This time power thing works. I found 2 (two!) hours per day!

Pretty much watching Sullivan's Crossing and Coronation Street. Sorting various papers, cat cuddles.

Was in a happy place, listening to rain for a few hours... until the rain dared to stop... ooohhh, tptb should put me in charge of rain already!

Got up early and spent the morning with my mop, vacuum and vinegar. Catering in tomorrow and have a bracelet making session planned with my family. Everyone has to make a bracelet for themselves and one for their Mom and Grandmother. My Mom, sister and I are in for the win, ha ha. Happy Mother's Day. I wish you all a great Sunday.

Cooking ahead for the next few days.

sunny day, went to a locally popular and historic town to walk around and see the wonderful sights.
some organizing, some grocery shopping
lunch outside in the sunshine with spring flowers blooming all around
was blissful after a string of several hard days



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Substitute teaching. A mixed bag of classes. Several PE classes.

Listening to 'Three Bags Full' between bouts of laundry and 'fridge cleaning.

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New day, new-to-me book. 'Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder' is a Baker Street cozy. It incorporates irregulars but does not involve Sherlock Holmes. Suweet, huh.

trip planning

Unboxing the latest haul of free stuff from Ulta. I no longer have enough room to fit stuff in and on my bedroom vanity and nightstand. My bathroom vanity drawers and 3 door medicine cabinet are stuffed to the gills as well. Just recently bought ‘Mustard Made’ matching medicine cabinet and armoire with baskets that I assembled to put multiple bags full of free beauty products in after they are properly sorted.
My BF asked why I needed all of it. I told him not to worry, that 80-90% of it is free, and that they don’t want the GWP items back should you return stuff. He was not impressed. I pondered for a couple of seconds if I will burn in hell with my haul of free products. Then went back to organizing my display cabinet.

So it might be true that for some people, as time passes food becomes less of a 'thing' and more of a matter-of-fact aspect of life. (If interested, you can find the research on fewer calories in older age. True? Not? You decide...) Someone gave a treat! Had a regular fast food meal, which was just too much food. I did not want to make multiple meals of this food. Did not want a kiddie meal. I wanted a smaller portion of everything (and would expect a correspondingly lower price for one grown-up meal with small portions and without toys/ads/promotions). Is this possible in today's world?

I doubt if it's possible, it's a special order many places, so they charge full price or maybe more!

I've willingly paid full price to have my smaller amount just to avoid waste. Like to I'll ask for 10 French Fries

@Minime
I don't know what Ulta is, or Mustard Made, or GWP so I'm scratching my head reading your post.

Prince you’ve never heard of Ulta? It’s like Sephora, a huge nationwide chain of stores that sells beauty products. Skin and hair care, makeup, toiletries etc. GWP is ‘gift with purchase.’ There are dozens of them on their website where if you buy from a certain product line they will add in a free gift from that line. Each day they also have a general GWP on the main page if you spend a certain amount (on anything, usually $50 or more) you get around 5 free deluxe products. When you spend $1200/year you become a ‘diamond member’ that opens up a whole other world of free offers. Those are usually full size free products with a low minimum purchase of $25. I’m learning that these types of offers cycle throughout the month and there are times you can get a huge haul of free stuff with 1 order. You get to try so much stuff that you could use that’s practical, along with more luxury items like perfumes. I have trays on my dresser of dozens of mini perfume bottles that I love b/c they look like the big bottles only smaller. I also like the free cosmetic bags and totes. I read somewhere that Ulta requires the major companies they partner with to give away free stuff so customers can try it out. Without that they wouldn’t sell as much. The department stores do this on a smaller scale and want the gift back if you return the item. Ulta won’t take it back. I still buy enough that I don’t consider it cheating. I did buy 3 bottles of Miu Miu perfume that I wouldn’t have bought cold without sampling them first.

Mustard Made is a company founded by 2 women who designed colorful ‘lockers’ that look like upscale gym lockers (with a keyed lock) in all shapes and sizes using nice colors. They use frosted glass with some of them. They’re great if you need extra storage that matches color schemes you already have. They’re easy to assemble and you get them in a week!

I just got a perm that isn’t half bad and recently got a ton of new free products for air drying, curl defining, volumizing, anti frizz etc. that I normally wouldn’t have tried. They keep the hair in good shape and the perm looking good.

That’s all interesting, thanks. We do have Sephora ( I’ve never been) in Canada and may have Ulta.
My aunt must have done something like this with department stores or something. There was a lot of product to get rid of in her house. I kept very few items. A travel cosmetic bag, some lovely moisturizer, some expensive sunscreen.
It’s not my passion.

@prince wrote:

That’s all interesting, thanks. We do have Sephora ( I’ve never been) in Canada and may have Ulta.
My aunt must have done something like this with department stores or something. There was a lot of product to get rid of in her house. I kept very few items. A travel cosmetic bag, some lovely moisturizer, some expensive sunscreen.
It’s not my passion.

Oh come on Prince, Live a little!