I Suck At Shopping

Yesterday was a rather ho-hum day for Karen and I. The highlight of the day was probably our shopping excursion. Too bad I suck at shopping.

For several years, Karen and I have had a Panasonic KT-TG5240 which we used as the home phone. The phone (although not a rotary phone) is old to say the least. The model was before phones had additional handsets and all of that. There was just one handset.

Karen and I would truck the handset with us throughout the house whenever we needed to make a call, and then return it back to its base for charging which was located in our bedroom. Some days, we would have to run around the house looking for the handset (because there was just one). Needless to say, the phone became an annoyance.

Adding to the annoyance was the fact that the battery no longer held its charge. After charging the phone for hours, you could remove the handset from the base... be 3 feet away... and the handset would not work because it needed recharging. Yes, it was annoying.

For a long while, that phone has simply been on the base "charging". We had gone away from using that phone altogether, instead opting to use the Winnie the Pooh phone located in our other room. In retrospect, it would have made sense to unplug the old Panasonic phone altogether, but then we would not have had an answering machine.

Anyway, yesterday we decided that enough was enough. Rather than buy a new battery for the phone (because it would not have made sense in terms of cost/use) we went out and purchased a new phone. We ended up getting another Panasonic phone, model KX-TG9344T, which came with four handsets.

So far, so good. Of course, neither Karen nor I have used the phone yet because we had to charge the cordless handsets... but they take up less room than the original phone did and they look nicer too. And now, we won't have to run around the house looking for the phone because there will be four of them around the house.

One of the other purchases we made during our shopping excursion was at Lowe's. I needed some additional supplies for the first floor bathroom project. And naturally, because I tend to forget things... I forgot to pick up some things for the project. Oh well. It's not like I don't go there a lot. I should buy stock in Lowe's or Home Depot.

Anyway, after our shopping excursion, I basically worked some more on the first floor bathroom renovation project. We now have copper pipes supplying water to the bathroom! Yay! Now I just need to work on the drain system to take the water away. Some day I'll finish. I am still hoping to finish the bathroom before our baby is born. And for anyone curious, the baby is known as "Jicama" this week. "Jicky" (or phonetically "Hicky") just did not sound right, so I went with the entire name of the root vegetable.