Was that *me* yesterday ranting and raving and kvetching about shopping? Really? Um, okay, KW. Open mouth, remove foot. Today… Bed, Bath & Beyond: potato masher and k’niffie for Mouse. And some pop-up sponges and some kind of fancy hi-tech kitchen towels too. And a garlic zoom for me. And a couple of secret things that are gonna get mailed, some sooner than later, so don’t anybody getcher underwear in a bunch and start hanging out there harassing your mailman. Damages? $55.07. Michaels: three packs of orange LED Halloween lights, one for Mouse, two fer yer favo-rite blahgger. Why? Because *last* year, it got to be about a week before Halloween and I figgered out that all my old Halloween-type lights were dead and dooya think I could find Halloween lights anywhere in town? Um, xmas lights are not orange. Of course, later on, a similar thing happened to me about xmas lights too. You’da thunk I wouldda learned something from the Halloween light fiasco, roight? Not. Damages? $15.87. Trader Joe’s: three bottles of two-buck Chuck, two Shiraz, one Chardonnay, a bag of avocados, and, hmm, oh yeah, Mouse bought some bread. And a TJ’s reusable bag because I LEFT MY BAGS IN THE CAR! AGAIN!!! Damages? $29.88. And then I dropped Mouse downtown since we’re down to two automotive vee-hickles around here. Oh, and I was *gonna* put gas in the Cute Little Blue Honda Civic but apparently the gas gauge popper-opener thingie is broken and only the blasted GG can get the thing open. And the scheduled maintenance light is flashing in the Dirty Old Green Honda Accord so that’s three vee-hickles down and none to go. I’m sure the Ol’ Boy is having a field day watching our latest vee-hickular fiasco from wherever he is, and, once again, Kevin Loo, where are you? BTW, putting gas into a vee-hickle does not really constitute “shopping” in my book.

That’s all the shopping I did today but that’s not all the excitement, nosirree. The wonderful odor that has emanated from the regurgitator for the last couple of days was finally determined to be emanating from a plastic container of two (or three) week old fish and rice. It sure was pretty. Green and blue and orange. Sorry, but I did not take a picture of it. And, in a spurt of great enthusiasm related to finishing my second sock, it turned out that I knit three-and-a-quarter rows *farther* than I was supposed to knit and now I am having to tink those three-and-a-quarter rows out. Except that I have also managed to lose track of how many rows I have tinked. I am sure that Mouse will be very happy and relieved when I finally finish this pair of socks. Oh, and before all that, we went on one of our favorite little urban hikes down by the Urine Huron River. I keep thinking it is just a short little walk but given the length of time we were out there, I’m gonna guess it is actually several miles. Click here or on the pic for slides. I only had my iPhone camera today, so they are what they are.

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