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*From the Dollar store. Gave them to our medical director to see if she thinks it's OK to recommend them to teens. No, I'm not pregnant. Nor is there any chance.
-3 piece chicken strip meal from Popeyes
-Dinner at SoHo Salads (I had romaine lettece with corn, avocado, feta, cranberries, endamame- yum yum!)
-Manicure at Sally Nails- dark red berry polish
-French fries with American cheese at the University Diner
-Entrance to the Russian Turkish Baths
Dinner at Charlie Hong Kong (Cheap Asian Street food. I had a noodle/smoked tofu/avocado salad)
Eggwhite salad from Trader Joe's
Lavender Chamomile Massage Oil
9 pairs of saucy underwear from VS
A power inverter
Almond-vanilla granola, for breakfast
Potato gnochetti (packaged), for dinner
Onion, for sauce for gnocchi
Body wash
Rice crackers & herbed chevre, for lunch
I bought all of those simultaneously, though. If we do last five discrete purchasing events, it would be groceries for meals today, a burrito for dinner last night, a sandwich and iced tea for lunch on Tuesday, groceries to cover Monday and Tuesday dinners, and a bus pass.
Oh I forgot that I ordered two cookbooks books that jadepearl recommened that I buy yesterday and that at the same time I also ordered the Dancing Aztecs book that essexjan posted about at AskMe. The reviews at amazon really sold me....I don't think I've ever read a funny book and I'm very curious.
So scratch the pineapple and add the books.
(because, you know...it's very important that you all know that the pineapple is actually the sixth thing I bought and not the fifth)
A hollow chocolate Easter bunny
Those little scent plug-ins from Bath and Body Works
A pressed flower necklace (present for a friend)
Eye drops for the boy, who has a nasty case of sinusitis.
Antibiotics for the sinusitis.
Mexican pizza and spicy chicken soft taco, Taco Bell.
Bottle of apple juice, company vending machine.
Two doughnuts, Shipley's.
Tank of Gas, Shell station.
Bottle of Knob Creek bourbon, Springhill Liquor.
1) A can of Red Bull
2) Dinner a couple of nights ago
3) A pack of Orbit gum
4) That new Nine Inch Nails instrumental album thing
5) A new hood release assembly for my car
A bottle of rum
A carton of cigarettes
A Chik-Fil-A sammich, waffle fries, and lemonade
A ridiculously hard-to-find fluorescent bulb for mom's reading light
A termite inspection (the house passed! Yay!)
1. Lunch from the cafeteria (jerk chicken, beans-n-rice)
2. breakfast from the cafeteria (cereal and milk)
3. the new Autechre CD
4. a light bulb for the bedside table lamp
5. a screen door latch
Vitamins to help keep migraines at bay (a witches brew, but it’s helping.)
Also, generic Zyrtec – trying it since it’s over the counter now. (I have severe allergies.)
Paid emergency vet bill for Zeek-the-streak (kitty). Bad night – was that Monday or Tuesday? Today is Thursday, right?
4 for $5.oo deal on sandwiches at Arby’s. (lunch for almost the whole week!)
Must have purchased some parenthesis in bulk somewhere cause I’m using them with abandon today.
Green Mars (to read on the plane)
Postage to return the skiing gloves that did not fit
a new rain hat
ginger tea
bar shampoo (for taking through TSA security)
(the Boy & I are going to Canada for a long weekend to get the hell out of town and moon about in each other's company).
2 Sesame Street sippy cups
Pampers Baby Dry, size 5
Trader Joe's Granny Smith dried apple bits, yum
2 airline tickets to visit my folks in South Carolina, YAY!
$64 worth of groceries which fit into 2 bags, how can that be???
This is easy! I just returned from a rare shopping afternoon with my mother.
- a willow basket
- a bundle of hairbands and barrettes for a child of my acquaintance (a not-niece)
- wrapping paper with a pattern in beige, mocha, and robin-egg blue
- robin-egg blue gauze ribbon
- and lunch for Mom.
