Just My Rambling

 

 
Woohoo… I just redeemed another gift card to Amazon from Swagbucks. This is probably my 10th gift card already. I love this program!! If you have never heard of it, Swagbucks is actually a search engine and when you use Swagbucks to search for things on the net, you will earn points. Accumulate those points and you can redeem them for gift cards or other gifts. There is a whole list of gifts that can be redeemed. Hopefully I can earn enough points to get free Christmas presents this year.

The best thing about camping trips is that I don’t have to worry about ab workout or any other exercise. The whole camping trip is a gym to me. From loading the car, setting up camp to taking down the camp is a whole workout by itself. We also usually end up doing a lot of hiking and bicycling during the trip. We even did kayaking on one of the trips. But why am I still not losing any weight?

Camping here, camping there, camping everywhere! That is what we seems to be doing this summer. We have been camping almost every weekend. Since we basically hibernate the whole winter, we make up for it in the summer and just spend as much time outdoors as possible. Unfortunately my face is not too happy about all these time spend outdoor and I am not helping by not drinking enough water. I think I need to check out the best treatment for best treatment for adult acne

Old Navy is having a $2 secret cami sale from 7/29 - 7/31. Just go to the Old Navy store and mention the secret word “Cami4me” or bring the coupon to receive this special offer.

Two years ago we went on a cruise to Alaska and we had a blast. Since then, we have thinking of going on another cruise again. Lil’ C was only 3 on our first cruise and she had fun but I am sure that she will enjoy it even more now that she is a little older. This time we are planning to try a different cruise line because we heard that different cruise lines offer different activities. Royal Caribbean is one of the cruises that we plan to check out. If everything works out, we will go on our cruise next summer. Yippee..

Every summer, my house is in a mess because I always end up too busy to be at home cleaning up. In between camping trips and mini road trips, things start piling up around the house especially the laundry. This summer I got caught up on the laundry part but had trouble keeping up with the folding and putting away all the clothes. So when I found out that I had out of town guest coming this week, I was cleaning like crazy these past few days. I did manage to clean up the house but I am so exhausted now. I am sure that I will not need any sleeping pills to help me fall asleep because I am going to be sleeping like a log from exhaustion! But at least my house looks so clean now. If only it can be kept this way for the whole summer.

Gosh, I can’t believe that all the back to school sales have already started! It feels like summer has just started and now it’s time to get ready for school again. It seems like all the sales in the stores are starting earlier every year. Who knows, they might even start selling Christmas stuff next month!

First of all, let me say that I have no green thumb! For some reason, all plants tend to die on me. Sigh. The cold weather here does not seem to helping me either. This summer, we have been grilling a lot and we have been using lots of herbs. However I realize that herbs can be quite costly. If possible, I would love to grow my own herbs. Maybe I should check into hydroponic systems, then I won’t have to worry about the weather so much. Who knows, in a couple of weeks, I will be able to taste my own freshly grown herbs.

In my recent quest to lose weight, I have doing a lot of reading on weight management books. Through all these reading, I have learned that besides exercise, it is also helpful to eat foods that burn fat. When I looked at the list, I noticed that I am already eating a lot of those foods but there seems to be no effect. Either I am not eating enough of it or maybe it could just be that I am exercising enough. Hehe.. Time to head over to the gym!

What do you eat in the summer? For us, the grill has been a great partner this summer. I have 3 grills in the house. I am not kidding! My grill-crazy husband loves his grills. He uses different grills for different purpose. One of them is a portable grill that we bring to the park all the time. Do you notice that even the normal food taste better on the grill? My current grilled foods are peaches and asparagus. Yum! Now where are my appetite suppressants? There are still one and half more months of summer grilling!