Yesterday I went to Barnes & Noble to purchase some books on web design because the trial and error isn’t working out so well with what I want to do, and now I am really confused about WordPress, so I thought maybe I’d find some good books there to help me out. I looked up some books on Amazon.com and read some good reviews on a few and thought I’d check them out. I could have ordered them from Amazon, but I figured it wouldn’t kill me to spend a few extra bucks and just buy them at the store. And I still needed to use the $20 gift card I got for Christmas. You can tell how often I go to bookstores!
Anyways, the point is that, every single book there about CSS or anything website related sucked and nothing was under $39.99. These same books are selling for “new” on Amazon.com for like $22 – $25 and even Barnes & Noble.com had them for like $30. So I bought one book for like $40 and leafed through some in case I wanted to buy them online, but there was nothing pertaining to what I was looking for. That is all.
What else, oh yeah … my throat hurts. Todd has a cold and I’m going to cry if I catch it. I am not licking him or anything, but we were together on Friday, Saturday, AND Sunday …. so, I’m sure my chances of getting his illness are pretty high.
I FINALLY went grocery shopping at WalMart on Sunday. Todd let me off the WalMart leash and I was free to roam the grocery section for almost15 mintues without him! It was pure bliss! I got to ponder over things without being chastised. I made some pasta salad and it is very good. I also bought a lot of frozen dinners and found the Thai Chili Sauce that I haven’t been able to find in months. It goes in my Napa Cabbage recipe, but I swore it did not exist.
I was going to wrap it up, but I just recalled the most disturbing story that Todd told me. We were in the car on Sunday, driving along the road and I saw a medium sized animal plodding along in the grass.
Me: “Look! What is that cute animal?”
Todd: “Uhh, its a groundhog.”
Me: “Aww, I hope it doesn’t walk onto the road.”
Todd: “I hope it does, and I hope it gets runover.”
Me: “You are evil!”
Todd: “Groundhogs are bad! They ruin your gardens.”
Me: “That is why you put up a fence.”
Todd: “I used to shoot them when I was a kid.”
Todd: “Then I would bury them.”
Me: “No you didn’t.”
Todd: “Yes I did. And sometimes my dad would shoot them during the day and when I came home from school he would say “Todd … I have a few dead groundhogs over the hillside that need buried.”
Todd: “Then I had to go bury them.”
Me: “You had a horrible childhood!”
Todd: “No, I think it was good for me. I learned important things.”
Me: “Ummm”
I still think it would have been better to put up a fence, but of course I never win any arguments. Even if I’m right, I just can’t win. Somehow, no matter what alternative I come up with, killing groundhogs is THE ONLY solution.
I lead a very exciting life, yep.
Later! 🙂 🙂
Well, if you ever need someone who’s good at burying bodies, you know who the expert is!
Ha, yeah really! If he really wanted to scare groundhogs away, he should have just killed one and put it on a stick in the garden… then when the other groundhogs saw it, they would know they better stay away!