Today was a deliberate day. I had to get up at 845 to leave at 9 to get to the church 10 minutes later. The Prayer Shawl Meeting starts at 9 but if I leave the house at 9, I'm there in 5-10 minutes and can usually make the opening prayer. If not, then I read it myself before I start crocheting.
I took a can of Pepsi with me but wasn't really in the mood for it, so didn't really drink much of it and it went flat in the two hours that I was there. When I first got there, I sat in the same seat I always sit in and started talking to the two ladies on either side of me. I had to untangle my new skein of yarn first, so I could get is started on the shawl. I had finished a small skein of yarn that was a sparkling orange and was going to use a skein of variegated orange, yellow, green and white as the two stripes of yarn between the 3 stripes of solid orange. It will be a good fall shawl. I just crochet a chain that goes the length of my arms stretched out and then use a double crochet for the rows. It's simple and that's my style. I have some patterns that I might try next time but this is soothing and easy, I don't have to think about what comes next and follow a pattern.
I left the meeting 10 minutes before it ended so that I could get home by 11am. I was taking the car today and hubby and I needed to stop at Kum and Go for drinks and gas before I dropped him off for work. He was ready when I got home, so I dropped off my crochet, picked up a book to read during lunch and we headed out.
We stopped for gas and I went in to get some tea. Hubby came in right after me. We paid for the drinks and headed out to the car. He took the gas nozzle out of the tank and turned on the car. It showed that we didn't get any gas but the pump said we spent $30.00. I asked hubby "Didn't you pump the gas before you came in?" and he said no, he had just swiped the card and put the nozzle in and thought he had turned it on and left it. So he went inside and talked the the attendant. She said that it didn't show a charge in the last couple of minutes so do it again and take our receipt with us. When we could, check with our bank to see if we had been charged twice, showing someone else used our nozzle to get themselves gas. So we filled up and drove to hubby's school.
When we got there, he checked on the computer for charges on our card and there was only the one. Apparently something went wrong on the first try and the pump had reset itself. Yeah! That's the last time hubby will leave a gas pump filling on it's own!
When I dropped off hubby, I went across the street to a little French Bistro that I like to have lunch at and ordered my favorite sandwich, Le Vegetarian. But when I started eating it, it just didn't taste very good today. It's me, not the food. So I only ate half of it. Then I splurged and got the lemon cake for dessert. I ate only the cake, not the frosting, too sweet. With tip, the bill came to $23! Not an experience I will be repeating anytime soon!
Then I went to Costco. I was going to pick up beef base and chicken base, stuff I use to flavor soups and stews. While I was there, I picked up some spices, powdered gravy and quinoa. And a box of chips for lunches, the individual ones, a set of 55 bags. Also keeps me from eating too many at one time! I got out of there for $55.
My next stop was King Soopers for the big grocery shopping trip. I had my list and I was diligent. I picked up some extra cans of soup, an extra bag of shredded cheese that was on sale and a couple of items that I had forgotten to put down, like spaghetti noodles and an extra pound of ground beef. There was some meat on sale in the manager's special section that I got for additional dinners in the future. I kept track of the costs on my cell phone calculator funtion and estimated it was going to be $195 and so odd cents. With tax it came in at $193 and some odd cents. I know that I was off on estimating the cost of the fruit. I had $173.00 in cash so only needed to put the rest on the debit card. Today's shopping trip was not budgeted because I wasn't sure how much it would cost to feed 3 adults for 15 days. It looks like it will be about $250 every 15 days or $500 a month. Now I can budget for it.
I picked up hubby for his lunch time and to go home and have him carry in a ll the groceries and then he could have the car for the rest of the day. We got home and he brought everything in, then he helped me put it all away. Yeah! Then we sat down and he ate some lunch, he took a quick shower to cool off and went back to work.
I spent the afternoon finding out my Virgin Mobile account number so that I could put in a transfer request for my phone number to be taken over to my new Republic Wireless phone. Hubby actually found it and then I put in the request. Later, I got an email saying it will be done sometime during a 24 hour period between the 25th and the 26th. It can take up to 72 hours for text messaging to be restored. That will be hard! But it's done, so soon I will be all over to Republic Wireless.
Hubby was easy as he didn't want to transfer his number. He never liked it and could remember it. So when we got the new phones and he saw his new number, he like it and memorized it right away. So all he had to do was cancel his old phone, which he did today.
For dinner I made spanish rice with beef. I got a pound of stewing beef, cut into chunks and cooked that. I made 6 cups of rice and combined that with the beef, added two cans of Rotel tomatoes with chilis and a large can of tomato sauce. Then I added Italian spices. It had a definite bite to it. I ate it but it did make my mouth burn. I knew that Frank and hubby would really like it.
Frank and I ate when it was ready but hubby wouldn't be home until 1015pm, as he was making up hours at work. Tomorrow will be another long day for hubby.
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