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What I spent money on today

October 15th, 2011 at 01:22 am

Halloween candy at Cash'n'Carry. Regular size peanut butter cups for 50 cents each. Trick-or-treaters think they've got something special with a full-size candy. Plus family-size chips, unsalted butter.

Husband is out of town tonight so boy and I are living it up. I have some Koji Yamamura short films to watch,

$94.03 after a $5 coupon at a supermarket. Half of that was one full Coho salmon cut up into four-ounce portions. I also bought some discontinued white wine from the bargain shelf. Everything else was vegetables and items for baking cookies.

I am worrying about my short-term memory. It is blitzed. It has relocated to "Whattawa, Zontario." I don't even have alcohol or drug use or medication to blame for it. Today I went to a library I thought would have my book club selection -- this is the second time the online catalogue claimed it was available but turned out not to be so. Then I thought I'd visit another branch on my way home, but I stupidly neglected to WRITE the address down, instead I went by memory and veered everywhere like a trapped buzzing fly to get to the library. Then I had, on my list, to visit the supermarket but I pull up to a third library, after getting my book from the second. In the parking lot I thought "Uh I shouldn't be here. In fact I wonder if I am in a condition to drive."

I couldn't remember the name of Thomas Love Peacock's short Romantic Era rip of his friends ("Nightmare Abbey" I kept thinking "Crochet Castle" and "Northanger Abbey") nor the name of the Indo-Canadian author who wrote A Fine Balance, I was thinking Raj Viswanathan, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Seth, and not at all about Rohinton Mistry.

I wonder if I need a heavy metal detox, or a nootropics concoction. At least I went with a WRITTEN LIST and a PLANNED MENU for the week to the supermarket, with a coupon. At least that.

2 Responses to “What I spent money on today”

  1. Jerry Says:
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    I think we all have days like that... it's only when it starts to become a common occurrence that it would lead me to worry too much! At least you have the insurance that you got the stuff you needed, and there is no shame in using a list to get there. It's the recommended course of actions for pilots and surgeons, as well. Smile Jerry

  2. My English Castle Says:
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    ha--I went to the store to get spice cake mix and came home with 15 things--none of which were spice cake mix. Yesterday I yelled at my printer all day and DH came home to find it was disconnected from the PC.
    Sleep, a walk, and some decent food is my prescription for me.
    But instead I'm going back to the store for spice cake mix (maybe)

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