July 2008 Archive

I was hoping for grilled burgers tonight

When I got home this evening I was hoping that my hubby was going to cook burgers on the grill outside.  I love it when he cooks burgers on the grill outside.  Let’s face it, I love it when he cooks ANYTHING outside!  Probably largely due to the fact that leaves me with one less pot or pan to clean up from cooking inside!  But also I like it during the summer because it helps to keep the house from getting overheated from cooking inside.  During the summertime, cooking outside is definitely the way to keep a house cooler! 

But my hubby was asleep when I got home, and he stayed asleep so I had to fend for myself.  I don’t like cooking on the grill outside.  I don’t know why the propane grill makes me nervous, I guess it’s because I have to make sure to turn the propane on and off again and I’m afraid I’ll forget.  Or maybe it’s the open flame, but I rather doubt that because I cook with propane inside!  I think I’d really like to buy one of the Outdoor Electric Grills for me to cook on, I would not be as nervous about that.  I’d probably keep it in the garage, though, and leave the garage door open.

Udderly nuts

The local newspaper ran a short story, contributed by some readers about a couple from Maryland who go to the grand openings of Chik-Fil-A restaurants around the country. (For those of you who may not know what Chik-Fil-A is, it is a fast food restaurant that sells chicken products, no beef products. Their advertising campaigns involve cows encouraging people to eat chicken.)   Their chicken sandwiches and nuggets, and their fries are very tasty, and I can understand people wanting to get free food from the restaurant, but this couple has gone to extremes!

They camp out in the parking lot the night before so they can be one of the first 100 customers. Chik-Fil-A gives out “free Chik-Fil-A for a year” coupons to their first 100 customers. This couple has gone to eighteen of these grand openings in the past year, and have decided that they can’t use all the coupons, so now they just go for the fun of it and give the coupons away.

I don’t understand what is so much fun about camping out in a parking lot to be one of the first 100 customers to get free food if you then give away the free food! I’m udderly confused.

Posted by Monica in Business, Fun, Life, Local, News, Opinion, Shopping

I can’t believe we drove that far for a pair of shoes!

Well, we did it!  We drove 64 miles one way to buy a pair of those crazy Z-Coil shoes!  I thought my hubby was planning to buy a pair, too, but when we got to the store and he saw how ugly they were he would not even try a pair on to see how the felt!  I really thought it was too bad, if he had at least tried on a pair and someone someday talks about those shoes he could say “oh yeah, I tried on a pair of those once!”  But he had this look of disgust on his face that would not come off. 

Well, the shoes ARE ugly, but they are comfortable.  So I bought a pair of them for myself.  I NEED a comfortable pair of shoes, I am going to be working in a job where I stand up all day long, and I’m not used to doing that.  So I want the most comfortable pair of shoes I can find!  They cost me over $200, so I sure hope they are worth it and make my feet “happy” when I’m working in them!  If they do, then they will be worth their weight in gold!

Posted by Monica in Around the House, Family, Life, Local, Shopping, Travel

Crazy shoes

I’m waiting for my hubby to get ready to go shopping for shoes with me.  We’re planning on buying some of those crazy Z-Coil shoes, and the closest store that sells them is 64 miles away!  The experts say that you should never buy shoes before 2pm, so we should be getting to the store just about right on time!  I printed off directions to the store from Mapquest, and we’re taking our GPS, so I hope we can find it OK, it’s in a town that I haven’t been to in over 30 years!

Decorative accessories for the yard

I really enjoy looking at all of the decorative accessories on the market that people can buy for the outside of their houses, and for their yards.  I especially love decorative residential mailboxes, and address plaques; I think that they make a big visual impact to visitors!

 

If a house has one of those mail-slots in the door for the mail to be slid through, then I think that really nice decorative items to have outside the house are birdfeeders and address plaques.

 

Mailbox and Beyond Company has a very nice assortment of the types of items that dress up the exterior of a house. They sell birdfeeders, sundials, custom painted mailboxes, door knockers, door bell decorations, and some really cute water faucet knobs too.