An embarrassment of topics

Grocery shopping for the week is done,the house is clean, laundry is done, frozen food is re-vacuum sealed (more on that later) and I am exhausted! It is 9:45 and I am ready for bed.

I bought a Foodsaver today. The one I picked up from Freecycle wasn't working right. I thought it was, but after things were put into the freezer the air would slowly seep into the bags. I am so pissed. Another thing I drove a hell of a long time to get and the damn thing doesn't work. And honestly, unless she was an idiot (which I doubt she was) there is no way she didn't know. Why would someone offer something they knew was broken??? I have given away so much on Freecycle (it all worked and was in good shape, thankyouverymuch) that it pisses me off even more. Of course I didn't give it away to get something in return, but I guess now I know why people would drop off of our local Freecycle list like flies. I have left as well.

End rant.

So anyway, I bought a Foodsaver. The best $100 I have spent this week! I resealed everything I had done before, and blanched and froze some veggies that were on the verge of "You want me to eat that??" I can't wait for the Farmers Market to start!

I also have good news on the monitor front! Yesterday when I went to pick the boys up at their friends house, I was chatting with the mom and her husband and mentioned that I had to buy a new monitor, and it should be here in a week or so. Turns out they have 3 or 4 monitors sitting around as back-ups! (Their middle son started a computer building business - he is a senior in high school.) So long story longer, I came home with a Dell 19" monitor. They refused to let me pay them for it, so I am going to "pay it forward" by giving a bunch of scrapbooking stuff away. I have decided that I just don't have the time, patience or talent for scrapbooking and was planning to list my stuff on ebay, but am going to send it home with my mom, to give to my SIL.

Tomorrow while the boys are working on school I will finish up a few things in the kitchen (The Great Breakfast Experiment of '07, for one thing) and then will probably head to the thrift store. I am looking for a large cast iron skillet (really, any size cast iron) but don't want to pay for the new stuff. Both thrift stores in town are just a few minutes from my house, so I can run to both, check real quick and be home in 20 minutes. The pool heater is not working, so no pool this week. Darn it!