Apple, apple, apple, GOOSE
Actually, no goose. Just apples. Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, if I arrange my commute so it goes through Union Square instead of 6th Ave, there's a farmer's market on my way to work. And right next to the subway, is this stall that smells amazing and sells the most delicious apple cider donuts I've ever had. ($2 for a bag of 3.)
Now I want to support my farmer's market anyway, because I'm all in favour of local produce and business, but also because they are awesome and green and socially conscious. Did you know they now accept foodstamps? And have irrevocably proven that if people on foodstamps are given the option of getting good, fresh produce of course they will? I love them for many reasons.
Not the least of which is $1 3lb bags of apples, apple cider donuts and this morning? Half a gallon of cider. Because I couldn't help myself.
Then this afternoon, for lunch thunderemerald and I wandered over to Jamba Juice for lunch because they're having a $1 smoothie or oatmeal coupon this week through the 19th (I highly recommend it) and I had an apple cinnamon oatmeal thing which tasted like the inside of pie. It was so good. Then we wandered up through the farmer's market again and marvelled at how fabulous our city sometimes is. With the help of a cup of hot pear cider with cinnamon. By the time we found the stand with the maple ginger candy, we were too done to invest. (I'd gotten more donuts and some pumpkin bread by this point too.) Next week!
It really needs to become part of my lunchtime routine. And in the summer we need to do some kind of Union Square Lunch thing.
Peace and fruit, fruit and peace, dude. I make this psa every winter, but eat fruit my darlings. It makes you happier.
In other news a couple of my friends are going through really hard, stressful times right now (defined as "can't be fixed by application of fruit to maw"), so send good thoughts their anonymous ways. Also this is your last chance to vote for Nina Kiriki Hoffman over at Tor.com's Best SFF Novel of the Decade poll. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/01/best-sff-novels-of-the-decade-readers-poll
It is possible, I should, at some point soon, write an article about the ways in which Nina Kiriki Hoffman has been a life and game changer for me. I want to be her, I want to marry her prose, I want to wallow in her writing forever. But I have a list of things I should blog about and instead I generally feel like saying BLURG ARG BRAINS I EAT YOUR FACE APPLES. So perhaps that'll wait for a while and you should take it as said and GO BUY HER BOOKS RIGHT NOW A LOT.
Now I want to support my farmer's market anyway, because I'm all in favour of local produce and business, but also because they are awesome and green and socially conscious. Did you know they now accept foodstamps? And have irrevocably proven that if people on foodstamps are given the option of getting good, fresh produce of course they will? I love them for many reasons.
Not the least of which is $1 3lb bags of apples, apple cider donuts and this morning? Half a gallon of cider. Because I couldn't help myself.
Then this afternoon, for lunch thunderemerald and I wandered over to Jamba Juice for lunch because they're having a $1 smoothie or oatmeal coupon this week through the 19th (I highly recommend it) and I had an apple cinnamon oatmeal thing which tasted like the inside of pie. It was so good. Then we wandered up through the farmer's market again and marvelled at how fabulous our city sometimes is. With the help of a cup of hot pear cider with cinnamon. By the time we found the stand with the maple ginger candy, we were too done to invest. (I'd gotten more donuts and some pumpkin bread by this point too.) Next week!
It really needs to become part of my lunchtime routine. And in the summer we need to do some kind of Union Square Lunch thing.
Peace and fruit, fruit and peace, dude. I make this psa every winter, but eat fruit my darlings. It makes you happier.
In other news a couple of my friends are going through really hard, stressful times right now (defined as "can't be fixed by application of fruit to maw"), so send good thoughts their anonymous ways. Also this is your last chance to vote for Nina Kiriki Hoffman over at Tor.com's Best SFF Novel of the Decade poll. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/01/best-sff-novels-of-the-decade-readers-poll
It is possible, I should, at some point soon, write an article about the ways in which Nina Kiriki Hoffman has been a life and game changer for me. I want to be her, I want to marry her prose, I want to wallow in her writing forever. But I have a list of things I should blog about and instead I generally feel like saying BLURG ARG BRAINS I EAT YOUR FACE APPLES. So perhaps that'll wait for a while and you should take it as said and GO BUY HER BOOKS RIGHT NOW A LOT.