Musings – Page 40 – Nothing Ever Happens on My Street

Garbage Management

I just moved from a small apartment building where I had to pull my trash cans front the front of the building to the sidewalk once a week, to a larger place where over 100 of us share dumpsters. The change has put an unexpected kink in my garbage management. Garbage management started when IContinue reading “Garbage Management”

Hunting Down Savings

I love coupons. I especially love when I have a coupon for an item that’s on sale. When the $1.99 potato chips are on sale for $1.49 and I use a 25 cent coupon, I know I’ve saved 38% off a single item which makes me feel like I’ve conquered the grocery store, and mathContinue reading “Hunting Down Savings”

Can I Borrow Your Umbrella?

I remember my Mom nagging me about wearing a coat. “Aren’t you gonna wear a coat?” That meant it was probably cold out and that was as close to a weather report as I felt I needed. When I got out on my own, weather was a low priority. Somehow, knowing what the weather wasContinue reading “Can I Borrow Your Umbrella?”

Squeegee!

My new place has glass shower doors. My whole life, I’ve taken my daily showers in a tub/shower with a shower curtain. I never felt like a shower curtain was a detriment or that I had to step-up my shower game. All the decorating shows will tell you, glass shower doors are sleek and modernContinue reading “Squeegee!”

A Bar of Soap

This morning I unwrapped a new bar of soap to put in the shower. Like a 1950’s housewife,, apparently, because bar soap is falling out of favor (accounting for 30% of total soap sales and falling). But what can I say? Liquid soap in the shower doesn’t do it for me. I’m a bar soapContinue reading “A Bar of Soap”

Mini Microcinema

Last night I had my first visit to OTR’s Mini Microcinema and was immediately taken with the energy of being where people loved doing what they were doing: filmmakers showing and sharing films. Microcinema exists to show experimental film/video/media, highlighting work made by artists and filmmakers outside of the mainstream. This is a very differentContinue reading “Mini Microcinema”

The Man Who Wouldn’t Shop

Working at the cash register at my TJ Maxx shift Monday, I saw an older man walk in, moving quickly and purposely toward the men’s department. Seconds later, his wife came in, trying to keep up. He already had a pack of t-shirts in his hand by the time she caught up to him, butContinue reading “The Man Who Wouldn’t Shop”