Today has been just one of those days.
Normally, Wednesdays are Prince Spaghetti days where I get to see some of my friends. Unfortunately for today, all of us couldn't get together. It was just as well because I actually had a bunch of errands to run.
My errands began at Walgreen's where gummy bears are on sale for the week. Gummy bears! Bouncing here and there and everywhere. Gummy bears are my Achilles heel. I could eat a whole 5 pound bag in a day (which I may have actually done at one time). They are just so deliciously cute.
Anyway, I had coupons for gummy bears of course. On top of that, I had another coupon for "Friends and Family". And on top of that, I had their reward dollar coupons. Mathematically, the price should have come to fifteen cents for the five bags.
Sadly, that wasn't the case tonight. Apparently, there is a coupon limit per single transaction at Walgreen's. That limit seems to be six coupons. So instead of fifteen cents, the total actually came to one dollar and fifteen cents, which is still not bad for five bags of gummy bears. And while gummy bears are priceless, I would have much rather preferred to pay fifteen cents than a dollar and fifteen cents. But whatever. It's gummy bears!
On my next errand run, I went to Shaw's which is located right near the Walgreen's. The deal there involved their Box Top for Education promotion where a given number of items had to be purchased in a single transaction. And of course, I had coupons for that as well.
So, I loaded up my cart with the items from my list. Well, I loaded everything with the exception of one item which of course was the last item on my list. Turns out, the store did not have any in stock. And since the promotion was to purchase a given number of items in a single transaction, I didn't have enough of those items. Thus, I had to go back to each aisle and put back everything that was on my list. Fun.
From there, I made a pit stop to my BFF's (Kerry) house. That was definitely the bright spot of the day. Anytime I get to see my BFF is a good time. Kerry had asked that I help her fix her ceiling light in the dining room which had just stopped working when she recently painted her place.
Now, I suck at home improvement, but I figured I'd take a look at the electrical task. Originally, I thought the issue was a result of the switch. After all, I tried connecting the original fixture to the wires with the switch turned on and nothing happened. So tonight, I brought a new switch with me and installed it at Kerry's.
To my surprise, the fixture still did not turn on. After contemplating the issue (or as Kerry commented... stared at the fixture for some time), I decided to try attaching her lamp to the ceiling receptacle. Lo and behold, the lamp lit up. Based on that, I think the issue is the fixture itself. So I'll have to install a new ceiling light another day for Kerry. (And yes, the lamp is no longer attached to her ceiling.)
Regardless, it was good to see and hang out with Kerry. Among the topics of conversation that came up were Simply Lemonade (which is very delicious), her use (or lack thereof) of her electric stove for baking, the possible ghost in her basement, and one of her projects that she is working on. I mention the latter only because it involved SQL, which is right up my alley. Needless to say, it was fun.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
I Suck At Shaw's
saturday was quite the interesting day.
the day began with a trip to the local grocery store (shaw's). now, i suck at shaw's. i must say, going grocery shopping on the day before easter... crazy. have you ever gotten annoyed with people because they were holding up the checkout aisle? well, karen and i actually became those people holding up the checkout aisles because the card reader was not reading the gift card that we had for the grocery store. employee after employee tried to get the card reader to work... i think a total of three employees tried. sadly, none of them could get the card reader working.
normally, karen and i would probably feel bad about holding up the line. on saturday, however, we actually derived a little pleasure in holding up the line because the person behind us in the line was this woman who attempted to cut us in line moments earlier.
karen and i were patiently in line at one of the checkout aisles. we were just standing there... grocery cart and all... waiting. well, the line started to move. out of nowhere, this other grocery carriage comes cutting in front of us. so karen and i looked at the woman... to which she then asked if we were waiting in line. now, as much as i like to just hang out in the grocery store by the checkout area with a bunch of items in a shopping cart... i thought it was an odd question to ask.
nonetheless, the woman withdrew her cart and entered the line behind us. as the checkout area was getting busy, one of the managers came to our checkout aisle and told the woman behind us that she could go to the new register that was opening up. the manager then retracted her statement and told karen and i to go to the new register because we were next in line.
