Belated

No entry Monday, thanks to more weirdness in my sleeping schedule. The year is getting off to a rocky start, though it's nice that the first rain began late yesterday and is still going on (though I've slept through most of it.) I'm hoping to get out to finish my shopping today, but if it stays this rainy that might not be possible.

The reason my shopping isn't finished is because I lost my list not long after entering Safeway Sunday. I retraced my steps, but couldn't find it. I suspect that some compulsive tidier picked it up. Anyway, I couldn't remember most of what was on it (if I had any memory left I wouldn't need the list) and there wasn'tt ime to return home and reconstruct the list from the stores' web sites, so much of my shopping remains undone. I would have gone yesterday but the sleep disruption made that impossible. Rocky.

The good news is that the series of storms on the way this week will bring lots of snow to the higher elevations, though we probably won't get any here. At the end of the year, snowpack was above 100% of normal for the date, and now even more will accumulate. Not that plentiful water during the dry season will have much effect on my yard. The local water agency is raising its rates this year, so no matter how much water there is in the reservoir I won't be able to afford much. My lawns will remain dead through the summer even if the drought is over.

I don't know if I'll be able to get to sleep after this afternoon and evening's long, unintentional nap, but if I'm to have any chance of shopping today at all I'll need to get some rest, even if it's just lying down and listening to the rain.

So

So I managed to get to K-mart this evening. I got two pairs of shoes, six pillowcases, two bar towels, a flannel shirt, a ream of copier paper, and a 150-ounce jug of laundry detergent. After cashing in various bonus points the store has given me over the last couple of months the total out of my pocket was just under 33 dollars, but I also got 20 bucks and change back in bonus points, so it's almost like this pile-o-stuff only cost me about twelve bucks. Not bad. The year is looking up.

I also got a break in the weather— literally. It quit raining as soon as I left the house and didn't start up again in earnest until I got home. All I had to put up with while out was a bit of sprinkling. Half an hour later I'd have gotten drenched.

In addition to the stuff from K-mart I got a few things from the nearer supermarket. Safeway was too far to go, so the stuff I didn't get from there Sunday will have to wait until the next time it's on sale. It probably won't be missed, which just goes to show that I probably buy too much stuff. About the only thing I regret not getting is the chili, which isn't on sale very often. But there's plenty of stuff in the cupboard and the freezer and the refrigerator, so no chance of starvation anytime soon. In fact I need to devour some potatoes before their eyes get any bigger. I hate cooking food with big eyes. It reminds me of those creepy paintings by Margaret Keane.