Diet coke (vending machine)
Lunch (pasta w/ chicken and pesto sauce, yum)
Tylenol (to knock down the fever)
Bottle of water (to swallow the Tylenol)
Decongestant
2 tickets to see Eddie Izzard
1 Six Feet Under: The Complete Series Box Set
1 Refurb iPod Nano with Nike+iPod Kit
EMusic subscription renewal
1 JetBlue ticket to Vegas, baby!
Working backwards:
1) Diet Pepsi (normally yuck, but I am finding the water here is weird)
2) /shamefaced - a DQ blizzard with double peanut butter cups
3) A large black coffee
4) Boneless skinless chicken from the butcher
5) Ginger Ale (for my 3 days of flu-ish hell
My wife has wanted one. I started "slow," with a pillow. She hated it. Neighbors on either side have Tempurpedics, and wilst watching their houses while they have been away, we "tried" it out. No not that way.
So she's decided that it's not for her, but with the reasoning that she's too light (she IS very skinny) and does not sink in.
1. Coffee and day-old baked cherry fritter.
2. Bottle of mineral oil and bottle of rhone wine.
3. Fresh basil (trader joe's).
4. Tank of gas.
5. Weekly groceries.
danf, it's awesome. It's like being on a cloud...very comforting. I'm a super light sleeper but for the few days we've had it I've overslept twice...hehe. Not good for my work ethic, but other than that it's great!
I was just telling my husband that the two main things I've noticed are that I barely turn over in my sleep....if I sleep for 6-7 hours when I wake up I'm in the same position. And the other thing...good thing I hardly turn over, because it's hard! It's like you have to pull yourself out of the mattress first - you can't just turn over like you would on a regular one. He noticed that too. Ours is pretty smushy and soft.
1. jamba juice mega mango smoothie
2. gasoline (hmmph!! $67 to fill my tank? Why is gas $3.73 a gallon?!!!)
3. MAC eyeshadow in sable frost
4. carnation evaporated milk
5. caesar salad
stewriffic: that is pretty cool of you to check those tests out. The first time I saw that the dollar store had pregnancy tests, I was deeply concerned. I mean if anyone needs one that works it's someone who has to buy it from a dollar store.
A bagel with cream cheese
Tickets to see Autechre in April (Are any Chicago MeChas going?)
"Social Revolutions in the Modern World"
"Democracy, Revolution, and History"
Chinese stir-fry with barbecue pork
Lindt Dark Chocolate, one 70% bar and one 80%
Cran/Blueberry juice
Rice cakes
early lunch/late breakfast at the noodle joint
Camera flash (Canon 580EX, b/ftw)
on preview, I dunno how valid b/ftw is, given that it's intended to be either "by the way" or "for the win"... maybe it'll stick, maybe I'll get mocked. Whee!
1. Haircut, color, highlights
2. one can of Diet Dr. Pepper from the hospital vending machine
3. Mrs. Myers Geranium All Purpose Cleaner
4. Mrs. Myers Geranium Hand Soap
5. Ticonderoga pencils
1) Lunch, at a wings place (soo... addictive!),
2) Gas, at $3.05 per gallon,
3) 2 beers, for MuddDude and I to consume at league bowling,
4) Weekly league bowling dues,
5) Uh... a 3-meat pizza from House of Pizza, I think? That might have been last week.
1) eBay fee for a fauncy VCR I'm selling
2) eBay fee for a vintage Soviet hockey jersey I'm selling
3) a used copy of Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
4) a used copy of Rodale's Organic Gardening
5) a dime bag
1. Pizza and breadstics from Little Caesars (yum!!!)
2. New headphones for my ipod (they're comfy!!!)
3. A cooling base for my laptop (it works!!!)
4. Humidifier (no more dry sinuses!!!)
5. Wireless adapter for the xbox 360 (no more network cable running through the house!!!)
In reverse order:
1. Dinner tonight, bar down street.
2. Beers before dinner tonight at other, better, bar down street.
3. Last night, fancy clothes for son - khakis, button down shirt, real belt. (priceless, as in, like, there is not enough money in the world to entice me to do this again: standing outside the dressing room at Target while he tries all this on in about 7000 iterations)
4. Yesterday, lunch at the Indian buffet.
5. Tuesday, 3 used books and a rotisserie chicken.
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