Things to do on a rainy Tuesday
Wax your legs...
It always seems like a good idea to wax my legs myself. A bottle of Nair leg wax costs around $7 and lasts through a few waxings compared with $30 + tip for a trip to the salon. And the quality of my at-home job is as good as or better than a salon. As long as I get to finish.
The upside of having someone else yank your leg hair out by the roots is that they keep going, no matter the pain you're in. Doing it yourself...well, the warm wax feels good going on, but you just have to keep steeling yourself over and over again. Or give up half-way through and just go and shave.
This time, I made it through. Just in the nick of time before Exhausto-Boy became insatiably interested in the white sticky things I kept slapping on and ripping off my legs.
Keep trying to order groceries online...
A trip to Wegmans is in my near future this afternoon. In the rain. With a 15-month-old toddler who wants to sit in the front of one of those impossible to push carts with the car on the front. As time goes by, I grow less and less fond of going grocery shopping.
The October Reader's Digest has an article about saving money and somehow they figure shopping online for groceries is one way to do this.
Almost all of the online grocers they mention don't deliver to Rochester. A few that do...
Netgrocer.com - I only got as far as checking out the outrageous shipping charges ($6 for a $25 order, $10 for a $50 order).
Amazon.com - free shipping on orders over $25. Considering that you can also sign up for an Amazon affiliates account and get a small percentage of your purchase back, it might not be a bad idea for namebrand items, depending on their prices. And the ability to use coupons.
SAM'S Club - they don't deliver, but they have a "Click 'n' Pull" service where you order online, they pull the items from the shelves and have it ready for you to pick up within 24 hours. Of course, you have to be a SAM's Club member and support the evil Walmart empire. But they do have great frozen scallops...
It always seems like a good idea to wax my legs myself. A bottle of Nair leg wax costs around $7 and lasts through a few waxings compared with $30 + tip for a trip to the salon. And the quality of my at-home job is as good as or better than a salon. As long as I get to finish.
The upside of having someone else yank your leg hair out by the roots is that they keep going, no matter the pain you're in. Doing it yourself...well, the warm wax feels good going on, but you just have to keep steeling yourself over and over again. Or give up half-way through and just go and shave.
This time, I made it through. Just in the nick of time before Exhausto-Boy became insatiably interested in the white sticky things I kept slapping on and ripping off my legs.
Keep trying to order groceries online...
A trip to Wegmans is in my near future this afternoon. In the rain. With a 15-month-old toddler who wants to sit in the front of one of those impossible to push carts with the car on the front. As time goes by, I grow less and less fond of going grocery shopping.
The October Reader's Digest has an article about saving money and somehow they figure shopping online for groceries is one way to do this.
Almost all of the online grocers they mention don't deliver to Rochester. A few that do...
Netgrocer.com - I only got as far as checking out the outrageous shipping charges ($6 for a $25 order, $10 for a $50 order).
Amazon.com - free shipping on orders over $25. Considering that you can also sign up for an Amazon affiliates account and get a small percentage of your purchase back, it might not be a bad idea for namebrand items, depending on their prices. And the ability to use coupons.
SAM'S Club - they don't deliver, but they have a "Click 'n' Pull" service where you order online, they pull the items from the shelves and have it ready for you to pick up within 24 hours. Of course, you have to be a SAM's Club member and support the evil Walmart empire. But they do have great frozen scallops...
Silandara Bartlett-Gustina was a Rochester outsider when she moved to the city at the turn of the millennium without even laying eyes on it. She quickly took root, declaring it the best place she's lived (including the UK, several U.S. states and Barbados). Now on the brink of her 30s, she's somehow transformed into a wife, mom, homeowner and freelancer. But she's determined to still have a life -- giving you an inside look at what makes Rochester a cool place to call home.
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