May 2, 2007
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Eats, Sheets and Weeds
I think it’s a good night for ice cream. What do you think?My dandelions are not dead. This might bring great joy to DandelionBall, but not so much to me. I know that dying dandelions try very hard to reproduce in one last gasp and turn all white and fluffy before they shuffle off this mortal coil. So, before I attempted their death by toxin, I asked the kids to go out an bring me 200 flowers each. Five children times 200 flowers plus the extra 900 (no kidding!) they added to the pile = 1900 posies. I foolishly thought this would make a dent in the population. Oh, how wrong I was. I couldn’t even tell where they had plucked their blooms! Perhaps Ortho will take care of the rest.
This past weekend, I got six new bath towels and a new set of celery green sheets for my bed. I love linens! I so enjoy browsing through the comforters and pillows and imagine. Somehow I think that a new bedspread will change my life. But, being a “frugal thing” (sometimes), I rarely indulge. Actually, TGD and I lived in our current house for four years without a bedspread or comforter because I couldn’t find anything to match the floor-length, burgundy floral curtains in the room. Finally, my mom bought me a whole bedroom set for Christmas two years ago. With my new towels, we can all enjoy fluffy softness and get rid of some of the towels I’ve had since college. I’m a-frayed of them!
What’s your favorite store department?
P.S. Happy Birthday to RansomOfThulcandra! Feel free to head over and wish him a happy day! Also, if you have no clue about my title, you need to read Lynn Truss.
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You are too pun-y tonight!
I just recently added a spread to our bed. It is a hand embroidered flowery affair done by ladies in India, and given to us by my in-laws, who supported the ministry of a certain Scottish lady who got girls off the street and taught them to do things to support themselves–like making these beautiful hand-embroidered bedspreads. After 10 years of storage, I decided that it was better to use it than to keep it hidden away in a drawer, even though I am afraid to wreck it.
My favorite store department? The cross-stitch/crafts areas. Least favorite? Clothes.
I’m taking AP Calc and Pysch. =)
I absolutely love the electronics/office department. In fact, I find shopping at places like Office Depot and Circuit City somewhere between breathtaking and intoxicating (not that I know anything about intoxication, but it is such an impressive polysyllabic word). Those beautiful new desk lamps, office chairs, laptops, pencil sharpeners, Post-it-Notes, gorgeous fountain pens, … I love them all!
Thanks for your sweet comment on Julia – that picture was taken on Easter, and if you look closely you’ll see that she’s holding a little purse.
Hope you’re doing well and that your dandelions start diminishing – ours only disappear for a few hours after the grass is cut. The beauties of spring are inescapable, are they not?
I recognize the title…
Yes, that excerpt was from WWAP. Actually, I think it is a much better textbook than the one we used – The Informed Argument – but I suppose that one did have it’s good points, too. Of course, it didn’t have any hilarious essays to its’ name. Which, by the way, causes me to say that your description of Anna’s snort/laughter must have been a riot. It sounded like a great musical – I would have definitely come if we didn’t live so far away! (I try to go to like all the musicals I can…hehe) If ever in your musicals there is dancing, teach your sons and all the guys for that matter to lead and actually watch out for the girl – my friend and I didn’t have partners yesterday in ballroom dancing class who were good at that sort of thing, and since we were dancing backwards, she ended up stomping on my foot. Ouch. (nevertheless, it is quite funny to look back on!)
I love new linens and towels too!
My favorite departments would be home decor, organization stuff, office stuff, kitchen stuff. I like stuff.
I’m afraid I’m with DrJ–my dad moved in with us in October and tomorrow is his birthday. He’s a technological junkie like me and it was so easy to buy him a birthday present! However, I don’t really like stores at all, and have found that I get better deals and variety off the internet.
Very clever post. I recognized the title right away, although I didn’t get the previous one until someone posted that it took him reading it three times before he got it.
Is there any night that isn’t good for ice cream?
Ah, Lynn Truss… that was a fun book. I should read it again. 1900 dandelions? Wow.. that’s like… a plague! Hopefully said toxin works.
