If you are viewing the site on Internet Explorer, you may notice that my menu bar is completely messed  up. It should not be stacked like that. The sidebars are all janky and it’s just a total mess. I have tried everything and I can’t fix it so if you can, please use an alternate browser. I use Firefox and it is fine there. If anyone uses Chrome,  Safari or any other browser, please let me know if it looks okay to you! Also, any suggestions on why it might be doing this would be appreciated! I will leave this post as a sticky at the top until I can figure it out

On February 6th, 2010, I was a pretty shaken and scared mess as I took my boys and moved away from an 8 year marriage. Despite all of the things that my husband and I had done to each other, I didn’t leave because I didn’t love him. I left because one of us had to.

I had spent my entire adult life with my husband and had no idea how to truly be an adult I suppose. By this I mean I had never fully supported myself, I had never lived on my own, I also never had to worry about 2 little boys on top of that. I thought I would never make it. After many push and pull games with the relationship, more broken promises and many many more tears, I knew I had to be done. One year later I am stronger, happier and okay. I will always love my husband, he is the father of my children and they are the most perfect gift that he ever gave me. While I don’t agree or like many of the choices that he makes (and I no longer have to) he IS a good man deep down. Once all of the anger and hurt is gone, we are going to be much better ex’s than we were spouses. Maybe one day we can even be friends again.

During that year, Delightful Chaos has suffered. My numbers have fallen, my interest in posting deals has gone. It’s been much different than the prior year. I often now look at this site and think, “What on earth am I going to post today?” I am grasping it seems to keep the site going.

Since becoming a single mom last year, I am not that much into the couponing and deal hunting anymore. This was why I started this blog in the first place. One would think this would be the time I WOULD be. It used to be fun and exciting to do it. My Dad and Husband were always bragging about me, praising me for the cart full of groceries I was able to get for like $5. (Yes, I was one of “those people”"). It was never really about saving money exactly, I mean it helped A LOT but it was so much fun! I lost my Dad in 2008 to Cancer and he was my biggest cheering section. I started to slow down a little bit on it. In 2010 I “lost” my husband who kept me going with it and supported me through all my crazy store trips of bringing home 20 bottles of ketchup. (I did do some good with it so it balanced out) It isn’t fun anymore and I don’t have the space in my dinky apartment.

Anyway, I am trying to figure out what direction I want to take this blog. I don’t really want to make it to personal for the simple fact that prying eyes crave drama. I really don’t want or need that. I thought about making it a food blog because I love to cook but the name doesn’t fit and, to be perfectly honest, I am not changing the name again. I want to do something that I love, not something that I dread having to update everyday.

“Deal Blogs” seem to be at every turn so…… tell me……what types of blogs do you seek out to read daily?? What would you like to see from me specifically? What would make you visit Delightful Chaos every day? I would love your opinions and ideas!

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YES IT IS! I am moving to a new server so things may be a bit crazy for a few days.. Please post if you see any problems. Thanks for your patience!

Of course, the last day before vacation begins and things start breaking lol. Thanks Sandy for letting me know that things seem to not be working correctly today on Delightful Chaos! Looks like only the front page is loading for some reason. Thanks for your patience while I get this fixed!

Good morning friends…. I would like to ask that you take a moment to please bow your head for my prized possession. My Dell Inspiron 1720 *sniff*. (I do love this laptop though, NEVER had a problem with it before!) Yesterday morning I turned it on and did my morning routine as I always do. I was drawn away from it by my 2 year old and my battery died. No big deal right? When I turned it back on it was going completely mad. It will not boot up now. I just keep getting the blue screen of death telling me that it is dumping physical memory to disk. Finally it worked for about 30 mins. I sent a few emails, talked to a friend and then it just rebooted. Royal looked up the problem online and we have the impression that the memory is fried but not so sure that is it. Hopefully it is nothing to serious because a new laptop is not in my budget right now. Darn that Christmas holiday and kids! lol But if any PC manufacturer is reading this I would be glad to review a new laptop for you!

I am not sure how many posts that I will be able to get up while I get this issue resolved. I am using Royal’s laptop but there are a few issues with that for me. #1 being that it is one of those 10″ minis and going from a 17″ you can imagine how annoying this thing is to use! #2 being that of course it has non of my information on it, email, programs etc.. I will try to get at least one thing put up a day but I am going to fall seriously behind but will do my best with what I have available.

