Grocery Shopping
Grocery shopping is horrendously overwhelming and I hate it. At some point I do need to manage to make it inside a TraderJoe's, though, for the very simple reason that I need pumpkin butter-- every year I get a jar of pumpkin butter at Halloween which I stick on a shelf until Purim, whereupon I use it for hamantaschen. I refuse to let the pandemic steal my hamantaschen.
I did not, however, do that *today*, because unlike most grocery stores, Trader Joe's is doing the "line up outside so we can limit customers" thing and the line at the one I was near was *really long*. I might try combining it with the "get up early to go vote while everyone else is at work" errand, which is the other thing I didn't do today because the line was really long. There are two more weeks of early voting plus actual election day; I can do it sometime that *isn't* the first day of early voting and therefore incredibly crowded. Especially since my work schedule is irregular which means I can do it when everyone else is at work.
(The bright spots of the day were sitting around a fire in![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
benign_cremator's yard and finding cranberries while on the terrible grocery shopping trip. It is, at last, the season. I shall make cobbler later, and torte, and potentially sugared cranberries although those are more fun when you soak them in alcohol first.)
An observation on the cold weather: my body appears to have shifted into "STARVING! ALL! THE! TIME!" mode.
I did not, however, do that *today*, because unlike most grocery stores, Trader Joe's is doing the "line up outside so we can limit customers" thing and the line at the one I was near was *really long*. I might try combining it with the "get up early to go vote while everyone else is at work" errand, which is the other thing I didn't do today because the line was really long. There are two more weeks of early voting plus actual election day; I can do it sometime that *isn't* the first day of early voting and therefore incredibly crowded. Especially since my work schedule is irregular which means I can do it when everyone else is at work.
(The bright spots of the day were sitting around a fire in
benign_cremator's yard and finding cranberries while on the terrible grocery shopping trip. It is, at last, the season. I shall make cobbler later, and torte, and potentially sugared cranberries although those are more fun when you soak them in alcohol first.)An observation on the cold weather: my body appears to have shifted into "STARVING! ALL! THE! TIME!" mode.
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Right. TJ's tends to be horribly crowded on weekends, so Kate and I have largely stopped trying to go then. Even Friday afternoon (which she tends to have off) is much better, and mid-afternoon, mid-week is generally pretty calm.