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No chocolate orange for me. :(

February 16th, 2005 at 02:53 am

Okay, after Christmas I was in Wal-green's and they had all their Christmas candy marked 75% off. I just HAD to look of course. Smile One of the things I found hidden behind some other things was a chocolate orange! I thought maybe it was there by mistake, but when I took it to the cash register it rang up as $.37 !! Let me just say right now how much I LURVE chocolate oranges (okay, okay, chocolate anything) but DON'T love paying 3 or 4 dollars for one. So, today I stopped by Wal-green's knowing that their candy would be 50% off - hoping to find another chocolate orange. But, no, no such luck this time. Frown I did end up buying some of the other candy/chocolate deals though.

63 days left (I think). School was so - so today. Tuesday's are nice because we have library and Chimes (library, P.E., Chimes - go home!) We had a bit of a pencil emergency today that was adverted by a late Valentine's present from one of my students. Somehow all but TWO of the 15 pencils that were in the pencil box on Friday had walked off. Of course, my endless supply of pencils that I bought two years ago, had come to an end without my realization. Luckily though one of my students who was sick yesterday brought pencils for everyone for Valentine's. Normally I only let the kids use special pencils on their birthday, but today I made an exception. About half an hour after my kids started using thier new special pencils, my principal stopped by after her "stock up" trip to Office Depot and dropped off a 72ct pkg of pencils. That should last us till the end of the year.

I also filled up on gas today at Albertson's. It was $1.76/gallon. I hadn't gone on a cash basis for paying for gas before, so got myself a wee bit embarrased at the pump. I was looking for the button that says "Pay Inside" but there wasn't any such thing. There was though this blank button underneath the button that says "Pay Outside". I pressed this. It apparentally was the button that calls up the cashier. Nice labeling. I hadn't realized that you had to prepay inside even during the day. Oh well, now I know.

Tomorrow we're going on a field trip to a Nursing Home. We'll be singing Jesus Love songs and passing out Valentine's. It was supposed to be grades Pre-K through 4th going. Today I talked to the Pre-K teacher and she told me that she and the K teacher hadn't been able to find any parent's to drive, and with this coming Sunday being the "Roundup" that they were too busy, so they decided to cancel. ARGHHHH!!!!! Hello??? This is a fieldtrip that takes what - maybe an hour out of the whole day?? It doesn't cost anything - but pays big dividends to the Nursing Home residents, as well as to the kids. And . . . this has only been planned for the last month (exact date) but has been traditional for at least the past five years!! (This year though it seems like I'm the only one spearheading keeping the tradition alive. Sad.) As far as drivers -- we could do what we did at Christmas -- shuffle kids back and forth - the nursing home is only less than a 3 minute drive (if that!) I wonder if they'll do it at all next year when I'm gone. This is yet another reason I'm so happy to almost be DONE and over with my teaching career.

Okay, sorry for the vent. It's almost time for NYPD (only two more episodes left after tonight -boo hoo!)

Spending Log:
Today:
Wal-green's: ~$5.00 (Groceries)
Albertson's Gas:$10.00 (Gas)

Total: ~$15.00

Total Gas for Feb (unless I make a trip to visit my mom) $20.00

Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura

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