Work-free weekend

It's very, VERY strange to be in California and not be working on the weekend...like...crazy strange!  Of course, I didn't get put on next week's schedule which REALLY sucks, so I left Kathy a message telling her my savings are nearly exhausted, I have rent and bills to pay and to PLEASE call me if anyone calls out. 

Friday I ran some errands and spent the evening watching tv (I missed the new CSI:NY, what on earth is wrong with me?!) before going to bed at midnight like a good girl.

Yesterday I spent watching football - the 49ers game was SO exciting!!  In direct contrast, the Patriots-Broncos game was so boring I seriously considered picking up my dry-cleaning and getting tortilla chips for nachos.  But I was good and resisted...until about 9 pm when I felt bummed and bored so I went and bought Edy's Double Fudge Brownie ice cream and ate it while watching The Rescuers which I'd gotten from Netflix that morning.  It was only 11 pm when it ended so I put on The Producers and finally went to bed when it ended around 1 am.

Today I went to the farmers' market for the first time in MONTHS!  It was lovely, although considerably smaller than I remember - which I suppose is to be expected, it IS winter so there's less produce to sell.  I got some delicious-looking navel oranges for $0.60 a pound, a half-dozen eggs for $2 (Hey, they're free-range, cage-free, vegetarian AND fresh.  What more can you ask of an egg?!), and I also got two annonnas for $5.50...I suppose it's a little exorbitant, but I do love annonnas, and I so rarely get them!

From the market I went to Sam's Club and got my chow mein, some frozen broccoli and a 5 lb bag of clementines (no scurvy for me!), and then stopped by the dry cleaners for my work jacket.  They're supposed to clean "most garments" for $1, but for some reason my jacket cost $3.69 to clean.  Oh well, I shouldn't complain, I'm sure it's cheaper than most places - and it looks perfect now that I have it back.

Last stop was Ralph's where I got my regular groceries and hopefully checked out the meat department only to find the Cornish game hens are still $11 for 2, and the shrimp is still $17 for 2 lbs.  I'll keep waiting...I can be patient...

Now that I'm home and have eaten lunch I've thrown almost all of the windows in the place open to air it out, and I have to take the trash out too.  This is the season for those AWFUL little black flies (bigger than no-see-ums, smaller than mosquitoes) and I've been killing at least six a day - they LOVE flying around my face and getting dangerously near my eyes - so I have to keep the place extra-clean to minimize their numbers.

I guess I'll spend the rest of the day watching football and movies and making some sort of plans for tomorrow...don't dare to go to the beach on Martin Luther King Jr Day...but there must be SOMETHING I can do (alone) to get out of the house.

I'll think of something!