Pi Day Wednesday and March Grocery Shopping

Apple Pie

Over here, where we write the date, month first and then the date, today is 3.14, which is also the value of pi and the day is often celebrated with pie!  In other areas of the world, where the date is written date first and then month, today's date would be written as 14.3, and there is no such pi day!  At least, there wasn't one when I was growing up and as a result, I was quite unfamiliar with the whole tradition of pie day until my daughter was in school and the teacher brought a pie to class on pi day and I got to hear all about it!    I didn't have any pie today, although I thought about buying one when I was at the grocery store.  But I didn't buy one, so the picture above is an old picture of a pie daughter made last November, which I had posted on one of my previous blog posts. 

Today, I had to attend an 8:00 a.m. staff meeting at the office.  So, I tried to wake up at 6:00 a.m., but since I hadn't been able to fall asleep until after 1:30 a.m., I didn't want to wake up when the alarm went off!  I didn't get up until after 6:15 a.m. and didn't leave the house until 7:15 a.m., or so.  There was some road construction delays on top of it all, so I didn't get to the office until after 8:00 a.m. and the meeting had already started.  It was a department wide meeting so, although the meeting was held in a large room, all the seats were taken by the time I got there and it was standing room, only.  I stood and listened to the speech by the Director and the deputy director and watched part of the video introducing new employees.  But, after standing for amost 45 minutes, I began to get tired.  So, I told a colleague that I was going back to my office and I did.  The rest of the day was fairly productive and I made good progress on the project I am currently working on. 

Last night's rain had cleared by the time I left for work, this morning and it turned out to be a bright, sunny day.  On the way home, I put gas to the car ($3.23/gal.; I put $27.12 worth), went to the pharmacy to pick up my medication refill, went to the 99Cents Only store next door to buy some bananas and another package of the cheesecake and topping containers, and stopped at the grocery store, as well, to pick up the coffee creamer and a few other things:

3/14 Groceries

I spent $1.71 at the dollar store for the cheesecake ($1) and bananas ($.71@$.49/lb):

Dollar Store Receipt 3/14

All I really needed was the coffee creamer ($2.69) from the grocery store.  But, since there is more rain in the forecast for tonight, tomorrow, and the weekend, I decided to pick up a few other things so I could wait until next week to do grocery shopping, if it rains this weekend - bagels ($1.99) and cream cheese ($1.59) for breakfasts, frozen corn ($1) because I didn't have anymore corn in the freezer, and a package of beef (boneless top round; $4.75@$3.77/lb) to cook for dinners/lunches.  I spent $12.02 at the grocery store:

Grocery Store Receipt 3/14

Total grocery spending this week = $13.73

It was past 7:30 p.m. when I got home.  By the time I took a picture and put away the food, checked my voice mail (reminder from the podiatrist's office about tomorrow's appointment), texted daughter to let her know I was home (she had gone out to dinner with a friend who was visiting), fed the cats, opened a window to air out the house, and sat down to have a cup of tea, it was already 8:00 p.m.!

I decided to have a bagel with cream cheese for my dinner, instead of cooking anything, and I had one of the cheesecake containers for dessert.  Then, replied to some blog comments, wrote an email to a friend, responded to messages from a couple of friends, and video chatted with daughter. 

Today, I am grateful for:
- Sunshine during the day so I could run my errands in comfort
- Rain at night for the garden to get another good soaking
- Daughter had a nice visit with her friend
- Yet another drama-free refill at the pharmacy!
- Safe commutes to work and back, to the stores and back, etc.

Wednesday's To Do List:
- Go to the office/attend staff meeting - DONE
- Pick up medication refill from pharmacy - DONE
- Put gas to the car - DONE
- Buy coffee creamer and bananas - DONE (bought other items, too!)
- Tidy the rest of the family room
- Clean the litter box - will do after this post

What I didn't do was tidy the rest of the family room, again.  Obviously, not a very high priority task on my to do list! 

Thursday's To Do List:
- Go to the office
- Call the podiatrist's office to confirm time and place (there was some confusion on the message they left me)
- Go for the appointment
- Tidy the family room!
- Call cousin to wish her for her birthday

The forecast for rain tonight was correct - it started raining around midnight and it is raining now (12:50 a.m.) 

I will publish this post, clean the litter box, say my nightly prayers and go to bed!  Hopefully, I will fall asleep before too long! 

How was your Wednesday?  Did you celebrate the day with a pie?