Day 257 - September 14

Since I had off today for primary election day, I met Mike for lunch at Wegmans.  Wegmans is a great place to eat lunch because the options are limitless.  Today, he had sushi (freshly made by those people in the middle there - I watched them make sushi the whole time we ate lunch) and I had cooked food from the Asian bar.  There was also a salad bar, pre-made subs, to-order subs, fancy ceasar salad bar, pizza, a wing bar, and a bunch of other stuff. 

Granted, by the time he filled up on sushi it cost more than eating dinner out, but my share of the lunch was really filling and affordable.

Day 256 - September 13

It seems like every few weeks around here, Mike gets excited for a new video game.  It appears that sequels never go out of style in video game land.

But today, it was my turn.  This Professor Layton series is always full of puzzles and logic problems. They're really fun, and I have even recommended it to a few of my creative thinking students. Yeah, that's right, a librarian talking up a video game. I'm a well rounded nerd, what can I say?

The best part is that the game was really really cheap!  When Mike pre-ordered his new game that is coming tomorrow, it came with a Best Buy gift card that we used to buy my Layton game. AND, Mike went to Best Buy and bought it for me today while I was at work so it was here when I got home.  I don't know when I'll have time to open it, but at least it's here. :)

Day 255 - September 12

When I got in the car after getting gas today, I noticed the triple 0's on my odometer.  When I got this car last August, it was a few miles over 35k.  I drive too much.

(And as you can see, the car is turned off - so this picture is legal.) :)

Day 254 - September 11

In preparation for the Ravens game tomorrow and friends coming over to hang out, Mike spent the day making chili.  It's like 20 ingredients!  The bowl is full of the random veggies that had to be diced, and in addition there is a pan with 2 pounds of ground beef and a pound of sausage that didn't make the picture.

My prediction is that I will eat 3 bites...Why can't chili just be meat marinating in the sauce? Why must this vegetable group infringe on a perfectly good meal? :)

Day 253 - September 10

Lately, my grocery store has been having a bonus sale from Wed-Sat each week.  I rarely remember to go now that we don't live across the street from the store, because I do the weekly shopping trip on Sunday at the beginning of the week.

This week we stopped by after a trip to the local ice cream shop, because this deal was too good to pass up. (Yes, I know it's almost all junk food - but he's anticipating eating it while he watches football for the next 8 weeks, and who doesn't love a good crappy pizza once in awhile???)

Grand total: $2.63 (The cantelope was $0.99 of that, too!)
Savings: $18 something (I don't have my receipt near me at the moment.)

Day 252 - September 9

Sorry for the darkness - I didn't get home until 8pm tonight because it was open house.

But I was SO EXCITED to see the recycling bin sitting out next to the trash can. 

Why??

Because today is the LAST DAY EVER that we had to pay attention to whether it was paper/cardboard day or glass/plastic/bottles/cans day.  Starting next week, our county is switching to single stream recycling.  I'm so excited!  Even now, we're down to less than a trashbag per trash day so I imagine it'll get even better now that they're taking steps out of the process!

Day 251 - September 8

My local library has an awesome perk - a drive through window.  It's like having my own personal book concierge.  I request books online, they send me an email when they're ready, and I drive through and pick them up.  Sweet!

But, nature doesn't enjoy this perk as much as I do.  This is a chunk of the horribly unhealthy bushes that line the drive through area.  The constant exhaust from the cars has killed all of the bushes from 3 feet down.  It's just the very tops that aren't near the exhaust pipes that are still green.  It's kind of sad.