7 posts tagged “shopping”

I'm always a bit busy, it seems, but this week has been a compartmentalized kind of busy!

On last Friday afternoon, I slept the entire afternoon away.  E had the afternoon off, and I was just exhausted, so I laid down for a short nap.  I didn't mean for it to turn into a 4 hour nap!  But it was good, we ended up babysitting Leah and (for the first time) baby Leonard.  They are such fun.  Funny thing, my bookshelves that store my decorative things and china in the dining room only have stuff on the top 2 shelves now, that's how tall he is!  We kept moving stuff up as he noticed he could reach it :D

On Saturday, I finished a knitting project, we went out for lunch, stopped at Jo-Ann's to get me some yarn, and then had a meet up with an old friend from college.  That was really nice.  On Sunday, we had dinner with my family, everybody but Matthew was there, and we played with the kids and played San Juan with Sarah, and planned Thanksgiving , and had delicious baked potatoes.

On Monday afternoon, I worked on meal planning.  We hadn't shopped for 2 weeks, and so a lot of staples were low, and we were out of real meal ideas.  Plus there was a HUGE pile of coupons from the papers to go through.  I like to go hrough the ads and coupons and try to come up with meal ideas based on what I can get a good deal on.  And it paid off, I had $7.35 of coupons off this time!

On Tuesday afternoon, I sorted mail and did laundry.  Both projects had been waiting for too long, and it took 4 loads of laundry to finish it all up.  It is nice to have everything I want to wear actually clean. :)

On Wednesday afternoon, I recorded books and worked on more knitting.   The knit-in was again this week because we ended up with weird weeks in November.  I was hoping to start on some new projects, but the yarn didn't get here until 4:15, too late to swatch and finalize the plans.  But I did figure out the basic pattern on one with existing yarn, so I got closer to being ready for that new yarn!  I had a giant pile of books to put into Vox, and I finished one I had in process so I could take it back.  I could see from the library's online display that I had a lot waiting for me (sometimes, my requests come a lot quicker than scheduled), so I wanted to have as many to bring back as possible!

And that's been the fun of late. :)  I'm still reading and knitting and watching TV and working and cooking every day, as normal, but these were the other outstanding things.  :)

I almost got this floss just because it has alien dudes on it - from Toy Story.

Alien dude

The last two weekends, we've been out and about...

Weekend before last, we decided to go down to Portland's Saturday Market because we'd never been before.  We enjoy the farmer's market in Vancouver a lot, and figured this would be a bigger and more interesting one.  We figured out where it was and were amazed at the crowds of people.  It actually is considerably different than Vancouver's - the V one is heavily based on fresh fruits and vegetables, with some homemade things (crafts/woodwork/gifts/homemade foods) and a food court of sorts.  P's is very based on booths of stuff, a lot of homemade things and things that seemed a little overpriced in places.  No fruits and veges at all.  There were a lot of ethnic booths, and clothes, and quite a lot of jewelry. The booths went on and on, we thought we'd made it through them, and then there was another section, and across the street, and another one, and everywhere!  Pretty phenomenal.  With that many people gathered around, it *was* hard to see though. 

We were so close to Pioneer Place that we headed over to the mall to see what movies were playing.  At least 2 things were out I wanted to see: Transformers and Die Hard.  Die Hard wasn't playing, but we were within 20 mins of Transformers (which is not on amazon yet to put in this post as a movie, sigh) at a matinee time, so that was perfect. Even though I knew nothing barely about them from my childhood, it was a super movie.  We were really surprised that the theater was pack a couple weeks after opening).

We started to walk through the mall, but nothing was super enticing to look at, so we headed over to Macaroni Grill.  We had a delicious meal, wow my dinner was so good I can still taste it, so that was perfect.

On Sunday, we went and hung out with my siblings at Lisa and Jon's house.  We had a nice time, and got to sit and play a great game of Bohnanza with Jon, I've never had that much fun with that game before!  3 players really is fun.

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Then this weekend that just happened, we didn't know what was going on with the family and mom wasn't home, so we did our own thing.  Some books were due back at the library, and I'd been wanting to look at general craft books rather than just looking things up online, so we went to the BIG library.  Then I wanted to get some fresh fruits and veggies at the farmer's market (Vancouver), so we went to see what was there.  There were a TON of people because of the Hawaiian festival in the park.  And not really any good fruits/veges that I wanted to pick up, so we just walked around for a bit and then left.  Because we were downtown, we headed to Thai Orchid for lunch, I love the lemongrass chicken with peanut sauce.  During dinner, we started talking about upcoming birthdays, and then drove around looking for a gift afterwards.  Oh, and stopped at Z Games, where they had some nice new games (couple of Rio Grande, the publishers of many of the ones we own) we hadn't heard of (it's fun to look, we didn't buy anything).  When we got home, we played some board games  (I won both, I think!) and then watched the next Netflix disk (I need to update my movie sidebar with those).

Yesterday, we were going to just stay in, but decided to continue looking for a gift idea (no luck, but at least we know where it *isn't* :P) and that took us down to Clackamas to eat at Claim Jumpers.  I varied from my norm (Tillamook Cheeseburger is divine) and got a Citrus Chicken Salad, and it was okay, but not something worth driving down there for.  We did the mall walk, and didn't find what we were looking for, but it's good exercise (over a mile) and it's really fun to see the progress on the remodel they are doing.

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Overall, we've really had some great together time lately, and these kind of activities get us talking and exercising instead of staying in all the time.  My legs continue to be sore, so we went slow everywhere.  I keep telling myself that the more walking I do, the better they will be, but it doesn't work that way every time!  So we walk slow and I take chances to stretch my ankles when we stop for a minute and sit down  when there's a seat. :)  I really love my husband, it's great to have someone who doesn't mind just doing this kind of stuff together.

I was sitting here last night, trying to add to my wishlist so that my mom and whoever got me in the Christmas drawing and my in-laws have ideas of things to get me.  And I was having a really hard time!

I guess I've had a pretty good year, where if there's something I *really* wanted, I got it.  Or in some cases like the last video games we bought, I waited and waited until they were a better deal and then got them (Rachet: Deadlocked and Sly 3, which we did buy 2, get 1 free at circuit city to get Shadow of the Colossus for E at the same time).

And then between the library and Netflix, I've been seeing a lot of books and movies that I wouldn't have normally been able to, and may have just put some of them on my wishlist before.  And iTunes, to buy just the tracks of an album I want has made my wishlist shorter because I used to want an album just because it was by a certain person and now I'm a little more choosy.  I'm still so new in the crafts I'm doing that I don't know what books I want to OWN yet to help me out.

Of course, I have found some cool things to add to my list.  The Craft magazine was at barnes and noble the other night, and that looked really cool.  Rina's been talking about Lush bath bombs and so I added one of those. (no, i didn't want to freak out my MIL by putting the Sex Bomb, so I went with one with a cherrier name :P)  I've added a few random things that other people on Vox talked about over the last few months.

I guess I just feel bad because usually I have a lot more ideas for people :)  This year, there are less people to need ideas for, so I'm sure it won't even be a big deal to anybody that my list doesn't include very new things :D 

Target has a cool halloween sign for the 'Boolevard' - funny!

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A plant just full of hearts!

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