Day 169: Food & Water

Posted on | February 17, 2008 |

The Daughter has a cold or some other crud.  Unfortunately, I fear I’m going to come down with something too.  Today I’m feeling just a little off kilter.  My thoat’s a little tight; my body aches — not terribly but enough that I know I’m either getting sick or suffering from a fibro flare; and my thinking is just a little fuzzy.  What an absolutely awful time to get sick.  I came down here to help my mom, not to be sick and certainly not to give her the crud!

Walgreens — $4.50
A case of Aqua Fina water.  At home I have a built in RO (reverse osmosis) water filtration system hooked up to my kitchen sink.  That’s what I drink at home — thus avoiding the expense and waste of bottled water.  But when I’m away from home, sink I only drink water and I don’t drink tap water and I’m admittedly very picky about the water I will drink, I stick pretty strictly to Aqua Fina.

Grocery Store — $111.04

• Odwalla Strawberry C Monster — $3.29 (for me)
• Odwalla Superfood — $3.29 (for my mom)
• Kashi Cinnamon Harvest cereal — $3.69
• Santa Cruz cinnamon applesauce — $3.85
• Barbara’s Lite crackers — $3.15
• block of Cheddar cheese — $3.94
• Newman’s microwave popcorn — $2.49
• 6-pack Knudsen Raspberry Spritzers — $5.15
• bag of chocolate chip cookies — $2.55
• Love Buffs chewable vitamin C — $15.69
• Oscilloccocum — $9.75
• Yogi Lemon-Ginger tea bags — $3.59 (for my mom)
• box of Emergen-C packets — $11.99 (mom)
• supplement or vitamin – $15.99 (mom)
• supplement or vitamin — $13.59 (mom)
• Ecover delicates laundry detergent — $4.15 (mom)

We also went to Office Depot, Costco, the pet store, Starbucks, Target, and two book stores but I didn’t make any direct purchases at any of them.  I did find two paperbacks for The Son — one new, one used — that my mom paid for with store credit she earned when selling some of her books in anticipation of the move.  We’ve decided to exchange the books she bought for me with the groceries I paid for and call it even.

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