Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 22 - The Black Friday Edition

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Wednesday's snow....
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We had a nice one....Ash was able to come home....I love having all the kids back under 1 roof!

Black Friday shopping...are you going? Me, NO WAY! Christian and his girlfriend are going to be heading out really early...I'll be in my warm, snuggly bed. I like online shopping!

So here's some Willy-Nilly's for ya:

1) Check out THESE abandoned malls...so creepy!

2) Speaking of online shopping...do you use EBATES ? I've been using them for about 2 years now. It's free to sign up and you do your regular shopping through their links and get money back! Each Christmas I get about a hundred dollars back from things I bought through Ebates that I was going to buy anyway!

3) When I was looking at the abandoned mall photos I started to think about the mall I shopped in so much as a kid/teen/adult. Parkway Plaza in El Cajon. I wanted to find an old photo of it from back in the day before it totally changed, before stupid WalMart moved in, but couldn't...but I did find THIS which is pretty neat. Do you remember May Company? We had one at our mall and I shopped there a lot too but it closed. Funny, I remember buying a really cool black and white OP bathing suit there back in high school. Why do I remember that?! lol...OP was a cool brand to wear back in high school...wonder what happened...and why does WalMart carry it now?

4) Well now I'm thinking about brands we wore as kids...Vans were cool and kids still wear them to this day....Remember Le Tigre polo shirts?! How about Sasson jeans:


and Jordache jeans!


Aren't those commercials cheesy?! I totally remember them! I could go on and on but I'll stop for now ;)

5) Tried this new recipe this week Swiss Steak...I made it with rice...it was REALLY good. I found it on Pinterest and when I clicked on it, the blog it took me to is the blog that I got my Spanish Rice recipe from. I've been making that rice for a few years now. Funny how small the blogging world is!

Well that's it for me...now it's your turn!


Have a great weekend :)

Signs, Signs - Happy Thanksgiving

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Sign outside of Lord Botetourt High School, Daleville

"Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants."
Kevin James

Linking with Signs, Signs

Getting this ready to auto post...gotta hit the hay, lots o' cookin' to do in the a.m.! Have a Happy Turkey Day!

Oh, yeah, this photo was taken this afternoon (Wed)...we got a bit of snow!

Happy Thanksgiving Eve

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Iron Gate

I want to tell you that all my computer problems are el-gone-a-roonie! Yay! The last issue I was having was that Google wasn't keeping me signed in. I'd sign in, then it would say I was still signed out. I couldn't comment on hardly any blogs but I found it in the cookies settings. Had to switch from what Chrome had as a "recommended" setting to something different. Saw that piece of awesome news on the support forum. Oh I can't even tell you how happy that makes me! Have a super day!!

A Farmhouse in Black & White

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Somewhere in Wirtz

“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

I love that movie/book :)

Linking with Rubbish Tuesday

Update: I know, I know...and I apologize..you are probably tired of hearing about my computer woes and rightfully so but I did get those bugs out after doing a system restore but now I'm afraid in all my messing with my computer that I've messed up some settings, like cookies that I can't fix. Also did something to my blog which changed my comment format to Google and now I don't know how to fix that either. Is it an issue for you to comment? I'm wondering if I delete this version of Chrome and reinstall a new one if that will fix my cookie problem? Anyways, it's driving me completely crazy...

Ok, so I figured that out by reading THIS and when you switch to Google+ comments it does limit interaction as only Google+ peeps can comment...so don't ever, ever switch to Google+ comments....now, another question for you...I reverted back to my Blogger profile. Seeing if that will be better....is your blog linked to Google+ or are you still using your Blogger profile? Gosh, I really can't stand GOOGLE! They make everything so complicated!

Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 21 - Virginia Beach

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Again with Virginia Beach this summer...don't judge...it has been cold and we've not been anywhere and I haven't felt like going anywhere..so it's the old archives! And something sneaky is still hiding in my computer...when I click a link, two pages open, one with my correct destination and the other, the scumbag page. Oh, this isn't over yet! I wish I could get paid for all my time I'm putting into this ha!

Ok, Willy Nilly time!

So while waiting in the dentist's waiting room this week I read Time Magazine's Answer Issue...here's some purty interesting answers ;)

1) When Will We Discover Alien Life?

2) America's Weirdest Obsessions

3) The 13 Most Amazing Sandwiches The World Has To Offer

4) How Designer Dogs Are Made

5) America's Deadliest Intersection

Well that's it for me! Come on now, your turn!

Signs, Signs & A Really Good Fence In Virginia Beach

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Boo sells insurance in Hampton

"It started when we were younger
You were mine my boo
Now another brother's taken over
But its still in your eyes my boo
Even though we used to argue it's alright
I know we haven't seen each other
In awhile but you will always be my boo"

Who knew Usher was singing about Boo of State Farm...must be those khakis ;)

Virginia Beach...over the summer

I love that my kids all have a crazy sense of humor. Braden packed his banana costume because he wanted to trip people out and run the beach in it...odd thing is nobody seemed to notice...we were all cracking up though :D

Also see a Geico sign there...we've had Geico for like 20 years...they upped our rates because of Ashlyn (she's had some issues)...so we removed her from ours and now she has her own Geico policy...think this publicity should be worth some sort of discount? Hello? Geico? ;)

Linking with Signs, Signs and Good Fences

Update on my computer curse...I *think* I may have fixed it...knocking wood and crossing fingers here...everything so far seems to be running copasetic...I had to go in and uninstall tons of things that loaded with my update, that deleted a bunch but still had issues...so then, since I use chrome, I had to go in and delete some "extensions" that hid themselves in there...click on those 3 bars in the upper right, click on settings and then check out your extenstions from there...that helped some but there were still those pesky web pages that would randomly open...Found Malwarebytes on CNet which was a free download that had great reviews...that found some nasties and deleted them...then there was still one more. Since I had done that update on 11/18 I just went and uninstalled everything in my programs from that date...but then there was this strange thing that had a date of 11/8...when I googled the name "lasaoren" that was it! I uninstalled and since then everything seems back to normal....I HOPE!! So sorry I haven't been visiting...been so obsessed with getting this straight again!

I hope you will be back on Friday to play Willy-Nilly 5!

A Carriage Ride

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Homestead Creamery Farm Days

Ugh...Tuesday...I downloaded a Java update only to have a bunch of junk sneak in with it. I spent most of the day uninstalling these unwanted programs that were unknowingly bundled with the update. There is still a small issue that I can't find yet but will. On some sites when I click a link, a different link will open as well, usually a shopping type link or a link for w i x website builder...I have done a scan but it shows nothing but I know something is hiding in there...it's just a matter of time...so frustrating and really annoying! "I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!" ;) Any ideas experts?