15 Wednesday Mar 2023
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big girl pants, blessed, clothes, Costco, extras, groceries, items, moments, shopping, shorts, treats, widow
went to Costco for four things, hahaha…
came home with three of them and just a few other things…
including leggings that I had picked up a while ago, and loved, in a different colour… shorts with side pockets (spring must be coming, right!), two v-neck tops… salad, and maybe a fun snack;-)…
27 Wednesday May 2020
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big girl pants, Costco, deliveries, flowers, garden, grandson, groceries, moments, nature, planting, plants, raining, Shelmerdine, shopping, widow
more deliveries yesterday…
Shelmerdine delivered plants and two new bird feeders… it was raining when the truck arrived and the driver offered to put everything in the garage, which was very nice…
not much later UPS arrived with the items I had purchased online from Costco about ten days before…
this one really made me laugh because the parcel came from Airdre, Alberta, rather than the store that is less than four kilometres from my house… don’t think I will be ordering from there again;-(…
today I called and spoke with someone at Costco to see if my grandson could shop using my card and it is possible, so I won’t have to get things sent all the way from Alberta… I will call and let them know the date he will arrive to shop each time, but that is much better than having things travel from two provinces away… the person I spoke with advised that they are currently testing Instacart…
05 Friday Jul 2019
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big girl pants, camping, Costco, family, groceries, pedicure, potato salad, scuffed, SkipTheDishes, toe, Total Wrapture, vacation, widow
last week I had a pedicure and as I stepped into the car, I scuffed my big toe… didn’t have time to go back and get it fixed, until this morning…
seemed like my lucky day… when I arrived at the clinic for my blood work, there wasn’t a single person there… got in right away… and after I left there, I called to see if they could fix my toe and I got in there right away and they didn’t charge anything;-)…
from there it was off to Costco for items for my camping trip with the boys… I seemed to find lots of treats, lol…
after lunch and a nap I made a big bowl of potato salad to take…
and, to top off the day, I ordered dinner from Clay Oven, via SkipTheDishes…
after all, it was the first day of my vacation;-)…
05 Friday Apr 2019
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accountant, bank, big girl pants, cheque, Costco, deposit, invoice, laugh, lTechnology, phone, trifecta, widow
been laughing all evening…
in October I upgraded my Costco membership thinking it would result in a bit of a refund…
recently I’ve talked with many people asking about their Costco refunds and been rather ticked that I didn’t get one… each person advised they had received a cheque in the mail…
today I finally got around to calling to see what was going on… they were obviously busy because I was on hold for quite some time…
eventually, I spoke with a lovely woman… she advised that the cheque was on the second page of my renewal letter… which came weeks ago… and which I opened but didn’t look at the second page, lol…
she was very kind and we laughed together over the whole thing… what a sweet woman… not a single person mentioned it came with the renewal letter…
I’ve also been waiting for an invoice from my amazing tax preparer but hadn’t seen one…
this afternoon my refund cheque arrived which reminded me to call to find out how much I owed them, but they were closed… then I searched through my email to see if I could find anything and came across an email with the invoice in it… it came minutes after the original one with my results… too funny…
and then, for the trifecta, I tried to open my new online app and deposit the cheque into my account, using my phone… I used an old password and eventually was blocked from the site… called the bank and I have to wait until tomorrow for it to reset… then I can try again, as I now remember the correct password, lol…
15 Monday Oct 2018
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big girl pants, Boob Burger, Costco, craving, family, help, snow, tacos, vegan, widow
yesterday my son-in-law and middle grandson came over and we went to Costco to pick up a few things…
they carted stuff in and put it away while I prepared the meat for tacos… serendipitous as my grandson mentioned he’d been craving them for a few days…
the boys use both hard and soft shells, but I like to make salad with mine…
after supper we jumped in the car and drove to Boon Burger for some vegan pumpkin pie ice cream… my son-in-law is having to watch his dairy intake and was very excited to learn that they have this particular ice cream and that he could eat it…
it was snowing a bit as we left with our treats, lol…
20 Sunday May 2018
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big girl pants, burger flowers, clematis, Costco, daughter, garden, hot tub, Lowe’s, plants, reading, widow
this morning my daughter and I went shopping…
started at Lowe’s where we chose a few plants and a couple of trellises for the clematis…
then it was over to Costco where we picked up groceries and a few more plants…
stopped to pick up lunch at a new burger place close to home… had been following them for a while on social media and was eager to try them out… a bit disappointing… ordinary burgers and although there were lots of fries, they were stubby, and not that tasty… and it was expensive… oh well…
after a nap I had a hot tub and sat on the deck reading for a while…
tomorrow I will do some planting…
19 Tuesday Dec 2017
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amaryllis, big girl pants, bite, Costco, family, holiday, home, lunch shopping, son-in-law, widow
did a few jobs around the house this morning and then went out for lunch with my son-in-law…
caught him mid-bite… this would make my colleagues laugh as I am always taking pictures of them eating lunch with their mouths open, lol…
we popped into Costco and picked up a few last minute things… always happy to shop there with him because I usually pick up heavy items…
after he left I spent some time admiring the amaryllis… over the last number of weeks I’ve taken quite a few pictures as it has grown…
a nap, and then, I picked my kids up at the base and brought them home;-)…
happy holidays…
18 Sunday Sep 2016
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bed, big girl pants, blossoms, camera, Costco, dropping, Emmys, Pokémon, Safeway, sweater, widow
had some fun with my camera first thing this morning as I took pictures of the flowers in the house…
we will see if they end up dropping the rest of the blossoms or whether they will happily open…
beautiful hibiscus flower…
mandevilla blooms in the hanging basket which I set into the gardenia plant… hope they all make it through the winter…
grocery shopped at Safeway, dropped off the bags, and then went to Costco with my kids…
always find a few things there that I really need… today it was a cute Tommy Hilfiger sweater and some fancy olive oils…
great to have supper together again… and both my son-in-law and grandson did a few jobs around the house for me…
now I am curled up on my bed watching the Emmys and catching the odd Pokemon…
05 Monday Oct 2015
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big girl pants, Costco, eyes, groceries, news, pizza, Safeway, sky, thanksgiving
good news… my eyes are in good shape… saw the eye doctor this morning… surprised me with a field test… thankfully it came out okay… always nervous when taking one…
sky was changing every time I came out of a business…
met with my finance guy and my investments are doing fine as well…
then off to pick up a few groceries… had a lovely wander around at Costco… didn’t even buy much that wasn’t on my list, lol… finished up at Safeway where I picked up the other items for Thanksgiving dinner on the weekend…
on the drive home the sky changed yet again…
at least there was a bit of blue in it…
had a nap after all the groceries were put away, and then made a couple of pita pizzas for dinner…
delicious…
now to plan what I will eat tomorrow…
13 Sunday Apr 2014
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lots to do today… the kids came over around noon and we went to run some errands…
I learned how to get the car washed… it was quite different than the last time I went with George… at that time you had to drive the car onto a track… now you leave the car and they put it onto the track… didn’t take very long for it to be run through…
then we went to Costco… after all the shopping and filling the shopping cart I discovered that my card didn’t work… it had been under George’s work and had expired in March… we had to wait in line for quite a while and then couldn’t get an actual card because their camera was down…
just about did me in… was embarrassed and tremendously sad…
few more errands and we were home… Jeff changed the tires and put on the pretty ones, lol…
had steak and lobster for dinner to celebrate getting into the French IB program…
tonight the moon is nearly full…
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