So have you figured it out yet? You know what I’m talking about – the dreaded V day and what you’re going to get for that certain someone. Not to mention all those little certain someones you call your kids. If you’ve done this ‘holiday’ before you know that if you don’t get just the right gift, it can send a message that you don’t know you’ve sent until your birthday rolls around. This year, let’s all try to get creative early. Or, if you’re like me, just come up with any decent idea at all early.

Whether you’re going to knit sweaters for little Janie and Johnny and get the supplies at JoAnn’s or getting a dozen roses for your hubby at 1-800-Flowers you can rest a little easier if you use a coupon from Coupon Chief. They have the biggest aray of online coupons I’ve seen and I know they can make your budget stretch a little further for Valentine’s Day. (You’ve been responsible and made a budget for this, right?)

When last I spoke of this, I said I was getting ready to paint.  What a horrible thing painting is.  I think I would almost not buy a house that I otherwise loved even if only the paint needed redoing.  I started by peeling off all this old, nasty contact paper getting a thousand paper cuts under my nails.

Then I went through all the cabinets and primed, managing to get covered in primer in the process.  Turns out this stuff doesn’t come off that easily so I’ve been going out in public with this stuff in my hair.

Then I started the first coat of paint and it looked HORRIBLE.  Of course then I began to panic thinking that I had managed to turn my awful looking kitchen into an even worse looking kitchen and wasted tons of time and money in the process.  Fortunately, when I put on the second coat (something I hadn’t thought I would need to do because I had primed) it started looking better.

Now I’m just covered in the regular kind of paint which comes off alot more easily and the end is in sight.  I hope to be done today.  With the painting anyway – the putting stuff back part I don’t know when I’ll get to.