Shopping Cart Rally!
Day 30
Weight: 212 lbs
Thought for the Day: Whole Foods Fun!
I was allowed to go shopping for groceries today after I went swimming at the YMCA. Today was 'working knowledge day' where little things delight me or bother me. I was paying attention to little things that were fun, the weather has been beautiful these last few days.
Fun thing: Drying your swimsuit in the the "swimsuit dryer" ~ just place your swim shorts in the container and press down the lid for 4 seconds, it whirls and burps and voila! Your suit is dryer than when you placed it in there!
Bothersome thing: Showering before you do in the pool (kinda like washing the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher) both are stupid and repetitious. But what really bothers me are the plastic sheets of walkway they put around the pool. It's just enough to bother your feet, but not enough to cut or bruise them. Whoever made that stuff is sadistic.
I like going to Whole Foods, since despite leaving with a grocery bill bigger than a small countries budget I get to feel good about buying stuff to eat. They charge an arm and a leg (and often other body parts too), but I leave feeling clean, wholesome and organic. A freshness sweeps over me.
Fun thing: Driving the shopping cart like a push-go-cart. I put one foot on the bar at the back between the wheels (carefully placing the majority of heavy food upfront so I don't do a wheelie) then glide along the parking lot using my other foot to wheel me along. Great way to get groceries from the store to the car quickly and effectively.
Bothersome thing: You get 3 lousy cents for bringing your own shopping bags into the store. San Francisco just recently banned non-biodegradable plastic bags at the stores there, why can't they make that universal and give something like a quarter federally funded subsidy for each bag I bring. I used 7 that should be: $1.75 not the measly $0.21 cents.
From the San Francisco Chronicle: Two years ago, San Francisco officials considered imposing a 17-cent tax on petroleum-based plastic bags before reaching a deal with the California Grocers Association. The agreement called for large supermarkets to reduce by 10 million the number of bags given to shoppers in 2006. The grocers association said it cut back by 7.6 million, but city officials called that figure unreliable and unverifiable because of poor data supplied by markets."
Well I escaped with a $117.08 bill (including my $0.21 savings. That included buying Tulips for Rose and some wild caught salmon since she craves fish every once in a while and has done a wonderful job of keeping the same diet as me.
Weight: 212 lbs
Thought for the Day: Whole Foods Fun!
I was allowed to go shopping for groceries today after I went swimming at the YMCA. Today was 'working knowledge day' where little things delight me or bother me. I was paying attention to little things that were fun, the weather has been beautiful these last few days.
Fun thing: Drying your swimsuit in the the "swimsuit dryer" ~ just place your swim shorts in the container and press down the lid for 4 seconds, it whirls and burps and voila! Your suit is dryer than when you placed it in there!
Bothersome thing: Showering before you do in the pool (kinda like washing the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher) both are stupid and repetitious. But what really bothers me are the plastic sheets of walkway they put around the pool. It's just enough to bother your feet, but not enough to cut or bruise them. Whoever made that stuff is sadistic.
I like going to Whole Foods, since despite leaving with a grocery bill bigger than a small countries budget I get to feel good about buying stuff to eat. They charge an arm and a leg (and often other body parts too), but I leave feeling clean, wholesome and organic. A freshness sweeps over me.
Fun thing: Driving the shopping cart like a push-go-cart. I put one foot on the bar at the back between the wheels (carefully placing the majority of heavy food upfront so I don't do a wheelie) then glide along the parking lot using my other foot to wheel me along. Great way to get groceries from the store to the car quickly and effectively.
Bothersome thing: You get 3 lousy cents for bringing your own shopping bags into the store. San Francisco just recently banned non-biodegradable plastic bags at the stores there, why can't they make that universal and give something like a quarter federally funded subsidy for each bag I bring. I used 7 that should be: $1.75 not the measly $0.21 cents.
From the San Francisco Chronicle: Two years ago, San Francisco officials considered imposing a 17-cent tax on petroleum-based plastic bags before reaching a deal with the California Grocers Association. The agreement called for large supermarkets to reduce by 10 million the number of bags given to shoppers in 2006. The grocers association said it cut back by 7.6 million, but city officials called that figure unreliable and unverifiable because of poor data supplied by markets."
Well I escaped with a $117.08 bill (including my $0.21 savings. That included buying Tulips for Rose and some wild caught salmon since she craves fish every once in a while and has done a wonderful job of keeping the same diet as me.