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Today for the first time since I have lived on my own I walked into the grocery store and grabbed a cart. Not a basket which is small and portable and therefore limits the amount of stuff I can buy because once I need to use two hands to lift that bad boy I know I'm done....but a cart.
Earlier I decided, in that half-assed way I make decisions, that I was going to have my groceries delivered. Never mind that I always kind of secretly mock the people in front of me who are having their groceries delivered and who are not either elderly or handicapped or that it costs ten dollars and is therefore a fortune in my tiny kingdom, I was going to do it! I was going to make someone else do all the heavy lifting! So I wheeled my little cart around (it was a mini one) and gleefully threw whatever I wanted in not thinking about how heavy those three cans of beans or two cartons of soup were because I wasn't going to be carrying it! I trundled around, decided that, leaving aside the convenience of not having to carry anything while shopping, a cart in a crowded urban grocery store is a terribly inconvenient thing and then walked up to the cash.
And then I chickened out. Ten dollars for delivery?!? What was I thinking? Who has that kind of cash to throw around? That's...half a CD or a lunch at work since I was too lazy to make and/or bring my own, or 4.5 coffees at Starbucks or two movie rentals. But it was too late to lose some of that extra baggage so instead I walked home. With three over-stuffed bags of groceries, each of which probably weighed....I don't know, a lot? My arms are now jelly and I need a nap.
We had snow a couple of days ago. It made me gleeful. I suspect I am the only one in the city who is excited that winter is kind of here already and it's not even November. For whatever reason I love snow. Sure it's wet and cold and hard to walk in and a vehicular nuisance but it's pretty. And nothing is better than a little pretty after a long, stupid day in retail. It was a pretty major snowfall as well considering it was the first of the year so when I woke the next morning everything was still wet and fresh. Today it's almost all gone as the sun shines down on my concrete jungle. I'm looking forward to the ones that stay. I'm going into hibernation this year and emerging on the other side ready for my summer of weddings, awkward social gatherings and (fingers crossed) new career paths.
Earlier I decided, in that half-assed way I make decisions, that I was going to have my groceries delivered. Never mind that I always kind of secretly mock the people in front of me who are having their groceries delivered and who are not either elderly or handicapped or that it costs ten dollars and is therefore a fortune in my tiny kingdom, I was going to do it! I was going to make someone else do all the heavy lifting! So I wheeled my little cart around (it was a mini one) and gleefully threw whatever I wanted in not thinking about how heavy those three cans of beans or two cartons of soup were because I wasn't going to be carrying it! I trundled around, decided that, leaving aside the convenience of not having to carry anything while shopping, a cart in a crowded urban grocery store is a terribly inconvenient thing and then walked up to the cash.
And then I chickened out. Ten dollars for delivery?!? What was I thinking? Who has that kind of cash to throw around? That's...half a CD or a lunch at work since I was too lazy to make and/or bring my own, or 4.5 coffees at Starbucks or two movie rentals. But it was too late to lose some of that extra baggage so instead I walked home. With three over-stuffed bags of groceries, each of which probably weighed....I don't know, a lot? My arms are now jelly and I need a nap.
We had snow a couple of days ago. It made me gleeful. I suspect I am the only one in the city who is excited that winter is kind of here already and it's not even November. For whatever reason I love snow. Sure it's wet and cold and hard to walk in and a vehicular nuisance but it's pretty. And nothing is better than a little pretty after a long, stupid day in retail. It was a pretty major snowfall as well considering it was the first of the year so when I woke the next morning everything was still wet and fresh. Today it's almost all gone as the sun shines down on my concrete jungle. I'm looking forward to the ones that stay. I'm going into hibernation this year and emerging on the other side ready for my summer of weddings, awkward social gatherings and (fingers crossed) new career paths.