Decided to forego moping and practice retail therapy

[serene]

(And can I say that it's nice to be employed and have money for groceries? It hasn't been all that long since I couldn't say that.)



Got my ass off my chair and put on the leopard-print dress. Fixed my hair up pretty. Hopped in the car and drove to the organic grocery. Bought a buncha cool stuff, including a watermelon. Wait -- where's the watermelon? I don't remember bringing it up.

*goes to look for the watermelon* Ah, in the sink.

Anyway, also bought tempeh and tofu and seitan and tandoori noodles and salad stuff and potatoes (red and sweet) and lemons and a tomato and an avocado and two carrots and some other stuff I can't remember. It was *so* fun.

Attempted (unsuccessfully) to flirt with the lovely six-foot-tall woman I let cut in line. Drove home in my Privilege (also known as the Corolla) and now I'm sitting at the computer eating (mediocre) tandoori noodles and salad and drinking orange juice.

Clothes shopping only feels good to me if I have plenty of money (preferably other people's money) to spend. Food shopping *always* feels good.

Comments

[needlegrrl]

yay! a woman after my own heart. I *love* food shopping. :) it's always fun, especially if you can get neat and interesting things.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Now if only I can figure out how to come up with $75 every time I feel like splurging on food. :-)

[needlegrrl]

well, yeah, there's that. :) i tend to go - i spent how much on these two bags of groceries? and the health food stores are the worst, because they have so many more attractive things than the regular grocery store does.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

WTF are tandoori noodles?!

[bitty.livejournal.com]

yummy sounding?

[lcohen]

parker principle works again!!!

(note to trinker: the parker principle was identified by one Jason Henry Parker, usually of soc.bi, and states that if you wait long enough, someone will ask the question that you wanted to ask and you won't have to.)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Calm down, darlin'. Just noodles with tandoori sauce on them (they throw in some veggies and some "unchicken", but I got them for the sauce, which I love on seitan, but which fell flat on noodles.)

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Ah. Hrm. Will have to try them when I'm back in the land of people who habitually drive over the speed limit.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Parker Principle. I like it!

I can usually be counted on to be the person asking that "question everyone else is not wanting to ask for fear of being thought stupid". I is an information junkie.

[lcohen]

hmmm--"tandoori sauce" doesn't form a picture (taste?) for me----i think tandoori, i think "style of cooking" not "sauce." is it that same thing that turns tandoori chicken red? anyway, i'm sorry that it wasn't as yummy as hoped.

one of ayana's and my "order delivered food from fairly frequently" restaurants has a noodle dish that, when the chef we like does it, is addictive and i think even vegan. it's noodles, peanut sauce, a little bit of chili sauce to give it more zip, sesame seeds and green onions. too yummy and absolutely unreproduceable at home thus far (ask me how i know).

[lcohen]

well if you hadn't asked, i would have--no point worrying about looking stupid this late in life, right?

(this is actually a pet peeve of mine when i supervise people--when someone isn't sure how to do something or what i want or whatever and they guess instead of asking--and then i have to wait for them to redo whatever it was--just for them to avoid looking "stupid." like doing the whole thing wrong and having to redo it looks intelligent. i sure hope my boss feels the same way--i ask him to be more specific about what he wants all the time ;-) .