This has been a very long week in a lot of ways, and I'd been looking forward to today for some time. Then the morning sucked, in the process sucking the life out of me, and by the time I was to leave, I had no interest in doing anything ( Read more... )

Neighbors
Mystery solved: The house in the cul-de-sac that's for sale belongs to someone other than the ice skaters. I can see it from the laundry room, I discovered this morning. There's a big Pods container in the driveway; the house is across the street, second from the corner.

Woodman'sOur grocery store has new shopping carts. We knew ( Read more... )

Today ended up being way more exciting than anticipated ( Read more... )

I only posted work-related stories on Saturday, so I missed what I actually *did* that day. At the grocery store, it was the day to put whatever I wanted in the cart, so I did, and I spent more than I have in ages--probably since two years ago when we were buying three weeks' worth of groceries at a time. Alas, we did not by three weeks' worth of ( Read more... )

I noticed something at Woodman's when we were there on Saturday--no more plexiglass barriers at the checkout stands. I was a little surprised to see that, honestly. They'd been moving away from some of the pandemic protocols for a while; for instance, they stopped putting groceries back into customers' original carts back in March. (There's no ( Read more... )

Since shopping's been kind of boring lately...

North Aurora man charged after Woodman's parking lot shooting leaves 2 hurt, including teenNorth Aurora police say David Williams, 19, was trying to buy marijuana off victim ( Read more... )

What with working yesterday, we had to go shopping today, meaning I had to get up and get dressed at some point. Many Sundays, I'm able to stay in bed until about 7:30. Today? Wide awake and needing to visit the washroom by 6:30. Sigh ( Read more... )

There's a cardinal that lives in the tree outside my room; I've been listening to him all year. This is how I could tell the days were getting longer: He'd start singing at 7 AM, then 6:45, then 6:30, then dude, it's too early for this, and then the time changed and it started all over. I try to get a glimpse of him most days, but unless he's ( Read more... )

I got off work a little early on Friday, and when I called the house to forewarn them, I was asked to check the mail. As I walked down the driveway to the mailbox, I could hear the sounds of...a marching band? A marching band! Wow! Remember, it's currently football season, and with football comes music. I broke into a big grin. I haven't ( Read more... )

I want to write this down in case it becomes an issue in the future. Something weird happened at the grocery store today ( Read more... )