New Sheets

I didn't want to have to buy new sheets right this minute, what with the house payment having to be paid yesterday, and the big blood work bill that I had to pay, but I had no choice unless we wanted to sleep on the bare mattress or some towels strewn across the bed or whatever.

I knew our sheets were getting old, with some rather bare spots and a few little holes in them, but hey, they still worked and why buy something new if you can still use the old, right? Well. While I was sleeping the other night my foot went right through the sheet with a huge tearing ripping sound, which I ignored because I was trying to sleep, and then later another huge tearing ripping sound and when I finally woke up there was a 3 foot long rip across the sheet.

So, time for some new sheets.

We went to our favorite store Target to check prices and found jersey sheet sets for only $20.00. I had never seen jersey sheet sets, but basically they are just a big tee shirt for your bed. I was a little hesitant, thinking that sleeping on a giant tee shirt might be a little hot, but since summer is supposed to be over with and it's supposed to be cooling off now, for only $20.00, big tee shirt sheets were worth a try.

It's a little hard to smooth them out because tee shirts do tend to stick to each other, and I had to put tons of lotion on my feet so my nasty dry skin feet wouldn't snag the sheets, but other than that, they seem like they will be comfortable and we did sleep pretty well last night.

We almost got the sweatshirt gray set since if you are going to sleep on a big tee shirt, it might as well look like one, but then saw the aqua set and I do love the color aqua, so aqua it is.

They are kind of stretchy, too, so it makes getting your pillow into the pillow case a lot easier.

Mixing it Up

First off, I really love plastic kitchenware. The bright colors, the virtual indestructibleness, the usually quite affordable prices. I don't want fancy gold rimmed china plates to eat off of, give me bright yellow plastic any day.

I also really love vintage plastic kitchenware. Again, the bright colors and affordable prices make vintage plastics fun to seek out at flea markets and antique stores. I haven't bought any vintage in quite a while (that damned economy thing again) but really enjoy the pieces that I do have. One of my favorites is a sugar canister that I found at a thrift shop for a whopping 95 cents! I'm also quite fond of my aqua canister set that sits in my dining area cupboard.




Secondly, I also really love Target. What does Target have to do with plastic kitchenware? Only that they have the coolest new plastic dishes and bowls and cups and platters you've ever seen. Plastic plates and dishes that look like china but only when you pick them up do you realize that they are plastic. I'm saving my money to completely redo our dinnerware and get rid of all the mismatched plates and bowls that are cluttering up my kitchen.

We did splurge and buy a set of plastic mixing bowls when we were doing our usual weekly cat food and litter shopping, we just couldn't resist. We've been using the set of Tupperware bowls that I've had since about 1987 or so, and while they are still quite usable even though one lid was melted when I laid it on the stove, forgetting that I had just turned the burner off. These new bowls don't have lids, but hey, that's what plastic wrap was invented for, right?

Anyway, here's my new bowl set which was christened when I mixed up a package of cookie mix in the big green one last night.


Twenty bucks. At a Target near you.

Yesterday

I did clean the living room and even dusted all the knick knack/glassware/dishware stuff on the cupboard in the dining area. I can't call it the dining room since it's just a corner of the living room, since the people who built this house apparently thought that just one not so big room would be just fine for both living and dining.

We went to Spencers for our weekly tortilla soup night dinner last night, our little way of helping the local economy, or at least that's our justification for spending $30.00 on a dinner out. It was really drizzly last night, heavy fog or whatever, and the windshield wipers in the truck haven't been working right for a long time, so it was kind of interesting driving over there. When we got home Keith tore the wiper motor apart and kind of duct tape fixed it so it works now. We were picturing him driving to work this morning with his head hanging out the window madly squeegy-ing off the windshield with one hand while the other hand is trying to steer.

We stopped in at Target to pick up a few things and an end cap of frying pans attacked me and made me buy one. We've been using one of those '3 pans for 5.00' type sets that are thin and warped and have no non stick left on them for quite a few years now, so I got one good frying pan to try out and if I like it I'll go back and get a few more. The label on the pan has a caution that has me a little perplexed, though. 'For safety, please keep pet birds out of the kitchen. Birds' respiratory systems are sensitive to many kinds of household fumes, including the fumes from extremely overheated non-stick pans.'

Huh. Apparently there are a lot of bird owners that let their birds fly around the kitchen while they are cooking and somebody's bird got killed by frying pan fumes so they have to put this warning on the pan label.