Crystal Groves

Not that I didn’t have this issue while living on the edge of Westminster, but I’ve noticed that living in Gettysburg does have downfalls as far as location. Many stores I’ve needed to get to have been far away in other towns, such as Lowes or now Walgreens. When living in Westminster, at least on the -other- side of Westminster a lot of these things were still accessible. Also living on the edge close to Eldersburg/Sykesville allowed me to also travel to those cities when I needed to get to certain stores. But a lot of things aren’t near Gettysburg at all. Which in a way is a good thing, but also makes it less desirable for travel.

Like now, I have to plan a trip to Walgreens to get my sister the gift I mentioned before so I can teach her about financial responsibility. But the closest store is in Chambersburg PA or Eldersburg MD (which would have been fine if I were still living in Westminster). I do need to get a few other things at Walgreens, so I can combine all of this into one trip, but it’s still a damper. This particular gift I can’t purchase online either because it requires exchange of information.

In other news, I attempted to call up Comcast yesterday to pay my bill, as I do every pay period. But when I finally go through their automated system, I was told that there is a $4.95 fee to pay by credit card over the phone. I usually pay through the website but have mis-placed my password for it and getting a new one from them is like pulling teeth.

So I’ve resorted to sending checks for free through ING, which granted takes longer, but it’s free. I’m somewhat disappointed in Comcast for now charging to pay over the phone. Capital One was the same way when my car loan was still with them. I guess whatever way they can make money. Fortunately since ING will mail out checks for free I don’t have to worry about these retarded extra fees.

I took off today for dad’s birthday so we could spend some time together. I took him to this very tiny restaurant in Fairfield I’ve been wanting to try out called “The Book and Table” for breakfast. By tiny I mean probably no more than 10 tables.

It was crowded and they are only open from 6am to 2pm. It appears their main focus is to cater to the older crowd, and nearly every single person in there was in their golden years. And nearly every single person in there new each other as regulars. Old women church groups, local farmers, grandfathers taking their grandchildren to breakfast. It was quaint and small town, and I loved it.

The food was good from what I could tell, and their devote customers led me to believe it’s well liked all around. I had the sausage gravy on toast with homefries on the side and an orange juice. The gravy was very richly flavored and the home fries were perfectly seasoned and cooked in onions.

Their service was lacking, but from what I can tell they were in need of more help and had a help wanted ad in the window, so I can only assume they were just short-staffed.

The decor was a mixture of children’s fairytales, local Gettysburg pride, and 1950′s toys. I had thought by the name of the restaurant it would be more of a coffee shop style, but it is definitely country kitchen.

In other news, I think my fathers leg is getting worse. I’ve convinced him to start going to the Wound Care center on Friday, which will be a regular thing for several months and put even more of a strain on our budget. I am going to try and get a picture of it later today so we can compare the before and after.

I’ll be very relieved when this moving mess is over with so he doesn’t put so much strain on it. The lack of circulation in his leg is what causes it because there’s no oxygen being carried to the skin and bacteria builds up in the wounds. In some ways I wish I could do that maggot treatment I read about where they clean out the bacteria from skin wounds like this.

But as I said, whatever he needs. I hope that the weekend after settlement we can get almost everything if not everything moved out of that trailer with extra help so it’s not this huge month long process of him unpacking during the day and me unpacking when I get home from work. He took the brunt of the move in July, I really don’t want that to happen again for October.

Tonight my Aunt and Uncle are taking us to a chinese buffet for dinner for dads birthday.