Grocery Shopping

When I was a kid and went shopping for groceries it would take Mom hours looking at each aisle looking for the best prices. As a kid I never thought that she was trying to save a few bucks by looking at the less expensive item to take.  I would whine "let’s go “since the moment we enter the store until we left. My sister would be so happy shopping with our Mom.  Since I remember she had a big smile while shopping with Mom. Mom would give a few coupons to the lady at the counter and we would go home walking! It wasn't far it was just 4 blocks.

When I was in high school, I was a pain in the butt when taken to buy groceries at the store. I would whine while pushing the cart and I would be the one slouching at the cart. Mom stopped using coupons which is my fault. I guess having a whiner with you during your shopping just wants you to want to leave faster.  My sister would help out while shopping and I would just stay slouching on the shopping cart.  Solution, I said "NO" when I was asked to go grocery shopping with them.

About a few years ago, My Dad does the shopping with no coupons and he goes in-an-out of the store. He is faster than my Mom but still, my bad habits are still there, I slouch at the cart while shopping.  I don’t even help at all like when I go with my Mom.  I do go and get cleaners to clean the house without being asked and I do go and get things that they ask me to like 'go pick a cereal".

There are some stores that I HATE GOING MORE and those are the ones that have vegetables/fruits as they spend their sweet time picking tomatoes, potatoes, onions, etc... I should help but I don’t know what they are going to buy it’s not like they have a grocery list... oh yeah they sometimes do! But they always take vegetables/fruits and other items that are not in the list.

When I am not with them and I am out of town with my fiancée, he likes going to the grocery store to get what we need. However, with my hate of going to the grocery store, it’s hard to get me to go so we don’t go. I have learned that when I go to buy what I want, it’s different and can get what we need and that’s it.  We go with a plan (list in our heads)... for example, hamburgers, we need to buy meat, bread carrots and toppings which are tomatoes, onions, guacamole, etc... That makes it easy to go get the things we need and its fast.

What have learned to make going to the grocery store a lot better for our kids?
1. When going with a little child sit them on the grocery cart and talk to them.
2. Give them a task to do:
If they are in the cart just tell them what you are looking for and ask them to point at it when they 'see it'. If they can walk just tell them what you are looking for and ask them to pick one. 
3. Don’t get mad when they pick the wrong item, remember that they can’t read or they are learning to read... when they understand then say 'pick the 12 oz package of cereal' until then...
Hint to them that you want the small one or the big size of the cereal.
4. When they are older give them a task to do and tell them that you will be going around the aisles. 
5. If you are going to go shopping with coupons let the kids be in charge of them. This means that you have to be prepared with what you want to buy. If they want something they can look at the coupon bag to see if it’s there, if it’s not then they can wait until its on sale and have a coupon.
Here is what a friend does: she gives her 10 year old twins six coupons to go get the item. They pick two items and they walk back to the cart, they show the coupon so she can see if they picked the right thing.  If the item is wrong from the coupon, she tells them if they want to go re-pick it for her.  They go together to get it.  This makes the shopping interesting for them as they have something to do.
When they are older you can divide the shopping list into how many people went with you and they go and get their part of the shopping list. Remind them that it’s not how fast they do it; it’s how accurate they do it.  If they do it wrong, then they have to go get it again and again until they do it right!

The Idea of buying a pet

-Present-
When I am thinking of buying a puppy that is a Chihuahua or a Shih Tzu, I feel that I am betraying my family dogs.  I mean they are part of our family, But when I am out of town, for 6 to 8 months, I dont have them with me, and I do miss them. I think of my chihuahua, who by the way 10 pounds and He cant go with me on my trips as he has to stay with my parents and sis. Why he cant go? because He cant go on the belly of the plane as he can die.  The Vet told us that if he flies he has to go under our chair. His airplane ticket has always cost 150 dollars just one way.  Every time he flies its with the entire family that way we can keep an eye on him and help him out when he needs to go pee.
Last few years they have stayed home on the last few trips as dad stayed home with them.

Adopting a pet is a big responsibility and totally worth it.. We have done it a few times but I want to adopt a dog that is small in size so he or she can come with me where ever I go. Or maybe I want a big dog like a Great Dane but She/he wouldn't be able to come with me specially when I come to visit my family but I know she or he would be in great hands with my fiancee back at the house. I want to be able to have a dog to play with while I am alone out of town with my fiancée.

SELFISHNESS: I have x-small size clothes for my future doggy.. And xxx-large collar for a great dane..

oh, I keep dreaming with my eyes open.. I should just stop thinking of getting a dog and just stay like I am right now..

