I made it all the way to Santee without a problem. Before I left, I made sure I had the UPC symbols and sales receipt from the last two bags of Felidae kibble we got. Because the car was in the shop, we took the truck. Brian had put both in the car, so that was good. I saw that if I bought three more bags of kibble, we’d get a free one. Nice.
And I mentally figured out which ATM card to use at the pet store and WalMart (needed fabric softener, neutra air refills and a non-chlorine bleach powder). DH is working a little more, but it’s still not steady, so juggling bank accounts is still one of my jobs. I made sure I had my eyeglass prescription (found out Sunday night the transition lenses I got are not really comfortable for night time vision, work great as sunglasses) because I needed to get a new pair of glasses to wear over my contacts. (I explained all of that in an entry last month.)
All set, get to the car, get behind people who have nothing better to do but impede my progress, it’s part of the “annoy the hell out of Dianne” conspiracy. The traffic light gods weren’t particularly stinky today, must have other people they hate more than me, which was alright with me.
I get to the pet store, tell them how many bags of food I wanted, they were carried to the front counter, the card filled out, total rung up and I reach for my wallet. It’s not there. I left it at home. Argh. Just argh.
I said “I’ll be right back” and I left. Went home, still had a fairly easy drive, got my wallet and went back to Santee (this time, the traffic light gods took notice of me and let me barely reach the lights and they’d turn them amber….rat bastards). Paid for the cat food, headed over to WalMart, was annoyed (that conspiracy again) to see that they didn’t have Biz in stock, ended up with Purex. Then over to CostCo.
Found an acceptable pair of frames, not really sure if I care for the design on the side, but I really liked the way they felt on my fat head. Didn’t look like little tiny glasses with the arms stretched to the limit, they looked like they were made for me. Got those ordered, then did my shopping and came home.
And this time, the traffic light gods went a little easier on me and I didn’t have a lot of morons to deal with. You know, the people who go 30mph in a 45mph and there are no other cars around but you. Behind them. Of course.
Got everything unloaded and now have my feet kicked up.
Oh, another sucky thing. We have our water delivered, Silver Springs. We’ve had it delivered since we bought this place. Brian’s folks got it so he just continued the tradition. Well, it’s up to nine bucks a bottle now and we go through about two a week. And the next delivery was supposed to be yesterday. We ran out of drinking water yesterday. Brian’s fed up.
He’s now looking for a small home filtration system. He wants to put it in the garage and have it run to the frig, so the water will be cold. And we can make our own ice cubes again. That should save money, once it’s paid for itself.
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