Post Valentine's 50% Off Sale

Ya gotta love Walgreens and their post-holiday sales. First of all, you could probably shop Walgreens and nothing else for every one of your needs. Prescriptions? Check. Makeup? Check. Soaps of every kind? Check. Reading material? Check. T-shirts? Check. Gallon of milk? Check. A variety of frozen foods? Check. It's all there,including the dollar area which would satisfy anyone's stocking-stuffer needs. And to think I almost missed the bounty inside by waiting at the drive-through to pick up my prescription refill!

I just got some boxes of kids' valentines for a dollar apiece and a fun strand of valentine heart lights for $2.50! What a steal! (I buy the kids' valentines because I like to plaster them all over the outside of shoeboxes and then clear-contact-paper over them for cute and fun storage boxes.) Bounty indeed. By the way, this is how I spent our $5, Grandparents. Thank you for the cute card, too!

I also found Adora, which is similar to Viactive, which my sister turned me on to this past weekend. They're basically vitamins disguised as chocolate, but the Viactive ones are corn-syrupy whereas the Adora are made from good dark chocolate. Eight dollars for 30 of them is a little steep, but at least I'm getting some calcium these days. Yum.

In other news, I got a call from our Realtor yesterday-- he has someone who is interested in seeing our house. He's going to try to show it this weekend and we'll see what happens. This news, of course, prompted a terrifically productive two hours of house touch-ups last night-- we patched all the cracks in the drywall and touch-up painted those areas, as well as painting the baseboards in the master bathroom which have bugged me since we moved in. I think they were just primed but never actually painted. I dare you to find a flaw in the house now! Later we made our traditional Valentine's Day stir fry and rice and then watched four episodes of Arrested Development, Season 2 Disc 2, until I just about fell asleep. Great way to spend V-day, I tell you.


Oh-- I neglected to tell you about the surprise last week! Sorry to leave you in suspense so long! A few weeks ago the News-Press, the local Fort Myers paper, had a notice on their website that one could submit notes and/or pictures and at no cost be published in their annual Book of Love, a special section of the newspaper that comes out February 7. Not one to pass up a chance to proclaim my affection for my handsome love, and also not one to embarrass him willingly, I submitted a cute picture of our feet on the beach and a note that said something like, "Right next to you is the best place on earth." (Awww.) I had also put Brad and Kath in there somewhere, but that got left out. Thankfully, Brad recognized the picture and believed me when I told him that it was actually for him. I'll scan it sometime so you can see.

That's all for now. It's about 65 and rainy here, so not such a happy-looking day. But I can't complain or my mother will call me with her current outdoor temperature and chastise me with sarcasm. :) Rightfully so.