2 posts tagged “target”
Hey, first some good news, have you tried going to vox.com to check out recent comments and updates? For well over a year it's barely loaded, but lately I'd say the page loads 90% of the time without having to reload. Ok, maybe that's an overly optimistic percentage, but the success rate has far exceeded the failure rate. I used to use the recent activity page to stay on top of comments but haven't really tried that in a while since all I ever got was a blank page. While typing this I just tried it and it worked the first time! Woah, folks, might Vox be making a comeback??? Is it possible to restore the greatness that was once our little community?
I went out in yesterday's butt-cold to have lunch with co-worker, S, who has been holding down the fort at the office. I also made it up to a great little gift shop in Lake George I've wanted to go for a while. Got some stuff for my former co-workers who I'm meeting tonight for our Christmas get together. We used to meet monthly - and maintained it for five years after we stopped working together but since moving up North it's been harder for me to get together with them, and you know how these things eventually go. We're such an oddball group. There are only four of us...I'm in my 20's, and we have one each in her 30's, 40's and 50's. It's funny how different we all are, but our shared history brought us together and we still have fun going out. Sadly, D won't be with us, her partner's brother died this week and they have to drive to Chitown for the funeral. Very sad. :-( Not only is it crappy because it's the holiday's, but D's birthday is also on the 25th and it's hard to get happy and celebrate those otherwise fun times when someone has passed away.
While I've got you down here in sad city, remember HJ? He died on Monday. So much for those six months, not that they would've been great anyway...there are some people who don't stick around for the suffering and more power to them...he's been through enough already. Sister is going to the funeral this morning. Keep her in your thoughts, it will be a tough day.
Enough of the sad talk, let's go for the stupid Val talk. Why is it that I over-research the majority of purchases I make for myself and others, making sure it's the absolute perfect thing for me or the gift recipient, but occasionally I'll buy something with no thought whatsoever? Like with certain Christmas gifts, I'll look everywhere online for that perfect something to give someone, make sure it has great product reviews and will be something really useful for the other person. But then I'll go to Target for something that I need for myself and buy something because it's shiny, not because it works. In all fairness, it's not like there are product reviewers hiding behind the shelves at Target to warn you that a product might suck and so you make the best decision you can based on what's on the box.
I needed a new coffee grinder. Normally I'd shop it on Amazon, but I had brand new beans from my Trader Joe's visit with Cranky and I *needed* that new grinder now. I recently used up the last of what I had the coffeehouse grind for me and only had some pre-ground autodrip crap that doesn't work well in a press. My old coffee grinder lasted me over 7 years and it was the crappy little proctor silex $13 thing. The grinder button broke on it years ago but I could still make it work with a paperclip (because I'm MacGuyver). So I went to Target yesterday and their cheapest grinders were all around $20. They had a very fancy looking one on SALE for $20, and I thought, "gee, if it's fancier and on sale for the same price as the average ones I must be getting a good deal" - also it was shiny. Of course, I came home to find that it had a 2 star rating on Amazon. Out of 41 customer reviews 27 were one star. Go fucking figure. At least in the reviews, someone who is more MacGuyver-y than me has come up with a solution to make a more even grind using a business card...yes, a business card. I had already ground my coffee this morning, and truthfully, it wasn't too bad. If you're using a French press, you want a more coarse grind anyway, and apparently that is the one thing this grinder can sort of grind evenly...even during my first cup here I haven't noticed that sometimes grittiness that can come from French Press coffee, so that's a good sign. We'll see how it holds up. It sure looks pretty on the counter top if nothing else.
And an important aside, the TJ's Sumatra is excellent.
Who knew that Jimmy Fallon was funny? I sure didn't, until I saw this:
Here's the last of disc one of Live at Leeds. Track 11, Shakin' All Over, was loaded to the library a few days ago. Make sure you set aside a bit of time, that My Generation track is over 15 minutes of Roger stuttering. Ok, that's not true, there's a lot of cool Tommy-esq jamming. Enjoy!
Have a good day, it's time for me to go get a Twin Peaks fix to go with my damn good coffee.
Holy shit folks, I dragged my ass out of bed on a Saturday morning and actually DID something. It's been a while. I didn't even have to make a list to motivate me (although the ladies in the 'hood with their lists are doing that for me). Saturday's have been too good for snuggling down under the covers for the past two months.
I started out at Target, they have some bookshelves on sale that I wanted to get. They were out of the 5 shelf (why wouldn't they be?), so I grabbed a 3 shelf one and headed to the new nearby Lowe's for more paint samples. Driving back by the Target I was tempted to swing back in and grab a second of the 3 shelf cases but resisted. By the time I hit the Interstate I was regretting not going back.
I made my first trek out to the Winter Farmer's Market this year. There are still apples and plenty of veggies, but I was there for syrup and beef. I also wanted some corn for popping and garlic, but no such luck. I did, however, find the Troy Pork Store and got some landjäger, franks, chops and sausage. Yum.
I decided to head back to Target after all, I felt like it was a race to get in there and grab that last shelf before someone else did (the sale knocked like $20 off the shelves, which is pretty good and I am in desperate need of shelving). I made it, got the second 3-shelf case and grabbed the last two 2-shelf cases. It all (amazingly) fit into my car (thank goodness for fold-down seats!).
It wasn't until I was unloading the car that I saw they were made in China. Ugh. Nothing against China, but it's like the country exists just so we can furnish our homes with STUFF. Then I noticed the shelves were made of Melamine. Great, now my cat will eat it and die a terrible death. (I do realize it's Malamine resin in the shelves, but it still made me laugh.)
Warning: Cat Talk Ahead
Hey, speaking of, I've been trying a few new soft cat foods for my little baby. Right now she's eating Wellness which is like a freaking dollar for the small can, but it has the BEST ingredient list (yeah, I'd eat it on a dare). I picked up a few random cans of stuff that a had similar (but not as good) ingredients list. The first kind (and I can't remember what it was now), was some brand out of Texas and she LOVED it (and it even smelled good). Problem was, she vomited it up and that's the big problem I have with keeping her on a dry diet (whereas a combo dry/wet diet seems to limit her vomiting). The second kind I got her was NutroMax. She seemed to really like it, the price was really good ($0.55), but then the next day she had weird vomit. I won't describe it, but it was out of the ordinary. Then I was looking at the NutroMax site and saw that all of their shit was on the recall list. Of course, I've already recycled that can, so I can't find out now, but could it be possible that some stores are still selling this poison? I only go to a small, local pet store (rather than a big chain like Petsmart) and I'd like to think they'd have been on top of that, but now I'm worried. I'm hoping that the weird vomit was maybe related to her experimenting with eating things that weren't in her food dish. I think I'm going to write down the recalled UPC code and take it with me back to the pet store.
Out of curiousity, for those of you with kitties (and by kitties, I do mean cats of all ages, my kitten is 10 and weighs 13 pounds - haha) on soft food, what do you feed them?
On a totally different subject, I'm still listening to CSN constantly. When I listen to this song, I can't help go to the bathroom. Enjoy.
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