Having a good day

@ElicBxn (63235)
United States
September 18, 2010 9:52pm CST
LONG, but good. I woke up just after 6:30 a.m. Since I went to bed around 11, I got a good bit of sleep and was really ready to get up, besides, the dogs were ready to get up (actually that's what woke the roommate up, the dog needing to go out.) So, we feed the cats, get dressed and head off to do our shopping. We hit Walmart at 7, Randalls at 8, Joanns at 9 and Sam's at 10. After lunch we ran by to treat ourselves at Goodwill. A friend from out of town came by and we visited with her for about an hour and a half or 2 hours, then got dinner and visited another Goodwill. Now, the reason we felt we could treat ourselves to Goodwill visits are what we did when we were at the house - and it wasn't on here earning money, in case you didn't notice my not being around. But that's another discussion all together! So, you get to shop till you dropped today? I would've probably not be dropping so much without all those other things we did!
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
19 Sep 10
I went to Walmart...which I despise...and got some needed cleaning supplies and some chemicals to close my pool up. I would have lot rather been spending money on something else..lol..Where have you been anyway?
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
19 Sep 10
I don't love Walmart, but it is so much cheaper than most of the other stores so I do most of my shopping there and Sam's. To get almost 40 lbs for only $11, hard to beat. And Sam's has some wonderful fruit.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
19 Sep 10
At least one of us had a really fantastic day but really I just now had a fantastic evening as my son was here visiting me and talking and of course on the computer too.He had just bought himself a laptop as where he is staying his desktop computer is ca using dissension. He is thinking of finding a one bdroom apt for awhile til he amasses enough money to move the both of us into a two bedroom apt. one step at a time. any way I love these visits as they take the irritation of living here out of my mind for awhile. I miss our old life with a two bedroom apartment shared by we two. but fate dumped us out and spat us up so we must start over.At least he is working now, while so many here in Southern Ca orange county are out of work yet. so things are not all bad for us eit her, I just had a bad night last night and had to go back to bed this morning to get enough sleep. hope today I will really sleep well after seeing my son.by the way I love to shop at Good will when I was first married we had not a lot of money but we f ou nd some really great pieces of furniture that someone had dumped at Good Will that looked almost brand new and top drawer stuff too. A lot of people seeingour finds thought we had much more money than we really did. we did not tell them we bought all that for next to nothing. lol.,
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
19 Sep 10
Yeah, we've found some prizes at Goodwill, we got a nice little table for the kitchen for under $25 a couple of months ago and I found some AWESOME craft stuff today on our second trip. The roomie found a few cds on the first trip, I think, and a cute ceramic cat and I found a cute concrete cat.
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
19 Sep 10
I hate shopping. I had to have car smodded today and I was right by kmart so went in and got the few things I needed and came home. I did that and got out of grocery shoppingg yeah!11111
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
20 Sep 10
opps dont know how that word got in there. I meant to write smogged getting ready to get car tags next month
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
I'm still not sure what that is, I'm guessing it means that you are having work done so it passes the "smog" test, they've just started that here too, but so far, I'm okay
@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
19 Sep 10
I only like craft stuff shopping. Not sure what a car smodded is, and we don't have any kmarts here anymore - I have had my car serviced at walmart and got some shopping done at the same time.
• United States
20 Sep 10
I've been stuck in the house for the past couple of weeks as we have been having controlled burns to control a forest that has been growing riot after last year's abundant snows. My asthma and smoke don't like one another! - As for money, I've not had shopping bling for a while. The last shopping bling I had I spent on some work out pants a couple months ago at Goodwill.
