Downtown farmer's market....

I thought the downtown farmer's market does not open until July but I was wrong. It had started the day before I left for my vacation.

So today, an officemate and I went to check it out. Since the city is doing a lot of road construction downtown the market had spilled into Jasper Avenue which is the main drag downtown. I was not expecting to see a lot of veggies but actually there was a lot fresh stuff.

I wanted to buy white baby potatoes as I am planning to have roast chicken tonight. They did not have the really baby ones so I ended up going to the grocery store close to where the market is and bought my baby potatoes.

I ended up buying a dozen coconut cookies and chunky chocolate with skor. Also, I bought fresh baked loaf. I did not bring my camera or cell so I don not have pictures.

While at the market, we realized it was Gay Pride day in Edmonton and the parade was just about ready to start but they are going through a different avenue so we did not bother to watch. I see enough of them in my building and they are friends of mine, so I hope they enjoy today.

Glasses......

Ever since I had my eye surgery on both eyes, I have started to wear reading glasses and there is not a lot of choices out there.

So from time to time I am on the look out for nice pair of reading glasses. 250 is my prescription and it is one of the hard ones to get.

I have seen a lot but not too many nice ones of 250. Luckily when I was in San Jose, my sister and I found 2 pairs and they were really funky.

Her mother-in-law found some and bought them for me. Thank you very much. I am still looking for a few nice ones. I would like to have a round one, and white frame with some kind of print on it.

Here is what I have so far....

San Jose.....shopping

This is a post about shopping and a few pictures of what I bought there. When I got to San Jose, the next day we went out shopping for groceries and went home and started cooking for the Christmas eve dinner. After we had done a few dishes and waiting for some to cool down, we decided to go out shopping and went to Ross and Kohl's.

I bought 3 dresses, and 1 pair of boots. Then we headed back home again and finished what we had started cooking. A few hours later, I said to my sister that I have not gone out shopping late at night close to Christmas. This is the night of the 23rd and my sister told her hubby to check what time the stores would be closing. One was closing at midnight and the other at 1:00 a.m. So we headed back out to go shopping again. This time I got a dress which I had to convince my sister I had to buy, it was only $22.99 but at first she thought it was expensive after we paid $15.00 or less for the other 3 dresses. So I got it and went to Broadway and I bought two pairs of shoes there. After a while we headed back home again.

I was glad we did this because my sister got sick afterwards and could not go out shopping. After Boxing day, she asked Jeff and her mother-in-law to take me shopping. This time I found two pairs of boots and some leggings and bought See's candies for the ladies at work.

Here are pictures of the boots and shoes....for Alysia.

I found this one at Kohl's.

Annette found this one at a different Kohl's.

Jeff found this one at the same Kohl's

The next two pairs, I found at Broadway.

The next 3 pictures are purses I had asked my sister to get for me and just took it home this time.



This matches the jacket I bought.

A match for a skirt my sister gave me.

I like animal print.

My shopping experience in San Jose. I have not taken pictures of the clothes as I needed to hang them and take pictures and they have to be pressed to look nice, and I just do not feel like ironing at this time.



Shopping and packing done....

It feels good to finally achieve a mission. I got up early today to finish these two jobs. And I did it!!! Not only have I done it, but I saved quite a bit because I got most of it on sale. There was only one present I had such a hard time buying but when I found it, it was such a relief.

I also manage to get something to add to my own little collection. And I only get them at this particular store.

Then I met a friend as we wanted to go out for our Christmas dinner and we decided to go to Moxie's.

But before we went there we passed by Target Canada. Yes, we have Target and what a disappointment.. It was a crappy store and I have heard or read that Michelle Obama sometimes buy at Target, I am glad she is not Canadian because there is nothing she can buy at the Target here. It is an insult to us Canadians. To prove my point, when we got to the store, there were 4 other shoppers there and it is close to Christmas. Gosh, do they send what they don't sell in the US here?  That was my first and last time at Target. Now, I have a mission when I get to San Jose....I will see what their Target store is like over there.

Yes, I have a small collection of margarita glasses. I got this pair at Pier One for $2.98 each. What a deal!!!



Shopping.......

Now that I am quite good at grocery shopping and always looking for sale or bargains, I am now doing it when it comes to clothes/shoes/accessories/purse shopping

Thursday was my birthday and I received an H & M gift certificate from work.

Saturday afternoon, my friend and I went downtown to have lunch at Chinatown but parking was hard to find so we went a bit further and found a nice Vietnamese restaurant. We had grilled pork, shrimp and spring rolls with vermicelli noodles. It was really good. Sorry but I have a hard time taking pictures in restaurants.

Then we went to the casino, I only wanted to play $10.00 and that lasted for about an hour. That is what I call entertainment!!!!! My friend won $100.00. She always thinks I am her lucky charm because she wins everytime I am with her.
After we decided to check out H & M to see what I could get with my gift certificate.

I got this winter coat -- 30% off.

I got this cardigan as it is a bit cooler in our new office.

This pair of boots was on sale at another store.

I had no intention of getting a pair of sandals but this was so comfortable I had to buy it. Very, very cheap.