Now our garbage service bill has gone up due to the gas prices. We are billed quarterly and now paying a fuel surcharge that is an extra $25 per quarter. We are now paying $60 a month for garbage pick up service one time a week. Where we used to live it was $27/mo and that included picking up a recycling can every other week!
I'm going in to see my mom tomorrow morning and pick up groceries. I see she was up and to breakfast this morning. I saw from camera motion clip that the caregiver knocked on her door at 7:30, but she was already dressed. Mom answered and she just said "hi, it's me. I'm just reminding you about breakfast" and mom said "ok, thank you". Quick and easy, but that's what she does need some mornings and I'd rather have them check every morning to make sure.
My grocery order is a lot healthier, haha. Well, for me anyway. Dh is a lost cause. I'm going to start with implementing the things I know I can change pretty easily. Less sugar, eat more salads, berries, nuts, and salmon (wild caught), eat 85% dark chocolate, grass fed butter, extra virgin olive oil, eggs, and organic chicken breast. Weird - I found I totally like an egg fried in olive oil, but did not like a scrambled egg made in it. I suppose it will get to be an acquired taste. I just cannot do one of the "super foods" - avacado. Just do not like it.
Nothing much new going on. Lots of hot weather days in the 90's. Just trying to keep up with making sure all the flowers are watered. Most of the yard is on sprinkler system that runs early morning. It gets the lawn and most of the shrubs and perennials we planted.
Now on to getting through the Friday work day.
It is better to have the care giver come rather than have to worry about breakfast each and every day! Some olive oil tastes better for a scrambled egg than others. But, don't ask me which is better. I use about a 1/4 tsp, just a little chip of butter for mine. I like avocado okay, but Tommy says he hates them. So, I just don't get them. Is your husband diabetic? I think Tommy lives for the almost daily rain so he does not have to drag a hose around the yard. The feels like was around 115 one day this week, so my flowers are just hanging on.
ReplyDeleteNice grocery list. I use cooking spray. I oil or butter out of habit. I love avacado but not at the price lately.
ReplyDeleteThat's a heck of an increase in your garbage bill isn't it!!!!! I would say it was about 15+ years ago now that all garbage pick up was stopped in my little village, and now we have to take EVERYTHING ourselves into the village and drop it off. Not just recycling, but household refuse also. At first it pissed me the hell off but now I'm totally used to it and the scheme seems to be expanding further and further afield!
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