Another Warm January Day

Really.  What have you done with Winter?

I laid all the 5.5 inch blocks out on my bed this morning.  I have WAY MORE than I needed.  In fact, if I even out the numbers (make 20 more) I will be making a 70 by 70 inch square top.  And it will still need borders.  So, 84 by 84 when I thought I was making a 60 inch square.  I could still be making a 60 inch square.  I'd just be making two of them.  How could I be so stupid?

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I also was trolling the internet (yesterday) looking for low carb recipes for breads and found a video recipe for chocolate cake.  One of the major ingredients was sugar free vanilla syrup.  I don't have any.  For no good reason, I started reading the comments attached to this recipe (comments on these sites are ridiculous).  And there was my answer.  TheWalmarts. They are supposed to have sugar free syrups in the coffee aisle of any SuperStore.  I asked G if ours was a SuperStore and he said yes.  So we went.  I got the last two bottles of sugar free vanilla and bought an additional bottle of caramel and chocolate.  Now I can make  an Atkins single serving chocolate cake.

I also discovered the quart sized cartons of Eggbeaters are $1.40 cheaper than my grocery.  The sausages I have for breakfast (every morning) are 50 cents cheaper.  Splenda is dollars less expensive.  And TheWalmarts even had packaged hard boiled, peeled, eggs.  $2 versus the $8.99 the grocery tried to charge me.  We found a box of 8 yogurts (a duo of the ONLY two flavors G will eat; cherry and peach) for $4 which is $1.60 less than the grocery which says it has the lowest prices in town.

I try to avoid TheWalmarts (this is the way the store is referred to by most people in America) like the plague.  I may just have to change my tune now that we are getting close to retirement.  I go through Eggbeaters like crazy.  This will save me money!!!  It's like buy three and get the fourth one free.

G and I walked the dog, gassed up the truck, shopped At TheWalmarts, stopped at the library for my next Tudor murder mystery, got home and ate a very late lunch (4pm) and now it's getting dark.  I have laundry to fold and a few shirts to iron. The internet is working (we had a problem this morning when the computer lost contact with the wireless card) and G is holding his book and sleeping.  Riley is also fast asleep.

Downton Abbey is on PBS tonight.  We are getting BBCAmerica (without charge) now (why not when The Hours was on and I really wanted to see the final episode???).  I watched the first two episodes of the X-Files late last night on BBC.  Fox and Mulder looked like babies.  Wednesday it's the Bloody Tudors all day starting at 1pm, perfect alongside my Tudor murder mysteries.  No Law and Order UK.  That's what I really wanted to watch.  Better get those clothes folded.

Oh, and I filed for this week's unemployment.  Sigh.