Trying to online shop today

Don't you  hate it when you get part of a blog post typed out and somehow it disappears?! I'm glad it doesn't happen too often, but somehow I got distracted to do something else in the middle of it and lost it.

Let's see if I can remember what I said, haha! We received our property tax assessment notice in the mail. It shows going up $13,000 or so, like dh saw online. I had estimated the taxes to go up about $120, but they are showing only going up $63. The strange part is just the day before dh had looked at the state's property website and all those new assessed values had been removed. I saw, with my new mortgage lender, on my online account in the payment section I also have the option of making additional payments to the escrow balance. I think I'll do that before November. Then when they do the annual adjustment I won't have to play catch up for that amount.

I've had a cart of items with Kohl's all week, still not pulling the trigger, LOL. I have a 30% off coupon, as well as $5 Kohl's cash. I wanted some more of those jeans I bought, so picked out 2 other colors/washes, but decided to get them in 6 short, as the mediums are a bit long, so short will probably be just right. Then I added a couple more tshirts, that end up only being $5.60. Then I decided to take a look through their clerance items. Sometimes I find nice decor type stuff. Next thing you know I am up to almost $250. There was a fake plant/lavender for $11 (reg 40). I found 2 framed art, one with bear, one with buffalo I liked. I still have 2 walls in each guest bedroom that need something. They were regularly $110, for $42 after discounts. I've been wanting some cheap dark blue melamine set of plates for the outdoor dining. I don't want a whole set of other dishes and they had just 4 plates that came to $13, which seems like a good price. And I've been looking for quite awhile for some kind of large rustic looking vase to set on the fireplace hearth, but everything that big is so expensive. This one will be $40, reg. $96. By then I'm $14 short of earning another $10 in Kohl's cash. I might as well add something for $14 to get $10 back...right? LOL. I added some decaf k-cup coffee. Because lately I've been having a coffee craving later in they day and I can't have more than one cup of coffee in my system a day. So, I still need to pull the trigger and actually order all this....I just wanted the jeans, LOL. But, it will also be really nice to add 4 pieces of decor that I need for good prices and I can stop spending time searching for those. Boy, they sure don't give you long to use that Kohl's cash earned. It says it will only be good from 6/21 to 6/24. Seems like they used to give you a week or two to use it. Then I goofed up and chose my credit card as payment instead of my Kohl's charge card and it removed the 30% off, so I had to go back and change that.

DD and I are trying to plan her few days here next month. Thursday we'll be working, at least until mid afternoon. I think Friday we'll try to plan something to do with DH. Take a drive or a little hike somewhere. There's been these 2 small lakes we hiked to several years ago I'd love to go back to. Or there is a hike above the edge of town that overlooks the whole town that is nice to do, too. Figured if we do that on Friday, probably less people out there than on Saturday. Saturday we'll go see my mom. DD and I like to "window shop" so I asked her if she'd like to do regular stores or maybe do antique type shopping. She said antique and she'd also like to stop in that used bookstore near us, again. I said me too, I haven't been in there since we last went in there together a few years ago. I found an antique mall in the city, so we can go look around there Saturday and stop at the bookstore on the way home. I think I'll save my $50 TJ Maxx gift card she got me, and we can stop there and see what I can find to spend it on.

Ok, trying to get my Walmart grocery pick up order placed. Their website is a mess! First off I noticed it looked a bit different. They had a "reorder items" button, which at first I'm like this is nice. It basically put in my cart all the items I regularly order all at once. A time saver. I deleted a few items I didn't need. Then I realized as I'm adding other items that now the "pick up" and "shipping" are all combined into one search now. You have to pay attention to make sure it's something you can pick up. Like I don't want 3 jars of pizza sauce shipped to me and have to pay shipping! Nor do I want to pay $27 for 3 small jars of pizza sauce! I had reserved my time at my store (which has always been saved as my store I use). When I went to check out it asked me what my shipping address is (it had mine and my mom's saved, because one time I ordered something for her to be shipped to her apartment). I picked mine. Then it asked my time to pick up (again) and the store it was showing was in Arkansas! The it outed me a whole bunch of items. I went back to the first screen to change my store and re-add all the items it outed me. Then I tried to check out again and it kept changing my pick up store to Arkansas and outing me. Finally, it worked at my store (I hope! geez!) but pretty much outed me all my bread items and a few other items. It wanted to ship me the pizza sauce, so I had to delete that. What a mess. I'll be surprised if there is even an order to pick up tomorrow at noon.