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April 10, 2005
Random Thoughts on Moving, Websites, and Expired Groceries
It's been a busy weekend. We did some real-life apartment hunting; always grueling, and it's worse because that was probably my last trip out of town until after baby is here. We're a little early, so most of the people with decent properties didn't know what they'd have available in August. We did hook up with one guy who seemed incredibly nice, knows our friends, and showed us a really cute house. Chances are, he will have something open when we need it, though the rent is maybe a teensy bit more than we wanted to pay.
My hours at home this weekend have been spent getting the Official Baby Website up and running. It's not a public site, so if you'd like the url and logon info, email me (and if you don't know how to do that, you probably don't know me well enough to get access to my super-exclusive baby site). I think it's the best site I've put together yet. I still may have to tweak the colors a little; I think it's hard to read on some screens. I forget that not everyone has the benefit of Graphic Designers' tools like I do, tee hee.
The upside of the whole moving anxiety is that we will be leaving the horrible, terrible, very bad town of Rantoul. Not a moment too soon, as far as I'm concerned. Out of time constraints and laziness I suffered through the small town grocery store here again this weekend. I saw Yoplait mango strawberry yogurt on sale for like 50 cents. Yay! I thought... then, on second thought, I looked at the expiration date. It was a week past... um... I don't think you can do that. This is the same store that sold me frozen grouper in a thawed state labeled as fresh red snapper... I was so tempted to start an argument with the manager today, as lo, I am Cranky Pregnant Woman; behold my Wrath. But I refrained. I might look into filing an online complaint with the county health department, if such a thing can be done.
Why do I feel a need to torture the denizens of this poor, hapless, down-on-its-luck town? I don't know. Maybe it makes me feel better about myself. I do love the fact that leaving the house in an IU t-shirt and NY Yankees baseball cap is one of the more offensive things I can do around here.