Runaway October

I’ve been mean­ing to get some of these done for awhile, but real­ity always seems to slow me down.

Usu­ally I sit down to make a shop­ping list and draw a com­plete blank on what I’m mak­ing for the week. Or I write out the main dishes, only to for­get to shop for the side dishes. And hon­estly, our fridge is nor­mally such a hodge-podge of coupons, recipes and clip­pings that space was a com­mod­ity. I saw a cute lit­tle memo board in some dec­o­rat­ing mag­a­zine and it gave me the inspi­ra­tion to make my own magnets.

I used OpenOffice.Org Draw to cre­ate my own though Word­Press does not allow its file type. Here’s a PDF of blank ones. You should be able to copy them over to some­thing like Pow­er­Point or Microsoft Word and adjust them. If you use OpenOffice.Org email me for the orig­i­nal file.

I had orig­i­nally intended to make mag­nets for the week, and blank ones that I could use a dry erase marker on for the meals. Unfor­tu­nately the only type that Wal-Mart sold were a “matte” fin­ish — basi­cally plain paper — and they are cer­tainly not dry-erasable or some­thing to touch with wet/dirty fin­gers. Sta­ples was right down the shop­ping strip, but it was rain­ing and I had Rowan with me. Just have to make do, right? So I ended up print­ing mag­nets with most of our sta­ple meals on them and I’ll just use Pos­tIts for spe­cial or new dinners.

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