Day In The Life of Baz

Extra Bucks

As you guys should know by now, Lava is my resident Personal PF blogger. Yesterday morning, she gave me a call ranting and raving about this crazy lady that bought $250 worth of groceries for $10 . Needless to day, I was a bit intrigued. After doing a bit of research myself , I found that the story goes like this:

1. You sign up for CVS Extra Care program and wait 2 weeks to receive the Extra Care card .
2. You stalk the store a little bit and get some Extra Value booklet or something like that. This book is supposed to list all the items that are available for Extra Bucks for that week/month.
3. You buy stuff that gives you Extra Bucks. It’s sort of like an instant rebate .
4. You use the bucks your got to buy more stuff that gives you bucks.
5. Rinse and repeat.

Here’s a typical example: You’re first purchase may be some deodorant that normally goes for $3.00 , but this week there’s a special where you get $3.00 extra bucks on that purchase (Yeah, so technically, it’s free - just pay sales tax). Now because you just started this, there’s going to be no initial savings , except if you used some other coupons or something.

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Now we all have our horror stories with our favorite delivery folk, but I’m having a tough time with FedEx, when the package does not require a signature.

This is the second time this fun stuff has happened. The last time I purchased a cell phone for Lava’s Christmas gift. I always like to track my packages online while they are in transit. So for the entire day that I was at work, I was checking the package info. At about 2:04pm, to my utter horror, I saw that the package had been delivered and left at doorstep . Now mind you, I get home at 5:45 pm for the earliest. My jaw just dropped.

For those of you wondering, what’s the big deal , I live in an apartment complex. The neighbor in the building that I live in, whom I don’t know or speak to, has to walk very near my door to get to his apartment. Now, I’m not claiming that anyone is dishonest, but isn’t this just a bit too inviting? They have to pass the apartment complex office on their way out; how hard is it to dump it there?

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One of my requirements when I was looking for an apartment is that they needed to have a fitness center. I’m not really into gyms, so a full out membership would be out of the question.

Well, after almost 18 months, I’ve been in that guy five times tops. The good news is, two of these sessions were this week. So, it looks like I’m back on track to getting into some sort of shape. I know people are going to hate me for this, but ideally, I’d like to gain about 10 more pounds and I’ll be good. Now of course, that’s 10lbs of muscle and not fat.

Didn’t Know It Would Be This Hard

Whoa! I jogged for a while on the treadmill then hit the weights. That’s it. Nothing too hard. I even went about 75% of the weight I remember being able to lift. Well long story short, I got back in the apartment and passed out of the floor for about 30 minutes.

Hopefully, all this will work out for the better. I’m waiting for the point where (people claim) this exercise gives you more energy and stops hurting you. I guess I’ll just have to keep my fingers crossed.

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Ok folk, what do I win? I called it! We did have a tornado. Now the good news with all of this is that nothing happened to me or my property and a few fallen trees blocked the entrance of my apartment complex and I couldn’t get out for work. So, it wasn’t a total loss.

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Some people like this time of year. Spring time; we say goodbye to Winter for another few months (we hope) and we welcome the warmth, the sunshine, the birds and all that good stuff. However, in Texas, it’s always a little bit more complicated than that. We’ve had nothing but sudden scattered showers for the past three (3) weeks. For the past two (2) nights in a row, we’ve been having nothing but freak thunderstorms: lightning, thunder, and of course it wouldn’t be Texas if we didn’t have any hail.

Just wanted to share with you guys, that this weather sucks. It sucks a lot. Now added to these conditions outside, we have the temperature problem inside: There’s a constant battle among the thermostats from various departments. Some departments are too warm, some and just right like Goldie Lox and of course mine has to be freezing. Therefore, it appears that I need to wear a jacket year round. Yay Texas.

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