If you have a great deal or something that can easily be posted please feel free to email it to me to share with everyone else. I could use the extra help right now

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I have been getting a lot of emails asking why people are no longer getting my blog updates. I put up a post and sent out an email and am sorry if you missed it A few weeks ago I moved the blog to it’s new home, DelightfulChaos.com, so if you want to continue getting updates via email, you need to enter your email address —->here<—-. It will send you an activation email. You MUST click the link to verify your email address or you will not get the updates. If you need any help just let me know! Thanks for all who followed in the move!

CupCakes – The Captain of Them All Call it a cupcake caper: mystery surrounds who “invented” the original Hostess Cup Cake in 1919, although it was baking executive D.R. “Doc” Rice, who, in 1950 added the signature seven squiggles and vanilla-crème filling – a move that created the best selling snack cake in history.

As the vintage slogan said, “You get a big delight in every bite.” Florida resident Suzanne Rutland clearly agrees. She’s reportedly eaten more tha 50,000 Hostess Cup Cakes, as many as four per day since her early childhood when she founded a Hostess Cup Cake Club. “Creamy” was the secret password.

“We all have things that we love and can’t live without,” she said. “Some people need their coffee each morning. I need my Hostess Cup Cakes!”

While it’s hard to improve on perfection, consumers have been able to sink their teeth into a few twists on the original over the years, including the popular Golden Cup Cakes, which debuted in 1999.

HOSTESS® CUPCAKES CELEBRATE 90 YEARS AS AMERICA’S FAVORITE CUPCAKE

FIRST CUPCAKE BAKED IN 1919; FAMOUS “SQUIGGLES”

INTRODUCED ALMOST 30 YEARS LATER

Irving, TX – Hostess® is proudly celebrating 90 sweet years of the brand’s iconic squiggle-topped cupcake – the best selling snack cake in history.  For almost a century, the delicious icing, freshly baked cake and signature vanilla-crème filling of Hostess CupCakes have made this treat one of America’s favorite snacks generation after generation.

• Call it a cupcake caper. Mystery surrounds who “invented” the original Hostess CupCake in 1919, however, we know it was baking executive D.R. “Doc” Rice who, more than 30 years later in 1950, added the signature seven squiggles and vanilla-crème filling. While others have tried to capitalize on the popularity of this ubiquitous decoration, the squiggle – which features seven loops on every cupcake – is unmistakably Hostess.

• Hostess CupCakes are the best selling snack cakes in history.  And it’s the Hostess CupCake – not the Hostess Twinkie® – that holds the spot as the best selling Hostess snack cake year after year

• Americans eat more than 600 million Hostess CupCakes every year.

• One of America’s BBQ capitals has a sweet spot for Hostess CupCakes.  Residents of Memphis, Tennessee eat the most Hostess CupCakes per capita of any city across the country followed by:
  • St. Louis
  • Cincinnati
  • Las Vegas
  • Louisville

• While it’s hard to improve on perfection, consumers have been able to sink their teeth into a few twists on the original over the years, including the popular Golden CupCakes, which debuted in 1999.  Hostess also offers seasonal themed cup cakes including “Baseballs” in the spring – cup cakes with vanilla icing and red-swirl “stitching.”

• Captain CupCake, who was introduced in the 1970s, is one of several Hostess snack “mascots” along with everyone’s favorite cowboy, Twinkie the Kid.

• The original Hostess CupCake slogan was “You get a big delight in every bite!”

For more information about Hostess products visit www.hostesscakes.com

If you are finding us for the first time WELCOME! If you followed us from Grocery Price Blog, thank you so much for taking the move! There are a lot of exciting things that are going to happen! For right now the look will stay the same to make the adjustment easier on you guys. Also, things will e a little show for the next to days as I found myself a bug. It have an inner ear infection and basically the fluid in there is acting like the bubble in a level. When I move my head the fluid moves like the bubble and causes severe dizziness which causes me to become nauseous. Yea, it is a lot of fun and thank you to my middle school teacher for teaching me to type without looking at the keys! I am doing this with my eyes closed! For those of you who followed, you can find links below to some of the things you might need.

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