I went grocery shopping tonight with my husband. I sat in one of those motorized shopping carts and pointed to what I wanted him to get. While we were there we purchased a bunch of food to donate to our local food drive. There was really large bin out in front of the store when we walked in that reminded us to give back. I know not everyone is as fortunate as we are. We always try to give back and help our community out whenever we can.
Kid Songs on VHS
We went to a yard sale last weekend and came across a bunch of rally nice kids toys and some old VHS tapes with kids shows and kids songs on them.
The toys were old wooden puzzles and a few My Little Pony dolls for only 50 cents each. The puzzles cost almost ten dollars brand new, so I grabbed up 6 of them like they were gold.
They only wanted 25 cents for each tape! I couldn’t believe it! I know everyone is using DVDs now, but the kids can play with an old VCR that we keep in the living room and I don’t have to worry about them scratching the expensive DVDs.
All together, it was a great day for bargains and we have some new things to do on the next rainy day.
Shorts vs Long Skirt
Most of the time I like to wear shorts and sandals when I am working around the house or just running errands around town. Shorts are cool and don’t need ironing if you take them right out of the dryer before the wrinkles can set in.
This afternoon I wanted to meet up with a girlfriend who also has a daughter so they could have a play date. So we agreed to meet at a little family friendly restaurant that has a play area for kids. I decided to wear a long cotton skirt instead of shorts. Mommies like to dress up for play dates, too!
Special Night Out
We haven’t lived here long enough, nor had the special occasion yet, to go out and have a nice romantic dinner, just the two of us. But my sweet hubby just came home tonight with the good news that he’s been offered the new job and we want to go out to celebrate tomorrow night. We don’t have a local yellowpages because we did not get a new home phone when we moved here. Each of us has our own cell phone and I just didn’t see any reason to pay for a home phone. The downside to that is you don’t get a local directory with all the ads for nice restaurants and other places you might want to go after you get settled into your new place.
So, I used the internet for a local search on fine dining and was pleasantly surprised at how many choices there are within a 30 minute drive of our new house. Of course, choosing the best place is the hard part.
At least we both agree that we want a nice American food restaurant with a good reputation for their steaks. Sometimes I like to try other nice places – especially Italian restaurants – but we haven’t enjoyed a nice steak dinner in a very long time. So I picked three local restaurants that looked good to me and gave the list to hubby – he can pick from those three and then we’ll call in the morning to make reservations for our special dinner tomorrow night.
Club Rules
The only thing wrong with these rules is that the club owners found it necessary to write them all down and post them.
Winter’s Wrath
This is a brutally cold winter for me. I don’t like cold weather at all. It takes a lot of effort for me to even leave the house when it is snowing and sleeting outside. I won’t drive on snow and ice covered roads unless I have no other choice.
Really looking forward to getting this winter weather behind us and on to Spring. I might even start tanning this weekend, just to keep my spirits up.
Music
Over the next several months there will be so many places to see music played it will boggle the mind. The CMA Music Festival is this June as well as the big concert at Bonnaroo. Today it is rumored that Jimmy Buffett and a couple other major acts will be at Bonnaroo this year. It would almost be worth the mess and the huge ticket price to see him. I am glad that I am not going the wait to get in is several hours and they search you and your car most of the time, a big hassle for sure.
Music
We went downtown to sit on the park grass and hear a new band. It was a lot of fun and I do not even remember the name of the band. I like hearing new music and getting a first look at new performers. Living in Nashville is a great way to hear a lot of music, and I will have to say some of it is not very good but we still give it a shot. One of our friends is trying to make it in the music business and she is very good. We went to a cd release party of hers a while back and now she is touring Norway. Now that would be some kind of fun for sure.
Dress code
The very worst thing the Nashville School District has ever done besides hiring Pedro Gomez was when he started this school uniform crap a couple of years ago. It is just a way to make parents who can not afford it to buy special clothes for their school age kids. A parent who has 4 or 5 kids in the school system spends a lot of money on nothing but school uniforms that look stupid. These new uniforms make it easy to pick on kids who can not afford new uniforms every 6 weeks or so. The uniforms do wear out and get torn when the kids play and kids will play hard. Let’s spend this extra money on important things like food and paying the bills.
Black Friday
Very early tomorrow I will head out of my warm bed in search of the elusive bargain. On Black Friday I will be out with many others in search of the same elusive bargain. Last year it was very hectic and I expect about the same this year, many people finish their Christmas shopping on Black Friday, and this year I have planned to do that very thing. If I can find the right deals I will be able to get my shopping done and not have to leave the house except to go to work for the next month. That would be a dream come true for me.