Where's the cheapest gas?

Since we have lived in Oklahoma we have only purchased gas from QT. That would by Quick Trip for all you out of staters. They are clean, friendly, and they guarantee their gasoline. But since the prices have skyrocketed we get it where it's least expensive.

At first, we relied on friends and word of mouth. Now, we use a couple sites on the net that stay updated to find the cheapest place quickly.
1) http://gasprices.mapquest.com/
2) http://www.gasbuddy.com/
3) http://www.motortrend.com/gas_prices/index.html

All you need to do on each is type in your zip code. (Do NOT spend time filling in anything else!) and up pops 10-20 stations with their prices, locations, and usually a map.

**Our fave is #1 - Mapquest. They always seem to find the cheapest and closest. For instance, tonight it found a station that was 8 cents less than everyone else. I filled up on my way to a ball game!

Be sure to go on back (or over) to Rocks in my Dryer! and check out all the great WFMW tips!

I used to have a lady's name from CA who all the gurus turn to when it comes to gas price fluctuations...but I can't seem to find her anywhere. If anyone knows who I am talking about - PLEASE leave her name or website in a comment. Purty Please!

Update on BS: The Big Shooter is doing good. He is getting out of the house. He has been running a few errands with us. He naturally thinks he is stronger and can handle more than his body actually can...so he wears himself out...But, he is getting up and around beautifully! He had a recent HUGE TRAUMA that I will share with you tomorrow though.

Love Note to my Big Shooter: Nothin mushy or sentimental tonight. I am just proud of how far you've come. You are amazing big guy. I love you. Oh, and hey, in case I haven't said this at least thirty times today, "Dude, you're cancer-free...!"

It's contagious...

"I am not in denial...I am ignoring them. "

"Why Mommee? Why meeee?"

Poor thing caught a glimpse of himself.

"Are you kiddin' me? Hanes...?!"

"Don't they know I'm a Fruit of the Loom kinda Pug"

FIL thinks it might be in the genes...

He sent me his proof...

Why?....why?

Am I missing something?

Or are they missing some thing?

Like a Normal Gene.

I thought it was just 9 yo boy humor.

Then I remembered these...and realized it was just boy humor.

Now, I am wondering if it's contagious...

I guess I'll have that answer when I see Big Shooter with boxers on his head.

Love Note to my Big Shooter: I so love you. I love you in your boxers. I love you out of your boxers. I would even love you with boxers on your head...from afar. But with all my heart.

One week's worth of food...

Several things reminded me of this info lately.

1) The fact I can spend $60 at the grocery and it can all fit in two bags.
2) Someone is planning, purchasing, preparing an entire meal for us every Mon, Wed, and Fri of May...a huge added expense to their family's budget.

Since prices are going up...and up, I have been tightening the belt when it comes to grocery items. Not skimping. Just careful and conscious. I made me start thinking of all the families around the world. Which reminded me of this email I received long ago from a friend.

It made me re-think my family's prosperity...again. We are wealthy beyond measure in so many ways.

Following are typical families from around the world with one week's worth of food. (You'll notice the American fam includes their meals out.) Very interesting and eye-opening to me.

Let me know what you think...

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide. Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07

United States: The Revis family of North Carolina. Food expenditure for one week: $341.98

Japan : The Ukita family of Kodaira City. Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $317.25

Italy : The Manzo family of Sicily. Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11

Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca. Food expenditure for one week: 1, 862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09

Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna. Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27

Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo. Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53

Ecuador : The Ayme family of Tingo. Food expenditure for one week: $31.55

Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village. Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp. Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23

Love Note for my Big Shooter: Thank you for taking care of this family and always being a fabulous provider. We appreciate you Daddy-O!

I've got diddlee squat...

In other words, I've got nothin' to blather about. It's rare I have nothin' to say. But every so often it happens.
Let me see if I can eek out some thing about each player today.

Big Shooter: Let's see. He received some new fangled speaker holders somethinger others from the UPS dude. He's very excited about them. I tried to pretend. He could see right through me..."thanks for pretending to be excited and care" he says to me as he's assembling them. I also accidentally gouged him in the giant wound tonight. Girl Child was handing me her FULL, HEAVY water bottle from the back seat to open, I missed it, it hit him square in the incision, and then I gouged him in my slower-than-snot attempt to catch it! OHHHHH...he sucked his breath in and his eyes bugged out...BAD... Please don't comment on it. I feel horrible. He's drugged up now and not feelin' any pain. He also decided today that after 40 years of Tighty Whiteys he prefers boxers...I don't know if it's the meds or the...ahem..."freedom" he's experiencing that he prefers. I'm also not sure I want to know the answer to that question right now either.

Girl Child: Tied a 25 foot rope around her head and hummed the Wedding Dredge, I mean March, while dancing through the house for 30 minutes...I don't know why. I don't think I'd understand why if she told me why. She is also madly in love with Prince Caspian.

Boy Child: LOVED Prince Caspian...has one more day of baseball before his season is over...got on base a couple times tonight...asked me if I thought we'd get to go to Mars before we die about a bajillion times today. (He's a tad obsessive compulsive. I do NOT know where it comes from.)

Me-Straight Shooter: Let's see, besides gouging the Love of my Life in the gut, I spit (well, misted) the lady in front of me with Diet Coke during a completely unexpected comedic moment in Prince Caspian. I tried to pretend it didn't happen (even though my nose was burning b/c in my attempt to keep it in my mouth...it came out my nose...and I think my tear ducts too...). And I offered to wear pasties to my child's baseball game tomorrow since the Good Mothers were contemplating wearing their old cheer leading outfits...Hey, I figured if they were going to remind their husbands why they married them...I'd remind mine why he married me too...

Love Note to my Big Shooter: Boxers, baseball, fantasy crushes, humiliating embarrassment, pasties...nothin' out of the ordinary for us. In fact, it's just another ordinary day. The kind we like best.

Laminin

I have this certain girlfriend who listens.
Even when I don't know I am voicing anything but blather, she hears what's on my mind.
Last night at a baseball game she asked about the Big Shooter and I told her about the staple removal and the 3 inch gaping hole... sorry, let me get off the floor. And NO, to all who know me, I did not help him change anything, pack anything, wick anything, tape anything. I just stood on the other side of the bathroom door and supervised...then checked his handy work. Poor guy. Someone come save him. Please.
Anyway, in the conversation last night I (imagine this) was just talkin', sayin' comments like "What's holding it together?, God has made our bodies so amazing." and again, "EWWW, it's gross...I wonder what's holding it together?"

This was what she sent me late last night.

Hello Girlfriend,
Just to encourage you, I saw this tonight and it is laminin that is holding that belly together, so don't fear!! :)
Check it out, you have to watch the whole thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4zgJXPpI4

Let me just say, "Wow. Once again, she was listening and hit the nail on the head."

Before you click on the Youtube link please read, really read this verse:

Colossians 1:15-20 (NIV)

15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. 17He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Love Note to my Big Shooter: Thank you. Just, thank you. You know why.