Well I finally went to the Urgent Care and just as I suspected I have a sinus infection. Haven't had one of those in years so yeah.....
I was also working on a case of bronchitis it seems but I took an albuterol treatment and am on an antibiotic and steroids for one or the other condition and am feeling on the mend at this point. I sound like death when I breath or I am hacking up a lung but really I am better and not contagious.
The Daughter woke up this morning feeling like crap(or so she said)so she went up to the urgent care for a flu test. Daughter can be a bit of a hypochondriac(she comes by it honestly as my mom had a touch of that)plus all her medical studies before she decided not to continue in premed and go to medical school. We'll find out tomorrow or tonight if she is contagious so until then she is banished to her room and the Lysol and hand sanitizer are back on standby at Chez Sluggy.
With my luck if both the kids have the flu it will be hitting me next on top of my current miseries. sigh.
I wore a mask to Rite-Aid today to return the shampoo and Kleenex that my L2CQs didn't come off for and got some other goodies with today's Wellness Wednesday coupons.
I'll write that trip up later tonight or Thursday and report in on it.
Don't forget to enter the giveaway!!!
Today is the last day it's open so go HERE.
Fear not! The box is filled and sealed already just waiting to make it's way to it's new home so no germy hands with me handling the goodies. I'll open the lid briefly to slip in a paper with the winner's address/name(after spraying that with Lysol of course!).
Ok, I am off to go nap if I can stop coughing long enough to do so.
Part 1 of our Maine trip is HERE.
Part 2 of our Maine trip is HERE.
So we boarded the wooden Schooner Alert on a grey day that threatened rain. We were the only customers for that cruise.
The day before they had a full capacity of 28 passengers.
This ship began life as a tall ship called TALL COTTON. Built in York, Maine and launched in 1992, she changed hands in 2006 when a fisherman bought her, renamed her ALERT and set out to use her for commercial ground fishing and research.
In 2013 ALERT was purchased by a husband and wife team, the Davis'. Along with their ketch TEVAKE the Davis' run windjammer cruises around Bailey's Island and the Casco Bay waters to the public, as well as offering school student educational excursions and are affiliated with a non-profit organization called Tall Ships Portland(part of the Tall Ships America)that train the youth of Maine sailing and life skills during sea adventures.
Though the captain said they hadn't have any wind to speak off for about a week, he and his crew woman hoisted the sails anyway but had the engine ready to go if the wind stayed calm.
So we set off on a two hour tour. Not like that infamous 3 hour tour you all know about..............
Who is that fellow guarding the adult beverages? lolz
And as we cast off the breeze started blowing!
Passing a local lobsterman working his pots.
Another lobster boat with the Casco Bay passenger ferry in the background.
One of the many small islands offshore from Bailey's Island. This one is called Little Mark Island. The monument was built there in 1827 and is now operated by the US Coast Guard. A beacon was installed on the stone monument in 1927. It is solar powered and supplies are stocked in the base to aid shipwrecked sailors.
Another shot of the sails from below. I could look at this all day. It was so quiet out on the water without an engine roaring.
Two old derelict lookout towers from WWII when submarines German submarines were on the prowl in the Atlantic.
The ferry again.
I caught this shot of a loon before he dove below the surface again in search of food.
This is the "Giant's Steps on the other side of Bailey's Island from the dock where we cast off from. It's a rock formation that resembles a set of stairs made for a giant.
The winds died down when we got to this side of the island so we had to sail back with the aid of the diesel engine.
The crew mate set out a snack plate of fresh apple slices and homemade muffin type bread(made by the captain's wife).
The last hour of the sail the rain began that had been threatening all day.
A channel marker.
Wooden ship decks are quite slippery when wet.....take my word for it.
The captain, a fine fellow pushing 40 years has been making a living on the water for many years. It was interesting to listen to his tales of crewing boats all over the world.
He also knew a fair amount of family genealogy so of course, that set me off! lolz
The bird off the shore there looked like a cormorant.
Back to the side of the island where the cribstone bridge connets Orr's Island to Bailey's Island at Will's Gut.
