Three Hundred Forty-Ninth Entry

Today was an eventful day!

I knew that at the very very least today, I needed to mow the lawns and mow down all the weeds that have taken over my garden planting area. But first, Amy and I went grocery shopping at Trader Joe's in Castro Valley. I always get into trouble in that store. We bought TONS of groceries and forgot to bring reusable bags. We ended up buying two really nice new ones there. They were huge, but not huge enough! We still had a bunch of loose items in the cart. Hella ghetto. I guess we could have just had them use a paper bag, but we just made do. After that we went to Peet's over by Safeway. It was hella busy, but delicious!

Once we got home, I got out the lawnmower and the trimmer. The trimmer was out of string, so I had to refill it. It took me forever to figure out how to do it. I felt quite accomplished when I figured it out with the help of the pdf owner's manual on my phone, but none of the yardwork was done. LOL I trimmed the lawns and mowed them. Then I tackled the garden area. the weeds were really high. I took the bag off the mower and just let the cuttings go around all over the place. I was going to try to rototill the garden, but with the weeds being so high, the ground is as wet as if it had been raining all week. It looks like after today and tomorrows rain, it will be dry weather until next weekend at the least. Hopefully the soil will dry out enough so that I can till it next weekend.

After spending over an hour taming the yard, I tried again to register for some classes. I am now waitlisted for six different classes ranging from Astronomy to Psychology to Humanities. There are NO available online classes. Amy suggested that I take a night class to which I responded, "If I'm going to leave work early enough to catch a 6 pm class, I'd rather come home to be with you." Awwww!! Not sure she is buying it though. ;)

We went to Costco this afternoon for eggs and paper towels. Well, we left with another cart full! Of our purchases, the best was a new 40" TV for the living room. It is huge, according to Amy. I think we could have gone with a 60" television myself, but I got overruled. After Costco, we went to Ikea in Emeryville. We got a new dining table and chairs! I will assemble them tomorrow. It's been a while since I've assembled an Ikea piece. Hopefully it's as easy as I remember. I can't even think what the last thing I assembled from Ikea was. We of course also bought meatballs and some of the gravy packets. Yummmm!