A three-hour tour on a kid-friendly isle…

From WBZTV re: changes to Stop and Shop –

These changes include scanning items as you shop, weighing and pricing produce yourself and creating kid-friendly isles that are free of candy and tabloid magazines.

What talented editor missed that one?

Look at this big pumpkin!!

We’ve got lots of tiny pumpkins starting to grow, but this one is getting REALLY big!! I wonder how early it will be ready? Maybe Matt can make a pumpkin ale with it, and then we can cook the sunflower seeds. :-)

And yes, this is the same pumpkin that I posted a picture of in a blog post just a little over a week ago. It’s growing at a rapid pace.

Discount Shopping!

Matt and I are big fans of the discount rack at Star Market. We’re like savages when we come across those shelves. Today, I got Dove deodorant for $1, Matt got Axe deodorant for $1, we got a bunch of cans of Campbell’s soup, Matt got coffee, and we got a twelve pack of hot dog buns that was missing one bun so it was only a buck. It was quite exciting. This is the best we’ve ever fared in the discount rack.

Levon does indeed like his cat grass!

He hasn’t eaten a chive since :-)

Baby Pumpkin!!

Look! It’s the beginning of a pumpkin! :-)

Cat Grass

My cat, Levon, keeps eating the chives in my Aerogarden. I’m going to buy him some cat grass to see if it deters him.

Some people are simply not nice!!

I’m sick today, so I went to CVS to get some medicine, cough drops, and mindless reading material. I’m sick and it’s raining, so I drove. As I was leaving, I was trying to exit the parking lot until some girl in a Jeep made a VERY wide turn into the parking lot, so I had to pull to the side to make room to let her in.

……and then she gave me the FINGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT did I do to warrant the FINGER?????

I was so angry and it ruined my already so-so day. So, I drove home and some truck was parked in front of my house blocking my driveway just enough so that I couldn’t pull in!!!!

RAWR!!!!!!!!!! :-(

well, i didn’t make it

after a severe headache, i’m drinking a diet pepsi. i lose!

oh, i’m blogging from my new phone :-)

Caffeine Free For Me!

I’m not a coffee drinker. I have an aversion to anything coffee flavored.

Growing up, my parents were coffee addicts!

Krissy: “Mom, can we go to the library?”
Mom: “OK, after I finish my coffee.”

“OK, after I finish my coffee” was something I heard constantly as a kid.

“I’ll NEVER drink coffee!!” I declared.

“Just wait until college,” my dad would always say, “You’ll be a big coffee drinker. You come from a long line of coffee drinkers.”

I made it through college without ever touching the stuff. And I still don’t drink it.

People often assume that I abstain from coffee-drinking because I don’t like caffeine. Au contraire…in fact, over the past 2 years, I’ve become addicted to caffeine by way of teas and (ugh!) diet colas. In fact, seldom does a day pass where I don’t have caffeine.

If I’m out and about, I’ll buy a giant iced tea from Dunkin Donuts, and at home, I’ll brew a big pot of tea to turn into iced tea. (Always unsweetened and I never add milk)

Today (a Monday no less!) I’m hoping to make it without any caffeine. No hot tea. No running to Dunkies for an iced tea. No diet colas. No caffeine.

Let’s see how I do!!

Consumer Sunday

Dubya sure would be proud of Matt and I for all that we’ve done to stimulate the economy today…

1) Matt and I put down a deposit on a Prius! It will take 2-3 months before it arrives, so we had to put the deposit down before we were actually ready to buy it. (We were hoping to purchase it before the end of the year.) We’re very excited. I still have my first car ever — a 1997 Toyota Corolla! It’s still as trusty as ever, but with the little (but fairly frequent) road trips we make to NY, NJ, and PA, it’s just a lot of wear and tear on my old car, and Matt drives a gas guzzling Toyota Tundra.

2) We both bought new phones! Matt wanted a Samsung Instinct, and he had $150 off because he had his old phone for so long. Then, once we got to the Sprint store I learned that I also had $150 off! So we went for it, and we both now have new phones. We had fun with the GPS, seeing how it would send us home from Coolidge Corner to West Newton.

3) Late lunch at Acapulco’s where I proceeded to eat 15 chips too many. But I have leftovers to eat tomorrow for lunch :-)

4) Dessert at Cabot’s later in the evening. (Wow, Mexican and then ice cream…healthy!)

Either way, I’m excited about my new phone and I’m excited about having a new car! I’ve had my trusty Corolla for so long.