Food, glorious food

This has been the weekend of grocery shopping and stocking up. Stocking up on regular supplies and doing some early Thanksgiving meal shopping. We went to Costco on Saturday and stocked up on supplies that only they can provide at such a good deal because it is in bulk. Bread, milk, antacids, salad, bagels, cream cheese, hamburger, the staples of life.

What's worse is we were almost out of toilet paper, down to our last two rolls! WAIT...can you hear that? It's a rhythmic thump, faint and muffled, but it's there. Hmm, what could it be...ahh, I know, it's my mother turning over and over in her grave. J/K My mom was cremated. But if she had been buried traditionally, it would definitely be happening. My mom got nervous when we got down to a six-pack of the stuff!

Then today we went to the commissary (Navy talk for the grocery store, for the un-militarized). They have even better deals and you don't have to buy in bulk. Let's just say, they've got almost everything a person could want or need there. Even frozen, un-fried green tomatoes for frying. Yep, they have fried apples in a jar. Not interested, how 'b0ut chitlins? Un-huh, they got it all, baby even turkey stock in a box. Oscar Meyer bun length turkey dogs (best turkey dog you can buy!) for $1.25 a package.

Anyway, so we've got the stuff home organized the pantries and put away everything, whew. I forgot just how tiring it was to a do a full scale stock up session. I always say I'm not gonna let it get that low and life happens and then I have to do it all over again.

Happily, I have tomorrow off and can rest up for my short work week, Yippie!

It's been a really long time

Okay, so it has been a really long time. I could go into it but it is boring. But as you can see (the date), it's practically Thanksgiving now. My birthday, Donna's, and Aaron's are long gone. I'd really like to say the weather has gone all chilly and nearly winter like but the sad truth is it has not. In fact, you might say it's like never ending summer lately. We have a cool day or two then it's right back to the awful hot, dry crud we've been experiencing since the end of September. Ugh!!! I am soooo sick of it too!

Hannah moved out mid-September, yet her box of junk and prom dress lives on here. She stopped by briefly on election night with promises of coming back that night to pick up her stuff. No dice, she never came back and her stuff still sits in our living room.

Weather not withstanding, we are getting geared up for the holidays, mentally if not physically. A new mailbox stands in the yard instead of reclining on a nearly horizontal post now. I'm sure the mailman is most grateful. We have to be careful with our cash this Christmas, no "Wouldn't be lovely to take all of our money, pile it up, and burn it!" Okay, maybe we don't do it but it feels like it every January when the bills come in. This year we are just going to have to be more careful on what we can't live without buying for our loved ones.

Well, this should appease the masses (Donna) that were complaining that I never post anymore. I really don't have much else to say, at least at the moment.

Ta ra