Shopping

I really should get rid of my Internet connection.  Except that I would be lost without it.  So why am I saying that?  I have been shopping almost non-stop for the last month and much of it has been online shopping.  

Partly my shopping has been because I've been depressed about various things (house issues and health issues).  When I'm depressed, nothing cheers me up like spending money.  Unfortunately, that's especially true if my depression is related to money issues!  So that's partly it, but the other part of it is that I'm doing a good job losing weight.  I'm now 20 pounds lighter than my peak weight!  That's wonderful and I'm enjoying my new weight, but the downside is that literally NONE of my clothes fit me.  Pants fall off unless I cinch them up with a belt, and then they and my tops look like I'm wearing bags.  I've gone shopping at the stores, but  often cannot find styles I like.  So I'm doing a lot of my shopping online.

If I were restricting it to clothes shopping, this rationalization would work better.   Truthfully, I'm just shopping.  On top of that, this time of year is when I usually do my Christmas shopping.  I get more than 10 catalogs a day in the mail, and I shop for Christmas presents.  This year the family decided to only gift the grand-kids, so that shopping outlet is not available to me.  When I hit a shopping mood like this, it doesn't matter very much who I'm buying for, as long as I'm buying stuff.  

Yup, they call that an addiction.  I'm going to need to work on reining it in a bit.  At least until my credit cards stop smoking. 

I'm beginning to get irritated with my newspaper delivery.  I've had to call 4 of the last 5 Sundays because my papers weren't delivered.  Looks like today is going to be the same again.  Considering what I pay for delivery, that's unacceptable.  And irritating.  I try to give him the benefit of the doubt and wait as long as I can, but if I don't call it in by 9:00 am, I don't get today's paper delivered.  Ah!  Just got them.  8:20 am.  He's pushing it.

I scheduled the plumbers to come and fix my leaks.  They'll be here the week before Thanksgiving, and expect it to take 3 - 4 days to complete.  So that will be my November expensive project.  They'll need to go through the floor in my guest bedroom to repair one leak.  That'll involve pulling the carpet back.  I talked them into trying to get to the leak under the master bathroom shower from the outside.  They said they would try that first, so I don't know whether I'll have to replace the bathroom tiles or not.  The third leak is not under the house, so they'll simply have to dig up my front lawn and shrubbery (again) to get to that one.  Then my December expensive project will be to have someone put my house back together.  Repair and repaint all the cracks, re-stretch the carpet and re-tile the bathroom if necessary.   Hopefully that will then be the last of the house-disruptive work I'll have to have done.  I hope anything I do in the future will be cosmetic and intentional.

I went to Lowe's yesterday and they no longer carry the grout they used when they put in my bathroom floor last year.  So if I do have to have that floor repaired I'm going to have to try to match the grout they used.  That'll be a pain.  Do you know how many different colors of off-white/beige there are?

I guess that's all for today.