Ally and her latte moments
For various reasons, over the years I seem to have missed some good TV shows.
Now I can make up for that by buying the set of those TV series on DVD. I see a lot of the TV shows are on DVD at WalMart and on Amazon. The prices are reasonable and you can buy the whole series so you don’t miss a single episode.
I am going to buy a few of those sets and watch the shows at my convenience, then maybe share them with family or friends who might have missed them, too.
Growing up in a white, suburban neighborhood, when my parents took me to the department store to see Santa, he was always white.
Now I am seeing pictures on the news of Santas who are black and asian. That is a big change from when I was a kid. I wonder if the kids of today think this is normal and OK? Or have they noticed that most of the Santas in the storybooks are white?
I was not going to put up any Christmas lights, but I found some really good bargains at K-Mart on the new LED lights. They were already half off the regular price, so I decided to get a few boxes. I put them on the Dogwood tree in my front yard and they look very colorful and bright.
When I need cooked chicken for a recipe, I like to buy the rotisserie cooked chicken from the grocery store or Sam’s Club. The whole chicken is only about $5 or $6 and it tastes delicious! There is no way for me to duplicate that taste at home. When you consider that a whole, uncooked chicken can cost about $4 or $5, there is little you can do to chicken in preparation and cooking at home that will not add significantly to that price. So the rotisserie chicken is actually a bargain.
Recently I discovered a cool show on the History Channel about these two guys who call themselves “pickers.” They drive around in a van and pick through people’s junk, they buy what they like and then re-sell it.
Today they met up with a guy called “Hobo Jack” who had some sheds with all kinds of stuff. I couldn’t believe all the stuff that was dusty, rusty and mildewed. If he had just taken care of some of that stuff, it would be extremely valuable. But he let it all rot and deteriorate and was hardly worth anything.
For some reason I have not been buying magazines. I used to buy magazines all the times. While standing in the grocery store check out line, the headlines of a few articles would sound interesting and I would not thing twice about picking up the magazine and tossing it on the conveyor to take it home and read it at my leisure.
Maybe the problem is “my leisure” seems to have disappeared. I rarely sit down with a soothing beverage and read anything any more.
Today I got an email from Kroger grocery stores. It is part of their frequent shopper club program. When you get a key card from Kroger, you sign up with your email address and street address. Then they follow up with coupons that they mail to your house and to your inbox.
It is always nice to save money and I have taken advantage of several of their offers already. Thanks, Kroger!
Ben & Jerry’s has a new ice cream flavor in honor of Bonnaroo. It will be sold on site at the festival and in stores for a limited time. I haven’t seen it in the local stores, yet. But I’m Looking each week.
Our home is rather cluttered and there’s a lot of things I just don’t want to do away with or put in an expensive storage facility. I think I’ll check into how much it will cost for one of those steel buildings to put behind my house. They’re a lot better than those wooden ones that can rot and fall apart and will protect our possessions much better from the elements and critters too.
My vacuum cleaner died and someone told me that I needed a 115334 vacuum motor. It’s a central vacuum system I have for the whole house and I sure hope they know what they’re talking about. I got one at a pretty good price so I really hope that fixes the problem. It would be nice because I hate not having my vacuum cleaner working, especially with three kids running around.