Julie Callaway » Shopping

Holiday bonus

Julie — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:23:32 +0000

I got a great surprise this afternoon. As I was leaving the office for the holiday weekend, my boss handed me an envelope. I did not open it until I got to my car; expecting $50 or maybe even $100. As I opened the envelope, I almost fell over with surprise!!

He had given me a $500 bonus for Christmas!! I was not even expecting a bonus, since I have only worked for him for a year. But man, this was a great Christmas gift. I have been needing a new television set in my living room for about 1 1/2 years now, mine went out, and I could not afford to fix it or buy a new one. So, this is buying me a new television set!!! They have some great sales going on right now. Thank you Mr. Elliott for the wonderful gift.

When will the “chicken littles” get over it?

Julie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:18:01 +0000

Goodness knows I’m getting tired of hearing “the sky is falling” messages from people about how using cell phones is bad for you. For years people have been trying to link cell phone usage with brain cancer, and now they are trying to link it with decreased fertility in men? Good grief! Get over it already! If there is decreased fertility in men, where exactly are they holding their cell phones?

Going to eat out tonight

Julie — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:34:05 +0000

Tonight we’re going to my favorite all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet restaurant. I love Chinese food – I could eat it every day! My favorites are sweet and sour chicken, fried rice, and lo mein noodles. And the meat filled dumplings – some places call them pot stickers. But I really enjoy the buffets because I can have a little bit of everything – I like all sorts of chicken and shrimp dishes! I am not a big fan of sushi, though, but the sushi bar looks beautiful – the sushi chef makes it all look like candy! What a rude awakening to my mouth to put something in that looks like candy but tastes like fish and seaweed!

Completely unprepared

Julie — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:19:50 +0000

Today I went to a Red-Hatter party where we all met at Patty’s house to learn how to sell things on Ebay. Patty’s been selling things on Ebay for several years and she invited us all to come over and she would help us set up our seller accounts and list something for sale.

When we got to her place, she was completely unprepared. It seems that her comuter is over ten years old, and kept shutting down in the middle of what we were doing. She didn’t have a camera ready to take photos of the items, she didn’t have a list of the flat rate USPS box dimensions and prices, and she didn’t have a tape measure or postage scale.

And to top it off I think she was a little bit inebriated. What a shame!

Apple Dippers

Julie — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:27:16 +0000

If you don’t have small children, perhaps you have not noticed what choices are available to kids for lunches and dinners at the fast food places.

I have known for years that McDonalds has “Happy Meals” for kids, but I haven’t really paid any attention to what goes int a Happy Meal until today. I decided that I was hungry but not really wanting a whole big burger and a large order of fries. So, I decided to order a Happy Meal and get kid sized portions instead.

The choices for the Happy Meal included substituting french fries with what they call, “apple dippers.” This is a little packet of peeled and sliced apples that come with a little bucket of caramel for dipping. That is what I ordered and I must say that I liked it a lot.

New Router

Julie — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:47:59 +0000

Last week I started having trouble getting online at home. I would have to go reset the router just about every night before my laptop would get online. My brother, Lucas, set up my home network when I first moved into this house and thank goodness he showed me how to reset the router.

But yesterday I guess it would not reset because I could not get online at all. My brother thinks that maybe the router is just getting old and needs to be replaced – after all, I have had it for over 6 years. So today I am going to stop by Best Buy on the way home and buy a new router. I hope that will fix my connection issues.

Fresh Fish

Julie — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:58:07 +0000

When we lived in North Arlington, we were just a few minutes from Washington or Alexandria, where they used to have fish markets open to the public. In Alexandria, they shut down the fish market and for years it was an abandoned warehouse down by the waterfront, which became a seedy part of town that was not safe after dark.

But last week I needed to be in Alexandria and while searching for a parking place I ended up down by the waterfront and drove past where the old warehouse used to be. It was interesting to find that the valuable waterfront property has been reclaimed and the old warehouse is now a restaurant, surrounded by lots of other restaurants and small boutiques.

The funny thing is, the name of the popular new restaurant in that old warehouse is, are you ready for this?: The Fish Market.

Black Friday madness

Julie — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:26:15 +0000

I am so glad that I stayed home today and cleaned house instead of going out into that insanity that is called “Black Friday.” I remember last year when I heard on the news that in New York there was a crowd of shoppers so eager to get into their Wal-Mart that they broke down the doors and stampeded over a Wal-Mart employee, who was trampled to death by the crowd! That is absolutely crazy and stupid, and I think that this is a very good reason to stop holding “Black Friday” sales in the future. There really is no need of this insanity! Stores can hold good sales without all of this craziness going on, for crying out loud! There has got to be a better way!

Lemon flavored cookies

Julie — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:56:16 +0000

One of my favorite treats is lemon flavored cookies. In fact, I love lemon pie, lemon cake, lemon just about anything! I’ve been having a hard time finding my favorite lemon flavored cookies at the store lately. It’s very frustrating to have a favorite food and then suddenly not be able to find it anymore! My favorite lemon cookies are sandwich cookies that are plain shortbread cookies on the outside with a lemon flavored cream filling. There are other lemon flavored cookies on the market, but those are my favorite.

For about the past three or four months the store was selling them on the endcaps of the aisle, and now the endcap has something different on it. Looking in the regular cookie aisle, I can’t find them anywhere. So I had to settle for lemon flavored wafer cookies, which are good, but not as good as the lemon sandwich cookies. I suspect that it will be a while (probably next summer) before my favorites reappear! It’s probably a seasonal item.

Cell Phone Issues

Julie — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:56:17 +0000

I can’t wait for the end up June to arrive. I will then be totally done with my two year commitment with my current cell phone provider. I’m so tired of their B.S. and have wanted to sign up with another provider for such a long while now.

The Internet will certainly come in handy in finding which provider will have all the things that I need. A chore like this one could take some time and time is money, neither which I have much of these days.