So now my pants don't fall down

Because I'm cheap and lazy, I wear knit pull on pants with elastic waist - every day. I have them in black and gray and navy. When Walmart drops their price to $6 a pair, I stock up. They work fine, are really comfortable, wash well and suit me fine. Except. When I put a gynormous phone in the pocket. With that phone in my pocket I spend all day hiking up my pants. I do it without thinking.

The smaller Pixel does not pull my pants down and it is very cool not to be hiking up my pants every few minutes! ahhhhh technology.

This morning is house cleaner morning. I'll probably use the time she is here to nip out to Grocery Outlet. I need eggs and tortillas. And maybe take my walk. It's a very nearly balmy 47 degrees out.

I just flipped over to February in my Google calendar to check something and saw that the Spring Training games start on the 25th! I have it set to add all Mariner games automagicaly. I saw on Twitter that all 16 home Spring Training games will be on TV this year. And, this year, I finally have the wifi bandwidth back in the sewing room to actually watch the game on my tablet (via TiVo). So yeah!!

Also I see that my Amazon Prime membership payment is finally due in February. For awhile there, I had so many issues - mainly delivery - that every time they gave me a free month. I haven't had one in a while so soon it will actually be time to pay the piper. It is certainly worth the $ - about 10 times over!

Now I need to walk through the house and make sure everything is picked up and put away so Amira can clean.

My tweets

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Pretzel-itis

I bought a bag of pretzels today (large bag) and now I can't quit eating them.

I went out this morning to get out of the way of the house cleaner. I went to Grocery Outlet and parked and then walked around the block and then went in to shop. My Android pay failed at checkout which it never does. grrr and wtf? So I sat in the car and noodled around with it. I figured out that a capital one wallet app was 1. not needed and 2. may be the issue. So I killed it but then how to test... I didn't want to go back into the store but a McDonald's was just down the street and it was not yet lunch rush time. So off I went.

What I should have done was wait until someone ordered and then step in and pay for their order. But I did not have this thought until later. What I did do was buy a sausage biscuit and then tried Android Pay. Worked perfectly right off the bat. So Yeah! (On the other hand, if I had tried to buy someone else's meal and it has NOT worked ... so maybe not such a great idea anyway.)

Then I checked the web cams and the house cleaner was still there but vacuuming (her last chore) so I went on down the road to a new drive through hamburger place which is purported to be excellent. Don't believe everything purported. It's called Qik Pic. It totally failed the Qik part. The burger was very ho hum and the fries were not that good. At least I don't have to do that again.

Then home to a very clean house. Nice.

Google did, in fact, refund the money I paid for the expedited delivery that I did not get. They charged me $13.90 and refunded me $15.80. I'm not clear why the nums are different but the difference is in my favor and my point got across so I'm cool with it.

I'm feeling ok about missing a week of sewing and knitting. The bear population will be a little sparce but I think the doll numbers will hold their own.

Two very different topics - just stuff that rattles around in my brain

Years and years and years ago, I dated a guy who was a single father to an 8 year old boy. He knew little about cooking or grocery shopping but plunged ahead with both and had for the five years he'd had the boy on his own. I remember being with him at the butcher counter looking at pork chops. I was trying to explain that price per pound was a way better decision point than price per chop. He wasn't buying it at all. For the two of them, price per chop was the only way to go. And he was right. I wasn't looking at the big, practical picture.

Very often since then thought of the lesson there. Economies of scale are sometimes not economical at all.

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When I was about 11, my Mom sat me down with a little booklet and a package of sanitary napkins and explained menstruation to me. It was all very secretive and mysterious and not very interesting. When I was 12, I got my period. I was in school, after gym. I went to the school nurse and told her and she kitted me up. It was not traumatic. It was annoying.

And thus began about 40 years of having to deal with it every month.

During those years (starting in the 60's) there were not a whole lotta options. Sanitary pads that required a belt, or tampons. Most mothers in my circle of friends would not let their daughters use tampons. In the late 80's they came out with the sponge (and later a hilarious Seinfeld episode was created around it) that was actually pretty cool and very revolutionary.

And there were 498,792 euphemisms. Even those were rarely said out loud and never ever in front of anyone of the male persuasion.

Today I read on the internet - reddit, LJ, blogs all about periods, all the options and, all the information and I'm astounded. Half of me is jealous. I would have loved to have known all that shit and had all those options.

But the other half of me is soooooo friggin grateful that is it No Longer My Problem!