Another Day Another Dollar

Man when did gasoline become so expensive? It's nearly $2 a gallon here and from what I read it's more than that in other places. Milk has gone to almost $4 a gallon too! We drink a lot of milk in my house. At the first of the year I found it at Walgreen's for $1.99 a gallon and that was a real bargin. Now it's nearly doubled! What is going on in the world and why isn't my salary raising as much as (ha! "as much" how about at all?!?) all these necessary things?

Another nice dampened by having to work; being part of the working class sucks!

I was suppose to take the Husband's car to the shop today. Last night the "check engine" light came on. I came to work and called the dealership about bringing it in at lunch; it's one of those places that wants you to make an appointment to get your car looked at. When did we start having to make appointments to get our cars looked at? Anyway the gum smacking enforcer at the front, a blond no doubt, said unless I got it there before 10:00 she wouldn't tell me it would be ready today. Like she was going to make me any promises anyway. So we agreed since the check engine light wasn't blinking, it was just on, that it would probably be o.k. to drive it until tomorrow and bring it in first thing. I'll see if the GranMa can meet the BoyChild and me there and take me to work in the morning.

Since my lunch time had cleared up I went by the bookstore and good a book we might read for the GirlChild's Mother-Daughter Bookclub. The GirlChild has been interested in my bookclub and was excited when I asked if she'd like to start one of her own. I sent notes to school that came home Friday and I sent a note to one of the other catholic schools in our neighborhood. I've got five (counting the GirlChild) mother-daughter groups that are interested.

I did some web surfing last night and found a book that might work. It appears to be the right age group. The main thing it has to recommend itself, I found discussion questions that have already been written. I talked to a woman who has a group of little girls a little older in a Mother-Daughter Bookclub. She said the way they did it was they had a "faciliator" who typed questions on separate pieces of paper and the girls would draw a piece of paper out of a hat and answer the question to generate discussion. We don't have a faciliator so we'll have to be responsible for the questions ourselves. I don't mind limiting myself to books where someone else has already done the work.

Finding a place and time to meet might be difficult. Weekends are cock full of activities during the year with sports usually dominating our weekends but I don't like the idea of trying to fit something else into our evenings. I guess we'll just see how it goes this summer.

Gotta run.

Peace,

M&Co.