This Week.....

No, no, I'm not going into weekly postings, I'm still going to try my best to post daily, don't let the title fool ya. But I named it that cause I've just been meandering thru the week. Blog class was great last night, I think mostly cause I get excited about being around people with common interests (go figure) and blogging is my interest (or is it just a nicer word than "yappy") LOL! OH, I was told in blogging class last night I have to create more links within my postings and I was told my a friend (and faithful reader) to add my "keywords" to my blog postings, so you will see more of both in upcoming blog postings.

I've been "yapping" with my Mom recently about a trip to Las Vegas in November (another interest of mine) :), and of course, she was all for it. I see prices on Las Vegas vacations are a little lower than usual (trust me, I would know) :) So I'll let ya know how that comes out in the up coming weeks. We are thinking leaving Wednesday and coming back Monday sometime in the beginning of November.

Okay, let me back up here. I got a promotional advertisement in the mail about two weeks ago from a local auto dealership......one of those promotional packs with a key (yes a real key) to have a chance to win a new car. My chances of having the right key to win the car is one in a 42 million (well, you know what I mean). So, anyways, I run right down to the local dealership and I put my key in the little lock box they have set up (heaven forbid if we have to turn that key in the door of a real car LOL!), and sure enough, my key don't fit. So, anyways, the sales guy does his job and tries to talk me into shopping for a new car but I told him I was unemployed and that seemed shut him right up before the word "Go!" and he was nice enough to bring me a consolation prize. It's a gift card to Restaurants.com. Now this website was easy to use, redeeming the gift card was very easy, but you won't find (in my state) any chain restaurants that we are use to eating at listed on this website. BUT that was okay, because we got to try a new restaurant that we wouldn't of tried at all. So last night, we flipped thru the restaurants listed locally and found a seafood restaurant in Windham called "Lobster Tail". I got pictures :) I did take these with my new Blackberry (I'll get to that story down below)......

No, the restaurant is not lopsided, my picture shooting abilities are.... :)

Some clam chowder.....

I had fish and chips

So, anyways, I had the fish and chips and it wasn't bad at all. I would go back (as I got two $10 gift certificates that can't be used in the same month), so we will go back to the Lobster Tail next month. The lunch menu was reasonable and three of us totalled $33.75 (take away the $10 gift certificate and tax adjustment) brought it down to $23.85 for three of us for lunch and corn chowder appetizer for Dad. The soda was included in the prices of the lunch (Yeah! When is the last time you seen that, if ever!) So, it was a great experience at the restaurant. I can't wait to go back to try something else there on the lunch menu :)

Okay, moving on, I have a few more things on my mind before I leave ya along. My Blackberry died this week and it was a tragic (almost heart stopping) experience for me. I mean, 80 percent of my life is spent online (I know, I know, get a life! LOL!) so I immediately pulled the 8GB card out of the back of it. I don't mind if the Blackberry dies, but don't take me down with it. I had an adaptor ("here" I'll show you exactly what it looks like) and it's super easy to use, and I do mean, super easy. I didn't use the USB one, I used the card slider because I have a sim card reader built right into my Gateway NetBook (no link to Gateway because I see Gateway doesn't even make this model netbook anymore, I bought it in 2008). So anyways, I dumped my whole Blackberry info/pics/folders right onto my NetBook and went out and bought a Blackberry 9330 (hang on, got a link to what it looks like "here", mine is grey). So my Blackberry that just died lasted me exactly 18 months. We shall see how long this one lasts me.......

Okay, last but not least, I've decided to get my lazy butt out of bed in the morning and I'm participating in a free local walking group that walks at 9am Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Even though the distance of 4 miles intimates me a tad, I'm going to try this out. So, I will blog about that tomorrow and tell you how it went! :) Have a great night! :)

Sister Time And Then Jake Time

Well, the day started a little slow....didn't get much done, just typical small errands here and there. And this is after I hit the snooze button three times this morning. Yes, I'm still setting my alarm cause I just don't feel right sleeping the day away and I don't want to allow myself to turn my internal sleeping clock upside down. I still want to sleep at night and be up and be somewhat half productive during the day.

So anyways, the temperature was around the mid 80's here, so it was too hot outside to do anything strenuous. So my sister called me and wanted to know if I wanted to grab some lunch cause she was hungry (so was I since I only had english muffins for breakfast). Now, my sister, she is the princess of coupons. If there is a coupon out there, she will find it. She will surf the net, give away her email address, agree to surveys, all in the name of claiming a coupon. Today, in her email inbox, she had a $5 coupon for TGIFriday's if the tab totalled over $15 dollars. Not bad, huh! So printed that one off and off to TGIFriday's we went. Because she had the More Strips card (or whatever you call that rewards card), we got free homemade chips before our meal. I ordered the "1/2 California Club Sandwich with the Wedge Salad" combo meal and it was super delicious. I would definitely order that again and my sister had a hamburger and fries. So with the two lunches and sodas take away the coupon the tab came to $17 dollars and some cents. Not bad. I should be more involved in hunting out these coupons too now that I'm on a "fixed income". It was nice spending time with my sister....



After lunch, she dropped me off at home and it was Jake time. So I hustled Jake out the door and we hit the road to spend some time in the park. Just as we get there......I realized I left his leash at home. WHAT was I thinking?? All I had was his seat belt harness which can be used at a harness with a leash, but I was "leash-less" (I made that word up). So that's it, it wasn't going to happen again, so we went to the pet store and bought a leash that I can leave in the car and I would never leave it behind again. I have leashes at home, but none in the car. I swear, I got one dog and 10 leashes, just none with me. Yeah, I get ditzy sometimes. But this leash will stay in the car and I use the seat belt harness to stop his rambunctious ways in the car while I'm driving. The seat belt slides thru the opening in the harness and when the seat belt is buckled, he isn't moving, I don't care how much he gives me that "What did I do wrong look". But, anyways, the seat belt harness can be used as a harness to walk him with a leash. I know, I know, over kill, moving on.......

So, first we stop at the park, he's running everywhere - I know him - he's really testing how far this new leash will let him wander away from me. The retractable leash package said 16 feet for a dog under 28 pounds. This 8 pound pooch is only going 16 feet and it's a dead end, but he tried to tug further and it was funny to see him try to get extra slack out of the leash. We left the park and stopped by PetCo where he's got some friends he usually meets there. His girl pal Zoey was there tonight so they said Hi and played in the store. We didn't stay too long as it was approaching 7pm and Jake hasn't had his dinner yet, so the crankiness was soon going to rear its ugly face if I don't feed him. So we left PetCo and came home and dinner was served. And he's in his bed having dreams of his girl friend Zoey and I'm watching TV. So that was a good day overall. It was a great day! So check in tomorrow and see what I'm up too! :) Have a nice night! :)

OH, wanna know where I got Jake's name from......yes, I'm a total 100% classic country music listener.....this is where I got his name from......