The captain said someone famous use to have a house on this shore(Edna Saint Vincent Milay I think?). As we passed the shore closer than this shot, someone came out of one of the houses(a big modern one with a high deck/balcony, not a cottage)and waved to us and took video of the schooner and said they were happy to see a "real" boat out on the water.
Another channel marker with what is probably an osprey nest on top.
Even with an hour of drizzle and then steady rain I resisted going below deck to get out of the cold rain.
The historic cribstone bridge(the only one in the world) linking Orr's and Bailey's islands.
Our cruise pilot, Perry Davis and his mate Erin. I think they were glad to put into port and get out of the rain too by this time.
This windjammer cruise could have had better weather but even so, it was worth the cost to us.
And the partial bottle of Allen's coffee liquor Capt. Davis snagged floating in the water along the way(must have fallen overboard from a lobsterman's boat as Maine fishermen are crazy about Allen's!lol)was a bonus. ;-)
I didn't leave the house except to put this little guy out to do his business since Wednesday so this in the only photo on my camera right now. Chester kept looking at me this past week like he knew something was wrong with me and he wanted to make it all better. It's a good thing I had a few posts written up before I got sick. The most strenuous thing I've been doing is trying to stay up to watch some Olympic coverage. 8-(
I may attempt to leave the house later this week.....or not. ;-)
5. Thursday--Chinese soup or take-out
6. Friday--Fend for Yourself 7. Saturday--leftovers or FFY
Last week saw 3 nights of home cooked dinners, 3 nights of leftovers/fend for yourself, 1 night of take-out and 0 nights of Eating out. College Boy and I got sick in quick succession and as I might have had the flu nobody wanted me touching/making their food so there was leftovers/FFY or take-out from Wednesday on. I did knock out a couple of ham and cheese quiches and a big pot of ham and bean soup before I felt unwell. The rest of the ham got tucked into the freezer to use at another time.
2 trips to Weis and 1 trip to Dollar Tree,brought the shopping last week to $98.62 for all. That brings February's food spending total to $242.59. There are 9 days left in my shopping month.
My savings percentages last week was 56.86% and the monthly savings so far ends up at 54.69%(without Rite-Aid trips added in).
Leftovers going into this week.......quiche(a large piece left), ham and bean soup. I may need to shove some of the soup into the freezer later this week as it isn't being eaten at a good clip with 2 of us off food mostly.
Here is this week's "food plan".....
1. Sunday--Chinese take-out(again!)
2. Monday--Italian pork roast, potatoes, onions and carrots
3. Tuesday--fish, sugar snap peas, boxed mac and cheese
This week will see 5 new meals cooked, 1 night of leftovers, 1 night of Take-out/Eat-Out. I am feeling better so am up to cooking, plus the family doesn't feel I am "Typhoid Mary" any longer. lolz
If I don't feel up to cooking most of these can still be made by Daughter or Hubs. College Boy will attempt to go back to his internship job tonight so won't be home for meals.
The only things I need to buy to make these meals are carrots, chicken, salad greens.
I made Hubs go to Weis once for a few things on Friday(mostly 5 bottles of OJ). I don't feel up to grocery shopping still, so I'll send Hubs out for those things above that I need.
I swear that when I die Hubs will subsist on pasta and take-out.
What is getting fixed and served at your house this week?
Was last week's plan successful, did you go off plan or did you not even plan what was going to be eaten last week?
Let's see what the Frugal Fairy brought us this past week..........
* I had Hubs pick up this freebie since he had to go by Weis(PMITA)Markets last Friday anyway.
I clipped a digital Weis Q in my account for a free jar of sauce. Of course, the Q didn't come off when he used my card so he had to pay $1.50 for it and then go to the Customer Service desk to get his $1.50 back. Management doesn't let CS know there is a freebie on Fridays so they hadn't a clue what he was talking about. Get your shit together Weis Markets!!
* I sold a lot on eBay for $40 on Sunday. Two tubes of fancy pants shampoo that is no longer made-$20 a tube. I got it at Rite-Aid awhile back for free after sales/Qs/PPs or +Up Rewards or whatever thing was given out at that time so pure profit after eBay/Paypal fees.