I love any home section, but I’m typically too cheap to buy new towels. A lot of ours have bleach stains on them, but I don’t care. I’d rather buy a new shirt than a new towel! Maybe you should contact Dr. Dixon, a fellow dandelion-hater. He may have some good tips b/c Cedarville was almost dandelion-free. His “sermon” on dandelions every year was a hoot.
Hmmm… I’m usually too much in a hurry to browse & decide a favorite department in a store! Maybe kitchen gadgets? I enjoy new fluffy towels, too. Ours wear out way too fast from hard water.
I would be in heaven if I could stroll slowly through AC Moore or Staples. Am I weird or what???
Sorry to hear about your dandelion problem. I haven’t the faintest idea if they are an issue up here or not. I’m still lamenting over the lack of spring flowers in my yard. I found a tulip coming up the other day. Next year, I’ll wow all the neighbors! In my dreams….. lol
I have a few favorites. I love the section where the organizational tools are at. I browse through all of the latest gadgets and have dreams of organization, lol. I also like the kitchen area, where again the latest gadgets are out. Hmmm…I am starting to notice a theme of gadgets, lol.
I choose a bookstore. If I must be in a department store, then the kitchen gadgets area. I love kitchen gadgets. Of course, I’m big on power tools at the hardware store, too. My husband and I feed off of one another — “Would you look at this?” “Wow, that’s neat. Look at this thing.” We can’t go together or we come out decidedly poorer.
Funny, I too thought of Dr. Dixon when I read your post, El Mano speaks fondly on his dandelion sermons. I LOVE the home decor section; comforter, candles, placemats, rug, pictures, throw pillows…I often am overcome with shear excitement whenever I set foot in an IKEA, Pottery Barn or Pier One. With that being said I also share Kristen’s fealings on towels, I would rather purchase a new shirt than new towels. Ours towels also are from college, bleach stained and a little ragged, but the work just fine.
RYC: I named the cat “Capers” after a friend of my brother and sister’s. I thought it was a very cool sounding name for a person; so of course it worked for a cat.
The kitchen section…. I drool over all the fun dishes
Love the title… that’s such a great book.
As another CU grad, I immediately thought of Dr. Dixon and his yearly dandelion speech. When our new president, Dr. Brown, came in, he gave a pro-dandelion speech just to have a little fun with Dixon. However, the campus remained dandelion free even under his tenure.
I’m with rehabilitated_feminist on a bookstore. But if we’re talking department stores, then it’s a toss up between kitchen gadgets and home decor. I love Bed, Bath, and Beyond! It’s a good thing they send me so many of their 20% coupons.
When I’m in the States I could spend hours in Walmart, Target, the Mall, etc. I love browsing and looking at almost everything (except power tools, electronics, auto and the like). I love looking at candles, crafts, fabrics, towels, bed linens, clothes, CD’s, rugs, furniture, cosmetics, toiletries. Have I named most everything? Oh, and then there are shoes, books, flowers and baby, toddler and little boy/girl clothes (for the grandkids), toys (my kids still like to look).
The answer to your question: Job 5:7. Just took me a few days to answer because I’ve been busy and then bruised my coccyx – ouchie. Doing much better today.
I always have my girls pick all the dandelions they can, too, but, this year, like you, our lawn has been overwrought with the “lovely” little things. I tell the girls that we’re the “Keepers of the Dandelions” & all the dandelions came to our yard for refuge from the evil wizard, Orthomahn . Or, we just tell the neighbors we’re growing a dandelion garden to make delicious dandelion leaf salads….. ha!… not really, but, we have talked about growing one! We’ll be commiting herbicide this year, too, seeing how out of hand they’ve gotten.
