Today I didn’t want to watch much TV, because it was all about 9/11 and it’s something that, even six years later, I just can’t talk about or hear about. I’ll never forget (nor should I), but I just don’t like to think about it. I do want to say that I pray for all the people who lost someone on that horrible day.
We decided to get out for a while and accompanied my Mom while she ran some errands. First we had lunch and then we headed to – of all places – Wal-Mart. I say that, because I don’t like Wal-Mart very much, but I understand why people go there. Everything is VERY inexpensive and, if you’re on a fixed income, it is certainly the place to shop. I got some t-shirts, sundries, and a case of bottled water ($3.88). Eric bought car wax for the RV (Mr. Maintenance!).
We heard from our niece, Michelle, today. We are going to Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow afternoon to see Eric’s sister, Ellen, her husband, Rich, and their children, Michelle and Scott, and Scott’s wife Jaime, their son, Kyle, and daughter, Rian. We’re really looking forward to it. We will come back to my parents’ to sleep and then – if we get the RV back tomorrow (as promised) – we will head out Thursday morning for our next destination. We’re not sure yet where that will be, but we’re trying to see our nephew, Brandon, in Tampa, and our friends, Frank and Gloria, in Orlando.
We went to THE OLIVE GARDEN for dinner tonight. I only go to THE OLIVE GARDEN when I’m in Florida with my parents. I really enjoy it, but they don’t have them in Queens, so it’s not a place we frequented when we lived in NYC.
So, here’s the latest saga: On Sunday night at around 9:00pm I put in a prescription for an allergy medicine at Walgreen’s. The young man behind the counter told me that I could pick it up at 10:00am on Monday morning.
We didn’t get a chance to go back to the drugstore until Monday night, and the prescription wasn’t ready. They told me to come back on Tuesday afternoon (today) at 2:00pm. We went back tonight after THE OLIVE GARDEN, at 9:00pm, and the prescription STILL wasn’t ready. They told me that they had ordered it, but it hadn’t come in. I told them I understood that these things happen, but why didn’t someone call me, so I didn’t make TWO unnecessary trips to the drugstore? I told them to give me back my prescription, because I was going to go elsewhere.
I went to a CVS a few blocks away and – within 10 minutes – I walked out of there with my prescription. Go figure! So, now I love CVS and I’m mad at Walgreen’s. So, please join with me and boycott Walgreen’s. Thank you! (This reminds me of an episode of WILL & GRACE where Grace has a fight with the owner of HAPPY NOODLE (her favorite noodle place in Manhattan) and calls all her friends to tell them to go to LUCKY NOODLE and to boycott HAPPY NOODLE.)
Anyway, we just got home and are going to have vanilla fudge ice cream on Fruit Bobka, so I really must go! (I really prefer a Chocolate Bobka, or at least a Cinnamon Bobka, but not if there’s a hair on it! (That’s a SEINFELD reference, for those of you who are wondering!)).