* I turned on F/B notifications for the Hershey Olympics promotion so every time Team USA wins a gold medal you can access a link to print off two copies of a Q for a free Hershey's Gold candy bar!
I also emailed the link to myself, ran upstairs, accessed my email up there and printed the Q 4 more times, twice from two different computers upstairs. 8-)))
The Q is for $1.50 off a bar not a FREE Q so if you find it for less then $1.50 make sure you have something else in your transaction to absorb the overage......which also means something else for free or cheaper. ;-)
The problem now is to find any of these candy bars on the shelves around here before the Qs expire. lolz
* Lots of freebies or better than free after sale/qs/bonus cash earned at Rite-Aid on Wednesday--bags of sugar-free chocolate, Orei candy bars and light bulbs.
* Here are the best deals I got at Weis(PMITA)Markets this past week.....
L to R--
-Gorton's seafood was half price and you got an instant $2 off wyb3. Shrimp was $3.99, 2 x fish bags were $3.49 each so $10.97 subtotal. After the $1/1 Gorton's Shrimp Q and $2 off instantly I paid $7.97 for all 3 items.
-4 x Huggies wipes, frozen Weis french fries(wanted a bag of veggies instead but they were out)and Polly-O string cheese sticks(so Daughter can make a stuffed crust pizza w/them)were $7.44 for all 6 items after instant $3 off wyb6 items, plus $2.50 in coupons I used-one .50¢ Q doubled/3 did not(and a digital .50¢ Q that doubled and also came off).
-The Yes! soup was on sale 3/$5 and I used 3 x .75¢Qs that doubled to $1.50 each so $5.00-$4.50=.50¢ for all 3 cans.
-The cashier didn't ring up my mushrooms(which I didn't know until I checked my receipt when I got home)which were on sale for $2 a carton. This explains why the register wouldn't take the .50¢ Q I had for them and she had to put it through manually. So I got paid .50¢ to buy those free mushrooms. lolz
-I had a Weis Q that was expiring that day for .75¢ a bag of Weis brand shredded cheese. It wasn't on sale so would have cost me $1.19 after Q. When I went to get a bag there was a sign that if you bought 2 cans of Hormel chili and the cheese you got $1.50 off the bag of cheese instantly. I went round to the chili aisle and the Hormel chili was on sale for 2/$3....AND I had a .55¢/2 Hormel chilis Q(which doubles to $1.10 off).
So cheese $2.69+2 cans chili at $3=$5.69-instant $1.50 off cheese and .75¢ Weis cheese Q and $1.10 off chili=$2.34 for all 3 items total BUT I also had a digital Q for the chili evidently because another $1.10 came off(a .55¢ digital Q that doubled)so my 3 items cost $1.24 OOP in the end. ;-)
-I also had a Weis Q expiring that day for .50¢ a loaf of bakery French bread. I snagged a 50% loaf on the day old rack for .95¢-.50¢Q=.45¢ for the loaf.
Plus these items I couldn't fit in the photo above---
-2 x 8 O'Clock coffee was BOGOFree so $2.74 a bag. I used 2 x $1/1Qs so $1.74 a bag OOP.
Plus I received a $1 cash rebate on Ibotta for buying the Infusion type of that coffee so I am OOP $2.48 for both bags total.
They were out of the Caramel Macchiato College Boy likes so I got a rain check for more and held onto some other Qs I had for the coffee for later use when his flavor is back in stock.
-I had a $2.50/1 Nutella 13 oz or larger Catalina I had gotten at Xmas time expiring that day so I picked that up too. It was on sale for $2.99 so it cost me .49¢ total after the Q.
My coupons were all messed up and I was credited with $24.30 in Qs even though it should have been only $21.70 in Qs. I had 2 digital Qs come off(and double)plus another wipes Q doubled(even though they say on them do not double)plus I got .50¢ off for mushrooms I "didn't buy". lolz
I guess it all evens out in the end as sometimes I get shorted on my Qs because of cashier inattentiveness and I just don't feel like going to CS that day and dealing with getting it made right. Some days it's a big enough hassle just DOING the shopping and not having to also FIX the shopping. sigh
I also got another .25¢ cash back on Ibotta for buying anything in the store so $48.54 spent on $117.33 worth of groceries make a 58% savings rate plus $1.25 cash back so I am OOP $47.34 for everything I bought on Wednesday. Pretty good considering I didn't get any Instant Discount meats this trip either. 8-)))
I am feeling under the weather(Wednesday's post went live quite late yesterday evening)but still found the strength to hit Rite-Aid on Wednesday since they seem to be doing the Wellness Wednesday one-day coupons deal every Wednesday in February.
