Ten things I Hate About Christmas

1) Annoying Christmas music in department stores.



2) Traffic



3) Rude people



4) Crowds at the shopping "village" (malls are sooo passe).



5) Tacky Decorations



6) Giving useless gifts that you can't afford to people who don't need anything.



7) "Holiday Hours"



8) Holiday television special episodes.



9) Retailers trying to make you think you're saving money by having "sales".



10) The whole guilt trip thing.

In search of an addiction....

This is really annoying.
I can't find an addiction even though I have tried.
I want to be a chocoholic. Or a caffeine addict.
Ben & Jerry's doesn't do anything for me.
I don't crave Gummi Bears or Jelly Bellies.
I am a bit of a carbohydrate junkie but it doesn't rise to the level of being addicted.
I want to have some quirky food addiction but I just can't seem to find anything.
What to do what to do????????

No more Ramen Noodles....EVER

UGH>>>>for right now.
Just ugh.
More later.

I finally od'ed on Ramen Noodles tonight.
I don't think I can eat another package of Ramen noodles.
And fortunately, I am going grocery shopping tomorrow so I can switch gears, switch to something else.

I'm thinking cereal.
Everything I eat lately breaks my stomach.
:-p

Eight cups of coffee later.....

Well, yesterday was perfectly awful
I guess caffeine is my drug of choice and yesterday I totally od'ed.
I started out with my usual two cups of coffee when I got up, with a bagel and strawberry yogurt spread. That was fine.
Then Crazyfriend called and wanted to meet. I said fine and I suggested that we go to Cracker Barrel for a late breakfast.
So we got there at 10:30.
I had biscuits and gravy and two turkey sausage patties.
Oh.... and did I mention that I had 4 more cups of coffee?
We,, that got me pretty wired.
We shopped (I bought a black sweater vest for $8.00 at Cracker Barrel)
CrazyFriend went to Penney's and tried on all the suits she's treid on once before but didn't buy anything.
And we just kind of wandered around.
I could feel the caffeine kicking in as we went to Home Depot and I bought 6 2x4's for no particular reason and I found myself ranting to CrazyFriend about her freeloading con man of a "boy friend" who is running her life...something I have not done in months.
Then after she left, I had to go pick up Cookie from Day Care.
On the way there, I decided to get Cookie a chicken sandwich from McDonald's. And I thought okay..what the heck, as long as I was there, I'd try one of their Mocha drinks....(chocolate and an espresso shot.)
I stopped at the Pontiac place and actually found the exact fleece gloves I wanted plus a pair of black Browning socks.
Then I got Cookie and we went on home.
I was WIRED><.]\
When I got home, it was about 2:30. Hubby was home from his doctor's appointment.
I had such a buzz on, my brain was tingling from the caffeine electricity.
So....I threw my golf clubs in the car (literally) and went to play golf.
It looked like it might rain but I didn't care.
I played the fastest 9 holes of golf that I have ever played ever and I found about a dozen lost golf balls in the ponds and the bushes.
When I got home from that, my brain was still buzzing but I was starting to come down.
Fortunately, hubby made his own dinner. I had a Spam sandwich and a 7Up.
Immediately after dinner, I totally CRASHED and I mean CRASHED.
I went to lie down and tried to read my book. That lasted about 15 seconds before I fell asleep.
I slept until 11:00 and then could NOT go back to sleep.
I watched TV until about 1:30/ I was exhausted but I could not go to sleep.
And of course, poor Cookie was sooo restless trying to follow me around.
I tossed and turned until 3:00 am when I got up and watched Ellen Degeneres and Rita Rudner on the Comedy Channel.
At 4:15, I finally went back to bed, felt horrible but fell asleep.
UGH UGH UGH.
When I got up at 7:30 this morning, I CAUTIOUSLY had ONE cup of coffee.
Damn.........what a roller coaster ride.

Separate but equal....

Okay...here's the deal.

I am so totally burned out with cooking and grocery shopping I don't know which way to turn.

I am a very good cook but I cannot eat my own cooking anymore.

I have just lost it when it comes to keeping to my grocery budget and satisfying everyone.

90% of the time, I don't want to eat what hubby wants for lunch or for dinner and it is making me crazy.

We want TOTALLY different things.

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So here's what we are doing for the month of December:


We have split the grocery budget equally between the two of us, with leaving $100 for general household items such as laundry powder or toilet paper and cat food.

Personal toiletries such as toothpaste or mouthwash are NOT included in the general pool, but go our individual accounts.



We are going grocery shopping every Friday.

He buys what he wants.

I buy what I want.

We have to stay within our alloted budget.
I will cook whatever he chooses for his meals.
I will also cook my own meals that I want separately.



So far, after just two weeks, it seems to working.

We'll see at the end of them month how well it does but so far, I like it just fine.
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Blanchie dream

Well, I must admit, I had a very strange dream last night, about Blanchie, our little dog who died so suddenly and under very unfortunate circumstances this past spring.
Crazyfriend showed up at the house and she had Blanchie with her who was alive and well (sort of well..alive at least) with her.
No one could explain how she reappeared but we finally surmised that she wasn't really dead must have somehow dug her way out of her little grave.
We ran around to all the local vets (because our regular vet at the emergency room wasn't around. None of them could figure out how she had survived all this time. They all kinda shook their heads.
The only thing they could find wrong with her was her right eye which had the worse glaucoma was leaking fluid and needed to be removed. Other than that she was okay.

Very strange dream.....indeed.

(Stephen King where are you????)

What't the deal with Ben & Jerry's???

Okay...I just don't get it.
I suppose I am not an ice cream person.
I was reading a couple of books where the main character was a Ben & Jerry's ice cream freak.
So I went to the store and found these really cute little individual serving size containers of Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
I thought well...okay. Why not?
So I bought one and after great anticipation, ate the little individual serving with coffee last night after dinner.
And guess what.
I expected great ecstatic, orgasmic joys and wonders of Ben and Jerry's.
Surprise.......all it did was upset my stomach and eventually led to a migraine that I am miserable with this evening and struggled with all day.
Ben & Jerry's?????
Maybe I am just NOT an ice cream person but it did nothing for me.
No worry.
I will NEVER be a Ben & Jerry's freak.
I don't even think I like it.
Ugh.