I’m still getting postcard
and phonecall reminders of my cancelled pacemaker surgery, so I gotta call my
primary care doctor, make sure it’s been cancelled. If it shows that I simply
stood the appointment up, it’ll be 2016 before I get scheduled again, if I’m
lucky – I’ll get put at the end of any queue for months. Of course, the cards
and calls didn’t come ‘til today, so it’ll have to wait ‘til Monday. Ah, well.
Got a little restless this
afternoon, so I left my fellas watching various screens and headed out to Big
Lots. I’ve been wanting to just wander around there by m’self, and today seemed
like a good chance to do so. I may be the only person in America that looks on
the Wasa Crispbreads as a delicious treat, not just tummy-filler diet food, but
I do know BLots has ‘em for $2. a package, instead of the usual $3-something
everywhere else. I got Sourdough, Light Rye, and Multigrain, one of each they
carried.
They still have Christmas
candy, and it’s just now at 75% off. Nothing I wanted, but I bought a tray of
tree-shaped Peeps for the sheer cheep sweets factor. Décor was 90% off, but we
already have plenty, and Dollar Tree was still cheaper before the holidays than
some of their stuff on markdown. Got oven light bulbs (they don’t work, gotta
take ‘em back) and a three pack of full-size bags of Cheddar and Pretzel
Goldfish for $3. That was so weird. There’s a sticker on the package, saying
Pepperidge Farms deemed these not quite up to specs, so they’re cheap, but they
hope they still satisfy. How strange.
Started feeling a little
light headed and fuzzy, so I got to the car and ate a tree. Nothing like Peeps,
in all their sugar-coated marshmallow goodness, to get your blood sugar back
up. Felt so good I ate another one. Wow. When you curtail your sugar and
suddenly get some, it’s like rocket fuel when you’re used to water.
A trip to Dollar General got
us the soda Beloved Hubby wanted, along with a pretty snowflake-etched juice
glass and a thin oven mitt with sugar cookie mix for 75% off. If they’d had
more of those glasses, I’d have bought ‘em. The cashier wanted to debate me on
the potholder, saying it was food and was only 50% off. Fine with me, but I
showed her where she needed to move the box of ‘em, as the holiday food display
was an aisle over, and all the signage up and down the aisle and taped to the potholder display box was a solid
75% off all around. Honestly, I’m not sure why I was so compelled to buy it,
other than the lure of sugar cookies for maybe a quarter cheaper than the
Aldi’s pouch mixes…
Is it wrong that I want to
critique the applique and embroidery technique of someone in China who’s
probably only getting paid pennies per piece ? Yeah, I thought so. I am such a
First Worlder…
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