Footprints on the Moon

As I mentioned in my Self Portrait Sunday post yesterday, I was at the Notre Dame vs. Purdue game on Saturday afternoon. I also mentioned that I really had no idea what was going on, as far as the game was concerned. Although I did eventually get into what was happening on the field, and start to understand a little more, I thought I’d share a few of the other things that held my attention in Notre Dame Stadium.

The Marching Band

As the announcer kept repeating, the band is the first University marching band, now in it’s 163rd year. And hopefully I’ve got that right because I didn’t go check facts on that. However long they’ve been around though, they play the best fight song

At half-time, they played Sinatra, and I only wish I’d had my camera ready when they made like the Rockettes.

The Fans
From the good natured ribbing to the downright bragging. From the little old lady in our row shouting, “Gentlemen PLEASE sit down!” to the Dad in front of me who threatened to pound the young guy in front of HIM if he didn’t watch his language. And of course, this guy:

Cause it’s not enough to wear a gold helmet when you can put a Jesus on top.

The Man-Beef Buffet

aka, all the cops in a row LOL There are 5 cops in this picture that I was calling the Man-Beef Buffet.

Imagine how excited I was by the end of the game when the man-beef buffet more than doubled in size.

What can I say? I like a man (or men lol) in uniform.

And of course, there was football

38 to 21 over Purdue. Let’s go Irish!

In the realm of the ever rising grocery prices, I’ve found that one thing that works really well for me is stocking up on the non-grocery items. When you have to buy all of your skincare products, shampoo, feminine hygiene products, toilet paper and paper towels all in the same week that you need to restock the basics in your fridge and pantry, it adds up to one hefty total at the checkout. Even for someone living by themselves! So instead, I like to stock up.. hopefully the big sale on the toilet paper I like falls on the same week I have some wiggle room in my grocery budget. If not, I buy one or two packages on every trip until I have a good stock going. Then I don’t feel the pinch quite as badly on every single grocery shopping trip. I know I’m not the only one who does this… my friend Tina has a 6 month old baby girl, and when we went to lunch a couple weeks ago she said she probably has enough disposable diapers to last her until the kid is out of diapers entirely.

This paycheck is a tighter grocery budget week, so I won’t be able to stock up this time around, but I know it’s coming out of the next paycheck. I’ve got plenty of paper towels (been using hand towels more lately), but I’m running low on just about everything else. Do you stock up on the essentials, or do you just buy as things are needed?