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Wow what a dinner we had at Roma Italian Restaurant in Lower Burrell PA.  

This is a small little hole in the wall that we have drove by numberous times and never noticed.  The dining area is small and extra simple. 

This is our second visit to this place, in as many weeks, thanks to Restaurant.com.

 Last week we got appetizers and a Roma Special Pizza.  This pizza was HUGE but.............the ROMA special has anchovies (big YUCK) and we didn't know it.  The cat and the dog were happy with the white box that came home with us, but ICK ICK ICK on the anchovies. The fried zucchini, though, was the best we have ever ate.

Tonight we had dinners and appetizers.  Hubby had chicken parmesan and I had eggplant parmesan.  Unbelievably good!  This was perhaps the best italian food we have ever ate, and to think we never heard of the place.  

The Roma Italian Restaurant requires a $35 minimum to use the coupon, thus that is why we order piggie amounts of food.  We got cheesey bread w/sauce, fried zucchini, entrees with side and salad, and drinks (hot tea and coke) for $45- the $25 coupon, we spent $20, and this was including the 18% gratuity that they put on before they deduct the coupon.(we took home enough food for 3 lunches)

I have been receiving offers from ADP to get $25 gift certificates for $2, and I have been snapping them up to places nearby that we are not familiar with. 

The coupons do come with certain stipulations, and each establishment has their own.  They do require minimums (which vary place to place), some don't include alcohol, and some are dining only with no take outs. 

The coupons don't expire for a year and we have a ton to use.  It is a nice economical way to go out and try different places.  We take the kids when we are near their place, and eat like piggies just to get them minimum dollar amount to use the $25.  

I just wanted to share RESTAURANT.COM with you incase you are not familiar, or wary of their generous offers. www.restaurant.com

I get ridiculous offers through ADP, our payroll provider. 

Anyhow, check out the website, you may be surprised to see what restaurants in your area participate in this restaurant marketing adventure.

 Cheers, 

Lisa E. 

I spend my life looking for lost stuff..........do you?

Well, I fell asleep last night before Hubby told me that Verizon had said our wireless router was bad, and that is why we have had minimal, if any internet connectivity in the past few days.
Last night he was on the phone with customer service for a long time freaking plugging and unplugging every damn cord that hooks up to any of our computers as he was instructed to do. Of course Verizon was sure it was our computers' issue. Anyhow, finally, the decision was made that the router was bad and they were sending out a new one.

Great that they are sending out a new router, but I have Ebay auctions going on, and ending, that I need to monitor, and being off line has drove me nuts.

HELP

I have NO

Internet

I am

Having

Withdrawals

Hurry!!

I knew we had a "new in the box" Verizon router in the house (somewhere), and I went on a six hour hunt to find it. I purged bags of clothes, junk, holiday decorations and other crap while on my hunt. Hubby took two suv loads of stuff down to the local thrift store.

One crazy woman’s trash

Is another

Crazy woman’s Treasure

Donate to  your local thrift store

I literally ripped every room apart, tossed what I did not use anymore, and still could not find that freakin router. I know where I thought I had last seen it, but alas, it was absolutely no where to be found. After I tore apart the attic looking for the stupid ass thing, and still came up empty handed, Hubby went to BEST BUY to get a new one.

We quickly hooked up the new router, and it would not connect so we had to call Verizon again. I was first reprimanded for going out and buying a router as they TOLD US that they would have one to us within 2 days. Soooooooooooo Sorry Verizon, I need my internet.
The customer service person worked with me for 90 minutes only to say that the new router was not good enough to work with VERIZON. Ok, uhmm this thing was top of the line at BEST BUY, and again, it is not VERIZON's fault.

The exasperated technician said I would just have to wait for the delivery of their router next week. With that comment, I was mad and slammed aside a disk holder on the computer desk, and what to my wondering eyes did appear but, THE new boxed WESTELL VERIZON router. The flipping router I was looking for ALL day was appropriately nestled neatly in the computer desk.

I quietly gasped, & Hubby saw what I saw. I told the Tech I just happened to find ANOTHER router and would he kindly help us set it up. Three hours after I made the call, WE are up and running again.
I can't believe I spent the whole day looking for something that was were it should have been in the first place.

I drive myself nuts and spend half my waking hours always looking for something. Usually it is keys or the remote control.

I also am alarmed that I could get so much purging and decluttering done when I have no internet (thus off the freaking computer )

A clean house is probably a

house with a broken computer

Although I spent my whole day ripping apart, I got so so so much done. Tomorrow I am going to finish up and complete my holiday decorating.

I am exausted!

Happy Hour Friday Find something to be GRATEFUL for!!

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Here it is Friday again and YAY, we made it another week. 

Last night was an evening full of laughs and good times.


I wanted to go out last night, as I took off today (its an extended weekend for me), and it was a hockey night, so there was a compromise actually.  

I bought a bazillion RESTAURANT.COM coupons from ADP for $2 for $25 gift certificates and I wanted to go to a local Italian joint. 

He audibly moaned when I asked him and I immediately knew that the Pittsburgh Penguins must be on.

Being the Luv that he is, he suggested our "cheers" instead.

 We absolutely had to go somewhere that had BIG SCREENS.  We enjoyed the company and the food was great.


I am Thankful for my compromising Hubby!

