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Shopping all afternoon

by The Shopping Maniac

My husband and I were out shopping this afternoon and the shopping trip that I thought would only take about two hours ended up taking almost five hours! Time sure flies when when you’re shopping in crowded stores at this time of year doesn’t it?

We went to Costco first as my husband had to get a prescription filled, and then I wanted to see how many of the items from my baking list I could get at Costco. Yes, I knew I’d come away with large packages, but I plan on doing a lot of cooking. I ended up getting Vanilla, flour, sugar, two big bags of semi sweet chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk and a few other things.

We ended our shopping trip at Walmart. I got the rest of my baking supplies there and I found a new cookie sheet. It’s one of those air insulated baking sheets. I bought it so I could give it a try. I think we got everything we needed, so tomorrow I’ll get started baking three different types of cookies, a pumpkin cheesecake and maybe some homemade bread. The only thing I didn’t do today was get around to looking at a Wholesale Insurance website that my friend wants me to check out for her. I’ll do that later.

While we were shopping at Walmart we happened to see my husbands old boss. He’s not someone that either of us liked. He’s a really bad guy … like the kind of boss that does everything he can to not pay his employees? So we tried to avoid this guy while we were in the store and of course whenever you’re trying to avoid someone you keep running into them. I think we ran into him about five times – in fact, Chris’ old boss even came up to my husband while he was in line waiting to pay for our things to ask him a question. Luckily he didn’t seem to recognize him.

Ok … I’d better go and prepare the kitchen for tomorrows bake off.

Thinking of Christmas gifts for the kids

by The Shopping Maniac

I don’t think we’ll be buying too many Christmas gifts for our friends and relatives this year due to our poor financial situation, however I’m trying to get a few ideas together for the gifts that we’re buying for the kids.

I think I have the gifts for our nieces figured out, and I have a few creative ideas for the nephews. One of my nephews is really into baseball. He plays on a school team and then in the summer in plays in a community little league. So .. I thought about maybe getting him one of those personalized baseball bats. I think he’d love it. Gifts for the rest of the boys are pretty easy … video games, video games and more video games. They love them!

Weight loss set back

by The Shopping Maniac

I can’t believe it. Remember back in September and early October how I said I kept losing weight because of a new migraine medication that I was taking? Well … either the magical effects of the migraine medication stopped working or one of the weird side effects of another medication I’m taking made me stop losing weight.

I actually gained back about 6 of the pounds I lost. Hmmm .. maybe quitting smoking in the middle of October had something to do with it as well, I don’t know. Either way, I was extremely happy to have been losing some weight and now it’s stopped. Maybe I should start reading some of those phentermine reviews.

Just in case my quitting smoking had something to do with my small weight regain I’m really watching what I’m eating this week. Only healthy snacks if I feel the need to snack. Hopefully I can get back to losing weight again.

Back to normal after the holiday?

by The Shopping Maniac






It seems that everything is back to normal again after Thanks Giving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

I’m in Canada and our Thanks giving is in October. We had some sales here, but nothing like in the US. I’ll bet that some people took out payday loans to cover all their extra shopping expenses!

I really noticed the difference in traffic on my websites and in the amount of email I was getting over the weekend. Things seem to be back to normal now though. Did you notice a difference on your websites too?






Long term rehab or rapid detox?

by The Shopping Maniac

Wow, I wish when I was quitting smoking last month I’d heard about rapid detox … maybe it would have made quitting that much easier?

Nah … rapid detox isn’t meant to help people who are doing things like quitting smoking. It’s for even more serious additions like opiate drug addiction. It’s a pretty heavy duty form of detox. I’m sure it’s not for everyone!

I think anyone that can manage to quit anything they’ve been addicted to deserves a big congratulations no matter how they manage to quit. Have you heard of rapid detox before?

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