Dumb: I went to SuperTarget and bought eggs that expire on January 17th. Normally I look at the expiration date before I buy perishables, but tonight I was wanting to get in and out of the store quickly, so I forgot. Kind of p-od, cause they were like $2 for half dozen. What the hell happened with the price of eggs? $3.50 for a dozon eggs? also picked up some banana nut crunch, kitty litter, kitty food, diet coke, jelly, and that's it. Left all but my eggs in my car. I got to get my groceries out some time but problem is I am too lazy to walk over to the next zipcode in my parking lot to get the groceries!

Dumber: Went to White Castles to get some snack food. I haven't been there in years. I was probably there last time with my mother! Anyways, I got the chicken breast with cheese sandwich. I took one bite and decided it was nasty. I got the 3 cheese sticks. Only 3 cheese sticks??!!! who the hell only buys 3 cheese sticks for $2? Who buys a tiny small chicken breast sandwich with cheese for $2. That is literally the size, if not smaller, than KFC's chicken snackers and for twice the price. It was even smaller than Mickey D's chicken sandwich on the $1 value menu. Then I got the chicken fries. I think the batter is going to make me sick tonight. I think the chicken in the chicken fries was processed leftover chicken meat. Then there was the white castle cheeseburger. It was definately smaller than I remembered and I didn't taste any onions on it, only pickle. I took off the pickle and wondered what happened to the nasty onions that I used to have to pick off the cheeseburger cause I don't like onions. It was decent and worth its price. I think it compares with the McDonald's cheeseburger, but I am biased towards McDonalds. I finished my cheese sticks and used the marina sauce that came with the cheese sticks on the chicken fries to give them some klnd of flavor cause they were bland. I am making sure the Peptobismol is near my bed tonight. Lesson learned, do not eat white castles and do not sucumb to fast food cravings.

Regret: not taking care of the laundry and not having a secondary gym outfit. Ok, I admit, I lost my second pair of workout pants. I didn't wash my swim suit and work out clothes and the trip to the gym tonight that I had planned got put off. Not going tomorrow or monday night either because of hair dye. I can always workout on my DDR.



I ran around today doing all sorts of errands. Mostly going to Staples and Best Buy and then Office Depot.

Im looking forward to being done with the things I need for my trip next week. I feel behind schedule.

I love Flowers. They're a little bit of luxury in my hum drum life. I feel like I'm in a cozy cottage by lake when I view them.

I bought some at super target for $5 on Friday but somebody thought they were wilted and threw out half of them in the garbage. :(

My dear flowers.

Well this weekend, I don't think a lot got accomplsihed except sleeping. I managed to clean the apartment, for a few days, feed the cats, do the laundry, do the dishes, and do some ironing. Saturday morning I made the mistake of getting a car wash. It was close to the IIT Rice Campus in Wheaton and the Saturday dupage engineer's expo. I was supposed to help at a booth for power engineering but the person running the actual display didn't show up. I ended up hanging out at the IEEE booth and chatting with career legends. It's amazing. I really wish they wouldn't give me that much attention, its like they haven't seen a female engineer, ever, which may actually be the case... anyways.. one of the guys was around when there was vacuum tubes for all the switches used and it retired in like 1990. Wow. I was born in like 1981... they can go on and on like grandpa simpson..(joking) i didn't want to look rude..but I was going to leave after 30 minutes of nothing to do there. Our booth didn't have any big hands on activies for kids so why would they want to stick around there? Oh there was an old 1952 vintage ham radio with its parts all exposed. That technology is outdated! Oh yes, most of the exhbits at the booth was geared in communications engineering, the topic I like least and know nothing!!! Now if there were power systems exhibits them I could have been more *enthused*.

That Saturday night the ice storm raged down badly on Chicagoland I stayed warm and cozy indoors. The lights flickered and I knew there was a power line distrubance. I thought of logging in to work using my work laptop to see what was going on, but didn't. Fortunately the pager didn't go off. I am glad not to be working Storm Duty anymore and risking my life in driving far away in severe weather to sit around to do mostly nothing and getting paid .. nothing.

Dad called me.

Sunday I ate too much. I made the mistake of buying cadburry eggs 3 sets of 4 for $5 at SuperTarget. I already ate 2 cartons since last Sunday. OINK!!!!

I think I just realized my problem. I buy too much food and treats. I buy too much food that is packaged and not fresh. I need to stop buying the crap that is on sale and buying fresh food. I usually buy the packaged foods in the store that are on sale, stock up, and 1 month later actually eat the product, except for pizza.. that usually goes fast. This is how I go grocery shopping. I look at the price.. if it is reasonable, I can buy that. Like meat for example. Most meat I do not buy at the grocery store because it is like $6-10 and I am only cooking for 1 person. I'm not a good cook when it comes to cooking meats like steak, but I do like ham and turkey. I sometimes buy porkchops, which cost $5-6 and then cook them for Joe. this week I am going to be making the prkchops for myself and having 1 chop for dinner each night.

I bought a few items this weekend, like a new dance pad for my DDR games, a rectifier for my personal laptop, groceries, and some junk at SuperTarget.

I feel like playing some more DDR, but bed time is approaching.

Where did my weekend go?