1. Target brand ice cream.
I eat ice cream almost every day. I can't help myself. It's just something I've done for years now. During the last 4 weeks of pregnancy, all I ate was ice cream, toast, and watermelon. Moving to a new place, I always need to find a reliable grocery store with a decently-priced ice cream selection. I picked up one at Target a few weeks ago and I'm pleasantly surprised. The Market Pantry brand is really good and isn't $5 a half-gallon. I also like Friendly's when it's on sale, but I think that's an east coast thing. RIP Tillamook. Who knows when I'll see you again.
2. Lemongrass. I don't know how I felt about lemongrass before this last month, but I realllllly love it now. I use the essential oil in the shower and I bought this soap from Walmart. They had different scents but I liked the green bottle of Lemongrass/Spearmint, and I also got Apricot/Vanilla. It was less than $4 and hasn't ruined my hands yet. I recommend the soap (and lemongrass-scented things). I usually stock up on BBW soaps for each season but I had planned (yes, I actually planned) out my soap use so as to use up my stockpile before moving so I didn't have to bring it with me. I take soap pretty seriously.
3. The library. The county that Pittsburgh is in has a fantastic library system. There's a branch in every borough and that means I'm within 2 miles to about 4 different branches (maybe more...this city is pretty twisty/turny). My borough's is right across the highway, so less than a mile and I went a little crazy, requesting my TBR list on their website last weekend. They have everything I've wanted to read lately! Well, 7 of them came in this week. That means I have a lot of reading to do before mid-March.
They were so nice to me there too, and talked about how they have a storytime for babies, and I really do want to go...but it's right in the middle of his morning nap. I just don't think it'll work right now because I'm desperately trying to stick to a nap routine. Maybe this spring/summer, since it's for 0-24 months.
4. The gym. Along with finding a library...the gym was at the top of Scott's list of things I needed to do in order to settle in. I could write about a book about what gyms have meant to me in good ways at past duty stations and how they've been a turnoff at others.
We found a chain of gyms and he did all the research and signed us both up and there's one 2 miles from the house and they have a decent group exercise schedule and they even have childcare. I've been going to a Tuesday night class when Scott gets home from work and I've gone to a Saturday morning class that I loved. Mornings are hard if I'm tired and nights have always been better for me when it comes to exercise anyway. But if I can make it to two classes a week, the $24 a month membership will be totally worth it.
5. I'm making a point to get back to posting material on Teachers Pay Teachers. I posted this Place Value Chart on Monday. (I'm working on a schedule for myself and Mondays include this type of "work").
