checking off the list

the list of things on the to do list of things to do, see... so today i checked off banking as i spent more than an hour at the bank moving money around, opening a savings account, setting up auto deposits, and applied for the pre-approved credit card they were trying to sell me on the phone and at the branch... i was on the phone with the bank because their text message notifications have gone haywire... i've received dozens of the same message today... the techie said it was a known issue and they are working on it... fine, hopefully the text messages stop soon...

and then i went to the post office to pick up mail and i was gonna ask why i didn't receive a bill for my po box cuz it is usually due in august but maybe i paid for two years last year or maybe they just haven't gotten around to putting the bill in my box yet (rooting for possibility #1) but i didn't get in the ridiculously long line and continued with the to do list...

the next few hours was spent wandering around the human zoo, walmart... i know, horrible stuff happens in third world countries and the usa has become a caste society largely because of walmart and the corporate america that walmart represents, but poverty is a sad and lonely warped merry go round that leads us to the lowest prices out of necessity (nice little trap they've set up for us, but that's a philosophical socio-economic discussion for another blog, at least)... almost three hundred dollars later i carry more than a dozen bags of groceries and stuff into our living space and now can eat at home for at least a two months, which is exactly what the budget needs...

the side benefit of the busy day running errands and extended wandering around the human zoo was the foot and leg got a lot of exercise and it is starting to feel less charley and more horse (or is that the other way around)... then, i heated up last night's leftovers and we had dinner and watched rizzoli & isles, which is a fairly standard formula cop show with fairly predictable plot lines and cheesy humor, but it's saving grace is great eye candy...

hope your day was productive and reasonably justifiable too (narf :}