Wow, nice savings

I had class again last night, and I had an hour or so after work before class started, so I stopped by the Petco in Mountain View (I know, I spend too much time in pet stores). They had a few things on sale, one of which was this bottle of this fish food vitamin supplement. I already had a bottle that was like half the size that I'd bought earlier for like $7, but this one was on sale for like $10 bucks for twice the amount, so I figured what the hey, and grabbed it. I also picked up a magazine on Border Collies, which I have yet to read, but looked interesting.

So anyways, the girl at the counter rings me up, and the total seemed a bit lower than what I'd expected, but I didn't give it much thought (the fact that I even paid attention to the amount that I was paying for was amazing in and of itself). I got in the car, drove to my class, and decided to look at the receipt on a whim. It turns out that the supplement had scanned for $4.19, from a regular $16.99 price! Now, I may have misread the tag in the store, but I'm pretty sure it was at least $10. There must be an error in their computer system or something. I'm pretty glad I got that Petco P.A.L.S card now, heh!

After I got home from class, Marc and I stopped by Safeway to pick up a couple of things. It was supposed to be just some bottled water and frozen clams for the puffer (which I didn't find), but ended up being a whole cartload of groceries, which seems to happen whenever we go to the store. Our final total was $75, with a savings of $20 (most of which was thanks to some paper towels that were like half off). Not too shabby.

Hungry

I only had half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich before class, so I was starving by the time I got home. I grabbed this mini-platter of shrimp cocktail at the store (I don't know why, it seemed like a good idea at the time) to eat. It was frozen, and the instructions said to run it under cool water to thaw it. I figured that didn't seem too hard.

It wouldn't thaw. I stood there at the sink for forever, waiting impatiently for the shrimp and sauce to thaw out, but it wasn't cooperating. I realized then that the instructions made no mention of how LONG it would take to thaw. Bastards. So there I was, starving, holding this stupid plate of shrimp under the water, and whining because I was going to just DIE if I didn't eat something.

Finally, the shrimp seemed to be reasonably thawed. I grabbed a plate and sat down, all ready to eat. Opened up the lid to the cocktail sauce, and found a layer of ice covering the middle. I almost cried. I wasn't going to go through that whole water ordeal again, so I just dipped my shrimp around the outside edges of the sauce, which were thawed. Incidentally, there was tons of water in the shrimp still from the thawing. I'd have to say it wasn't the most satisfying meal I've ever had.

And today I have shrimp salad for lunch!