Why Fly When I Can Walk?

So I walked to the home improvement. I flipped a coin to see if I should ask the neighbor first. He happened to pop outside and I asked. He didn't have any spackle any more. Anyway, I first walked to the bank to put in a rebate for estate planning software Mother had purchased. Then I checked the chemist (drug store) to see if they had anything I wanted. I decided I didn't care for their prices and went down to the grocery next. I picked out a couple of Easter cards for the niece and nephew--EEP, I just realized I forgot I have two nephew. Damn. Well, the infant can't read anyway and the adoption's not final right? Uh... yeah, that's it. Anyway. I then grazed around the store and saw many sales. I left the cards by pet food and went on the to home improvement store.

I got the spackle. It was $6 or $7. Then I grabbed a cart in the parking lot and went into the grocery and shopped. I ended up picking up too many items to walk home with. I saved over $40 they claim and just now I saw I had a coupon for $15 off if you spend over $80. Damn it, I could've really made out! I'm such a flake at times. Of course, I'm not used to handling coupons and so forth. Mother did that. At least I shopped smartly but still indulged myself a bit with a deli pre-made salad, for example.

I wasn't even planning to do groceries except that I decided the fridge had too few items or, at least, too little variety. Now I'm better stocked. So how did I get home? I called the neighbor and asked a favor. He came in his pickup and took me home. I was very embarrassed but we were talking food here and like I told him I didn't want to be like everyone else and steal a cart. They even say on the carts that it's against state law to remove from premises but I see it done a lot. But I just couldn't do it. Besides, I'd probably get stopped with my luck or profiled because I'm not the right ethnicity and not sufficiently homeless-looking either! I could've tried to get written permission to take the cart but that was just too weird.

Anyway, it wasn't a big deal but I still felt bad. He said he didn't get his wife up because she had a bad headache so there was no point. I understood and mentioned Father would get headaches too and he mentioned it's usually in an area where she had part of her stroke and I agreed. That was Father's issue. His bad headaches were stroke-related. Found out the neighbor's been having his hip pain for two months! I lightly chastised him that he shouldn't wait so long. Of course we both know how it gets for care-givers and I think it gets worse with older people. Mother, for example, wasn't so quick to get medical attention either (unrelated to her final condition). Anyway, he's been using those crutches and was expecting his to be delivered today (I don't think they were). Those are old and not so comfortable being wood with no padding but they do the job. He'll enjoy the new ones of the light aluminum, padding and so forth. He said he didn't sleep well because he skipped pain meds before bed. Ugh. Well, hopefully he'll go easy on himself as best as he's able. I'll keep an eye out as much as I can. At least his grandson seems to be on spring break--he was over there today.

Tonight I've been battling ebay which says my bank refused to let them deduct fees from my account. No idea WTF is going on. The account was verified, there's sufficient funds... no one else has had a problem getting paid that way. What makes ebay such a difficult prick? Anyway I've tried paying again from the same account. ebay've already assessed me a $15 return fee--the bastards. I hate the website because organization is terrible. I couldn't find the bank account info on ebay, and when I want to pay the fees it sends me to paypal! It's impossible to find contact info if you want to actually call tech support. I'm not going to sit online and "chat" with a tech. My ebay experience has been crap between how hard it was for me to get signed up and things organized to the fees, to battling paypal to work and now this problem? And to think just last night I was considering putting more items up on ebay! Cripes, I don't know if I have any spare mental fortitude to battle with it again. Anyway, that's had been annoying. I've been annoyed a bit today with outside things: ebay, message board idiots, voters...

I want to eat. I've had cereal, some blueberry cake, a frozen dinner and just had a strawberry preserves sandwich. I actually want cereal again! I probably want something crunchy anyway to work out my stress. I didn't do the spackle work. Better to do when it's light outside than to waste electricity on it. I had considered painting the fence but the pain says I have to wash the fence with soap and water and let it dry first. Well, fine but if it's going to rain Friday, I don't want to take that up tomorrow! It also says not to paint in the direct sun too. Whatever!

I slept OK last night, fairly rested. I had the most fantastic dream. I mean that as in it was so unlike me or any dream I've had. I'll write about it if I'm sure I won't forget the dream. That happens a lot. I'll write about a dream and then I'll be unable to recall it further. If there's ever been a dream I'd like to have a recording of it was that one.