Past Animals adopted or purchased

in the past we have had:
Small fishes but that was so many years ago that I dont know if I want a small fishes again.
After that we bought and adopted hamsters, one person tricked us into thinking that her pet was a hamster and it turn out to be a RAT with no tail after that I really DONT want another hamster EVER AGAIN!
We had big fishes not the size of a koi fish but they were big goldfishes.  We had to have 3 fish tanks to divide them as they were so big.  We went to the pet store and purchased a Plecostomus fish to clean the fish tanks and he/she took delivery of eating the fishes. We later learn that some Plecostomus fishes love to eat fishes. we moved him to a separate fish tank but he died as he didn't want to eat algie he just wanted LIVE FISHES. i dont want a plecostomus fish.
In my 20s we rescued a beautiful white Chihuahua, He is my little ball of joy and His smile makes me smile every day.
My dad adopted four parakeets, Laguna Beach name of female (RIP) and Angel name of male (RIP). HE was the sweetest parakeet ever.. you could pet him with no worry that he was going to do anything bad at you.. he even slept next to you. when called he would return walking to you as he never learn to fly. In the other hand His Female partner was totally the opposite she was Pure EVIL! thats why her name Laguna Beach because it sounds like... both were white with blue, she was more white than him.  The other Parakeet couple, ch'òoh name of female means BLUE in the Maya dialect as she was all blue and her mate was named Houdini. Why? because he knew how to open any window or door of any cage and fly out! I learn that my nose itches when I clean the cages so No we dont want BIRDS AGAIN!!!
A beautiful surprise came to us without looking.. Four years after getting our chihuahua, we adopted the shih tzu... She is a sweet little girl. When people meet her, they envy us as she is so kind, sweet and gentle, She never growls, or bites. I wanted her to be a therapy dog but she cant pass one part of the test and that is 'walking without a leash'.
I had a transparent small dwarf African frog. It was the last one on sale at Target and it had no food and it looked like it was dying. I was told it was going to be tiny.. however, to my surprise, not even two months later, it was big and black. After a year of having it, I started to fear it and thats why I kindly gave it away to my dads friend son that asked if he could keep the male frog to mate with his female dwarf African frog. I will never ever ever ever in a million years have another FROG!  

Tiny dogs sold - bad idea? Fraud ahead?

I am looking for a dog that is small that can be with me while I am out of town. Here is the thing, I like lots of pages in facebook where they are against puppy mills and people buying tiny dogs. They ask for people to please save a life and adopt an animal.  After weeks of looking in google I found out that I am some what a Hypocrite person, because when I accidentally found the Asian pages where they are selling tiny puppies I keep on looking at them thinking if I only had the 4,000 dollars I would buy one right now.  I even started googling to see if I could find tiny puppies here in the USA that are sold cheaper, but thats not the case. They buy them from Asia and this sellers here in the USA sell the tiny puppy for more money. This dogs can go as high as 20,000 dollars. OH I wish I was exaggerating this but I am not!   For example, I saw a bit between a few people for a tiny maltese. I saw that the bid started at 2,000 dollars and it ended at 16,000 dollars. How can someone buy a puppy at so high price? Then it came to me, People here in the United States, buy puppies that are tiny at high prices because this people are CELEBRITIES.  I mean the American Page that I was seeing, had Lots of Pictures of stars with their store bought puppies. The owner of the shop feels that it has the right to sell her tiny puppies at a higher price because celebrities are buying tiny puppies from her.  This tiny puppies are purchased outside the USA, then brought here to the USA and they make thousand of dollars in profits. This tiny digs have DNA defects and big eyes compare to normal size dogs.

In the back of my mind I am like if I find a cheap dog that is less than five pounds, I would feel that I won the lotto.  I spent 6 months looking at websites when I was out of town. I know I shouldn't buy a puppy that is less than 5 pounds but I really really want one.

That brings me to an error I almost committed. I was looking at pages where I saw a guy living close to cameroo. He said he couldn't keep his tiny male Maltese as he had no time to be with him as he worked 12 hours a day. He only wanted 300 dollars for the price of the ticket to send him to "you" in the USA. He told us of his female that was going to stay alone without his mate and we asked how much for both he said 700 dollars as it was cheaper to send two dogs at one time. He was sad but he couldn't take care of them. He said he wanted the money sent to the company that was going to ship them to show that he was legit. What the hell, this is fraud. They keep the money, the shipping company and the website are fake and they never send the animals. Please be careful to whom you buy your tiny pets from.

DELETING POSTs

I been writing a few blog posts for my blog and when I finish I press delete/close.
In the middle of the post I would delete part of the post, or restart it all over again.
Why am I not able to press publish and I just delete them?
Just checked how many days I haven't posted on the blog and I ponder, is it that I have so much I want to tell or so little that I can just press delete.

I think that it would be a good Idea if I start to write and what I write just leave it in draft and publish.
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I am just going to take courage and press Publish..