Another uneventful Saturday

My Saturday started out as usual, opening the blinds, watching Larry (my sparrow) hopping around my deck and pecking at all the birdseed I put out for him. I can lie on my couch (bed) and watch everything. Some days I think maybe I’ll just lie there all day and watch, but I don’t. But why don’t I? So I finally got up, ate breakfast and went into my bedroom (I do have one where there’s an actual bed) and lay down on my bed to floss my teeth – something I do 3 times a day, that is if I eat 3 times a day. I turned on the TV and, much to my surprise, there was on old, old episode of Law&Order. So I was flossing and watching TV when my phone rang. It was Jane from across the street who has a good view of my back deck. She told me the squirrel was back on my ledge! I’ve had a squirrel come a couple of times and sit on my ledge and won’t move until I throw the door open and start yelling and running at him. That is very upsetting to me as I fixed the deck for Larry and not some squirrel. I don’t like squirrels anymore. They’re very brazen around here, and follow you when you’re taking a walk. A couple of years ago when I was feeling nice, I took out some walnuts and fed one right out of my hand until he bit my finger and I had to shake him off! That called for a tetanus shot for me – I don’t know about the squirrel. So I had been thinking of ways to scare the squirrel away and thought about an air horn. I called several hardware stores and no one had any. So I called WalMart. I don’t like to do that as I’m not that crazy about their business policies. What’s the deal with no unions? Who do they think they are anyway? But I needed help. I talked to a woman who said they had two kinds – one for a bicycle that was pretty loud and one that was sort of like a bugle. I don’t think I need a bugle, but I’ll take a look.

I finally got dressed and headed off to Safeway for some shopping time. This time when I did the thing with my debit card, it came up funny and I guess I hit the place for food stamp people. So when the checker was done she asked me if I was on food stamps. I said I wasn’t, but they would sure help. So I had to do the transaction over again. When I got home I was looking at my receipt and couldn’t figure out all the totals they had on it. I finally called the store and they told me the total with FS by it was for food stamps but they had corrected it. It was quite a bit less than my actual total. Who knows? The way things are going I may be doing the FS bit one of these days.

After I came home I went for a walk and picked up a weekly newspaper we have published here. I read through it and noticed all the ads on the back page. Here are just a few:

Trouble Getting Pregnant? We can help.
Weekly Group on Depression and Self Esteem
Mens Addiction Treatment
Mama’s Medical Marijuana Clinic
Ferret Adoptions
Fight like a Girl
Absolutely Amazing Huge Cash Paid Daily!

I liked the last ad. I would love to be paid absolutely amazing huge cash every day, but I decided not to pursue that one. I even decided against the ferret. So that was pretty much the extent of my Saturday. Exciting, huh?