Leah's Cafe

Untended blog

Almost three months of neglect, it's overgrown with weeds!! Time seems to go by so fast day by day. We are in the process of unpacking after the move last week! Just got the cable and internet hooked up yesterday.

Hunting for a house

The lease for our current rental is due end of May, the landlord wants to know whether we are going to renew the lease. We have decided to move out of this one hundred years old house to a newer house that has more modern facilities, and have been looking ...

Spring is finally here, last week of April!!

Our necks must have getting longer looking forward to the arrival of spring! In the middle of March, we have beautiful spring weather for two days, then cold rain and wind chill for the next two weeks! Then, first week of April, beautiful spring weather, again for three days, when ...

Spring is here not !

The weather started getting crappy since my arrival here in the end of September. While T goes out to work , I am mostly stuck at home, too lazy to bundle up and brave through the cold wind to go out. I get my fix of shopping and store runs ...

The best things in life are free

The moon belongs to everyone The best things in life they’re free Stars belong to everyone They cling there for you and for me Flowers in spring The robins that sings The sunbeams that shine They’re yours and they’re mine Love can come to everyone Best things in life They’re free Moon belongs to everyone The best things in life They’re free Stars belong ...

Free groceries courtesy of the wine manufacturers

I am having too much fun with catalina deals and playing the grocery game right now, have not have much time to blog.:-) Discovered something new (to me) few weeks ago- the wine tags put out by wine manufacturers. They are tearpads found at the wine department or tags hang on ...

What is a Catalina deal?

A Catalina deal is a promotion or marketing campaign run by certain manufacturers or stores to give rebate in terms of cash coupons for buying certain amount of specific products. What we have at the Jewel-Osco grocery store last two week was a "Buy $30, get back $15" Catalina deal ...

Frantic shopping week during Catalina deal at Jewel Osco

The deal started last week and ends today, but we were busy with MIL in the hospital, so hadn't have time to go to the store much. I was there on the first day of the sale and spent about $5 out of pocket and collected $50 worth of cash ...

MIL’s knee replacement surgery

We have been running to the hospital every evening to visit mother in law who had a knee replacement surgery on 01/07/09. She suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, which gave her very severe pain. When medicine and other treatments are not helping her anymore, the doctor recommended knee replacement surgery, with ...

The holiday season

The holiday season was a busy one. We had a couple of gatherings with different family members and spent time with T's brother who came home for Christmas. We didn't put up a Christmas tree at our apartment, would probably do that next year. On Christmas eve, we had a family ...