Anime Expo and Stocking Up on Saturday

As I mentioned, earlier, my daughter is home to attend the Anime Expo being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  She offered to take the subway to downtown and back, if I would drop her off at the station and pick her up, again, at night, but, I prefer to drive her.  I don't like the idea of her going by subway when she's dressed in her cosplay costumes, unless it is absolutely necessary.  Besides, the car needs to be driven and I don't mind the driving.  I enjoy seeing all the activities going on, downtown!

This year, they have these anime mascots outside the Convention Center:

Anime Expo - Mascots

This next photo has nothing to do with the Anime Expo, other than the fact that I saw it on the curb as I was driving daughter, yesterday morning, and I asked her to take a photo of it.  Someone had put out a treadmill on which a chair had been placed!  I told daughter that it was my kind of treadmill!  LOL!  We were almost past it before she could take her phone out to take a picture, but, I couldn't slow down because there were cars behind me and I didn't want to hold up traffic.  The treadmill is at the lower right of the picture:

My Kind of Treadmill

Friday's cosplay outfit was inspired by Pikachu of Pokemon fame!

"Pika"

Once again, daughter bought the dress at a thrift store to be used for this purpose and she made the ears and the tail:

"Chu!"

Today, we were up at 7:30 a.m. and I dropped her off in downtown by 9:00 a.m.  I put gas to the car on the way home, filling the tank.  Gas was $3.53/gal. and I put just over 10 gallons of gas.  It came to $36.17.

Then, I went to the grocery store to stock up on toilet paper and paper towels.  The problem with buying in bulk is there's no place to store stuff!  I now have two big packs of toilet paper and paper towels sitting in the middle of the spare room floor!  While I was at the store, I also bought another bag of cat food, a bottle of Worcestershire sauce, a packet of frozen potstickers and some meat that was 50% off because they were approaching the "sell by" date:

Discounted Meat

I bought one package of boneless chuck steak and two packages of ground beef.  

My groceries came to:

1 pkg. ground beef (.89 lb @ $3.06/lb) = $2.72

1 pkg. ground beef (1.12 lb @ $3.04/lb) = $3.41

Chuck steak (1.77 lb @ $2.85/lb) = $5.05

1 box frozen chicken potstickers = $3.99

1 bottle Worcestershire sauce = $4.99

Total = $20.16

July grocery budget = $100

Spent to date = $23.56 + $5.78 + $20.16 = $49.50

Amount left in the budget = $100 - $49.50 = $50.50

The total spent on groceries does not include the canned food items I bought at the dollar store as part of emergency/earthquake supplies.

After I came home and put away the groceries, I had brunch and watched a little news.  My plan for the rest of the day is to relax a bit, then, go downtown to pick up daughter, and, hopefully, spend a quiet evening.

Today, I am grateful for:
- A safe night without any shaking or rattling
- A safe drive to drop off daughter in the morning
- Gas for the car
- Well stocked grocery stores
- Having an emergency fund  

I did all the items on my to do list for today. Only to pick up my daughter in the evening and to cook the meat I bought, today.

How is your Saturday coming along?