Hmm.... Saturday. What did I do? Well, it all started with my wonderful (arghhh!!!) cat waking me up at 7am when I hadn't gotten to bed till after 1 a.m. Then of course I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got on, what else, the computer. I then was reading one of my teacher forums and someone mentioned a great website -- http://bibliophil.org/default.asp
-- which is essentially a site where people can have a virtual list of ALL the books they own, have ever read, or would like to read. Wowsers! You can make your list public or private. I spent about four or five hours there making a starting list. You list it by ISBN #'s. I think I got up to a little over 100 books.

Later that evening after a long nap, I did a lot of online research on Bed and Breakfasts and other places to vacation to. Those places sure are pricey, and such a variety. I also was up late waiting for the new Albie's list to be put up. I'll have to tell more about that on Sunday's bit.

Otherwise, Saturday was a No-Spend day.

Okay, now for Sunday.
Monkey (my cat) let me sleep in till almost 10 a.m. Wasn't that nice of him? When I got up I posted on a couple forums I'm part of about my ponderings on what to do for my vacation. Then I got my act together, and made it over to Albertson's. There were a number of things that weren't good deals, even with the coupons, but there were enough other things that were great deals. During my first run I bought a double paper, then went out to my car and got the coupon inserts out. Then preceded to cut out the coupons I wanted. Then I went back inside and did my third and final run. Probably my best, and favorite deal, was the half-gallon Dreyer's ice-cream for . . . .$.25!!!!!!! Luckily I only had two coupons for this.

After my Albie's runs were finished, I went to see "The Wedding Date" at the dollar theatre. It was very very good, although I'm not sure I really like the premise of it. One line in it that I'm not sure I agree with or not, (not verbatium) "A woman's love life is what she wants it to be."

Wow! I just had an interesting experience. I was sitting here typing away, and all of a sudden my doorbell rings. First wild thought that goes through my mind is it's either my ex-bf Todd (who has a habit of showing up unannounced) or more inconceivable, my other ex-bf, Scott. Well, anyway, it turns out its one of my neighbors. Apparantlly her car had broken down and she'd had to have it towed. The tow truck guy couldn't get her car into her space unless I and the guy next door to me moved our cars. So, I went and moved my car by the dumpster (should have went down the hill, but wasn't sure if I could get around the tow truck) the other guy moved his car into an unmarked spot down the hill and went back inside his place. I, on the otherhand, had to stay till the bitter end, cause I couldn't leave my car by the dumpster! So, the tow truck guy manuvers around and gets the ladies car in her spot. Then, he just sits there, idiling. I'm wondering why he's just sitting there, and wanting to get back inside. The ladies husband? comes over to me and asks me if I have two fives for a ten so they can get this guy out of here. I guess he would only take the exact amount. Thankfully, I did have two fives. So after a good 20 minutes or so (though felt like lots longer) I was able to park back in my spot. Both people were thanking me over and over. I was just like "these things happen - hope things go better with your car."

Ok. Let's see, where was I. LOL! After the movie I stopped at one of my favorite Oriental food places - The Noodle Bar - and picked up two to go orders. Ate half (put the two different orders into two halves) and then of course, what else, spent some time on the old computer.

Spending Log:
Albertsons:
1st run: ~12.00 (saved $19.00)
2nd run: 3.69 (saved $23.00)
Noodle Bar: 10.32 (heh, didn't save anything)

Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura