Forgotten money and sugary coffee

Some good news I totally forgot about until I was reminded by a postcard in the mail yesterday. We get a $675 property tax rebate again this year (it was a 2 year deal). We have to apply for it, so it was good to get the reminder card in the mail, as I had totally forgotten about it. I will put it towards my prepaid winter propane bill that comes up in September.

I sometimes watch this funny/snarky lady who does videos, mostly of cooking for her family. Last night I watched one of her making her morning cup of coffee. Holy sugar! She poured in so much white chocolate sauce (I can understand, though, LOL) and then 3 pumps of vanilla syrup and some creamer, which most likely also had sugar in it. That cup of coffee had to have at least 60 grams of sugar. I'm still working on my sugar reduction, but now my coffee is back to sugar free. I do want to use up the white chocolate sauce I have left, so I decided on Monday's, as a treat, I will add some to my coffee, but I'm adding about half what I used to put in (on a daily basis). I ran out of some of my more healthy treats about a week ago, so I've been slipping on those. 

But, we are going into the city tomorrow and picking up a grocery order, so I'm getting back to the less/no sugar snacks. I want apples and peanut butter so bad! I've been craving it, but ran out of apples like a week ago. We also have to stop by the house of the guy who installed dh's shop lift. We still owe him $50 (he forgot to add for the oil to his invoice) and also drop off his grandson's ring dh found in the driveway. Then dh wants to stop in Harbor Freight for a few things. I have our grocery pick up scheduled between 11am and noon and we can do the other 2 errands before that and shouldn't have to leave the house until like 9am in the morning.

Our cruise to Alaska in September is fast approaching and I need to get some things figured out now - like what clothes and if I/we need a couple new outfits. I also want to order a few "cruise essentials" which I see come in handy on a cruise from reading blogs/watching videos. Like magnetic hooks, plug in for extra USB ports, motion sickness patches, stuff like that. I'm going to use some of my $500 Amazon gift card to purchase those items I want to take with us.

We've decided to stay casual and skip the formal night(s) and just eat somewhere else on the cruise, but I'd still like to get a couple pair of casual pants that aren't jeans. All I have is jeans. Dh has quite a few non jeans khaki type pants and button down shirts, short and long sleeved, so he should be fine with clothes.

We bought a "cat cave" for Amos a long time ago, I have it up in my office. He uses it to scratch on and once in a blue moon will sit on top of it. The past 2 days he's decided he now likes getting inside it. He spent over 3 hours sleeping in there yesterday afternoon and he just got in it again this afternoon. Too funny. What made him finally decide he likes it?