While I'm home for the day unemployed consulting, I never turn on the TV. I know if I turn it on, within 5 minutes, I will be sitting in front of it eating a bag of chips and waiting until 5:00 when I can have a glass of wine. It's a slippery slope. I made an exception the other day because I had 8 loads of laundry to fold and iron, or contemplate ironing. Nothing can slow down the hands of time while folding and ironing in a quiet house by yourself. I watched Rachael Ray who everyone in my household finds incredibly annoying. Seeing her face on the front of the Triscuit box sets off intense hating on Rachael Ray at my house, and there might be mutiny if they found out I watched her show. I find the whole EEOV thing annoying, but there was NO WAY IN HELL I was watching Kathy Lee on the Today Show, and it was too much trouble to flip past the first 5 channels. I think Kathy Lee could possible be my nemesis. I can't believe they gave that woman a job again. She is scary bad. One of those judgmental, disgusting, obnoxious, critical, disparaging women who give the entire population of women a bad name. I hope they have a special place in hell set aside just for her. Not a big fan.
Thankfully, Rachael had quite the line up for me. In addition to having on Olivia Newton-John, who just turned 60 and looks fabulous, she also had a woman who had written a book on shopping and cooking from The 99 Cent Only Store. The book is called The 99 Cent Only Stores Cookbook: Gourmet Recipes at Discount Prices and the entire thing was very interesting. This woman bought wine at the 99 Cent Only Store, for how much? Yup, 99 cents. She does 70 percent of her shopping at the 99 Cent Only Store, including meat and vegetables. She seemed so convincing that I went yesterday to check it out. I always giggle when I walk in the door thinking about asking the people who work there, "How much is this? Or this? Or that over there?" It's all 99 cents. That's funny. They probably never hear that.
First bit of bad news. The Nevada stores don't carry wine. It must be our Puritan background or the backlash by the Baptists. If I knew for sure that it was worth it, I could drive to California to purchase 99 cent wine. I'm not afraid. Pam told me about this box wine that she really likes called Black Box Wines. I remember the Beringer box wine from days of yore. Problem was you never knew if you were almost out. This economy has thrown my wine drinking into a state of flux. You know how it goes. One minute you're on the Internet shipping 90+ wines from around the world, then you think the screw off cap isn't so bad, then the box wine is taking an exorbitant amount of space in your refrigerator, finally to spiraling into the 99 cent wine. Circling the wine drain, all in the name of saving a buck while unemployed consulting.
The other disappointing area of the 99 Cent Only Store was the Gourmet Section which this author raved about. The shelves were empty. Maybe I went to a crappy one. I'm going to try it again at another store in a more upscale neighborhood. To say that the clientele were a little scary at this location is an understatement.
In the checkout line where they keep all the little sundries that you forgot you needed and can't live without, they had a pregnancy test. Hmmm. First of all, it's not usually like you keep a stock on hand. It seems to be more of an item you purposely set out to buy, so would you think to go to the 99 cent store or would you go to Walgreens? I'm just saying. Also, would you trust the 99 cent version? I remember the "Pee on the Stick" versions seemed really expensive to me. I bet these make you go out and kill a rabbit and wait for a couple of weeks for the result.
I'm going to try again today to go to another 99 Cent Only Store, mostly because it's next to the liquor store and I'm out of wine. As I mentioned, I planned to buy it yesterday for 99 cents. Stupid Baptists.
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