church — $15.00
weekly offering.

Wild Oats — $9.11
Pizza and a soda for The Son for lunch after church. Gallon of milk; first gallon that I’ve dared to buy for over a month since realizing that my milk was going bad every other day or so because the fridge was dying.

Kroger — $101.56
Big time grocery shopping to celebrate my new fridge. Household stuff: distilled water for CPAP machine; T.P.; snack-sized baggies; tampons. Groceries: broccoli, celery, zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, radishes, green onions, potatoes, red cabbage, lunch meat, cheese, mayonnaise, picante sauce, mustard, cereal, sugar, brown sugar, chocolate chips, Annie’s Mac & Cheese, bread, eggs, case of root beer, Dole juice, french vanilla ice cream, Oreo ice cream, brown basmati rice, Campbell’s soup, and ground beef. Between some Kroger card coupons and Kroger card savings I saved $12.62 this trip.

Kroger — $65.00
pharmacy — refilled my three prescriptions including a new inhaler. We — the pharmacy tech, a pharmacist, and I — had a big go-around about the inhaler brand. I’ve used the same pharmacy for years. For almost as long there’s been a note on my account specifying the manufacturer that I prefer because I can’t use their default brand. Get this: the propellant in the default inhaler brand triggers my asthma. Nothing like having your asthma inhaler exacerbate (at best) or trigger (at worst) the problem. But it turns out that the default brand, and all others, have stopped using the offending propellant. Not because it was triggering the very same reaction that it was supposed to stop; no, they’ve switched because the EPA forced them to. Apparently the old propellant was harmful to the environment. Anyway, that’s the story I got. I’m very reluctant to switch brands. I’m too old and too dependent on my inhaler and too vulnerable to very serious asthma attacks to feel much like experimenting with new inhalers. I think perhaps I’ll have to shop around for a new pharmacy. Walgreen’s is close but I’m not much of a fan. Costco is a possiblity but not incredibly inconvenient and I tend to take things down to the wire and reorder at the very last minute. I think that using Costco’s pharmacy might result in more missed synthroid dosages and that would not be a good thing. This will require some research and consideration.

Vitamin Cottage — $33.18
Mayonnaise, smoked turkey, tuna, potato chips, pasta, Ian’s pot pies (had $1.00 off coupons).