When it comes to shopping, I always try to find the best deal. If I am looking to buy something online, I will not only search different sites for the lowest price, but I also almost always look for some type of coupon or promo code to get me some kind of savings. Even if I am getting FREE shipping or 10% off, any types of savings is a score for me! You have to be silly not to try to save money… 🙂

I just downloaded this neat browser extension Coupons at Checkout that allows you to find coupon codes during checkout. I usually will look for coupon or promo codes right before I checkout, so this new extension makes finding these coupon/promo codes easy. With select merchants you will find suggested codes to save you money when you are checking out.

Using Firefox I downloaded the Coupons At Checkout browser plugin and visited the Target.com website.

Once I placed the cursor in the enter your promotional code field, the Coupons at Checkout plugin popped up and showed me some codes I could use to try to save some money! What is neat is this plugin has coupons to 100,000’s of online merchants including Dell, Amazon, Target, Toys “R” Us, The Home Depot and many more!

For those interested, Coupons At Checkout is FREE and compatible with PC and Mac computers, and with all of the most popular browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

For more information, visit: https://couponsatcheckout.com.

When I graduated high school back in 1994 I signed up for college right away. I had lots of dreams and I knew that I needed to go to college to further my education. So I went to a local community college for a semester and then decided to go onto a vocational school that seemed like the best choice at the time. Not only was it probably not the best of choice, it was rather quite expensive. Once I started having kids, my dreams of going to college were put on hold. I worked  job and going to school full time was not in the question if I wanted to spend quality time with my family.

Now that my youngest son just turned 5 and will be starting school this year, I decided it was time to get my butt back into school. I went online to that local community college that I once went to years ago and enrolled in the Spring 2013 semester. I picked some classes, bought my books and software and have been officially a college student for 2 weeks now!

I currently go to school on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and can be excited for the weekends now like my kids. Normally every day can be like a weekend when you work full time from home, now I know what TGIF means to those that work and go to school… 🙂

What am I taking?

• Since I am a website designer and blogger, I thought it would only make sense to take a HTML web design class. I know basic HTML, but since technology is always changing, I want to learn more about XHTMl, XML and most of all, HTML5 that is currently being developed. Right now some of the newer versions of the browsers are already preparing and ready for HTML5. 
• As I mentioned before, I like to design websites so I am taking a Dreamweaver CS6 class. I have used this program to make some of my sites, but I only know the basics. I want to learn how to use some of the advanced features of this program and turn those work in progress websites of mine into something I am proud of. 

Right now I am only taking 2 classes, but will start a Photoshop CS5 class next month. I didn’t want to overwhelm myself when starting school last month, so I decided to just start with a couple classes to get back into the groove of going to school. It has been over a decade since I last took a class, but something I have always wanted to do since my there are so many things I need to learn with my career choice.

Want to see my school mascot?

Now that I have been back in school a couple weeks now, I am looking forward to getting good grades and being able to take at least 4 classes in the Fall 2013 semester. I like the classes that I am currently taking since I am already a little familiar with the subjects, but I am really wanting to take  digital photography class next semester so I can make better use of my Nikon D5100.

I also want to wear one of the cool college sweatshirt hoodies like I have been seeing so many others on campus with, even if the mascot is a silly beaver!