Need some help please.....

*********I am having a bit of trouble with blogger. When I go to link a photo up to a post it will not allow me the choice of getting a pic from my computer...which is where all my pics are. I use to be able to do this but not now.  Did blogger change something and does anyone know how to work this out? Thanks for any help you might have to give.

2013

I feel like I just need to sit and write that over and over again till I finally "get it".

I remember when I was back in school (yes I can remember that far back!) when I used to have so much trouble at the first of a new year , and was always putting the wrong date on my papers. Then as I got older I was always writing checks and putting the wrong dates on them and then trying to change it so you couldn't tell you had made a mistake! Yeah right! After I had made the change it looked like a big ink blob in the upper right corner. But now in this day and age do you have trouble writing the wrong date anymore?  I really can't think of anything that I put the date on anymore. Everything on the internet date it for us. I haven't written a check in, who knows how long. So it got me to thinking how much things have changed, at least for me. How about you?

Well that is enough of that subject and I just wanted to touch base and let you know that I am really not one for resolutions. But I do believe that if you see something in your life that needs changing then as adults we should change them. You see if god calls something to task in my life, well it doesn't take a new year so why wait for a new year to fix it. I want to be mindful of his hand in my life as I set goals and make plans for each day. Not just because it is the beginning of a new year. 

I wish all of you a great 2013! 

Bathroom Trick

As some of you already know I am not crazy about all the cleaners out t here on the market.  For one they are full of things that I would rather not have in my home. They most always smell bad. And they always cost more than I would like to spend.

So I have been making my own bathroom cleaner for quite some time now. It cleans better than anything I had ever used (and I had used them all). It does not have the harsh chemical smell to it. And it uses 2 ingredients that I always have on the shelf anyway.  So to say the cost is low.......well lets say it is real low!!

Let me share the recipe with you and let you try it for yourself.

Bathroom Cleaner

1/2  cup dawn dish liquid (original blue)

white vinegar

 In a 32  oz. recycled spray bottle place the dawn and fill remaining bottle with white vinegar (do not shake!) Just gently turn bottle upside down a few times to mix.

Now use this to clean all the bathroom surfaces. Tubs, sinks, toilets bowls, chrome and even those hard to clean shower doors. You will be so surprised at how clean the shower doors are and how shiny the chrome becomes.

Well this week  I took this up a notch!! I placed the mixture in this:

 It makes it easier to just pick up and clean a spot or an area and not have to clean the whole room. Who knows, it might be so easy that I might get someone else to give it a try!! Now I really am not holding my breathe! I will remind you to store this upright, as it might leak from the sponge if you lay it down.

Just hang it from the ledge in the shower!

How about you, do you have any neat little cleaning tricks you would like to share? I love comments and I read every one of them.

This is linked up to home made mondays a linky party over at Frugal by Choice, Cheap by Necessity. Stop by and check out all the neat homemade things.

Election Day 2012

Let me start out this post by saying that if you came to see alot of pictures then you are in the wrong place. I just came here today to talk to you about something that some folks will not talk about with their BFF. I came to talk to you about voting.

I look at voting as a priviledge or even a duty as an American citizen. But either way you look at it it surely is an HONOR. It is one of those things that I would walk miles to do if I had to. (even in the rain or snow!!!) (even barefoot!!) Okay, I think I made my point.

Now some people say they don't have time or that it doesn't matter if they vote or not, after all it is just one vote and that does not make a difference. Other say they don't like either candidate and don't want either one. And still others suggest that they have not heard the news stations say anything to make them want to vote or that they did not have time to watch the debates. 

Well I must be a bit different than your average "Joe" or "Jane" because I do not cast a vote depending on what the news stations or reporters have to say about them. I can look at the big picture and see that we are dealing with human beings and non of us are perfect. So I believe it is safe to say that , there are no perfect candidates, just human ones! I don't pick a candidate on the clothes he or she wears. Or where they might live. I do not decide based on whether or not they are a Democrat or a Republican.

As a Christian, I make my choices based on God's word. Things that factor in my decision are things like where they stand on abortion and gay marriage. How they look at dealing with the national debt or how they feel about the use of the welfare system. I do not even care what the newspaper or CNN or Fox News have to say.

One thing I know for sure is that even if you don't vote we will still have an election and there will still be a winner. So I guess I have to say that I hope you cared more about this election than who wins "Survivor" or American  Idol".