Bargains, Routine, And a P.S.

Goodwill Shopping

In search of "best buys" my mom has resorted to shopping in Goodwill stores or the Salvation Army. She mostly buys clothes there and just washes them three or four times before she wears them. I don't really like going to these kind of stores not because I have the money to burn but for sanitary, hygienic and health concerns. You never know where these clothes have come from or who wore them. But I'm not really closing my doors on these kind of stores because sometimes there are jackpots in those piles and piles of what-nots (like the books I got today).

Anyhoo, after discovering that there is a great selection of mostly upper-middle class left-overs of used clothings and what-nots at the Goodwill along Sherbourne and Bloor St., my mom woke me up to ask if I could accompany her and my li'l brother to that place. My family don't really go to Toronto that often even though the trip takes less than hour to take. My family who was used to the city-life back home in P.I. suddenly became small-town people!

As I have mentioned earlier, my family doesn't go to Toronto that often. And if and when they do they always have the car with them.

The members of the roadtrip to Goodwill Sherbourne are: Motherella (my mom), li'l post-Afro-haired Brother (he cut his hair!) and moi. I didn't know that it was the first time my mom ever rode the RT or the subway. My mom hardly took the public transit back home. She always had someone to driver her around or she takes the cab to get to places back home. Anyhoo, it was strange riding in the subway with her and my brother. As they were with a camera-whore, I took pictures of us while in the RT, the subway, and when we were having late lunch. My mom was kinda embarassed about it but I didn't care. I thought I needed to document the event. hahahaha! ~_^

When we got to Goodwill the three of us split up to check out the stuff in there. My brother loves to go to the items where in you have to bid in order to get them. My mom, on the other hand, just goes thru the clothing section and house-items section. Meanwhile, I made a beeline to the books. They had different kinds of books ranging from general interests to fiction. I had a feast going through the different books. The books that they were selling were in surprisingly good condition. Some even doesn't have that spine crease that some people tend to have with their books.

The total damage rang up to around 27 bucks for a nice Christmas-themed cookie jar, my books, a comforter, and a pencil. Not bad considering that if I bought the books alone at Chapters or Indigo, the bill would've rang over a 100 bucks. It was a SWEET deal.

After working up a huge appetite, Motherella, Li'l bro and me went to Swiss Chalet. Swiss Chalet is comparable to Kenny Roger's Resto and Max's Resto from back home. We had an ok service if not for the dirty glass of water (it had smudges of fat around the glass. . .ewww!) and dirty utensils. Food was ok. Li'l Bro didn't really like the food there and that would mean a whole lot. He doesn't turn away food unless it is really THAT bad!

We took the subway and RT again back to McCowan station's parking lot to get our car. I was too tired to go anywhere else so my mom dropped me off at our house and picked up my dad and off they went to Chuckie Cheese where Li'l brother got 850 tickets for all the games that he played.

All-in-all it was a fairly good day.

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Back to Normal

Oh No! It's the 3rd of January!

It's back to the old grinding board. Back to the routine. Back to normal.

The holiday hours are over, hence, I will be seeing the gang on a much lesser basis than before. People will be going back to their old work schedules and as we all have different work schedules bonding-times and outings would've to be carefully planned and scheduled.

I dread to come back to the old routine. I dread going back to work. This "vacation" has ended too soon. I need more of time to rest and relax. I dread going back to the old routine.

Tsk! Tsk! I guess, I have to go back to my grin and bear attitude.

Smile and be perky. . . It's a great new day! BAAAAAAAHHHH!!! WHATEVES!!!

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P.S.

I will be posting pictures of our roadtrip to Goodwill and of the New Year's event as soon as I get a copy of Microsoft Frontpage. Other pictures will be put up too.

I might be updating my blogskin soon too! So watch out for these stuff!

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I am Angel. . . dreading going back to work!