++ I SPOTTED MORE SNAILS on the front porch today. there are a lot of them! its really cool. any time it rains, there are 5 or 6 snails that come out to play on our steps and on the porch. the bad thing, you have to watch out for them so that you don't step on them and kill them. most are about the size somewhere between a nickel and a quarter.

i made my pilgrimage to costco today. that is one big store. i forgot how huge those stores are and exactly EVERYTHING they sell, which is more or less everything. i also forgot how expensive it is to buy things in bulk. it doesn't seem like are getting that much food and it doesn't seem like its going to be that expensive until you get to the check out counter and its $110!!!!!! holy wow thats a lot of money...and we only got maybe 10-15 things! (granted its not so much 10-15 things as 10-15 packs of three or whatever you buy) but seriously, thats a lot of food. and to think they sell it at a discounted price too. so costco was expensive, but on the other hand we won't have to go shopping for about another 5 months.

after we got back home we had to unload the car in shifts. i had a huge load of whatever we bought and couldn't see over the top of what i was carrying. crunch. shit. ew. snail guts on the bottom of my black dress shoes. and its oozing down the steps. gross! it was one of the bigger ones too. the nastiest part is i heard it crunch and then goo splatter all over. and then i looked back and saw it and that is even more gross! so now there is one less snail to spot. (and to make it more gross and disgusting, heather was playing with the snail when we left to go to costco and i'm sure i stepped on the same one. she called me a murderer. which theoretically i guess i am. damn. guess i'm going to hell. well that sucks.) the snail should have saw i was coming and moved out of the way. ++