MJ and I went to a bookstore this weekend and came away with $3 calendars, apparently some of the most depreciable items and very, very time sensitive, like Christmas ornaments selling for 90% off the day after Christmas, or Halloween costumes after Halloween. Calendars ironically lose most of their value after you flip the calendar on January 1st of that year. Except........MJ and I never bought a 2025 calendar, so it was prime time to swoop in, we went crazy and bought 3 different ones reflecting our interests: 1.) a nurses calendar (for MJ), 2.) a Jeopardy calendar (with updated 2025 questions! for me) and a 3.) Peanuts calendar, kind of for both of us. The best part was, since it was February 8, we've already had 39 days of 2025 so we flipped through 39 days quickly, with the consensus being that the Jan. 1 Peanuts day was the funnies, lamenting that it can't be 2025 yet, he wasn't even ready for 2024. Yea I wasn't ready for it neither, Charlie Brown.
Girl Scout cookies.....are good. I'm not a Thin Mints guy so I always stay clear, but Peanut Butter and Chocolate, suggested by one of the Girl Scouts (Trefoils) we met at a local food court today, was good. Chocolate and peanut butter cannot be bad, and this was it. I'm reminded of my Cub Scout days, apparently I didn't graduate to Boy Scouts as I didn't make it past 5th grade...it was a great way to get out and meet other boys in the neighborhood, though, and a good idea by my parents to try to get me to make friends. Sometimes when I pass a bake sale in the neighborhood or a lemonade sale, I go ahead and just get something, to encourage the kids that their cottage industry enterprise is viable. Girl Scout cookies aren't THAT expensive, they're like $6 a buck, which is probably marked up twice the retail price, but I got those $3 calendars for 20 cents on a dollar, so I could afford splurging a little.
Today I also played basketball with a dog- no I did not intend to do so, but I was shooting baskets in a park and a man of the neighborhood just came by and shooting with me during his afternoon walk with his dog. VERY friendly dog, and just wanted so badly to fetch the basketball and bring it back to his owner.....it was black lab or some sort, maybe some other dog mixed in, maybe a descendant of St. John's water dog, a Newfoundland, and didn't bark or anything when seeing me, which always brings up bad childhood memories. Unfortunately it couldn't bite into the ball to fetch it, it was just nudging it back to me. Also, buddy got super excited and jumped into my arms like it wanted to play, not in a mean way or anything. If MJ and I don't ultimately succeed at this baby thing, maybe that type of dog would be swell; our recent Seattle adventure allowed us to roam at a dog park and hang out with so many awesome dogs, all pretty playful and obedient and definitely changed my paradigm about having dogs, although it's still a bummer on traveling and free time and allergy season and taking care of them 24/7. St. Jude's Children's Hospital, great charity, recently has been running an ad of a cute baby kid running up to go greet his dad when he sees him from far away, definitely one of the attractions of having a kid, and I remember one particular time I did that for my dad too........and then within a couple years I stopped doing it, showing love or any affection at all. That's the downside with kids, they're cute and cuddly and so loving and depend on you for everything........until they grow up and don't. Dogs don't do that. So it's as they say in a familiar phrase but also the title of a 2020 documentary, "We Don't Deserve Dogs."
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