Groceries and stuff

I'm supposed to be getting ready to go to the grocery store. Instead I am blogging, 'cause its more fun.

I told you I have been trying to do the couponing thing, right? Well, I just took the last three Sunday papers out of their plastic wrapping. What I've been doing is cutting them out and putting them in baseball card protectors and putting them in a binder. They're supposed to be easier to find. However, this requires time and effort. I devote maybe an hour a week to clipping them but they're like bunnies! They mulitiply faster than I can clip them. So now I have a stack of coupons I refuse to look through and a binder full of clipped coupons that are probably close to expiring. If a coupon I want isn't in there, I don't use them. Extreme Coupon people make this look so easy!!

My freezer is officially bare. Normally I see what I have and go from there, but I'm kind of starting from scratch. So now I get to figure out what I want to make for the next month or so. Then I have to figure out what I need in order to do it. Then I have to go through these coupons to see if I can save 35 cents. (I may just go ahead and pay the 35 cents and save that step!)

Have you ever noticed how grocery shopping eats up an entire day?? Well, it's not the grocery shopping part so much as it is the planning to grocery shop. I end up getting 3/4 of my meals planned and saying "the other 1/4 will come from somewhere." Which, believe it or not, they always do.

I'm off today, which is good. I spent Sunday at church, shopping for compression shorts for Catie and catching up on some office work. Yesterday I spent cutting bushes and cleaning my car, and I did go have coffee with some friends.

That leaves today to grocery shop, clean the house and do laundry. Relax what?? And I had considered going to the lake with my Kindle today. Bahahahaha what was I thinking??

I have determined that maybe next year, I need to just use up all of my vacation time by making every week a three-day weekend. Maybe I actually catch up. Which I'm not doing now, so back to it!

Y'all have a great day!