Leahs Cafe

It was almost 8.30 p.m when we reached home last night. I was too tired to prepare dinner, so we  had frozen pasta meals. We don’t usually eat much of microwave frozen meals. However, we both like the Marie Callender’s Pasta Al Dente (frozen pasta) and Pot Pies.

The frozen meals are about $4 each and often go on sale for about $2 each. However, I picked up about ten of them when they were FREE after coupons during a ConAgra promotion few weeks ago! Would have gotten more if our freezer was not overflowing! We NEED another freezer! :-)

We drove this baby home last night!

After T got off work at 2.00 p.m, we drove down to Oak Park in Chicago. After we got the mechanic to inspect it, T signed the papers and paid the seller with a cashier check. I drove the Toyota Camry and T drove this baby home last night!

It was 50 miles one way to go down to Oak Park. Driving home on highway I-88 was rather stressful and tiring I have not driven much on highways with fast moving commuters. The commuters crowd just got off work and the highways were quite packed, though the traffics was nothing like the kind of bumper to bumper traffics in KL/PJ!

We need to go to the Department of Motor Vehicle to get a new license plate and add the car onto our current auto policy. I got a quote online  this morning, it costs about $150 to add another vehicle. It’s much more reasonable than the AAA auto insurance that T’s parents used to get. It saves us at least $300 half yearly!! It pays to shop around when it comes to getting auto insurance. The same company also offers homeowner  and rental insurance, but no cheap term life insurance, one would have to look some where else.

Where we used to live is a college town, a small town of 50k populations, half  of that are students! We just moved two weeks ago, to an apartment at the next town bordering the college town. Both towns are small and surrounded by farm lands. Many foreign students who are from urbanized cities were shocked when they first arrived. They didn’t expect their university to be surrounded by farm lands and in a  semi “rural” setting!

Being in a big farm town does not bother me, the smell of fertilizer and manure in the early spring when the farmers started planting does not bother me either. I love the fact that it’s a small town, but a small town with many facilities due to the presence of the university community. It’s a rather safe community where children can roam around, play in the yard and houses don’t have to be locked all the time! I bet businesses that sell or install home alarms are not doing too well here as many people will not need them!

May be because of the university, there are hospital and specialists clinics all over town. There are more than five grocery stores, departmetal stores and shopping malls a short 10-15 minutes drive from where we live , and  tons more within 30 minutes drive. Living in small town that has big town facilities work for me, as of now.