Saturday, June 16, 2012

For the past year we've been thinking about getting rid of the land line. Just couldn't quite make ourselves do it. However, we are currently going through everything to see how we can cut back. One way is to get rid of phones and unnecessary tv expenses. So today we got rid of the land line altogether and lowered our Uverse package. Next time we may go all the way down to the basic package on the television!!! I sent an email to my adult children advising that we now have only cell phones. Don't know why I bothered.

Another thing we are going to cancel is our YMCA membership. They take out $50 per month and we never go there. Heck, for that I could get my nails done!!! (lol) Or, pay the water bill.

We also checked into our cell phone service. With these dang smart phones we are paying out the wazoo for service. We had 700 minutes per month with unlimited texting plus internet access on both of them. We tend to use the texting and internet service much more than the actual call minutes. We lowered the minutes down to 550 but didn't give up anything else of the service. We may have to consider doing that. As much as I enjoy my smart phone, I made it thru life without it previously. May have to change to a go phone.

It took us 1.5 hours on the phone with AT&T to get done what we needed to do with Uverse and phone service. Get so tired of trying to handle business with folks who cannot speak English. Finally lucked out with a guy who said he was in Florida - nice to speak to someone we could understand.

We went to "the corner" (Italian Cafe) for early dinner, around 4:30. We knew we were going to buy groceries so didn't want to go hungry. I had Chicken Aristocrat and Ken had Chicken Caciatori. We took what was left of our bottle of Mateus white wine (not very good at all). While waiting for our food I read the label on the back...there is a warning..."Do not open with gas or air pump." That tells me that SOMEBODY somewhere tried that very thing and got hurt!!! How crazy. We had so much food left over that we had to make a run back to the house first because it would ruin in the car in the heat.

Made it to Walmart (trimble). We go there, even though we hate it, because it is close by and we can get everything in one place. First, there were no scooters available. So Ken went down to the other end of the store to try to find one. There was a lady sitting on one but just sitting there not doing anything. Ken asked if she was going to use the scooter. Her response was that she might or might not, but didn't get up. So, we headed out with each of us pushing a cart. I didn't make it too far, told Ken I would have to leave. He went back to see if another scooter had shown up. This time there was an employee sitting on a scooter playing with his phone. Ken asked him if he was going to use the scooter - the fellow told him he was taking his break. Ken asked him to move off the scooter and sit on the bench instead. Fortunately Ken won that one and came back with a scooter.

Takes us a couple of hours to buy groceries because we have to go thru the entire store. But we finally made it out of there without getting into a real fight with anyone, and got it all back home - this time without the ice cream melting. We picked up the ice cream right before we headed to the checkout line, hoping we wouldn't have to spend 30-40 minutes in line. We lucked out and the line was short.

Ken has gone to bed, I'm not far behind. Luci was with me until she heard Daddy and Bennie going to bed, then she fussed to go to bed. She's growing up so much and she has become a full fledged Daddy's girl.

That's about it for today. I can't talk about politics -- Obamarama's latest move granting illegal immigrants the right to stay in the U.S. makes me breathe fire. That man has no respect for the citizens of this nation or the constitution. I just hope and pray that Americans are ready to take back this country come November. Please, Lord, we can't take much more of this socialistic baffoon.