I am just combining everything bought on various cards/accounts and transactions into one. The trip was messy and being not quite right in the head yesterday(don't even say it Kim!)I am not going to even try to lay it all out in a methodical way.
Also bought but not pictured were 3 x 12-packs of Coke. They were 2/$6 and I had a R-A mailed Q for $1.50 off 3 so bought those too 3 packs for $7.50 total. I just don't feel like hauling them out of the garage for a photo.
1 x Emergen-C packets
3 x Head and Shoulders shampoo
1 x Kleenex facial tissue
1 x Irish Spring body wash
1 x R-A brand diced tomatoes
8 x Russell Stover sugar-free candy
6 x R-A brand nightlight bulbs
6 x Oreo candy bars
Some things worked as planned and others didn't.
I spent $19 in various Bonus Cash, $2.99 on my R-A gift card and $4.92 in Plenti Points(finally! I got to use PPs!!!).
I earned back $15 in new Bonus Cash.
What worked.....
* A Deal this week is R-A light bulbs-they are BOGOFree and you get back $2 in BC for purchasing one(limit of 2 Deals so 2 packs of bulbs per card/account). The nightlight size bulk packs are reg. $3.49, buy two, pay $3.49, get back $4 in BC so a .51¢ moneymaker when you buy 2 packs.
* The Oreo candy bars are 2 for $1 this week and give back $1 in BC, so straight up free with your card/account. If you clipped the Load2Card for $1 off wyb2 Oreo bars awhile back this was a $1 moneymaker so even sweeter!....See what I did there? ;-) * The Russell Stover sugar-free chocolates were a WW deal. They are on sale this week 2 for $3. There was a WW Q for $2 off 1 bag, so a $1 moneymaker if you purchased something else with this candy the extra $1 off applied to the other item(s)in your order.
What didn't work.......
* The Head and Shoulders on WW there was a $2 off 1 Q and I had $2/1 Load2CardQ attached to each Wellness card. Take the $7.49 reg. price in my store, discount the 20% Wellness Gold discount and it's $5.99 a bottle. Take the $4 total of the 2 Qs that stacked and each bottle comes out to $1.99 per.
Except for one of my bottles on one of my cards, the L2CQ didn't come off so I paid $3.99 for it.
This bottle will be going back to the store shortly.
* Also I had paired a $1/1 Kleneex WWQ with another L2CQ for .50¢ additional off of it. $2.69 reg. price-20% Wellness discount=$2.15-$1.50 stacked Qs=.65¢ OOP. Except the L2CQ didn't come off so it was $1.15. That's more than I like to pay for facial tissue so that will be going back as well.
I'm not sure if they will refund BC, PPs or Cash but there will be $5.21 back in some form of payment.
The Irish Spring is on sale for $3.99 this week. There is a $2/1 Q in the ad plus there are both ManuQ and IPQ available for $1/1 so this is 99¢ after sale/stacked Qs.
The Emergen-C was a WW deal. $5.03 after 20% Wellness discount. There was a $1.50/1 WWQ and I had a $2/1 L2CQ so $3.50 off=$1.53 a package.
The diced tomatoes was an impulse buy. Reg. $1.29, $1.03 w/20% Wellness discount and had a .50¢ instant discount sticker so .53¢ for the can.
I had wanted to stock up on cases of H2O(Buy 8 for $20, use 4 x $1/2 IPQs, pay $16 in BC or PPs and get back $5 in new BC)but my store had 1 case of water. * Insert "Wha Whaaaa" sound effect here.*
Ok, I am heading off to bed now. I just got back from taking College Boy to the Urgent Care. It's confirmed he has the flu and I ain't feeling so great myself either.
I'll be back online when I feel better.