Hey! I went and got sheets and towels, too, last week! Macy’s was having a terrific sale and I got 2 sets (bath, hand, and wash cloth) of fluffy, sage green towels, a set of green (looks like celery to me!) & cream striped sheets, a fabulous knife, a small blender, two copper-bottomed pots, a 4pc. set of luggage, and 8 sets of the coolest square dishes you’ve ever seen in your life (that we had to take back because several were chipped & one I chipped by barely touching it to the side of the sink….. cheap, cheap, cheap!!). Can you say, “Happy Early Mother’s Day”?? Several things, we really needed, the dishes, one pot, the towels and the sheets were not among the “needed”. I’m with you on linens…… I, too, feel that a new bedspread is almost like a magic wand. What? Is it going to put my clothes away, vacuum, and dust for me? I rarely go on a shopping spree like this one….. in fact, I think I can safely say this is the first of it’s kind! (B.’s overtime has encouraged some of this purse “liberation”-ha!)
Gotta go do B.S. now…… hmmm. Maybe not such a good abreviation for Bible Study??
It would be super hard to pick one department! I do love the linens, but I also love the cookware and kitchen supplies. I love the “personal apparel” and the purses and hats and I have a giddy fondness for stationary.
Thanks, I fixed the picture now.
This morning I was reading the xanga subscriptions email, and I read this (http://www.xanga.com/joeygirlinlove/587950055/a-few-thoughts.html) right before I read yours… and it challenged me again – how should I be spending my money? Should I be doing more for the poor? etc.
Sorry I’m so bad at getting back to your questions. Thought I’d answer some now!
This week has been and will probably continue to be just be a total goof off week since we’re all sick. I would have loved to be in the garden plucking up weeds and yanking creeping grasses out from my beds. B. has a lawn guy come to mow, but, he keeps thinking my beds are just grassy areas and has cut down some of my tulips and allium before they’ve even had a chance to bloom! (Grrrrr!) There are a few places where the grass has seemingly taken over, but, for the most part, I think most people could tell they are flower beds due to the mulch remains and rock borders!
I am not reading anything except the Bible currently. We seem to always be in “catch up” mode with our Bible reading schedule because we keep forgetting to read it on the weekends, then, with our sicknesses & a few field trips here and there, we forget or no one wants to read outloud. We have read up through 1 Samuel 7 this year, as of today. Last year, we read the Psalms and New Testament parts of the “Victory Bible….” booklet that you’re supposed to use to read the Bible in a year. This year, we’re doing the Old Testament. We found an online audio Bible reading site today and let it read to us! That was a nice break for all our crackley voices.
Congratulations on the 20-year anniversary of your church! Is that how long the church has actually existed or just how long they’ve been in that building?
Oh, at the doctor’s office on Monday, the nurse took my blood pressure and it was 106/64. She looked at my children, then at me and said, “That’s pretty good for having 4 children with you today!”. I said, “Yeah! That is!”. Then, I remembered that I’d spent practically the entire weekend in bed, watching movies, eating popcorn, taking naps and being waited on hand and foot……. yeah, now there’s a good way to keep your blood pressure down!! ;D
I like TJ Maxx, Ross and Tuesday Morning. Can you tell I love a bargin? I haven’t been to a mall department store in I don’t know how long!
Dandelions are pretty!! Learn to like ‘em.
Eats, Sheets, and Weeds. I get it. I knew it rang a bell when I read it, but only until you gave it away there at the end did I say, “Aha!” Clever, very clever. Hope you had ice cream to reward yourself.
Oh, I like the book section, of course!
Though I also love kitchen gadgets. I have also been browsing linens for the past 4-5 years looking for Delft Blue, which I am beginning to think will never come back into style. I’d really like to use that in our bedroom and master bath, but the comfort I have now is just tan and very boring, and the towels are burgundy. Why do I always get my heart set on something that is just not available?
My favorite store, though is a catalog. I am an armchair shopper.
Btw, GREAT title! LOL
Ok here’s how you figure it out, go to mayo clinic and figure out how many calories you can have per day to maintain your current weight. Then take that number and multiply it by 7 to figure how many cals you can have weekly. Subtract 3,500 (there are 3500 cals in 1 lb) from the weekly amount. Take that amount and divide it by 7 and that will be the amount you can have daily and lose approx 1 lb per week. If you want to lose 2 lbs per week you would subtract 7,000 from the weekly amount. Does that make sense?
It ALWAYS feels like ice cream!!
~Victoria