Insane Random Ramblings

I need to go shopping today. No doubt about it because I have no food. So my top five things I’ll buy from the store are:

1. Frozen dinners for lunch. I didn’t bring my lunch all week. I forgot how expensive that can be.
2. Oreos - I’m on a Oreo kick this week.
3. Eggs - I need eggs for my salad and for egg salad.
4. Bagged salad - I buy bagged salad which is good for 3 small meals. I usually eat 2 with dinner and bring one for lunch.
5. Lipton tea - instead of buying soda at the convenience store, I can bring them from home.

I hate food shopping so I probably won’t buy a lot today. I’ll probably break it up into 2 shopping trips over the weekend. As long as I get everything I want I don’t mind.

Soul Seeking At A Cemetery…

On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day,two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. “One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me,” said one boy. Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence.

Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle.As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, “One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.”

He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along. “Come here quick,” said the boy, “you won’t believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls.”

The man said, “Beat it kid, can’t you see it’s hard for me to walk.” When the boy insisted though, the manhobbled slowly to the cemetery. Standing by the fence they heard, “One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.”

The old man whispered, “Boy, you’ve been tellin’ me the truth. Let’s see if we can see the Lord.”

Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord.

At last they heard, “One for you, one for me. That’s all. Now let’s go get those nuts by the fence and we’ll be done.”

They say the old man made it back to town a full 5 minutes ahead of the kid on the bike.

Today is payday. Yay for that! That means that everyone will be shopping like crazy today and tomorrow. Stores in the area will be having sales and everyone will hand out promotional products to try to get you into their stores. I never shop on payday, I always wait until the beginning of the next week because you can find better deals.

I will however go out for lunch with my coworkers. I haven’t been food shopping at all this week and I don’t want what I have (a enchilada meal). I’ve never had that before and I don’t want to upset my stomach while I’m at work. I’m not sure where we’re going for lunch yet. I just hope it’s somewhere good.

Woohoo. Anything to do with food is exciting. I wrote a post back in April about IHOP coming to Pittsburgh. Finally. I just read in the paper that they are about to start building another IHOP in the area. It would actually be much closer to where I live. Instead of going to Robinson, it would be in Shadyside or Squirrel Hill. That’s practically around the corner from where I live now.

It would be so convenient to be able to get to IHOP within 15 minutes. I know I would be there way more often than I go now. Unfortunately they have to build it so it won’t be open until mid to late 2009. But for good food, I can definitely wait.

I’m really excited. I’m going to order them from TigerDirect.com and have them delivered to my po box. I don’t have them delivered to my house because they hold the packages and make me go pick them up anyway. I’ll have them sent to my po box and I can pick them up at my leisure.

I really miss listening to my ipod so I’m super excited about this.

No not my family reunion. I wish that was cancelled because I don’t want to drive to New Jersey in August. It’s my work related picnic that was cancelled. It was pretty cheap, only $10 per person which isn’t really a lot of money considering one person was cooking. I guess people thought they would gain a bunch of weight after eating Brucie’s cooking. They could always take eca stack to burn the excess fat off. I do know that he planned on having regular meat like ribs, burgers and hotdogs. But he was also having wild game too. I was planning on sticking to the old stand-bys. None of that exotic stuff for me.

Well now it’s cancelled. Everybody got their money back and they’ve released the reservation for the park. It’s a shame because it sounded like a lot of fun. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough people commit to coming so we weren’t sure if we could cover all of our costs. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll find something else to do that weekend.

I don’t have air conditioning in my apartment and it sucks! When it’s over 85 degrees outside my apartment is like a sauna. I have 2 fans plus a ceiling fan but all they seem to do is push around hot air. My skin breaks out really bad like I need Proactiv acne cream, but it’s not acne it’s a heat rash. The only way it goes away is once it cools down outside and my apartment cools off too.

I live in a old apartment building with weird windows. They don’t open up and down or side to side. They turn out to the left. It’s really hard to get a air conditioner in the windows because they’re small to boot. I can’t really afford one of those portable air conditioners right now with school and all. Luckily there are less than 10 days per year that I have to deal with this. But man do I suffer those 10 days.

This week my five things are: What are my top 5 stories to watch in the second half of the MLB season?

1. Will the Rays be able to sustain their success or will they crack under pressure?
2. Same with the Cubs?
3. Will Seattle trade Ichiro?
4. How will this season play out for Josh Hamilton? Of course everybody is rooting for him to do well.
5. The Yankees are in 3rd place in the division and the wild-card race. Will they miss the playoffs for the first time in over 14 years? My guess is no but we’ll have to wait and see.

 This should be an exciting next few months.

The Secret To A Happy Marriage…

A man and woman had been married for more than 65 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.

For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but oneday the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.

In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife’s bedside.

She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000.

He asked her about the contents. “When we were to be married,” she said, “my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll.”

The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with
happiness.

“Honey,” he said, “that explains the doll, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?”

“Oh,” she said, “that’s the money I made from selling the dolls.”

I missed it because I fell asleep. I was sooo tired that I just couldn’t watch anymore. I stayed away and watched until the bottom of the 13th inning. It was already after 1am and I just had to get some sleep. When I woke up this morning, I found out the game went until the bottom of the 15th inning. That’s at least another 30-40 minutes!

The people that went sure got their money’s worth though! Instead of 9 innings, they saw 15. They also got a 7th inning as well as a 14th inning stretch. I’m not sure if the same person sang twice or not. At least the American League won 4-3.

Hopefully I’ll stay up the next time.