We have a new Verizon bundle that I am not used to.  Mainly, I forget that it uses a Voicemail system and not my machine. I rarely remember to listen to landline messages as I have to call in.


I was anticipating a call the other day, so after work I remembered I HAVE to CALL in for messages.  There was a message from our banks fraud division and it was not a soliciting call. The call had come in BEFORE Thanksgiving.  

Unknown to us, our card had be evilly copied at a local ATM and used illegally TWICE in NYC for a couple K's.  Funny thing is that this card is ONLY used at ATMS and NEVER for purchases. It is ONLY used to withdraw cash.


Hubby thought long and hard and remembered a single incidence that was weird, with a vehicle and odd activity. Lo and behold after talking to the fraud division, that is the ATM we got scammed at.


Long story short, all is well.  In ten days he will get a replacement card, all activity on the old account was stopped immediately after the bizarre activity, and the money (all of it) is being put back in our account.


I am very thankful our bank realized this was not our typical activity, thankful they contacted us (although we had no clue), thankful the money is being put back without a lot of red tape.


I want to let you all know to NEVER use an ATM that has a brochure holder attached to it (a camera can hide in it). If you see something in the parking lot or near an ATM that doesn't set well with you as being normal, do not use that ATM and report it. Never use an ATM that appears to have a protective coating on the keypad.  (this could be a micro computer getting your PIN)

Work like you don’t need the Money

Love like you have never been Hurt

Dance like nobody’s Watching

:)

I am thankful that I am feeling less ornery.
I have been very very ornery time since about a week prior to my 50th birthday.  This has been a little over a month, and it was induced (I allowed it to bring me down) by a series of events that were one after another, and each alone, being like a sucker punch to my gut. Slowly I am pulling myself up again and reminding myself daily that "it is what it is".   or  "they are what they are", and whether I chose to be hurt or pissed off is not going to change what "it is", and it is my choice to chose to be pissed or hurt. 


I am thankful that I am in a warm home, with a guy who loves my messed up self. 

I am thankful the tree is up and it does look festively dorky.  

I am thankful the leg lamp is once again boldly lit in the bay window facing our street.  ( I'll try to get a pic of this tonight)






 
Anyhow, I am happy it is Friday!! 

Seriously

Deciding what day I'd rather be off work is not really challenging. I know that I  am  predictable in how I use my paid time off.
I tend to stack a vacation day with a three day weekend to get four glorious days off.
I want just one more day off .
Somehow it feels so indulgent.
If I am not stacking a three day weekend, I adore taking off Mondays.
Mondays are such a great day to stay home.
I know that when your weekend is up, I still have one more day to do whatever the heck I feel like doing.
Someone beat me to taking off Monday (fair and square).
This Monday, I'll be there while they are doing whatever the heck  they feel like doing.
I hope they enjoy their day away from the madness.
Oh well, I think I'll take off Friday.

I have a house to clean, and organizing to do.
We are celebrating Christmas at our home early as our kids will all be somewhere else on the 25th.
I hope to truly be productive and get a lot done.
I doubt I will bake though, unless it is slice and bake Pillsbury :O). Thanks DEE!!!
It is truly ridiculous that I take time off work to clean my house. Something is very wrong with this. 
When Hubby takes off, he goes fishing, or off to visit a relative, or anything that does not involve work (or housework).
That is the way it should be.
I take off work to catch up on my work at home................hmmm, I am here thinking about this and it is nuts.  I could stay at work and earn money, and just pay someone to clean and organize our home.


Seriously, I want to wear a tiara and be a princess.

No doubt about it. 

Excuse me, I have to go do the dishes.

Post It Note Tuesday

Tuesday Tuesday...................Just randoms.

I have not had much time for you dear blog of mine, but I wanted to at least post some post it notes.  Please forgive me for not attending to you lately, but you know.............life gets in the way.  xxooxx

Some ups, some downs, some work, some play, some grumpiness, some happiness, and always unconditional love for my hubby and my daughter

Peace Out

Lisa E

Post it Note Tuesday

Tuesday Tuesday...................Just randoms. 

Do you have the Perfect ROLL OUT Sugar Cookie Recipe?

Here it is almost Thanksgiving. 
I have been paging through the many free magazines that I receive through FREEBIZ online and I am drooling and also feeling majorly inferior when I am looking at the amazing cookies and sweets featured.
You see, I am 50 years old and I have Never, mind you I do mean never made a good batch of cookies. 
Yesterday, I told hubby that I would like to really try hard to make some very pretty decorated sugar cookies, from scratch!  He did not laugh at me, but said to bake properly, I need to do things slowly (I do everything fast).
We got some beautiful snowflake cutters at Michael's yesterday, along with squeeze bottles for the decorating. I have some good cookie sheets in the garage somewhere, brand-new, in wrapping from about 5 years ago, that I want to use. 
Now, the big problem is finding a mistake-proof, easy rolling, sugar cookie recipe.  
I am putting a shout out to you people who have this gift.  Any easy, fool-proof, recipes would be highly appreciated.
I am almost laughing at myself because anytime I attempt to bake, I turn into a wild woman and get angry because I make such a mess of it.  
I used to blame it on the oven, but I have had a few ovens over the years, and the same results.
Well, any help is welcomed.  Happy Sunday


Lisa E.