Cooking, Cleaning, Grooming … it never ends.

Kay and I went shopping tonight. We traveled up to Milford to Big Lots and I’m happy to say that I got myself the baskets I was looking for. I was surprised to find out that they’re only $2 each and the perfect size for everything I need to go in them. When I moved everything over to my new closet I had to factor in that I wasn’t going to have a dresser readily available to me so I knew once the shelves went up that I was going to need some baskets to get my underwear, bras and socks in the same room with my clothes. Right now I still have my clothes in Baby’s dresser which is in the office closet, it makes no sense for me to go across the hall just to get the important stuff – you know?

After Big Lots we took a quick drive over to Wal-Mart, I was happy to find that a lot of the things I needed were on sale so I was able to get everything I set out to get today. I know I’ve been spending quite a bit lately but that’s also based on the fact that it’s items I need on a day-to-day basis. I’m not sure what’s up with Wal-Mart lately but they haven’t had the canned chicken that I give to Bella in quite some time. A lot of items are on back order for them (according to the few employees we spoke to) so hopefully that will all be taken care of soon. For now I found another brand that’s still 2 for $4 so I’m not too concerned – she’s eating well either way.

We picked up a lot of veggies and meat for the week. We plan on doing a lot of barbecuing. There’s a farm right next to this Wal-Mart so there was an overabundance of fresh unshucked white corn, watermelon and other yummy foods. Tonight I’m going to do some turkey burgers for myself, beef burgers for Kay and Sean and maybe even a steak or two. I’m also going to steam some corn and carrots to throw on the side. Tomorrow I’m doing sausage and peppers and the following night will most likely be grilled chicken. So at least I’m going to be keeping myself busy and still sticking to my diet as well.

It’s going to be a fairly busy day for me. Right now it’s about 5am so I intend to get some sleep soon but when I wake up I’m going to be cleaning the kitchen, finishing up some work online and then I’m going to give Bella a bath because she desperately needs one. It’s been a few weeks since she’s had one, I’ve been rather busy lately, so her eyes are getting a little dirty and her paws could use a cleaning as well. I used to give her one every week so I never had to worry about her ears getting too bad or her eyes for that matter. Since it’s been almost a month she just looks really ratty. I’m going to soak her down, scrub the hell out of her and then once she air dries for a little while I’ll hit her with the hair dryer and fluff her up.

I’m sending her to the groomer next week, I know I was supposed to do that a few weeks ago but I wasn’t expecting to come up to a dog in pain either. Since she dug herself out of the room I had no choice but to post-pone her appointment and take care of her medical needs before the vanity ones – you know?