The Olive Garden

 We like to eat at The Olive Garden, usually twice per month.

We each always get the Chicken Scampi and it is insanely delicious.

The portion is huge, we each eat half of ours and then bring the other half home.

We spent $ 75.00 dollars...

this is what we brought home/

They have a 6 dollar take home menu if you dine in the restaurant...they offer three choices.

We have had them all and we love the spaghetti with Meat Sauce.

We got 4, 6 dollars each.

Our dine in meals came with all you can eat soup or salad.

We didn't finish our soup and we each brought home a good amount.

Our server brought us a huge salad by mistake and said he could not bring it back to the kitchen.

So he boxed it so we could bring it home.

This is the other half of each of our Chicken Scampi's, enough for another meal for each of us.

I keep breadsticks in the freezer that are just as good as Olive Garden's.

I make us 2 to go with this.

One spaghetti feeds both of us one dinner with a salad, that equates to 3 dollars per person.

This food that we brought home will feed us at least 5 meals...what a bargain.

This is why we try to go twice each month, the food is delicious and we always come home with all this food, minus the one salad.

We always tip in cash!

What's In A Book

 The other day, I shared a picture of the journals I keep.

As I said, they all have a theme, keep safe the little things I want to remember....

but most importantly, they are fun.

In this journal book, I keep inspirational quips and quotes I want to remember.

Some I cut from magazines, some I write in, some are fun...all mean a lot to me.

This purple book is my favorite.

This journal holds "little snippets" I want to save.

Ticket stubs, cards, penciled drawings, maps and brochures, score cards from golf, notes, room keys...

the list is endless.

I press those pennies in the tourist machines.

I am a saver of all things that remind me of joy!

My Family History

In this book I have recorded my family history.

This has the family tree, important family memories, relationships and important dates, births and deaths.

I purchased this leather book the first time I went to The Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool Fiber Festival.

In this journal I keep little notes and pictures the hubs leaves for me when he goes to work.

We primarily work from home but if he has maintenance to do at any of the properties, 

he often does it himself.

For some reason, these little notes are all written on napkins

This little book has no real theme.

It has all of my passwords written in it, I couldn't photograph and share those now could I?

I probably could...blog peeps are the best!

In addition to that...a few things to make it pretty, so it is not so boring.

I hope you enjoyed this little peek into my world...maybe it will inspire you to buy a new journal and record the fun thing you don't want to forget!