Sunday Shopping
Mar. 5th, 2006 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yrmencynToday I finally got around to buying some things I've been meaning to buy for a while now. First, I headed to Bed Bath & Beyond. I have been using the same sheets on my bed since I went off to college back in Fall of 2000, some cheap-ass cotton/poly things. I mean, they cover the mattress, and they're not actively unpleasant, but they don't enhance my sleep experience as such. Well, one of the few advantages to having a tiny-ass twin bed is that you can buy 300 TC Egyptian cotton sheets for only $9.99 apiece, in a range of lovely colors:
I did not buy any pillow cases, though, because one standard pillowcase costs more than both sheets combined ($27.99 to be exact).
While I was there, I finally bought a utensil crock. This is something that's been needed for a LONG damn time, because the gadget drawer in my kitchen was becoming almost a spatial reasoning puzzle to open and close without hangups. Now I can put all the weird strainers/can openers/meat thermometers/etc in there easily, and the more frequently used tools live in their nice, spacious new home on the counter:
Incidentally, the Girl Scouts right outside the door of BB&B also hit me up for a couple of boxes of Thin Mints. I didn't even put up a fight.
And since it's that time of year, and Old Navy's right next door to BB&B, I went there. I buy exactly one thing from Old Navy, no more no less: flip-flops. Tree-fitty flip-flops to be exact. This time around they're brown, but who knows, for $3.50 a pair I might buy something crazy like blue next time I'm over on Siegen.
To reward myself for my good purchases, I made fried potatoes today with the leftover sliced potatoes (I cut up *way* too many for the gratin last night), the leftover carne asada, some onions, garlic, and pickled jalapeños. So very spicy, so very good.
[BTW, the new userpic dates from family camp; I'm doing the 'bananas' portion of "Prunes Bananas". Original photo c. 2006, Andrea Fontenot.]
I did not buy any pillow cases, though, because one standard pillowcase costs more than both sheets combined ($27.99 to be exact).
While I was there, I finally bought a utensil crock. This is something that's been needed for a LONG damn time, because the gadget drawer in my kitchen was becoming almost a spatial reasoning puzzle to open and close without hangups. Now I can put all the weird strainers/can openers/meat thermometers/etc in there easily, and the more frequently used tools live in their nice, spacious new home on the counter:
Incidentally, the Girl Scouts right outside the door of BB&B also hit me up for a couple of boxes of Thin Mints. I didn't even put up a fight.
And since it's that time of year, and Old Navy's right next door to BB&B, I went there. I buy exactly one thing from Old Navy, no more no less: flip-flops. Tree-fitty flip-flops to be exact. This time around they're brown, but who knows, for $3.50 a pair I might buy something crazy like blue next time I'm over on Siegen.
To reward myself for my good purchases, I made fried potatoes today with the leftover sliced potatoes (I cut up *way* too many for the gratin last night), the leftover carne asada, some onions, garlic, and pickled jalapeños. So very spicy, so very good.
[BTW, the new userpic dates from family camp; I'm doing the 'bananas' portion of "Prunes Bananas". Original photo c. 2006, Andrea Fontenot.]
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Date: 2006-03-05 10:51 pm (UTC)Glad you had a good time :D
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Date: 2006-03-05 11:18 pm (UTC)I need to make one of those :(
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Date: 2006-03-06 06:09 am (UTC)