Spent far too much money on food and dining out this month, overspent on most categories. I think the food splurges are because I'm so satiated by the protein shakes I don't think much about what the other two will eat. Or I don't plan the menus and we buy ingredients at the last minute. Or I don't get receipts from someone who takes money out of the ATM and I just assume he's bought lunch for himself with the money while at work. The only categories I haven't overspent are auto, animals, clothing.
The groceries overspending is understandable: I splurged for a 28 lb. "meat package" at a butcher shop, used a coupon, and saved 22%. I won't need animal protein until school lets out.
I made some
Of interest only to snafu: I just learned my constitutional right to vote has been returned to me. I'm going to fill out the forms, get my ballot I hope in time for the election, and then exercise my subsequent right to complain if the results are not to my liking. Also, when canvassers in front of supermarkets ask me if I'm registered to vote I can say "yes!"
of probably no interest: I started reading (and watching) Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, and I think it'd have been funnier if the war England was fighting in the book was the one in the New World. Strange's magic could be confounded by Ojibway or Oneida shamanism, Mr Norrell could grapple with the dilemma of restoring magic to respectability in England by helping the war effort, or saving the Library of Congress from burning by the British soldiers in 1814. I love Eddie Marsan in the BBC miniseries: he gives Norrell some emotional depth and expressions of pride & pain. In my head I imagined some cranky Ned Sparks intellectual.
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My English Castle: If you like Harry Potter for grownups. Literally it is a fantastic novel, and I don't mean "literally" in the way that its misuse ticks off English professors, it is a fantasy novel. The size of _Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell_, plus its period (Napoleonic Wars) scared me off for years. I picked it up from a Little Free Library because LFL material has no due date. I'm happy to see it's a comic novel.
Buendia: your earlier post about the BBC series "Back in Time for Dinner" led me to watch the first episode, which was so tragic I couldn't bring myself to watch the other decades, though I'm sure it's an improvement. I remarked to an English friend it's a wonder John Cleese managed the height he did from the rationed malnutrition of the time, and my friend quipped that the UK government did not ration albatross.
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