September 25, 2008

• Thursday Thirteen #35

  Thirteen Things I HAVE LEARNED THIS WEEK 1.  SOMETIMES, if you wait, the price of gas WILL go down!  Of course, it WILL go back up, again . . . but there IS that small window of opportunity!  Since we both own huge vehicles, waiting for that window has become a game in our house. 2.  I’m not sure I like Gain laundry detergent compared to Tide, even though it’s 1/3 of the price of Tide.  I think it probably cleans as well, but the clothes don’t smell clean.  They have NO scent. 3.  I can beat the electric company without getting on a payment plan OR having my electricity turned off.  It’s all about paying portions of a bill at the right time.  (re:  we had a $500 and then a $430 bill, 2 months in a row)  I paid part of the first bill.  Then, when the second bill was ready to come out, I paid the past due amount of the first bill.  After receiving the next month’s bill, I paid part of it late, before I got a cut off notice.  Then paid the remainder after the cut off notice was received.  Now I’m up to date and my third summer bill is more reasonable (under $250).  Well, I guess that’s not exactly “REASONABLE” . . . but it’s MUCH better than $500.00!!!! 4.  We don’t like cheaper brands of bologna.  We like Oscar Mayer Beef Bologna, not an off brand, turkey bologna, or a cheaper brand.  AND, we don’t even like bologna much at all.  But, in trying to cut back on the grocery bill . . .  well, you do what you hafta do! 5.  Homeschooling for five and a half hours to catch up is too much school in one day.  Even though we took a lunch break, teacher and students had a “glazed over” look when we got to the last subject.  Homeschooling is so much more intense than public school – five hours of it in one day is not going to happen in this house again . . . not until my children are much older; which, I will be too, sooooooooo . . . 6.  Cats can have 1/4 of a tablet of human’s brand Imodium. 7.  Having a headache that fringes around the edge of being called a “migraine” has become something I can expect monthly.  (I’m going to stop taking the birth control pill this month and I’ll see how things go: better or worse) 8.  Clipping Chirper’s claws saves many things around our house from being “marked” including my arms. 9.  Eva Perone (The play “Evita” and, in particular, the song, “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”) prompted me to look her up on the Internet.  I had no idea she had been Vice President of Argentina, had had such a short life (died at 32yo from cervical cancer) and had implemented many organizations and places to help women and children.  She died the year before I was born.  But, I don’t remember hearing about her in history books.  Then again, I didn’t pay attention much in Jr. High or High School. 10.  I DO have an eye for color and how the finished product will look.  Also, I am  VERY easily spooked by dramatic changes and need to learn to trust my eye and not be alarmed as the color is changed! 11.  I’m weirded out by germs.  Not when caring for sick people (where I should be MOST concerned), but after shopping at the Thrift Store (and other such places).  I get back in the car and pass the hand sanitizer around AND give the steering wheel a wipe down! 12.  The reason Wal-Mart’s strawberries are so cheap, right now, is because they are over ripe.  If you don’t use them up within 2 days of purchase, they begin to shrivel and rot in the refrigerator.  Another waste of precious grocery store money. 13.  I should not take one of my sleeping pills (prescribed by the doctor) and get into bed with a book expecting to read.  I never get very far and then . . . zzzzzzzzzzz happens!

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