Oh geez! I haven't posted in ages! Let me see if I can get caught up here on all that has happened in just over a month.
A few weeks ago, I bought some of that Philadelphia Milk Chocolate Indulgence. The product was on sale, and I had a $1.00 off coupon, so I figured that I would try it. The taste was o.k., chocolaty, but tasted too much like cream cheese. Of course, this is a cream cheese product, so what else should I expect. I tried it plain with a spoon, with chips, pretzels and pita chips. Not a big fan of it and would not buy it again. I was really hoping for more of a chocolate taste than a cream cheese taste to the item.
I am so excited! I have a baby shower coming up, and through Swagbucks, I have ordered some little baby things to give as gifts! One of the items is a White Hot Ducky Bath Toy that doubles as a thermometer to ensure that the bath water is not too hot for the baby. Very clever idea! I also ordered 2 - 2 packs of pacifiers through Swagbucks. One 2 pack had images of Minnie Mouse and the other 2 pack had Winnie The Pooh and Tigger. The Mother-To-Be is a HUGE Disney fan!
This past weekend, I was able to get some plants to transplant. I am not 100% what kind of plants they are, but the way that they were described to me, and the ones that were on the woman's property were very pretty. I am excited!
Last night, we tried to have a date night. I redeemed some credit card points to get a $25.00 LongHorn Steakhouse gift card. Also, because I joined their email club, I had a coupon for a free appetizer. We got to the South Portland LongHorn at about 6:30, and we were seated right away. We both got water for our drink and ordered Housemade Chips and Dip. The description on the product from their website says "Made fresh to order and seasoned with sea salt and black pepper. Served with creamy BBQ sauce." The BBQ sauce was very good, with a bit of a smoky after taste. The chips themselves were o.k. The amount served were just right for 2 people, not any more than that. I ordered the Parmesan Crusted Chicken Sandwich. It was a chicken breast with Parmesan and Garlic cooked to a crust on the chicken, put on a bun with some lettuce, tomato, red onion and pickles. It was good, but nothing exceptional. It retailed for $10.99, but it wasn't worth more than $7.99 or $8.99. My boyfriend got a burger that was $10.99 as well, but said that the burger was a bit on the pricey side for what it was. We were both too full for desert, but they had a sampler that had chocolate cake, an apple bake, and cheese cake and a chocolate sunday that both looked divine. Looking over the entire menu, everything could have come down an average of $5.00 and would have come in line with other chain restaurants in their same "genre" of restaurants. The atmosphere was really nice, but came down to a very nice chain restaurant. The wait-staff was quick, and several people ensured that we received our food promptly, but none of this in our opinion could validate the prices. We were glad that I had the coupon and the gift card, because you would need to be rich to eat here and pay for more than one person at a time!
After we ate, we managed to half haphazardly find out way from the South Portland LongHorn to the Portland BJ's Wholesale Club. In the mail, I received a coupon for a free 60 day trial of BJ's. We figured that we could take a look around to see what type of products they had and to see if there would be enough of a savings to warrant paying for a membership, planning on buying large quantities, storing the large quantities in my small house etc... After looking around, we both agreed that there were some things that were good deals, like Spaghetti-O's (which I love to eat!), but there are two in Maine - Auburn and Portland. Both a good 30-45 minute drive for us. We figured that any savings that we would have would be eaten up by the gas and time it took to go. Even the gas was not a savings. Yesterday's membership gas price in Portland was $3.81, and in Oxford, where I work, gas was $3.80 - $.01 cheaper than BJ's! So we might use the free membership while it lasts, but it does not look like we are going to be paying the $50/year for the basic membership for that one!
Well, I think this will do it for now.
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