.Jess (Ozark Momma)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04818540604927301545noreply@blogger.comBlogger356125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8577631834680565818.post-81155184822334733442014-06-09T11:31:00.000-05:002014-06-09T11:31:02.021-05:00

The move is made...most of the unpacking is done. We're exhausted, but happily settling in.  This, of course, means lots and lots of projects on the menu.  Our current dining room table is wholly inadequate in size for the massive new dining room...added to the build list along with chairs.  Our poor darling dear Billy bookcases need a facelift...added to the to paint list.

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is one of those pre-planned/written post days I promised. As this post goes live, I'll be running all over the South Central part of KY setting up utilities, hunting down washers/dryers and refrigerators, lunching (hopefully) with my sister and not losing my mind being trapped in the Kia with the Screamers and Tanker.  At least that's the plan. The losing my mind part is likely to happen.

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shortly after the move to the new house, there will be a move of blogs.  For good. I've thought about it for a while, even had one setup over at wordpress for a good long time...the latest fiasco with AdSense just gave the push I needed/wanted I guess.  With all the changes going on in our lives and such, a change in direction was inevitable.  The new blog will be as random as

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in all their infinite wisdom has decided that I'm asking you to do something bad by asking you to click those AdSense ads. So they've decided that my AdSense account should be disabled...for the first time ever in 6 years...funny enough right when the account was about to hit payout status...for the first time ever in 6 years....payout that was meant to go to the giveaway in August to celebrate

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goings on around here....okay, not really. We pulled everything from the basement yesterday...Tanker successfully squashed no less than 3 large woman eating spiders (alright, maybe not woman eating but they were big...bodies the size of quarters big)...2 I saw, 1 I didn't but it was attempting to crawl up me when he spotted it.  Thankfully, I did not see it until it was squished. Normally

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that I "forget" about every single time we move...I call this selective memory loss due to moving trauma. Like I forget how annoying it is to get utilities setup; particularly since these particular utility companies require your actual presence...no online capabilities.  So we get to take a day out of our insanely busy week next week to run down and get everything setup in our names.

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Well, here she be...post #350 (which means I have between now and August 4th to really get cracking and hopefully flood you with posts in order to make it to #500 for the 6th Blogiversary). Gonna share the love of food and exercise in this one...along with some links. First up, awaiting me at the new place and preppin' to start on June 15th is this: 21 Day Fix My friend and coach, Lindsay

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over at My Patriot Supply until the 26th! Deals of the Day Just wanted to share since Tattler rings are in there along with some other really good deals. Enjoy!

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would you prefer a gift card to Amazon or an actual something (useful) as a prize in a giveaway? Polling, of sorts, here. Coming up on the 6th Blogiversary here (and it will likely coincide with the 500th post at that) and would love, love, love to hand something over to one of those of you that have stuck around all this time. Shoot me your opine!

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it's best to say your piece and walk away without looking back. Even when it is family.  Blood family. It's no secret to those that know me in real life that I have very little tolerance for self-centered ignorance.  The only surprise might be that the reason behind that intolerance being that I've spent a huge chunk (aka for as long as I can remember) of my life watching a part of

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just a quick line to opine about a series I've been reading. Links to the Kindle downloads. Infinite Sacrifice (free at time of posting) Infinite Devotion ($3.99) Infinite Loss ($4.99) They're fairly short (this coming from a vorocious reader that demolished Under the Dome in less than 2 days...so, grain of salt), but particularly rich in detail.  Not for everyone, especially those that

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of my container gardening plans with this! can be found here as well Happiness...joy, joy. I'm seriously thrilled.  With this and the obscene amount of containers, soil and seed awaiting me at the new place, I'm beyond certain that I'll be able to get in a decent amount of fresh veg despite the lateness of planting.  The greenhouse will help with that as well. I, for real,

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it just keeps growing and growing. I started pricing out storage sheds today...the current place has lots of basement type storage (sorely lacking in the in house storage area however) for tools and lawn equipment.  The new place...not so much. At first I thought about one of those rent to own sheds but upon doing the math and such decided that I'm quite happy with one of those $300 (or

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and a wake-up. The countdown continues to clip on at a rapid pace. Tanker is itching to finish packing up but I'm holding him back with both hands.  I'm not ready to pack everything but the cast iron up...I like my little non-stick skillet for making my eggs every morning.  I like that I can just wash it out, toss it on the drying rack and walk away without fear of rust setting in

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to all you Moms out there. Be you Moms of human, chicken, cow, cat, dog, etc..... Momming is hard. You rock it.

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for you today as I will be attending CF's funeral and have no clue what time we'll be back home. Here comes the random.... I've been "swagging" a lot lately...loading up on Swagbucks to load up on Amazon gift cards. I've earned enough the last two days (not signing up for anything that requires a payment of any kind, btw) to get 2 $5GCs.  Not shabby considering most of it is stuff I

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I have a bunch of friends struggling with what we'll call "the new normal"...they had been accustomed to living high without a care, racking up credit debt...they are now not living so high and learning to live on a much tighter budget.  They are experiencing a learning curve. In the past week I've gotten no less than 10 emails or FB messages from said friends; wondering how we did it for

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or Throwback Thursday....ya know #TBT. Tossing you a link to one of my very first (therefore generally more educational) posts on the blog. Why Prep? Sound logical reasoning that still holds true. (Go on...click that big ad down below...you know you want to.)

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in vast reaches of the youngest screamer's former room, amid towers of boxes that stand twice as tall as me, there are two boxes that are meant to be elsewhere.  Boxes that were supposed to be mailed off to someone else, boxes that never made it out the door despite numerous reminders.  Boxes that will get to where they are supposed to go, sometime around mid-June...instead of February

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More linkage to get me in trouble... H/T to Survival Mom for this one. How have I gone all this time and not known about this? Minimus Travel size EVERYTHING. Perfect for BOBs, camping, all around having on hand. I foresee some of the saved $$ going toward a few things.  Go...take a look. (Psst...help a gal out....click that big ad down there.)

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Currently, I'm chatting with a friend...brother of the childhood friend that drowned on April 21st.  Her body was finally recovered on the 2nd and they are headed today to make final arrangements.  There seems to be a sort of power struggle going on as to what should be done and what certain other family members want done.  Childhood Friend (hereafter known as CF) was unemployed

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for the Kindle...or Kindle App. (Note:  Please check the price before downloading...while they're free at the time of this post, they may not be free for long.) Preppers Pantry: How to Build a Perfect Survival Pantry for Food and Water Storage (Survival Pantry - Your Complete Guide to Stocking Up and Surviving Anything) Exodus Lost (the History geek in me can't wait to read this one

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I spent a large part of the day researching things that are only important to me (insurance related) and sneaking out to watch the just discovered babies in the holly tree. Today....I sauntered out to enjoy my coffee in the sun (and super cold wind) to find the nest already empty.  Those crafty robins. The only reason I even noticed the nest (despite in being in the tree RIGHT NEXT to the

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a few on the blog...did you notice? Pages are popping up...unfinished but there now to give you an idea of what is to come.  Of course, the nature of blogger means that I'll have to put up a post to let you know of additions.  But that's cool.  I like you lot. Foodie Links is the most complete thus far, but that's due to the fact that we've been focusing pretty much on that

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this morning....I had thought (very briefly) about switching to a different blogging setup (i.e. Wordpress, etc) and promptly discarded the idea.  Blogger is comfortable, and as my well worn yoga pants can attest I adore comfortable. I played around with the Pages feature a bit (they are not currently showing, so don't go looking) in an attempt to combine the dietary/lifestyle change blog

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