1. I have been informed that my little 5-year-old boy is very popular with the 4th grade girls. They apparently think he's a sweet little boy (which I think he is as well, but then, I'm a bit biased). Dunno when they're around him to form this opinion - recess, I suppose. But it was cute to hear.
2. Garage sale scores - a $30 Madeline doll for $1 (tag still on it), and a book entitled "Ninja Secrets of Invisibility". Hey, it was 50 cents, I HAD to. A cursory flip through the book reveals that it is about stealth. It'll be a nifty read. :D There was more that I bought, but those were the two most interesting, to my mind, at least.
3. Finally got a replacement wheel for our lawnmower. The hubby had NO luck trying to get one last fall, and barely managed the final mow of the season with an epoxied-and-taped wheel, which held together juuuuust long enough. When he tried finding a replacement, the dealer finder on the Toro website was NOT working, thus a bunch of fruitless trips. Yes, I suppose he could have ordered one, but he had been hoping to find one in stock to finish that last mow done with an intact wheel. I decided I would try to track one down yesterday, and behold, the dealer finder WORKS now - so it took us less than 5 minutes to get the location of a nearby dealer, another few minutes for me to call and find out they had a wheel in stock, and that afternoon, I picked it up. Much easier, LOL.
4. While doing that, I passed by a few places in the nearby city that I typically don't drive by often - one was Arby's, which is where I grabbed lunch (I probably have Arby's about once a year - not b/c I don't like it, but b/c I'm just never going that way, so it has to come to mind and/or I need to specifically want *that*). The other was a Mexican grocery store, which I had been meaning to stop in and check out, but hadn't really had the opportunity yet. So I did - and I WILL be going back.
Meat prices were fantastic, they had some different produce at decent prices, and a whole lot of Mexican-bottled Sprite! WOOHOO! If you have never tried it, DO. It has real sugar (as does Mexican bottled Coke, etc.), and it has more lime to the flavor than the US bottled/canned Sprite does. The local grocery store does have a spot for it, but never has it in stock. Now I know where to get it. :) The hubby is pleased.
At any rate, I did pick up some Sprite, bananas and some cookies - wafer cookies, like the vanilla/strawberry/chocolate ones - but unlike those, the ones we've tried so far (dulce de leche) didn't leave that kind of filmy feeling after. And of course, no HFCS - sugar sugar sugar. Now, I'm not one to call cookies health food, heh. I know they aren't. :D But no filmy aftertexture (well, it isn't really an aftertaste, is it?) and real sugar? And REALLY good? Nifty. And a fair number of different flavors available (as well as the standard vanilla/strawberry/chocolate), such as mango and guava.
5. One oddity spotted at the above grocery store, and I imagine it's just b/c someone was pulling up whatever on the meat pricing label just to get the packages marked - one pound packages of crawfish were labeled as "imitation crab meat". Not crawfish meat, either. The whooooole crawfish.
6. Also, I had noticed before that one of the play grocery store items that Calla has, which is supposed to be a 2 liter bottled drink, has a label declaring the flavor to be "aloe". I figured this had to be some kind of mistake - well, kind of, anyhow - that they used that recognizable 2 liter bottle as the representative container for any non-canned liquid, and that it was meant to be hand soap or lotion or something. But now that I've seen the soda choices at the store, I see that her toy label was NOT a mistake. There is indeed aloe-flavored soda available there. I don't think I'm quite up for trying it, though I imagine it probably wouldn't taste much different than a carbonated herbal tea or something.
7. Passed by a coin-op laundromat on the way home from there - the name? "The Lost Sock". So either they're promising you will find all those lost socks you've been missing, or they're advertising the inevitable result of laundry. Either way, it is memorable, so I suppose it does work for that. :D
So the big lesson learned this week - if you have an ethnic grocer near you, GO. You never know what you may find.
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