Safeway Rally!

This past week, Tom Thumb (a.k.a Safeway) has had a savings rally in which when certain products in a list are purchased, then you will get a catalina that is a credit on your next purchase. The best deal is that when 25 or more items are purchased, then you get a $20 catalina toward your next order.

Well mom accordingly said that it was my time to complete this deal...so I went to work.

The beginning transactions started with me paying between one and three dollars. I decided that this was to much to spend, so I had to sit down and work out a different deal. After about five minutes of fiddling with some numbers and coupon amounts, I finally found a transaction that would be worth me going to a Tom Thumb...FREE!

I then began going around to the local grocery chain and slowly began to deplete their stock of supplies. I started on Friday and by the time Sunday rolled around, my favorite store had no stock of Frosted/Apple Cinnamon Cheerios. It was exciting seeing the shelf completely empty, not to mention knowing it was because of me!

Here's a pic of part of the loot...

House M.D.

I just want to reflect on the past few days and how the whole writer's strike fiasco has finally come to an end. When I heard this on the morning radio show within the past week (I don't remember the exact day) I was ecstatic because some the shows that would have been over can now come back in a few weeks.

One of these shows, my personal favorite, "House" is comining back with new episodes (hopefully!) will be coming back soon. It seemed like forever that there were nothing but re-runs on t.v. and then the week before, during, and after Super Bowl there were new episodes on t.v.

I was so happy, but then my dad told me that this was the end of the new episodes due to the writers strike.

So thankyou Mr. Writer for finally accepting a pay increase and please get some new shows filmed for the public as soon as possible. Thanks!

House: “Are you a fan of symmetry?”
Young Doctor: “Sure.”
House: “Weird, because your eyes are lopsided. And by eyes I mean breasts.”

Gotta love House...

Drinking at school...Seriously?

As the title states, this post is going to be a major "put down" to those people that drink irresponsibly.

So today the bell rang for the school body to move to second period. I was taking my normal routine through the school and down the fine arts hallway towards the band hall and a girl (whose name shall remain anonymous) ran down the hall past me. I was like, o.k. maybe she really needed to get to the band hall for something until one of the assistant principals ran past me requesting "back up" in his radio.

According to another student, as she went past the corner running for the door to the outside, the principal shoved her towards the band hall in which she ran in, probably with hopes of running out the side door. The principal was to fast though; he pretty much pushed her into the band office and slammed the door. After the "back up" had arrived they continued to talk to her in the office while my band was trying to practice.

During a break when the band director was working with another section of the band, I was talking to friend beside me and he told me what had happened in the previous period. Sitting behind the girl, he said that she came to school drunk and then proceeded to pack herself a little mixer to get throughout the day. She told my friend that it was a nice little mix of Root Beer and Tequila.

Why would she be so stupid? I mean if you are going to be drunk, don't come to school number one and secondly, please keep your alcohol. Are you completely just asking for your ass to be hung out to dry? Come on now, we are high schoolers and if you do something you think you might possibly regret, don't do it in such a public place. People like you are why we (as high schoolers) have such a bad reputation to adult world. So thanks for your actions.

Off my tangent, we had the Champions recital tonight and my ensemble performed o.k. I suppose. We didn't do as well as on Saturday, but it was a pretty solid performance for us not having a single rehearsal since last Monday.

A Weekly Post??

Well it seems that I only like to post on Sunday's, I guess that is because it seems like it is the only time I have to post.

Anyways school has been a little hectic like normal, but it did happen pretty fast. We were supposed to have a Biology test on Thursday, but since there was a Calculus test on the same day; Mrs. Shupe postponed the test until Monday. Like normal, the whole lunch period was devoted to nonstop studying time. Someone happened to mention this so Shupe stopped the movie we were starting (ironically titled "The Bird's and the Bees...talking about plants) and sent everyone down into the lunch room so we could all buy some lunch.

On Saturday we had the district level Solo and Ensemble contest. My ensemble, consisting of Paul, Sarah, Staci, and me performed Frippery No. 8 by Lowell Shaw. It was interesting because the last time we had practiced all together was Monday. We were planning to meet on Thursday and work with the band directors for some last touch up things, but I had conflicts and it turned out that Sarah thought she was getting sick. So we decided Friday after school...not so much. Sarah had a fever and stayed home and Paul came to school looking like complete crap. It turned out that he had the flu. So Staci and I decided that if our ensemble could rally together we would meet on Saturday at 12:30 and practice a little before our official performance time (1:24). At about 1:00 we decided we were good and warmed up, thus we went to go and check in. It turned out that there was a current time slot open because an ensemble had DNA'd (Do Not Appear) and the monitor offered us the spot. We all sort of looked at each other and then decided that we weren't going to get any better so why not. We nailed the ensemble and the judge said "Excellent Job."

Being ready to leave, none of us stayed to see the rating. Luckily, Morgan texted me and told me that we got a one (Superior Rating). Yay!

About fifteen minutes ago my friend Sarah called and told me that we had been picked to play in the champion’s recital (i.e. the best of the best). Nice. That's great, half our ensemble can be sick, we cannot practice for days, pull off a one at district level and then get picked for champions recital.

Well I suppose I'm going to study some Biology for my test tomorrow. I must say that plants are very exciting...not.

Go Giants!

This weekend has been most definitley busy in our household. After school on friday mom and I took Mer to her normal gymnastics and we were discussing the new deals coming up including one that was currently rolling involving Sara Lee at Tom Thumb. This deal allowed us to get a couple packages of hot dogs, a pound cake, and then we had a choice between HillShire Farms Deli Wraps or lunch meat to choose from. Best of all, the first time we purchased the product it was about five dollars and every time after that...free!

So this weekend we have purchased at least five hundred hot dogs amongst the other products that we are planning to freeze for future use and have spent a total of maybe ten dollars.

As the new ads rolled out for this wek we rolled over some of our extra care bucks so that we could get more back. Mom and I decided to keep three cards each to do deals on, so today we got at least thirty dollars back in ECB for one card. By the time six cards are done, this takes quite some time.

On another note, a monumnetal event happened in our family today. After I don't even know how many years, we ate at Wafflehouse. Some time ago, an event happened with mom ( I don't know all the details) and she couldn't even handle the thought of Wafflehouse. Well today we walked in and ate, which turned out to be a pretty good experience. I don't know how much we will eat there, but I think it now may be again a possibility.

Currently the Super Bowl is on and its in the fourth quarter with the NY Giants (3) and the New England Patriots (7). Nevermind NY just scored! I really hope the Giants win because I'm sick and tired of the Pats winning everything.

Lastly, I signed up for my New Student Conference, which is set for June 15-17. That was exciting. Thanks dad for signing me up and mom for calling and checking!