Day 3 - 12.02.2012

I wake up and prepare breakfast. As lent is only a week away, I am on a hot cross bun frenzy (I’ll give them up on Wednesday 22 February 2012 - typically I give up chocolate or alcohol for Lent, but thanks to pregnancy these bases are already covered).

I move to place my plate and knife on the bench top and notice small black dots on the kitchen counter. Could this be mouse poo? I poke at the pebbles with my finger. They are hard, not soggy. Perhaps they are poppy seeds, I think to myself, that my husband has decided to sprinkle on his breakfast cereal?

I stare at the dots long and hard, finally placing one in my mouth. The flavour is alien, so I have a big drink of water to flush it through.

I’m not much of a cleaner, so I leave the potential poo where it is and decide to do the bottle and can recycling. Off I trot with a car that sounds like a trolley at Dan Murphy’s.  I try not to think about all of the red back spiders that are most likely making their way from the back to the front seat of the car.

I get $7.00 for my efforts. Bonzer! I think to myself. I am going to do something housewifey with this money.

I have been collecting stamps from Foodland supermarkets. They allow you to buy half price cutlery when you amass ten stamps. I have had my eye on the soda spoons in the collection for some time, as I am sick of stirring my coffee with a teaspoon that sits one centimetre above my coffee cup.

I race to the supermarket and find that I need to buy another $20 of groceries to be able to collect my last stamps. This is another example of false economy. Regardless, ten bags of potato chips later, I have my spoons!