Monday, December 30, 2013
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Lucky Me
Pennsylvania has scratch-off cards and right now the promotion is a lot of Christmas-themed cards.
If you buy one (or two or more) and they are non-winners, the cards can be entered at the lottery site online for a second chance drawing.
Knowing this, I have been checking out the waste baskets placed alongside the machines in the grocery store we visit once a week. We were in that grocery store today because we were in the vicinity for another errand, so my husband bought us two scratch-off cards. I won $10 on mine; his was a dud. I will take his dud and enter it online for the second chance drawing along with the others I found.
There were quite a few cast offs that people did not win so they tossed them into the waste baskets. I retrieved as many as I could before I started to look like a vagrant. As I was double checking them on the way home I made an astounding discovery. Someone threw away a winner.
I scored $100.00 due to someone's stupidity. This may never happen again, or I may find a winner with a lesser amount, but you can bet your bottom dollar I won't be stopping my waste basket diving in the future.
If you buy one (or two or more) and they are non-winners, the cards can be entered at the lottery site online for a second chance drawing.
Knowing this, I have been checking out the waste baskets placed alongside the machines in the grocery store we visit once a week. We were in that grocery store today because we were in the vicinity for another errand, so my husband bought us two scratch-off cards. I won $10 on mine; his was a dud. I will take his dud and enter it online for the second chance drawing along with the others I found.
There were quite a few cast offs that people did not win so they tossed them into the waste baskets. I retrieved as many as I could before I started to look like a vagrant. As I was double checking them on the way home I made an astounding discovery. Someone threw away a winner.
I scored $100.00 due to someone's stupidity. This may never happen again, or I may find a winner with a lesser amount, but you can bet your bottom dollar I won't be stopping my waste basket diving in the future.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Hey! I'm Still Alive
Believe it or not I am still kicking. There hasn't been much happening and our days have been filled with lots of shopping for groceries, cat food, and whatever else we felt like shopping for.
I decorated for Christmas both inside and outside and didn't complain at all about having to do it as I do other years. I think that is a first for me. It's not that I am looking forward to Christmas, it's just that the house needed some color.
All the gifts have been bought but not wrapped yet. I usually do that the last minute. I have a few cards to write out and send. Since the stamps are going up another 3¢ the first of the year, I felt I had better buy a bunch now. I am hoping I don't have to buy any for a few years. With the problems the post office is having we may just go back to the pony express.
A snowstorm is on its way to us and should arrive Saturday morning. They are predicting anywhere from six to eight or nine inches of the stuff. Rain, sleet and ice are supposed to follow late Saturday toward the evening. Time will tell.
Anyway, the snow blower is ready, we are well situated as far as food goes for us and for the cats, inside and outside, so no problems there.
I have my to-do list for myself that will keep me busy this weekend. I also have a bunch of photos in both my cameras that need to be put into the computer. Maybe I will have more to write about once I do that.
I decorated for Christmas both inside and outside and didn't complain at all about having to do it as I do other years. I think that is a first for me. It's not that I am looking forward to Christmas, it's just that the house needed some color.
All the gifts have been bought but not wrapped yet. I usually do that the last minute. I have a few cards to write out and send. Since the stamps are going up another 3¢ the first of the year, I felt I had better buy a bunch now. I am hoping I don't have to buy any for a few years. With the problems the post office is having we may just go back to the pony express.
A snowstorm is on its way to us and should arrive Saturday morning. They are predicting anywhere from six to eight or nine inches of the stuff. Rain, sleet and ice are supposed to follow late Saturday toward the evening. Time will tell.
Anyway, the snow blower is ready, we are well situated as far as food goes for us and for the cats, inside and outside, so no problems there.
I have my to-do list for myself that will keep me busy this weekend. I also have a bunch of photos in both my cameras that need to be put into the computer. Maybe I will have more to write about once I do that.
Sunday, December 01, 2013
Poor Little Ol' Me
My head cold symptoms first set in the Saturday evening before the holiday week. And I had my husband to thank for it since he had his the week before.
My husband's cold lasted all of four days. I figured mine would too since we both had the same thing. My cold was supposed to go away by Wednesday. It didn't.
I did make it to the doctor Wednesday morning for a quick blood pressure check since it was out of whack the week before for my regular visit. Thank goodness it was well within its limits and I was okay.
That evening I lost my sense of smell and taste. I figured it would return for Thanksgiving Day and I could make our meal. It didn't. Therefore, I had to postpone the meal. I spent the entire day wrapped up in my recliner watching the parades and football.
Friday morning was a different story. I could smell and I could taste. Hallelujah!
Getting the meal together didn't exactly go smoothly. I had bought a stuffed turkey breast and put it into the freezer. I neglected to read everything on the carton. I was supposed to thaw it in the refrigerator overnight. That never happened. I ended up boiling it for 30 minutes (it was encased in a hard plastic bag) and letting it rest so it would thaw all the way through by the time I was ready to make it for dinner.
The turkey breast was the only thing that went wrong, which was made right by what I did. All the other sides as well as the pumpkin pie and whipped cream were devoured by the two of us. Of course, I couldn't eat as much as I had liked since my stomach was a little shrunken from not eating much all week. But Saturday was another day and there was enough left over for the two of us to have a second meal just like the first one.
This time, instead of pumpkin pie and whipped cream, we had cheesecake. I rarely eat cheesecake but I felt after what I went through I certainly deserved to have it.
My husband's cold lasted all of four days. I figured mine would too since we both had the same thing. My cold was supposed to go away by Wednesday. It didn't.
I did make it to the doctor Wednesday morning for a quick blood pressure check since it was out of whack the week before for my regular visit. Thank goodness it was well within its limits and I was okay.
That evening I lost my sense of smell and taste. I figured it would return for Thanksgiving Day and I could make our meal. It didn't. Therefore, I had to postpone the meal. I spent the entire day wrapped up in my recliner watching the parades and football.
Friday morning was a different story. I could smell and I could taste. Hallelujah!
Getting the meal together didn't exactly go smoothly. I had bought a stuffed turkey breast and put it into the freezer. I neglected to read everything on the carton. I was supposed to thaw it in the refrigerator overnight. That never happened. I ended up boiling it for 30 minutes (it was encased in a hard plastic bag) and letting it rest so it would thaw all the way through by the time I was ready to make it for dinner.
The turkey breast was the only thing that went wrong, which was made right by what I did. All the other sides as well as the pumpkin pie and whipped cream were devoured by the two of us. Of course, I couldn't eat as much as I had liked since my stomach was a little shrunken from not eating much all week. But Saturday was another day and there was enough left over for the two of us to have a second meal just like the first one.
This time, instead of pumpkin pie and whipped cream, we had cheesecake. I rarely eat cheesecake but I felt after what I went through I certainly deserved to have it.
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