Sorry I haven't been on here much. My to-do list is getting away from me, and
checking BYC isn't on it.
I do it anyway, just not as much.
It's been a great work week. Today is day 2 of doing chair massages at Russ' office. The HR rep wanted to get me to gather a team to give everyone a 15-minute massage, considering this is their year-end closing event and it's common for employees to go home at 4am. But the big bosses chafed at spending that much money, and HR was able to raffle off 24 massages, done only by me. I get paid $20 per massage, so it's going to be very rewarding at the end.
A few months ago, I mentioned to Russ that I plan to scope out the sales fliers from the grocery stores, then buy in bulk when there is a super good deal. This week, red bell peppers are 4/$1 at Savemart, and chicken leg quarters are 68 cents/lb. Peaches are 69 cents/lb at Smart & Final. I told Russ that I'm going to use a chunk of this income to buy a few cases of these, portion them out, and put them in the freezer. He said, "I thought you were going to use it to pay bills." Uh... Baby, food IS a bill. It's not like I'm buying up cases of Hostess Twinkies. And I can't grow everything here. And when red bell peppers are $5.99/lb in the winter and we can pull a bag from the freezer and put them in the stir fry, we'll be so glad we did. Well, I must have convinced him of the wisdom of my ways, because tonight after this last chair massage gig, we're going to go buy it all and freeze it. Tomorrow I'll be processing food and catching up on my weeding. I think the weeds are winning right now.
Oh yeah, and we're in the market for a used (cheap) freezer that we can put on our back porch, covered by a tarp. There's no way we're going to keep all this food in our side-by-side. So if you know someone who's selling one (cheap,) can you please let me know?