Yinzer in the Shire

as of late i have been saying all i want is to be comfortable and successful.  comfort is easy to define, it means not having to live paycheck to paycheck. success has been a bit harder for me to define but i think i've finally got it. and in defining it, i realized it had already been achieved.  simply put, success is loving my job.  no, not the one cleaning toilets, the one working at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts .  it is so wonderful to realize you have impacted another persons life.  this one girl is visiting from Cali just for this week and her father shook my hand after class today and told me that he has never seen his daughter so excited for anything aside from her dream job of being a veterinarian.  how awesome is that?  The other parents were equally as excited with the work we did with their children this week.  Some of the kids even got pictures taken with us.  It was incredibly amazing and touching.  I couldn...

Lately I've been on a freebie kick; perusing the internet for legitimate free samples and other goodies.  Though I haven't found any place that will really give you a laptop for free, I have found some pretty sweet offers that I think everyone should be aware of. My favorite is the Real Chocolate Relief Act from Mars.  Every Friday the company is giving away 250,000 coupons for a free candy bar of your choice.  The offer is limited to 1 per friday, 4 per a household during the course of the offer. On the healthier side I have found that if you go to the FruitaBu website and sign up for their Smooshed Squad they'll send you a coupon for one fruit leather!! Mmmm...delicious! Just make sure to complete the entire survey so you can get your prize.  Also, if you are a fruit leather enthusiast such as myself you might like to know that you can purchase 30 count boxes of Stretch Island Fruit Leathers from the same website for just $12.99! A rather odd givawa...