Shopping Madness

My shopping stamina is failing me. After only three or four hours, I'm feeling the beginnings of headache and fatigue. Paul considers this a hopeful sign, but considering the length of our lists, this is only the beginning.

Helpful shopping tip: when spending much too much money at Bed, Bath, & Beyond, add a few items that you don't really like to the cart, so that later you can put them back in demonstration of your willingness to compromise.

We bought our washer and dryer today from a local appliance store recommended to us by our propane man. Did we mention we have a propane man? We have a propane man. I'll call him Hank. Anyway, Hank sent us to see his buddy Zip, a former chef instructor at New England Culinary Institute who now sells appliances and gives occasional cooking lessons from the model kitchens at the store. Seems like an interesting guy. Butchered a bear once for Hank, on the day before Thanksgiving. Evidently, it required large volumes of scotch, but I'm not entirely sure where that factored into the project.