Our Sunday

I cooked us a nice hearty breakfast of eggs and rashers and coffee. We sat at the kitchen table and read the Sunday paper while we ate.

We hung out in the family room watching TV for a bit and then we both went upstairs to the office for a couple hours. Sheri hung out with me while I finished our taxes. All I have to do is submit them on-line, but I want to do one more review before I pull the trigger.

After that we got on our street clothes and ran the following errands:

1. Filled up Sheri's tank with gas so she will be all set for her first week of commuting again.

2. Went to Trader Joe's to stock up on snacks for work. Sheri got a handful of Luna bars. I got a handful of Kashi bars, two bags of their roasted peanuts and a bag of sunflower seeds.

3. Stopped at Walgreen's to try a new Hershey's Extra Dark chocolate bar. Walgreen's had it advertised in today's paper for $1.50 which is 50¢ off. I didn't have high expectations but it was really good. It has a 60% cacao content. Very smooth texture. Complex flavor. I think it compares very favorably to my other two favorite chocolate bars from Lindt and Scharffen Berger. I just now remembered something as a wrote that last sentence: Hershey's bought Scharffen Berger about a year ago. I'll bet they used a little of what they learned from that purchase to come out with this new product line. Give it a try when you want to treat yourself to a little something.


4. Home Depot for the season's first bag of lawn fertilizer. We also wanted to check out house plants and I wanted to pick up a box of galvanized decking nails in case I ever need to make any repairs to our fence.

5. Meijer for some things for this week's dinners. We got a chuck roast on special for $2 per pound for the crock pot on Wednesday, and lettuce and a tomato for BLTs on Tuesday night. We were looking for the new Coke BlaK and didn't see it, but there were a couple guys with Coke uniforms on so I asked them what they knew about it. They told us Target had it for sale.

6. We stopped at Starbucks for Sheri.

7. Went to Target to get the Coke BlaK.

We are hanging out now watching Simpson's and Desperate Housewives. I just opened up a Coke BlaK and I love it! To tell you the truth I actually don't taste coffee too much. It actually has more of a rich caramel taste. Maybe like the way the caramelized sugar tastes on crème brulee. I can actually see enjoying one as a dessert rather than knocking one back to quench my thirst.