Mindy Lambert

Tomorrow is Friday and it will be an easy day at work. Wait, it is already Friday. But I can’t sleep. I need to get to bed, but all I do is lay in the bed and stare at the ceiling. I don’t have any sleep aids here and I really don’t want to have them. Falling asleep is not usually a problem for me. I guess I just have too much on my mind tonight to fall asleep.

This is the only month of the year with no holiday and no reason to take off from work other than you want to schedule a vacation. Of course, in some parts of the county, this is the big vacation month and everyone is gone for weeks at a time.

I’m looking forward to September when the heat subsides a little but we still have nice weather for doing fun things outdoors. And we get back to having at least one holiday each month, too.

Lately it seems like the most expensive place to buy things is the corner drug store. They have the pharmacy, of course, but they also have different departments within the store with over the counter medications and toiletries, beauty supplies, toys, camera film, groceries, greeting cards and a limited selection of household goods, like paper towels, rubbermaid storage containers, fuses, etc.

But all of these things cost almost twice as much as if you went to a hardware store or Wal Mart to buy them. I’m sure there is a premium to be paid for convenience, but in these tough economic times, places that charge two much for every day items will be losing a lot of business and frankly, it’s their own fault.

Some of the so-called Mexican restaurants in the area are not authentic Mexican restaurants but are Tex Mex. The people who are really from Mexico know the difference, but I don’t know how to tell. I think the Tex Mex is what they mean when the food is based on certain Mexican dishes but has been adapted to better suit American taste. So I try all the different little Mexican restaurants that open up and see if I like their food. So far, I have one favorite place and only two that I won’t go back to.