How I Spent My Birthday (or How to Spend Tons of Money in one Day.)

I had a great birthday! I really appreciated all the wonderful birthday wishes from everyone. Thank you!

My daughters gave me Avon creams for old people (they knew I wanted the whole set) . I'm hoping it will help my sagging eyelid and various other wrinkles and lines. If it doesn't work I will fix my eyelid with crazy glue and fill the lines with spackle.

My hubby gave me a Kobo e-reader and I'm very excited about trying it out tomorrow. The best thing is that it has Wi-Fi. My cousin and wife sent me flowers. They are lovely.

I picked up my mom and we went out for lunch. We had a great time visiting and then after lunch decided we would never go to restaurants again. I had coffee and potato skins and with tax and the tip it came to $18. My mom's meal, which included yam fries, was $20. We plan to grow potatoes this summer and sell them since they are obviously worth a fortune.

After lunch, we went to the Kelowna Art Gallery. The gallery was featuring the artist, David Alexander. I took pictures of some of his paintings. (There was a sign that said, "No Photography" but I don't think they meant people who were celebrating their birthdays.)

These were the paintings I liked most.

 If I was going to buy one, I think I would choose the second or third painting.

After the gallery, we went to Mom's place and played Stick Rummy.

Then like the old bags we are - we had a nap.

Then we went to bingo and lost money.

I had a great birthday even though everyone is broke because of it.

Cherish's Charity.

My granddaughter Cherish is going to university to be a physicist. I love saying that; it actually has nothing to do with this story.

Anyway, Cherish joined a charity group and they were all to bring soup or chili to the university and sell bowls of it for their cause. I'm very proud of her for wanting to help others. She went shopping with her mom and they bought all the food for a crock pot full of chili. It came to $50.

Cherish was horrified at the cost. "What does it cost to feed all of us each month?" she asked her mom.

The answer was, "About $l,500." (There are 2 adults and three teens to feed)  Cherish got an education in life that day. I told Christine she should have just given the $50 to the charity and forget making and selling chili.

I've noticed food prices go up and up and up. Something that used to cost $2 is now priced at $3 or $4. What gets me is that years ago a price on a food item would go up maybe 10 or 25 cents. Now it goes up by a dollar at a time.

We used to go out to eat at restaurants as a family, especially on birthdays. We stopped doing that years ago because of the high prices. There are a lot of food items I used to buy that I don't even look at any more because of the price.

Do you find the price of food extremely high? Or is this happening just in Canada?