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Jul. 27th, 2008 04:13 pmWhereas i would have stayed home today doing laundry and changing the sheets on the bed, which i probably still will do, instead, Mom and i went down to her sister's and then went to a few shops on the way back for groceries. The first place was called "M&M's meat shop" and is a freezer type place where all the foods are frozen. You can get individually wrapped pieces of stuffed chicken, you can get pasta bowls with various toppings and sauces, you can get full size meals like lasagnas or just individual portions. Pasta, soups, various types of fish and meat with and without sauces, ready made meat and veg on skewers for the barbie, that sort of thing. Also large bags of frozen veg, fruit, chips, and you can get bags of frozen mashed potatoes and another one of pre-chopped onion. Lots of interesting things to try. I got a couple of the pasta bowls that you microwave, a packet of four frozen Quesidillas, all of that for taking for lunches at work. Got some frozen fruit for smoothies, and a couple of the stuffed chicken pieces and some oven chips.
Next stop, Dave's fruit and veg market. Wow what a great place! With the prices of that stuff in the big grocery store, i really didn't expect it to be that much cheaper but i got a large grocery bag stuffed full and it was only about 22 dollars. Big cauliflower, some broccoli, bananas, plums, yellow beans, mushrooms and a bag of Australian green apple licorice!!
Off to the regular grocery store and i still spent a packet! I keep seeing things that cost 3 or 4 or 5 dollars like a block of cheese or two, some meat. I needed a water filter for my jug, that was 6.99. I needed orange juice and at least they had it on 2 for 6.00 and it was the Tropicana brand so that's good too. Big tub of ice cream was 6 dollars and so on. I haven't had any ice cream all summer, just frozen yogurt so i was due a treat.
Yesterday was the Annual General Meeting for our Ping committee. We're registered as a Non Profit Society so we have to have one every year. We got a couple of new directors to fill vacant positions. It also looks like our Celeb event, should we get to put it on again next year, will be at the end of March. We piggy back on a Toronto exhibition that features the star and this year in Toronto the event was, as always, the weekend after ours and on the Saturday, their biggest day for it, they had a huge snow storm and the promoter didn't make very much at all. I think that's why he's shifting the date back a month, to avoid that problem. Still can get snow at the end of March/early April but not as likely. We don't know yet who the guest will be. Last year we didn't find out until Mid November.
Was busy last week at work, I expect the first few days this week will be too. Next weekend is a holiday weekend. Hope the weather's nice.
I decided not to write the certification exams for that course i took.
That is all.
Next stop, Dave's fruit and veg market. Wow what a great place! With the prices of that stuff in the big grocery store, i really didn't expect it to be that much cheaper but i got a large grocery bag stuffed full and it was only about 22 dollars. Big cauliflower, some broccoli, bananas, plums, yellow beans, mushrooms and a bag of Australian green apple licorice!!
Off to the regular grocery store and i still spent a packet! I keep seeing things that cost 3 or 4 or 5 dollars like a block of cheese or two, some meat. I needed a water filter for my jug, that was 6.99. I needed orange juice and at least they had it on 2 for 6.00 and it was the Tropicana brand so that's good too. Big tub of ice cream was 6 dollars and so on. I haven't had any ice cream all summer, just frozen yogurt so i was due a treat.
Yesterday was the Annual General Meeting for our Ping committee. We're registered as a Non Profit Society so we have to have one every year. We got a couple of new directors to fill vacant positions. It also looks like our Celeb event, should we get to put it on again next year, will be at the end of March. We piggy back on a Toronto exhibition that features the star and this year in Toronto the event was, as always, the weekend after ours and on the Saturday, their biggest day for it, they had a huge snow storm and the promoter didn't make very much at all. I think that's why he's shifting the date back a month, to avoid that problem. Still can get snow at the end of March/early April but not as likely. We don't know yet who the guest will be. Last year we didn't find out until Mid November.
Was busy last week at work, I expect the first few days this week will be too. Next weekend is a holiday weekend. Hope the weather's nice.
I decided not to write the certification exams for that course i took.
That is all.
