Buyer Beware! - Learn From Our Mistake

Just thought I would pass along something that I learned the hard way today:

Before you make a significant purchase at Target, you may want to check to see if it is on sale online at Target.com. We purchased a travel system and playyard today at a Target store and when I looked some things up online, I noticed that they were on sale according to their website. However, the store did not give us a sale price. When I called the store to ask about the situation, I was basically told, "Sucks to be you." They, and most other Target stores, may or may not reflect the same prices as their website, and will not honor what their website shows if they do not have the same item on sale in the store.

Bottem line for us . . . To get the sale price, we would have to take back everything and then order it online. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Less Than 100 Days!!

Less than 100 days to go?! Who would have thought such a realization would bring on such an array of emotions?

I Did It!

I actually poked myself. Okay, so I got brave (or rather mad) enough that I took control and did it. (I can't handle something else trying to take over me.) YEAH ME!

Because Sometimes Dads Need Gifts, Too

I got my hubby this:

(Our Gift - by Susan Lordi; Photo from demdaco.com)

People have been kind of enough to give me and Tre gifts, but sometimes Dads need gifts, too.

I'm Now On Parole

I am now on parole and meet my "ankle monitor":

I get to use this lovely 6 times a day. That's right. I said 6. And if you know anything about me and my "love" of needles, this is not a good thing. I was also told that if my levels are not within "normal" range I also get to take insulin (yes, in shot form) above and beyond the Metformin I am already taking. I will spare you the rest of the details of the class, but let's just say it did not end well and right now me and the "mini" are having a stare down, glaring contest.

Not only do I get to do this but I have to fax my results in once a week so I can "check in" with my "parole officer" to make sure I am being a good girl.

And before any of you decide to tell me your horror stories of needles, epidurals, and delivery . . . Yes, I am fully aware of what epidurals and IVs are, and my doctor is also fully aware that as long as you don't tell me what you are doing or show me, I am just fine. Otherwise, it is "have a nice life" and I am outta there! (This is why I did not go to medical school.)

I can and have had lots of needles and such, and can do it. The anticipation is worse than the actual procedure, so I have learned my own coping mechanism. It works for me, but is not going to be case on this one.

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary . . . .

The Garden

Here are some pictures of what I picked today:




We have tomatoes, grape tomatoes, jalepenos, and some really sad green peppers. There are a lot more tomatoes that should be go by the end of the week and still tons of jalepenos, which means SALSA TIME!! (I haven't picked the onions, yet.)

Our poor green peppers are just not doing so well this year. I think it is due in part to Jim accidently turning off the water for almost a week and the batteries in our timer for the water died and we didn't realize if for another week in the past month.

Oh well, at least we have something! We didn't plant even half of what we did last year, but that is okay since we still have plenty of salsa left over from last year. Next summer I, hopefully, will be back to doing yard work again and can plant a full garden.

Happiness is . . .

Finding sugar-free Hawaiian Punch drink mix and the wooden letters you wanted for your son's room, when you have been looking for both for a month!