Catcher in the Why?

Catching up should be an Olympic sport. It's amazing how much needs to be done in order to go away for a few days, only to return to an enormous amount of catching up that needs to be done. If she's traveling for work or family business, even vacation, going out of town usually means you return to a piled of work and laundry. This could easily discourage the occasional traveler, but I've decided that if we make it into some type of sport we might gain a competitive edge. If you're traveling solo and leaving a family to fend for itself that still requires making meals that can and hopefully will be consumed while you are gone. Even though I did this before my last trip, I still returned to children who were survived off of ramen, mac n' cheese, scrambled eggs and grilled cheese (their cooking repertoire). While I had left well balanced meals complete with vegetables, they choose to eat as they pleased. Honestly, they were happy to have mom back home cooking something for dinner besides a harsh carbohydrate laden with sodium. I too was happy to see them, rather than to start the quiz on what happened to the food I prepared and left for them to eat. I smiled inwardly and hoped they had learned a lesson. Sometime saying less is saying more on and off the air.

She buzz words

• Tanning Index
• Passenger
• Stock Index
• Chlorine

Right Now She Could be:

• Pushing someone in a wheelchair
• Kissing her child's boo boo
• Pumping air in a bike tire
• Balancing her checkbook

She cell

Her cell phone is her new accountability partner. By signing up at www.extracon.com, she'll received encouraging texts from her phone coach and not-so-encouraging texts when she forgets to check in.

She cooks

Rebecca Currie from North Carolina is eating on the cheap at the tune of a dollar a day. Fresh ingredients are a must-no junk food. She looks for bargains and blogs about her frustrations and menus, which consist of organic cornmeal, black beans, and white rice. It's was a month-long experiment to see if she can really live for less. "It's about looking at what you've got and thinking about what you want; if I can do this for one dollar a day, think about what I could do for five or ten dollars," she says. Check out her results at www.en.wordpress.com/tag/1day.

She's frugal

• Tighter times mean she's attending free museum days, historical sites, and parks. She's playing more board games, trying more generic products, and spending less at the coffee bar. Friends are inviting each other over instead of out for dinner and she's searching the web for a great deal on several websites like this one- www.frugalfreebiesanddeals.com.

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