so not only did the woman have to get behind us once... but she had to do it another time too because she followed us to the new register. needless to say, i noticed the woman seething as she waited behind karen and i during our little card reader problem. the look on her face... priceless.
anyway, the entire card reader problem was soon solved... and by solved, i mean we had to go to customer service instead of the normal checkout aisle. the resolution took quite a while, but one of the cool things was that there was a food demo by the customer service area. the demonstration was some chicken and mushroom thing. it smelled very good as it was being cooked. needless to say, the samples tasted good as well.
the day began with a trip to the local grocery store (shaw's). now, i suck at shaw's. i must say, going grocery shopping on the day before easter... crazy. have you ever gotten annoyed with people because they were holding up the checkout aisle? well, karen and i actually became those people holding up the checkout aisles because the card reader was not reading the gift card that we had for the grocery store. employee after employee tried to get the card reader to work... i think a total of three employees tried. sadly, none of them could get the card reader working.
normally, karen and i would probably feel bad about holding up the line. on saturday, however, we actually derived a little pleasure in holding up the line because the person behind us in the line was this woman who attempted to cut us in line moments earlier.
karen and i were patiently in line at one of the checkout aisles. we were just standing there... grocery cart and all... waiting. well, the line started to move. out of nowhere, this other grocery carriage comes cutting in front of us. so karen and i looked at the woman... to which she then asked if we were waiting in line. now, as much as i like to just hang out in the grocery store by the checkout area with a bunch of items in a shopping cart... i thought it was an odd question to ask.
nonetheless, the woman withdrew her cart and entered the line behind us. as the checkout area was getting busy, one of the managers came to our checkout aisle and told the woman behind us that she could go to the new register that was opening up. the manager then retracted her statement and told karen and i to go to the new register because we were next in line.
so not only did the woman have to get behind us once... but she had to do it another time too because she followed us to the new register. needless to say, i noticed the woman seething as she waited behind karen and i during our little card reader problem. the look on her face... priceless.
anyway, the entire card reader problem was soon solved... and by solved, i mean we had to go to customer service instead of the normal checkout aisle. the resolution took quite a while, but one of the cool things was that there was a food demo by the customer service area. the demonstration was some chicken and mushroom thing. it smelled very good as it was being cooked. needless to say, the samples tasted good as well.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
I Suck At Shaw's
last night, karen and i had an interesting time.
whenever i work in marblehead, i generally leave the office with enough time to account for rush hour traffic. i had dreaded the commute home yesterday because i had a meeting scheduled for the late afternoon, which would consequently make my ride home take place during rush hour traffic. to my surprise, there was not much traffic on my commute home and i was able to pick up karen at the jfk train station.
anyway, from there we made a little pitstop at my favorite sister-in-law's (janine) to pick up a box of items pilfered from karen and janine's grandmother. i'm just kidding about the pilfering. the box contained christmas ornaments that were at nana's house. and luckily for me, karen received the snowman jar with the styrofoam head. for anyone curious, karen loves that snowman jar because of the childhood memories it brings. for lack of a better word, i think the snowman jar is "ghetto".
while at janine's, janine told us a story about my father-in-law. apparently, my father-in-law randomly decided to buy a scratch ticket for my son (braden). lo and behold, he won $200 on the scratch ticket. needless to say, the thought about my little b, braden, being such a good luck charm brought a smile to my face... and a possible tear to my eye as i type this now.
shortly thereafter, karen and i decided to go out for dinner. our choice for dinner: none other than not your average joe's located in norwell. needless to say, the food was delicious as usual. adding to the already interesting day, i ordered something that i generally don't order... ever... the yankee pot roast. (cue rachael ray's "yum-o" sound.) the meal was very good.
following dinner, we decided to get some groceries for the upcoming scavenger hunt that i am organizing for this saturday. we decided to go to shaw's because karen received a random coupon there. now, i suck at shaw's... but i generally like shaw's better than stop and shop even though stop and shop is right up from my house. where i live, i generally find that the employees at shaw's are much friendlier and happier than at stop and shop. i don't know why that is the case.
