the last chore on the list

so i was at the publix deli getting my ever-roast and lorraine when the deli lady started talking to another customer. "put this in a ziploc, okay?" and the customer looked at her like okay-whatever because your deli meats and cheese come in ziploc bags already. deli lady didn't like the skeptical look. she said, "well, i took home some cheddar last week and in two days it had lost all its flavour. what does that tell you??" and i was gonna say, tells me you got some stale cheese. but, i refrained.

hey, now that's a funny word. refrain. on the one hand it means to hold back from taking action, but it can also mean a part of a song that's repeated over and over during the song. wonder why that is. but, i digress.

ms cheap had in the newspaper that dollar general store is selling blue jeans, and she got some and was surprised that they were long enough. i also have a problem with long-enough jeans, plus at dollar general they are cheap, so i stopped by there today and my DG doesn't carry them. that was very disappointing. if they had them, i probably would have bought some other stuff there, too, like cleaning supplies and toothpaste, but instead i bought it all at publix. except the jeans. publix doesn't sell jeans, either.

do you balance your checkbook? every couple weeks or so i will diligently copy down everything from the bank's online statement into my ledger book and bring the balance down. oddly, it still doesn't match what the bank has but i really wonder why i feel the need to do this. we use our checkcards for nearly everything, and we don't write any of it down at the time, so it is all those transactions that i am catching up every couple weeks. but all i am doing is writing them from the online statement into a little notebook. it's actually a pointless exercise. pointless! but it gives me a sense of control, which is weird since i am being controlled by the bank statement and what little i might be able to control, the balancing, never happens.