Rubbing Alcohol as a Stain Remover

So I keep seeing these pins on Pinterest that rubbing alcohol will remove carpet stains and stains on micro fiber.  Well after about 2 weeks of seeing these and looking over at the 3 stains on my carpet I finally marched upstairs to grab my bottle of rubbing alcohol.  These stains appeared on my new carpet shortly after we got it a few years ago.  I have tried Resolve on them to no avail.  Every time I vacuum over them I get annoyed and think DAMN YOU STAINS!  So it won't hurt to try rubbing alcohol.  So here's the before and the after!  Yes, folks it worked.

I just poured a bit of rubbing alcohol on my rag and started to rub the carpet stain with it. So yeah the whole living room smelled liked alcohol for a few minutes, but it dries quickly and the smell dissipated.  Run now... get your rubbing alcohol and attack those stains! 

Stain be gone!  My rag after rubbing the stain

Dinner Decision in a Jar

My hubs an I can spend hours saying "where do you want to eat?" "I don't know, what sounds good to you?".  Yep and this can go on for quite a while until one of us just picks somewhere.  And where do we end up?  We finally end up at a tried and true restaurant and never venturing out and trying new things.  We are so exciting! I know!  You do this too and you know you do. 

We used to put restaurant names in a jar and draw one out and that was where we went for dinner.  I don't know why we quit doing that? I think I will start up a restaurant jar again.  I will include our favorites, the tried and true, and of course a few new places to try out. 

Can't think of any places?  Log on to trip advisor, yelp, or urban spoon and search your city to find new places to try.  Once you have your list, cut them out fold them up and toss them in a jar.  Decorate your jar if you feel so inclined. 

Pinterest isn't just for crafts!

I'm not saying that my New Years resolution is to lose weight, because that never works for anyone. I've been on an on and off diet since 2007 and I need to get back on the wagon before my vacation to the beach in a few months. If I don't do something now, my only option will be to buy new clothes that I can fit into! Since May I have been packing on my winter insulation to the tune of 15lbs. I need to start shedding my layers ASAP.

I'm starting with going back to my favorite free app LOSE IT.  You can use this to count your calories, keep a food journal and log your exercise. Now that this app has the convenience of a bar code scanner to add your food it's even easier to use. You can even set a password to keep nosy nellies out. Add your friends, Lose it always keeps your weight a secret and only tells your friends if you have lost or gained weight.  It's a good way to keep on track an not lie to your buddies because they can see it.   Lose it will also tell your friends if you haven't been logging your food or exercise.

I set up a new program on lose it the day after Christmas and the very next day got sick!  I'm still sick and trying stay within my calories and not doing a smash up job!  I think this is my bodies way of revolting.  Telling me that I don't need to exercise! 

Anyhooo I'm going to be pinning some fitness to my board Girl look at that body.  I work out?? ;).  Fist let us look at the name of this board!  You can tell when I created it that I was in no mood to work out.  And today I was browsing the pins in this board and discovered that most of my pins were weight loss funnies.  How on earth did I think any of these would help me lose weight?  There are so many free website and apps out there that show you how to do proper technique on an exercise or stretch so why am I not pinning those?  I'm going to start pinning those and then I am going to get off the couch and do them!  So come follow me and join me in shedding those unwanted pounds! I'm off to dust off the treadmill, stationary bike, and exercise ball.  Oh and where's that stair stepper and DVD?