07 March 2009 ~ Saturday

Monday it was 20 and icy roads did some damage to many cars, tow companies were
in heaven!, today I don't know exacty how hot it did get, but I broke out in a
sweat int he time it took me to load groceries and get the air conditioning
running in the car! Talk a about a change of temp!

It's 9pm, and it got "cold" when the sun went down...it's still 71 out! For the
first time in who knows how long, I actually spent a lot of time outside
today...started with a breakfast buffet at the Moose Lodge, then I had a nine am
FreeCycle appointment to pick up two bags of clothes, WOW! she had me four hudge
trash bags full when I picked them up. I then stopped at the dollar tree for
some easter stuff, then stopped at the local thrift store, they have these
shopping carts, you have to see them, next time I'm taking a picture, they are
big and blue, and look like something out of bedrock from the Flintstones.

anyway... I came away with four pair of dress shoes, two handbags, a couple of
Taste of Home (06 & 08) cookbooks, Flylady's Body Clutter Book, a scrapbook and
a couple of glasses for thirty bucks. Not the first piece of clothing!
History: yesterday I decided to clean out my closet and downsize! HaHa! (until
I saw the freecycle add in MY SIZE!) So I did real well not buying any thing, I
even went through the freecycle bag in the parking lot to make a donation...stop
the clutter before it get's into the house...

After that I went to get groceries at a store a ways away, that I don't often
get to...well in the strip is a dollar general and a scrapbookiing store...three
bucks in the DG, Evidenece has been eliminated from the SB store, but boy, did I
go into sticker shock at what the prices are running now! Five years ago a
12x12 was 39cents, now they are 89 and up, I was very conserviate, (ok, not well
enough), but I did like that they have papers that I haven't seen before in the
big box stores. And for the last six,seven months I have avoided the online SB
stores also. Then I went into the grocery store, specific items circled in the
add, walked by the steaks and had to take a double look, thirty dollars for
three little steaks! I'm not a big fan, and at those prices, never will
be!...today we became fans of pork chops, 98/pound, lots to get vacume seals and
into the deep freeze! Couldn't pass up 1.88 for lean couine, might go back while
they are still that price and pick up a few more, anyway I left their after
spending another seventy dollars. All this before one!, which for me, they only
time I function on Saturday mornings, is on Crop day! (Which I did last night
from 7:30 to 11:30)

I got home, put the groceries away, then pulled out an old sheet, and outside,
pulled those bags of clothes out and went to town! LOL!, not just a lot of stuff
my size, but DAUGHTER APPROVED! stuff included, ok not everything, but several
items, she even pull a couple things out for herself and the hermit crab old guy
(Dad #2) she shares a house with!

The lady must love red, as there was a ton of it...not stuff that I will wear,
(out of date) but stuff that will be great in my "Mrs. Clause" closet this
Christmas.

I even fit four pairs of pants out of the bunch, actually I think that was all
of them, you have no idea how rare that is, I'm the one that takes fifty pair of
pants, in all different sizes, into the fitting room, and might walk out with
one that fits. So then DD has a date toninght, and wanted a safe place for her
new BF to stay, (she lives five houses down) to spend the night, so she decided
to set the bed up in the guest room...let me see, FREE Help!, didn't take long
for mama to put her to work, so we pulled almost everything out of the room,
think (storage locker) and set the bed up...Painting that room was on my list
for January, now, I'm half way there! Of course eveything is now piled in the
pass-thru room, but it's no longer out of sight, out of mind! So we all know
what next weeks projects are going to be, haul the rest of that crap out to the
garage, for one final step before the thrift store! ...and all that by four!
..now if I could only get so much accomplished on a regular basis; I do vaguely
remember those days.

Dianna in Virginia