• United States
22 Sep 10
Goodwill is always full of bargains. That's the truth.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
well, most of this shopping was for things we needed, except the Goodwill trips I forgot to add the trip to Lowe's, but that was for 3 cans of spray paint and a drop cloth I can have a lot of fun in Lowe's, but not this trip
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• United States
19 Sep 10
Wow, you were busy, busy, busy! You had a great day and sounds like you had fun too! I love going into any of the thrift shops. When I had some extra money, and working, I use to look for items to do my crafts with and refinish them. I loved it. I'm sort of stuck between a rock and a hard spot right now. Anyways, I can't wait to see your other discussion on why you treated yourselves. I worked on that little mini candle all day and finally got it done. Not quite the way I wanted but good enough as I didn't have what I wanted on hand here at the apartment. I tried, and I kid you not, over 10 times to start a discussion and put a photo on myLot and it keeps coming up with "unable to post content, please modify your text to only include letters, numbers, and standard punctuation"...I'm at a loss. There is nothing wrong with the discussion and I've read it over and over to try and figure out what they were talking about. I can't find one thing so I'm at a loss as what to do. If you got any suggestions I'd appreciate it. Anyways, I like long shopping days, and so miss them, haha. Just getting out of the apartment is fun to me but accomplishing everything you did in one day is super cool.
@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
shame, yeah, sometimes mylot doesn't like to up load pix, if I have that problem, I start with the picture and once it goes into the discussion then I will post the rest of the discussion.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
give it a shot!
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• United States
20 Sep 10
Ok and Thank you, I'll try that for sure tomorrow and I really hope it works. I would have never thought of that, duh to me , but I usually don't start too many discussions. I really hope that works.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
21 Sep 10
More like wake up, work on project, do laundry, do cat rescue, finish laundry, do grocery shopping, drop...
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
21 Sep 10
gee, that sounds familiar, oh yeah, I need to do some laundry...
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
21 Sep 10
Note to self: get kids doing own laundry...
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
11 Oct 10
Goodness I am behind here this was 4 weeks ago Sorry Elic that is to long to remember what I was doing that Day lol but it was not shop till I dropped I know that for sure
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
11 Oct 10
I am happy to be reminded of this lovely day. I did have a lovely day. But I'll pass on more shopping days...
• United States
19 Sep 10
nope,not me.too many bills. but i did get the kitty "wish book" catalog so to speak from doctor & pet,and am looking at the different toys.they have a fish shaped play tunnel that looks hilarious.shopping of a sort. i do need to get them more catnip tho.the lil' pigs are almost through the 8 ounces i had bought them.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
19 Sep 10
One of the things we found at the first Goodwill trip was a Kitty City part that we got for the cats and put it together. This section - http://www.kittycityusa.com/climbinghill.html
@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
19 Sep 10
Do. NOT. Tell. Me. Monday. That. You. Are. "Too. Tiiiired. To. Do. Much." I dooooooon't wanna hear it. I TOLD you to get lotza rest this weekend, because all week you kept telling me how puny you were feeling. And you've only yerself to blame if you wake up tomorrow & feel like warmed over puke gal. I mean, what the heck were you THINKING, running all over the place for hours as if you were still 20 years old. Peter Pan lives in Never-NeverLand, woman! Hie thee to bed NOW & rest up 'til Monday AM, dang it awreddy! Dr. Magpie's orders!!! Oh, & as you requested, here's your email reminder to bring Fred's thingum with you Monday. Dr. Magpie "I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual & silent encroachments by those in power than by violent & sudden usurpations. ~ James Madison
@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
we got to Walmart and Sams early enough to get the riding carts and we didn't do a lot of shopping any place but Sams, even there we didn't take a long time We spent the most time at Goodwill, and that's fun!
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
21 Sep 10
Well, you did seem well enough today, if not perzackly peppy, but I still say it's insane to do so much on your weekends! Yeah, GW's fun. If I had any money, I'd go! See you tomorrow--oh, & weather guys are saying that not only will these daily showers continue, but that, "it's starting to look like Fall." I'M ready!!! Wah, & HOOO! Maggiepie "Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid." ~ John Wayne
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
19 Sep 10
sOUNDS LIKE Y'ALL HAD FUN & THAT'S WHAT MATTERS. i DON'T LIKE to shop so it is a half to case when i do.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
19 Sep 10
I'm not much into shopping for food or clothes, but JOANN'S, that's a whole other story! And Friday night we also hit a bead shop!!! HEAVEN!!! Today (Sunday) I've gone to church. I got to hurting pretty bad, and wished I could lay down, but I made it.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
20 Sep 10
wHEN I GOT INTO ANTIQUES WAS THE FIRST TIME I EVER LIKED TO SHOP. I loved junking as i called it, lol. I DID IT FOR YEARS & loved every minute of it. went to yard sales, auctions, other shops, anywhere i could see them i went. I really miss doing all that. I wish i still could but i can't & i have accepted that. Glad y'all had a good time.
