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Went to the drugstore w/hubby to get new prescription - and as everything was on SALE, I also picked out a few items like Vitamin C (2 for one) and a $1 off Calm-Forte - and even found Rite-Aid's own "advanced wrinkle corrector" creme next to a brand name for $11.99 on sale!  I like the cream, too - but  it almost re-surfaced my face!  (My skin is sensitive & I will probably use it only every other night) My husband has NO idea what all this COULD cost!   I had to remind him that there are creams selling for $30-$75 and MORE!! I am so frugal that he hasn't a CLUE. ( and I have nice expensive-looking skin, too...) I was going to buy cream at Avon again - but I missed the free shipping.)

Spent yesterday afternoon getting our McAfee Security Suite up and running on our main hard drive.  I had gotten a deal on it from a vendor - (and a $20 rebate) which had apparently confused McAfee Central about my licenses - but we finally got it all straightened out.  (The license is good for THREE computers!) It cleaned up my PC & found evil TROJANS!  Eek!  Glad they are out of the way. Wanted to be defended against that April Once virus...so far,so good...

Almost finished with my Mexican-colored rug shawl.  It certainly is colorful. I did see the eyelash yarn I had made one shrug with at Rite-Aid for $4!! (I had gotten mine for 99 cents...) Waved that in front of hubby, too - all because he had said that I was "High maintenance."  Maybe, but my thrift compensates for it, too.

Listening to the 3 New Agey CDs I picked up at the Dollar Tree over the weekend - very soothing.

All in all, hubby & I are doing OK - he even got himself taken out to lunch by a vendor - (a modest one, however, so perfectly kosher.)  But we appreciate free meals whenever we come across them!  If we were younger we could enjoy free alcohol, too - as they seem to be throwing around free booze of all kinds at clubs around Hollywood - but - ugh - it's the hard stuff - I have never been able to tolerate martinis, et al...No, I just drink n/a and lite beer (do you know that they are good when mixed together?) And for special occasions - champagne, of course!

Yum, the chocolate we got at the Dollar Tree seems to be fine. One never knows - so one buys on faith...

Substituted the cheaper generic allergy meds for the Zyrtec (much less costly) & it seems to be OK - also picked up some less expensive Op-Con A for my allergy eyes (2 for one!) - and saving the Alaway drops, which are good but come in itty-bitty bottles, for when I need the big guns. Due to our rains, everything is blooming & blossoming here - which is lovely - except for the tree pollen levels, which are very high! (Trees & grasses spew out massive amounts of pollen, as they have no way of attracting pollinators, as flowers do.)  So "rose fever" as they used to call it, is really a misnomer.

Felt very crafty when I fished out an old knitting project that hadn't gone as planned & recycled some of the yarn for my shawl! I am almost running out of my yarn stash - so I am looking around for what I can use for my next project - another shawl, I suppose.  Scarf season is over...Again, hubby has no idea what this all could cost....There I am in my armchair knitting in front of the tube - so domestic.

So life goes on - we are holding on - perhaps due to our modest demands...we have always thought on the cottage level rather than the mansion one...perhaps just as well...

How are you guys doing?

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Rose Fever, anyone?

Nope, it's the trees & grass - we we are coping...

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