What are you doing today? (besides shopping)
I discovered a new wine yesterday. Instead of going to Total Wines and getting my regular, I went to a local spot very close to home. They had a distributor in who was doing a tasting. I fell in love with a wine in a box!
"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
For the past week I've been leaving uncompleted projects scattered around the house. Today I made a dent in them. And made a Market Force scheduler happy by accepting his request for a lunchtime burger shop.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt
I am lollygagging in a hotel room, between Sunday and Monday shops. Soon, I can start the first assignment of the day. But first, I will have the customary cuppa.
Some of you would be proud of me because I am having the Keurig (in-room) coffee.
Some of you would be proud of me because I am having the Keurig (in-room) coffee.
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)
Okay, I'll bite. Why would that make someone here proud?
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Dropping my Christmas packages off at the PO and buying stamps for our Christmas cards. I use the Click N Ship a lot off the USPS site to buy my postage and print off the labels, and it's a great time saver! (However, last week, I WAS able to grab a regular PO shop bonused to $25 plus the $11 reimb, and mailed one of my packages early! Merry Christmas to me!)
In my opinion, K-cups are horrible. They can't be recycled and they clog up the landfills with more trash that will still be there hundreds of years (maybe thousands) from now. I do like one cup brewers but they have refillable pods you can use and then you can compost your coffee grinds...I am sure that at a hotel they don't offer that option, however.
Work, finish inside decorating, play ball with the dogs, wrap a couple of gifts.
Hey - small world. I'm taking classes at SNHU also. I'm going for my bachelor's in graphic and web design.
@HonnyBrown wrote:
I'm doing a Master's in Management at Southern New Hampshire University.
@Shop-et-al wrote:
1. Irene: how are you/where are you?
2. HonnyBrown: what are you studying?
Kim
walesmaven, on the coffee thread, several posters mentioned their beloved Keurig and other coffee systems. (I love instant coffee because it's nukeable and requires no counter space in my tiny kitchen.) I felt quite out of place among the coffee experts who know so much about coffee and the coffee industry.
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)
When hotels still supplied real little coffeemakers, I took my own freshly ground beans. After the move toward Keurig and other pod type machines, I got a travel French Press. Not as fast as the pod machines, but it actually tastes like coffee.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
I am sure that at a hotel they don't offer that option, however.
Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
Gym shop and cooking a dish for the first of two potluck parties this week.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt
Staying home and trying to get over a head cold
Post Office stop on my way into the city for garage shops. After those, a run for wine and groceries.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Finishing a report, going to the movies (not as a shop), and thinking about a shop that could be added to tomorrow's work day.
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)
Doing a bank because they're paying the 16th....cleaning (again) my closest as Salvation Army is picking up stuff Thursday. Finding a weight lifted off my shoulders getting rid of stuff I don't use. Watching news, keeping up with Santa Barbara fire, the largest in history. Doing report and looking for a couple more jobs....playing on computer.
Live consciously....
Work, one lunch shop, grocery store, paperwork.
My day just got funner. I am watching the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express and comparing it to the current version of the film and a PC game from the early 2000s. (Yes. I know.) Now, we have terminology and treatments for the extreme overreactions. Then, not so much.....
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)
One more hour of packaging for holiday shipping, one more trip to the post office. I will drop off housemate at the local transit center as she heads downtown to caroling and Advent supper and vespers at her church. It is brutally cold and windy here today. A good day to make chili!
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.
This afternoon a physical therapist is coming to work with my son. He was born with clubfeet and has double jointed knees so he's a little behind with learning to walk. This will be her first time to visit so I assume she will just talk with us and discuss her plan.
I have one shop due today. I also should have my quite time , and clean house some. My floors did some loveling care
Work, trying to correct a FAFSA and the site is being buggy. Listening to Christmas music and enjoying the season.
Prepping for tomorrow's shops. One part of me thinks that these three tasks should be the last assignments for the year, but another part of me says I should be willing to do bonused shops if any are available later in the month. A third part of me says, 'Waaaaaa!' and wants a nap. A fourth part is too tired to care. It is the one that is studying, I mean taking a break from studying and playing on the forum.
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a chilly Christmas morning. (Mary Quant)
Hi JAS. Speaking as an Environmental Engineer, some K-Cups can't be recycled, but all of them can be repurposed. You just have to be creative.
Recycling isn't a big issue. Everything that can't get recycled gets burned for energy. That lowers your electric bill. Did you know that the trash to energy plants have employees who sort the trash by hand?
Throw those K-Cups out!
Recycling isn't a big issue. Everything that can't get recycled gets burned for energy. That lowers your electric bill. Did you know that the trash to energy plants have employees who sort the trash by hand?
Throw those K-Cups out!
@JASFLALMT wrote:
In my opinion, K-cups are horrible. They can't be recycled and they clog up the landfills with more trash that will still be there hundreds of years (maybe thousands) from now. I do like one cup brewers but they have refillable pods you can use and then you can compost your coffee grinds...I am sure that at a hotel they don't offer that option, however.
"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
Well, hubby likes a real Christmas tree, but after nearly 30 years I am SOOoooo done decorating 6' trees! So for the second year in a row, we got a small tree and had it cut down to 4'4", and put it in a tree stand on a small table in front of our living room window. Perfect!! So tonight, after I got in from doing 5 convenience store/lottery shops and 1 grocery shop, we decorated our little tree. And I got a new Christmas tree skirt for a BUCK from Dollar Tree, and it's SO cute! And after supper, I decorated our fireplace mantel and hung our yet-to-be-filled-still-empty Christmas stockings!! And while it's just hubby and I here now (and dog too!), our son and daughter in law & grandbaby, and our other son will be here visiting over Christmas...hence, 6 stockings!! 
No shops for the first time in I don't know when, but trying to wrap up Christmas shopping, so lots of time in stores anyway. Second potluck party of the week. This time I was assigned a dessert, so I brought a large bowl of clementines. People really seemed to enjoy them.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt
I love clementines!! I just finished eating one before I saw your post!
Well, they are ridiculously expensive anyway. I would rather not buy kcups for that reason as well.
Are you saying that kcups don't end up in the landfills? In my township we have household trash in one container and our recycling in another. I didn't know people were sorting through our household trash. I thought they hauled our trash off to the landfill. I'm surprised they allow for burning since I live in a high emission area. Cars here have to get e-checked every two years. They used to make tires here and the air pollution is considerable.
Are you saying that kcups don't end up in the landfills? In my township we have household trash in one container and our recycling in another. I didn't know people were sorting through our household trash. I thought they hauled our trash off to the landfill. I'm surprised they allow for burning since I live in a high emission area. Cars here have to get e-checked every two years. They used to make tires here and the air pollution is considerable.
@HonnyBrown wrote:
Hi JAS. Speaking as an Environmental Engineer, some K-Cups can't be recycled, but all of them can be repurposed. You just have to be creative.
Recycling isn't a big issue. Everything that can't get recycled gets burned for energy. That lowers your electric bill. Did you know that the trash to energy plants have employees who sort the trash by hand?
Throw those K-Cups out!
@JASFLALMT wrote:
In my opinion, K-cups are horrible. They can't be recycled and they clog up the landfills with more trash that will still be there hundreds of years (maybe thousands) from now. I do like one cup brewers but they have refillable pods you can use and then you can compost your coffee grinds...I am sure that at a hotel they don't offer that option, however.
What is that on the tree of your tree.
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.