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@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
19 Sep 10
I hate to shop! The only shopping I usually do is grocery shopping. Then I use one of those electric carts and I still hate it. There is no way I could have done as much shopping as you did. It sounds like you had a long day, and you just got over being sick. I thought that was why you haven't been around. What were you doing to earn extra money?
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
19 Sep 10
Well, I'm not earning extra money - but I'm getting stuff together to get my jewelry sold.
@ANIME123 (2466)
• United States
19 Sep 10
Cool that's nice really good your day is going good mine isn't so much because I am starting to get sick and I want to do all that I can to stop from getting sick because my throat hurts and there has been a flu going around and I think that I caught it from my dad so I feel horrible today and I want to get well so that we can all go to universal for his birthday this Saturday and I don't want to be the one that will ruin it just because I am sick. My dad is also trying to get better and I will try my very best to make sure that everyone is feeling well.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
19 Sep 10
I'm sorry you are getting sick, I hate that too! I feel achy from all we did yesterday. I hope you have managed to avoid catching it, I avoid sick people because I don't need to get sick
@babyEj (1522)
• Philippines
20 Sep 10
Well last night I had a good day with my son and hubby having a joy ride in the downtown area. We hit by a store, church and mom's house. We went home very happy.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
sounds like more fun and less work than I had!
• Pakistan
20 Sep 10
Having a good day is getting hard day by day as we are getting too much busy in our jobs that we hardly get time for ourselves.
@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
I am BEAT from what all we did, but I've gotten a number of big projects out of my way this weekend!
@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
19 Sep 10
Wow, I could not handle that much shopping, I do not think. I would have liked to have done more last night but did not. I did sleep really well last night, and did not get up for the bathroom or anything until 5 a.m. I was in bed around ten, I think. I slept more after five. I sent hubby and son to get rid of some furniture that was basically trash, the cats have ruined it. Their orders after that were to go get a bunch of bagged garden soil at Wal Mart as they have it reduced to $1 per bag. I mowed the front yard and worked on trying to level out the lawn from the new waterline in May. I brought a few plants indoors. Treated the guys to Pizza Hut, and shopped for tomorrow's lunch and some other stuff, including a queen size sheet to cover the futon sofa, so that the drooling cat does not ruin it. He really likes it a lot and looks peaceful sleeping on it. We did Sam's Club last night, and dropped a box at the Goodwill.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
19 Sep 10
well, we got the riding carts at Walmart and Sam's so we weren't on our feet. And just to be sure we could keep going, we got some Starbucks at Randalls (they have one attached to the store.)
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
19 Sep 10
I'm already dropping! Stayed at a religious meeting and then after with a friend until after 10pm and didn't get to bed until 10:30 and then sleep at 11. My brother called this AM and wanted to go shopping early. NOthing is open until 11 am, so I told him this PM after I wake up!.
@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
I got up, went to church and then came home, ate a bite and went back to bed for a few hours. Still hurting, but at least I've gotten a LOT done yesterday!
@doormouse (4599)
19 Sep 10
OH MY GOD,,you got up at 6;30 and were shopping by 7;00,what's wrong with you,at the weekends i don't get up till 11am,,,glad you had a good day though x
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
beating the rift raft to the stuff - not crying little kids, no tons of people standing in the way, just nice and quiet - even everything is well stocked!!!
@chona0912 (103)
19 Sep 10
hi , that is really what you called a nice day . Nothing to do around but shopping and then visiting some friends . Wow , i wish i could do that , but alas , i don't have that money to spent . Anyway , if you have lots to spend then go.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
19 Sep 10
This is payday weekend, so we have to get those things that keep the household running. Check out what else we did, not just shopping and visiting, those were the GREAT parts of the good day.
• Philippines
20 Sep 10
Having a good day is important to our life.To have this, you must to have faith in god and have a respect to your self.Respect of our self is important to have.
@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
20 Sep 10
you OBVIOUSLY didn't read the whole discussion grrr newbies