the excitement builds
But not really.
K is busy editing and meeting and talking on the phone.
The kids are off from school and really just hanging around (my suggestions are met with looks of horror).
We anxiously await the last shipment of tile for the bathroom (two to three weeks), and the contractor is anxious to do the demo.
In the meantime, I think I might be itching for spring - I mean if it's not going to be an interesting winter then they should just cancel it.
I'm not particularly inspired here either - I'm worrying a lot, about a lot of things, and no one wants to hear about that. Plus I think typing it out sort of validates the fear - so I'm going with that theory.
Want to go to the supermarket?
It's the thrill of the day...
They have opened a Starbucks in the supermarket where I go for our crappy, evil consumerist shopping...you can have a latte while you buy Cheetos. (And, in other news, I taste-tested Organi-puffs last week and Cheetos this week and there is no question. My insides will be orange for a few weeks.)
BLECH I said to myself last week when I spied this. It looks like horrible stuff.
White hot chocolate? My head spins at the thought. And the name? Insipid.
This week? SOLD OUT.
So, maybe you don't want to hire me for your marketing team.
WHAT'S THE POINT?
It's true. I have purchased Manwich sauce, in a can, to mix with organic beef.
Never in front of K, of course. But who is eating all these meats in cans?
Some of them look so scary...and they have a meat-in-a-can-during-wartime mentality about them. I just don't know.
K wants to know what this stuff is, who is buying it, and what they are using it for, because we like the flavors but have NO CLUE what we'd do with it.
And this stuff can't be good for you...
If I needed to buy meat in a can or shaved meat to save money, I think I'd give my kids a lot of pasta and find protein somewhere else. Shaved? Meat?
It would appear that this is where the stuffed animals go to die.
I like to use the self check-out lane because I've always wanted to be a supermarket check-out lady (sadly, I think this fantasy would also involve the eating of shaved meat).
It's tons of fun!
But you usually have to have someone come and fix the machine for you, which kind of defeats the whole diy thing, but WHATEVER.
We bring our own bags too.
I bought these -
and we have actually been remembering to bring them in from the car. You have no idea how pleased I am with myself to REMEMBER TO BRING THEM IN FROM THE CAR.
But I decided that the ads on the bags were too ugly.
So I changed them.
K is busy editing and meeting and talking on the phone.
The kids are off from school and really just hanging around (my suggestions are met with looks of horror).
We anxiously await the last shipment of tile for the bathroom (two to three weeks), and the contractor is anxious to do the demo.
In the meantime, I think I might be itching for spring - I mean if it's not going to be an interesting winter then they should just cancel it.
I'm not particularly inspired here either - I'm worrying a lot, about a lot of things, and no one wants to hear about that. Plus I think typing it out sort of validates the fear - so I'm going with that theory.
Want to go to the supermarket?
It's the thrill of the day...
They have opened a Starbucks in the supermarket where I go for our crappy, evil consumerist shopping...you can have a latte while you buy Cheetos. (And, in other news, I taste-tested Organi-puffs last week and Cheetos this week and there is no question. My insides will be orange for a few weeks.)
BLECH I said to myself last week when I spied this. It looks like horrible stuff.
White hot chocolate? My head spins at the thought. And the name? Insipid.
This week? SOLD OUT.
So, maybe you don't want to hire me for your marketing team.
WHAT'S THE POINT?
It's true. I have purchased Manwich sauce, in a can, to mix with organic beef.
Never in front of K, of course. But who is eating all these meats in cans?
Some of them look so scary...and they have a meat-in-a-can-during-wartime mentality about them. I just don't know.
K wants to know what this stuff is, who is buying it, and what they are using it for, because we like the flavors but have NO CLUE what we'd do with it.
And this stuff can't be good for you...
If I needed to buy meat in a can or shaved meat to save money, I think I'd give my kids a lot of pasta and find protein somewhere else. Shaved? Meat?
It would appear that this is where the stuffed animals go to die.
I like to use the self check-out lane because I've always wanted to be a supermarket check-out lady (sadly, I think this fantasy would also involve the eating of shaved meat).
It's tons of fun!
But you usually have to have someone come and fix the machine for you, which kind of defeats the whole diy thing, but WHATEVER.
We bring our own bags too.
I bought these -
and we have actually been remembering to bring them in from the car. You have no idea how pleased I am with myself to REMEMBER TO BRING THEM IN FROM THE CAR.
But I decided that the ads on the bags were too ugly.
So I changed them.
Comments
*shudder*
i hate the self checkout because the bagging area always gets jammed up.
white chocolate is gross. ipso facto...
and in pittsburgh, shaved is the preferred lunchmeat cut. ICK.
You take that Oscar Meyer shaved mesquite turkey breast, roll it up in a sundried tomato wrap with some fresh basil leaves, avocado, provolone and maybe some brown mustard and GET BACK TO ME.
is that frozen fruit used for smoothies? i wondered too!
and i as well, must vouch for the shaved meat. its pretty delicious. I might even have Badger's above recipe for lunch...if i can stop coughing enough to eat.
I agree with the "rest of winter" cancellation...we got one storm that brought enough to XC ski for one week...and now it's all melting away...what a bummer...
And...the supermarket self checkout? From the first day I laid eyes on the self checkout, I was in heaven. So. Much. Fun. And, the self checkout lady (inside the machine) is always so pleasant.
Love the bag re-deux. You are probably the hit of the market.
I hate grocery shopping. Hate, hate, hate.
-J.
Our local 'Whole Paycheck' has some really cool reuseable bags lately with all over prints like old fruit crates. Ree brought one into work last week and I was way jealous of it. Like you, the remembering is the tough part.
I too thought the same thing about the Half and Half...how on earth can it be Half and Half with no fat. I mean, come on people.
There is nothing sadder than rejected stuffed animals. The island of misfit toys. I bet they run around the store at night after it closes drinking all the White Hot chocolate.
and i, too, must admit to liking the shaved meat. (i accidentally finished that sentence at 'shaved me.' umm, that would be something entirely different and none of your business, lol.)
I wish we had Starbucks in our boring Aussie supermarkets. American supermarkets remind me of the old town squares. You can do almost anything there - banking, photo printing, coffee drinking. AND they are open 24 hours. Yep, Americans know how to make grocery shopping fun and extra productive ;)
The "no fat" half and half is a little like the tofu wieners or tofu sliced coldcuts... why would you buy something that looks like meat if you are a vegetarian...if it is not the vegetarians, then who is buying those things!
And I too am filled with pride when I remember to bring my environmentally friendly shopping bags into the shop!
I need to email you about my son and film editing. He thinks it might just be his calling, the role he was meant to play!
And yes, I do too have my own bag for shopping. Bag, because shops are so SMALL here that one bag is PLENTY.
Then when we go to "town" for the big one (which is still half the size of yours) we splurge on plastic shoppers!
Starbucks in a supermarket???? You are SPOILED.
White chocolate drink...bleah!
That maracuja/papaya stuff would be appreciated by F, he likes it a lot.
No half and half for me. It's ALL or NOTHING. So a fat free half and half, no thank you.
shaved meat. Not in France yet.
But close.
I like the detail you added on your sack. In France you MUST bring your own sacks. It became effective 2007.
As me how many times I have forgotten my sacks!!
I'm interested in those fruit purees, though...
What on earth is half and half? Half milk-half water? Or half milk-half cream? Or half milk-half toxic chemicals?
How many bags did you do that to? Before the green poly bags came out a few years ago, Coles did a range of calico bags for eco shopping. They were all boring beige though so I bought six and dyed each one a different colour. I still prefer them to my dozen poly green ones I now have.