Comments | kimana83: Grocery grammar, denial, leaping for joy, necessary jacket, picture slacking, and vote for Nala!

kimana83

Grocery grammar, denial, leaping for joy, necessary jacket, picture slacking, and vote for Nala!

Jan 08, 2010 15:47

+ I love Publix not just for the deals they give me, but for their commitment to correct grammar and punctuation. They are the only grocery store I've ever seen that has a "Ten items or fewer" lane instead of "Ten items or less". I also love them for their restaurant, Crispers, who has a salad with fruit in it year-round (hear that, Panera?) and ( Read more... )

nala, contests, thrift stores, mystery shopping, family, clothes, bad days, couponing, food

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okp January 8 2010, 20:51:25 UTC

Only you can go to a thrift store with a specific item in mind and actually find it! I don't even have that kind of luck at a department store!

kimana83 January 8 2010, 21:32:03 UTC

Actually, usually not even I have luck that good. This is only the second time that I've had something specific in mind and actually found exactly it at a thrift store (actually, both times it was The Thrift Store, Jax's biggest and best). Usually when you need something specific you can look at 10 thrift stores, finally give up and pay five times as much for it at a regular store, and then the next time you go to thrift you find it. Hehe.

katharhino January 8 2010, 21:16:58 UTC

I didn't comment on your other post, but I was going to say I feel for you on the doggie vomit thing, since Duncan was doing that all last weekend. I'm so glad she's better. I hate it when pets are sick. I'll go vote for her now. :-)

kimana83 January 8 2010, 21:44:41 UTC

Oh, that's right. Poor Duncan. I would've been as freaked out as you were. =o(

Thanks for voting! =o)

princessmia241 January 8 2010, 21:20:49 UTC

I voted for her, twice :P She's awesome, I love her :)

I've actually done pretty well with the 2010 things. Though I wrote 20010 in my journal yesterday.
That reminds me, I need a calendar....

kimana83 January 8 2010, 21:45:44 UTC

Thanks! She loves you too. =o)

Yeah, I haven't written/typed 2009 since it ended, but I've done 20010 a zillion times. LOL.

melyndie January 8 2010, 22:39:15 UTC

"Ten items of fewer"??? If we had a Publix around here, I'd totally go to support that! ;-) Whhhhhy does everyone else say "Ten items or less"???

arien_o_lindele January 9 2010, 14:38:38 UTC

Ooh. I like your icon!!

kimana83 January 12 2010, 16:08:15 UTC

I know! The first time I saw it I did a double-take! Really, the less vs. fewer thing isn't one of my big grammatical pet peeves, but the fact that Publix is the only store I've ever seen that has gotten it right makes me love them more.

arien_o_lindele January 9 2010, 14:30:52 UTC

Steve and I had a discussion about this recently. He said that he once went to a store where a cashier had actually taped a piece of paper over the "less" and wrote "fewer" on it. He made sure to go to her line. lol.

Oh, I know - it seems that time is going by faster than ever. It's kind of scary!

Great news about your grandma! Here's to a swift recovery!

Wow, sounds like you got a great deal on your jacket, and it sounds super cute. And wearing an unwashed second-hand jacket isn't as bad as wearing an unwashed second-hand shirt. At least it (hopefully! lol) has never been worn next to someone else's skin.

Your card must be HUGE! My one and only card is only 256MB - it was free as part of the sale I bought my camera on. The one good thing about it is that it does force me to empty it regularly. ;)

kimana83 January 12 2010, 16:11:51 UTC

That's hilarious! If I were that cashier, I would do that. I've corrected stores' dry erase boards and chalk boards before by erasing unnecessary apostrophes and such.

I've actually worn unwashed second-hand shirts. Several times. I never ever used to, but then I got a shirt I really wanted to wear and I didn't want to wait to wash it and then hang it dry (I hang dry pretty much all of my clothes, 'cause otherwise they don't fit me anymore), so I wore it anyway. I thought I'd feel gross, but I didn't. So I've done it a few times since. I know, I know, even my mom thinks that's gross. Isaac doesn't, though, and I guess he and I are the only people that matter in this! Hehe.

Yeah, it is. It's 16GB! I got it for the Europe trip, so I wouldn't have to bring multiple cards and worry about losing them. It was nice.

arien_o_lindele January 12 2010, 20:21:10 UTC

That's funny. Working at Perkins was interesting, in a grammatical way. When a certain someone was GM, all of the announcements and new instructions she put up around the back were all in caps and had frequent errors. The legendary sign I most remember, though, is the one where three of us stood there staring at it, and just walked away astounded. Everyone was talking about the sign with 17 exclamation points in succession for at least a couple days, though (yes, we counted them, lol ( ... )