Oy, vey. I am so very tired.
Today has been a lot of running.
It probably wasn't a terrific idea to stay up until 0530 this morning playing the coupon game, looking at the ads for Harris Teeter and Farm Fresh, and planning my grocery shopping trips for later today. On the other hand, if I didn't do that, I wouldn't have saved about $215 in coupons tonight!
So I woke up around 10 this morning after the damn dog kept woofing to go out, and I farted around and got ready for my lunch date with Stephanie. Jack and Rob went on a pumpkin farm field trip with his Cub Scout pack, leaving me with the girls for lunch.
Our mystery shop this afternoon was at a Norfolk Mall, at a pizza place in the Food Court. So nothing too fancy or expensive. We had an enjoyable time chatting and hanging out, and the girls behaved pretty well. We hugged our good-byes in the parking lot, and I sent Steph along on her contracting way. (She may be in early labor!)
The girls and I stopped home briefly so they could change out of their dresses and we could all pick up some socks, since we had another mystery shop at the bowling alley for this afternoon. The boys weren't scheduled to be home for another three hours, and I didn't feel like sitting around and waiting, so the girls and I had more "Girls Day Out," as Chloë loves to call it.
Chloë and I played against each other for the first game, and then I played against Sophie for the second. We all scored over 100, which even I never would have done if we hadn't been using the gutter bumpers. And the girls used the ramp instead of throwing the ball, too. Made it much easier and more fun for them. However, I did manage to roll three strikes and a bunch of spares, which had nothing to do with the bumpers. I played well - for me!
(I completely neglected to get a picture of Sophia bowling. What a crappy mother. And though Rob had my camera at the pumpkin farm, he couldn't get it to work, so I have no pictures of that, either!)
Oh wait, he did email me this picture from his iPhone, of Jack whining, "It's too heaveeeeeee!":
Cute, right?
So we all got home around nearly the same time, and we rounded up the icky plastic bags to recycle at the store, and the canvas bags to use for our grocery trips. Our first stop was at Harris Teeter. We got two cartloads of stuff and spent just over $100, and we saved about $160 in coupons and VIC (Very Important Customer) sales.
We went home to put that away - well, at least the cold stuff - and Rob commented to me, "I sure hope you're not planning on buying more frozen stuff at Farm Fresh!" Our fridge-freezer and deep freezer were both jam-packed with food... but I did, in fact, buy a bunch more at Farm Fresh. The sales-and-coupon pairings were just too good for me to pass up! I saved another $50-60 there, and spent about $100, so it wasn't quite as good as at HT, but still very good.
And now we have tons and tons of food. It's all over the kitchen table. Somehow, some way, we managed to rearrange the freezers and get everything put away, but they are bursting at the seams.
I guess I won't be ordering from Schwan's anytime soon.
I guess I'll be doing some "real" cooking these next couple of weeks.
I guess I'm prohibited from shopping the deals next week.
I guess.
I'm yawning my fool head off. Time to take a "nap" so I can function enough to do my shop reports. I hope you had a good weekend. Well? Didja?
Fin.
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