while at shaw's, we got our necessary ingredients for the potluck dinner following the scavenger hunt. as well, we received $30 for free! shaw's was offering a promotion where if you got a gift card for $300, you would get an extra $30 added to your gift card. granted, the promotion sounds steep because $300 is a lot of money to put up front. but the way karen and i were looking at it, we would eventually spend that amount on groceries during the year, so why not get the free $30. we would actually come out on top in the long run.
naturally, you would think that the traffic-free commute home, braden's good luck with scratch tickets, the not your average joe's dinner, and the free $30 would be enough excitement for the night. interestingly enough, there was one more surprise for the night that had karen and i giggling.
located at the front desk of shaw's to where we purchased our gift card was a shaw's coupon booklet. apparently, the month of march was frozen food month. contained within the booklet were coupons for some free items of food like bagels, frozen lemonade, etc. the coupons, however, were only good for a few more days. so naturally, we decided to see if those items where at the store while we were there.
as it turned out, a good chunk of those products were in the store. (there was also a good chunk of products already sold out too.) anyway, we picked up what we could and went through the checkout aisle. including the groceries that we purposely went to shaw's for, the total came to about $12. after all the coupons... the final total came to $0.45. karen and i just cracked up. karen thought about using the new gift card, but thought that would simply be too silly.
anyway, it was quite the interesting night.
whenever i work in marblehead, i generally leave the office with enough time to account for rush hour traffic. i had dreaded the commute home yesterday because i had a meeting scheduled for the late afternoon, which would consequently make my ride home take place during rush hour traffic. to my surprise, there was not much traffic on my commute home and i was able to pick up karen at the jfk train station.
anyway, from there we made a little pitstop at my favorite sister-in-law's (janine) to pick up a box of items pilfered from karen and janine's grandmother. i'm just kidding about the pilfering. the box contained christmas ornaments that were at nana's house. and luckily for me, karen received the snowman jar with the styrofoam head. for anyone curious, karen loves that snowman jar because of the childhood memories it brings. for lack of a better word, i think the snowman jar is "ghetto".
while at janine's, janine told us a story about my father-in-law. apparently, my father-in-law randomly decided to buy a scratch ticket for my son (braden). lo and behold, he won $200 on the scratch ticket. needless to say, the thought about my little b, braden, being such a good luck charm brought a smile to my face... and a possible tear to my eye as i type this now.
shortly thereafter, karen and i decided to go out for dinner. our choice for dinner: none other than not your average joe's located in norwell. needless to say, the food was delicious as usual. adding to the already interesting day, i ordered something that i generally don't order... ever... the yankee pot roast. (cue rachael ray's "yum-o" sound.) the meal was very good.
following dinner, we decided to get some groceries for the upcoming scavenger hunt that i am organizing for this saturday. we decided to go to shaw's because karen received a random coupon there. now, i suck at shaw's... but i generally like shaw's better than stop and shop even though stop and shop is right up from my house. where i live, i generally find that the employees at shaw's are much friendlier and happier than at stop and shop. i don't know why that is the case.
while at shaw's, we got our necessary ingredients for the potluck dinner following the scavenger hunt. as well, we received $30 for free! shaw's was offering a promotion where if you got a gift card for $300, you would get an extra $30 added to your gift card. granted, the promotion sounds steep because $300 is a lot of money to put up front. but the way karen and i were looking at it, we would eventually spend that amount on groceries during the year, so why not get the free $30. we would actually come out on top in the long run.
naturally, you would think that the traffic-free commute home, braden's good luck with scratch tickets, the not your average joe's dinner, and the free $30 would be enough excitement for the night. interestingly enough, there was one more surprise for the night that had karen and i giggling.
located at the front desk of shaw's to where we purchased our gift card was a shaw's coupon booklet. apparently, the month of march was frozen food month. contained within the booklet were coupons for some free items of food like bagels, frozen lemonade, etc. the coupons, however, were only good for a few more days. so naturally, we decided to see if those items where at the store while we were there.
as it turned out, a good chunk of those products were in the store. (there was also a good chunk of products already sold out too.) anyway, we picked up what we could and went through the checkout aisle. including the groceries that we purposely went to shaw's for, the total came to about $12. after all the coupons... the final total came to $0.45. karen and i just cracked up. karen thought about using the new gift card, but thought that would simply be too silly.
anyway, it was quite the interesting night.
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