For some reason I have been in "Ice Cream" mode now for the last couple of weeks. Serious cravings! It just so happens that the local grocery has been having a sale on their ice cream for the past two weeks. Last week it was advertised as 4 for 5 bucks so I picked some up. Not a bad deal. Between the two of us we wiped it all out in just a few days. Well this ad-week they had it on sale for $1.25 a carton. Yeah, I know. It's the same price! Grocery stores are tricky like that. So I ran down to the store to pick up a carton or two and danged if they weren't out. I'm not talking about just out of my favorite flavor either. I'm talking about OUT of ALL of it.Every single carton. Well, I still had an ice cream withdrawal in progress and so grabbed another brand to ease the pain. (gotta feed the need right?) The good thing that came out of all this is that I was smart enough to ask for a rain check! I'll stop by again today and see if they have anymore in but in all honesty I hope they don't! I want another rain check! This way I have an additional 30 days to use the sale price. Oh, here's a tip you may or may not know. If you are redeeming a raincheck say in a week or two and they are out of said product, you can get ANOTHER raincheck ! So even if you loose you win! LOL
I had a dream last night. One of those dreams you wish would go on for just awhile longer. The kind that you try, once awake, to get back to if even for just a few more minutes. I dreamed about my mother. Actually she was my step-mother but I never could tell the difference. We were in some house I had never been in before. My dad was out somewhere and so it was just the two of us laughing and talking and drinking ice tea. It seemed like we sat for a couple of hours just comfortably chatting. And then I woke up. That was it. The whole dream. Nothing earth shattering, no cryptic messages, just a sense of peace and of love. Tomorrow also marks two years since my best friend passed away. I think Mom just wanted me to know that everything is alright and that she will always be close by watching over me. Silly? Some might say yes but I firmly believe that our loved ones are always with us. And that love, once given, can never truly disappear.
~~Hey...I'm Just Sayin...~~
Hi, I am still learning to be a complete prepper & food storage but it seems at the moment I need to restock some of my 5 gallon buckets & your right about the Rain Checks if they are out of that sale item make sure you don't forget the Rain Check, the store down the road usually give me another one at the end of the 30 days if the item still hasn't come in just got to love that. I love being cheap & Frugal but you already know that. lol.
ReplyDeletegreat post, Sci :)
ReplyDeleteOk, I will admit, the last paragraph got me. It made me cry. I think that's only the second time your blog has done that to me. :)
I agree with you though; I too think they are always with us. Not only in dreams, but everywhere.
When B's was doing marching band, for the competitions, I'd have to have the dogs out early about 4:15-4:30 in the morning. When I'd go walking, I swear I could smell my Grandpa's cologne and gum. Which is odd in itself because he passed about 2 years after Cat and I got married, long before we moved to the town we are in now. But what is weird is that is what time he used to go out walking around the mobile park where he and my Grandma lived.
I'll stop now, for someone suffering writers block, I can sure rattle on and on. LOL!
Hugs~Fel~
You have struck a chord.....
ReplyDeleteI lost a friend of 30 years to cancer yesterday, she is with me today and I hope her family, though they may not ne able to hear/see her yet because of grief. I do not mean I can "see" her but I know that her spirit is there. My words are crude but the sentiment is huge and I cannot explain properly. A waking dream.
Pat
aka inquisitive1ady on various blogs
Great post! All my immediate family of my youth is gone now...brother, mother, grandmas, aunts and uncles. I was very close to my Dad and my Grandma and I feel them with me all the time. Thanks for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteYou know there is an old saying around this part of the woods.That if you dream of someone who has died, there will be a birth. So the question that I have is.....are you pregnant? I mean, you are hitting the ice cream awful hard. lol
ReplyDeleteTry making your own icecream it is very yummy. I would love to be self sufficent but sticking with the sewing and cooking at the moment.
ReplyDeleteIcecream, Yummmm. My favorite is Blue Bell's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, makes my mouth water just thinking about it. I think Blew Bell makes the best icecream in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteIce cream on sale always makes me want ice cream. I do use rain checks to my best advantage. I buy once during the sale, and then I go back right at the end to get more. If there is no more of the product, I use the rain check to extend my sale opportunities.
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