Gobble Gobble - Hope Everyone had a Thankful Thanksgiving!
No long winded blog today - but merely a compilation or medley if you will of flotsam and jetsam I've picked up over the past week. (I will forever think of the Lionel Richie Medley we played in 7th Grade band when I hear the word 'medley'. Yes, Lionel Richie.)
- Hot rollers UP! How did I not know this? I consider myself very versed in hair and hair 'dos'. Seriously, I might have to be stripped of my girly girl status. But according to Allure online - to get that tousled look - it's hot rollers - rolled UP!
- Applegate Farms bacon is a YES with the kids and is nitrate free! First nitrate free pork product that passed the test! Yay! I know that the pediatrician wouldn't be thrilled that bacon, oh and sausage (turkey sausage) are the main protein components of my kids diet..
And I just have to shout out locally to my 'boot guy'. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it when you you are pleasantly surprised at the quality of someones workmanship. My beloved Frye boots have new heels and a whole new lease on life. J&J Shoe Repair - Thank You! Job well done!
Lastly, my random observation of the day: It is a bit concerning to be sitting at a stop light only to look over and see that the car next to you is being driven by an elderly gentleman, wearing an oxygen tube. His wife didn't look very thrilled either. I'm just sayin.
Onward!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Costco Food Sample
I am one of those Costco shoppers. I buy all those bulk staples that a family needs. I usually end up buying things I don't need too, but that's the whole point of it right?
However I really do NOT like going to Costco. It's like people just leave their brains in their cars before they hike across the parking lot. Or Costco attracts hordes of folks who are missing common sense. I'm still not sure which yet.
I've tried going at many different days and times - thinking that I'll eventually find the 'sweet' spot. So while Tuesday morning at 10A might be a lot less crowded, it's the slow moving Grandma and Grandpa set paired with the small restaurant business owner. Not a good combo.
I am strategic in my shopping there. I NEVER go down the 'gauntlet' if I can help it. (i.e. the middle aisle where people just stop their carts willy nilly, completely blocking everyone and everything. Completely unaware, or purposely unaware of their surroundings. Drives me NUTS! My husband thinks I'm crazy when I scream at him 'no no!' 'not that way' if we go shopping together. But I have a STRATEGY! Apparently he needs a field briefing before we go in...
But what just gets me the most... is the free food sample days. People will LINE UP down an aisle, crowded around a hair net wearing woman screeching the attributes of whatever foodstuff she is hawking... and they WAIT! You're waiting for that tiny sliver of quesadilla? For that fruit juice sample? You desperately want to have that meat ball? That you'll wait in a LINE for it? It boggles my mind. Am I alone in this? You're so starving that you absolutely just HAVE to have that sample and will elbow a 4 year old out of the way for it? Okay....
So fess up - have you hovered around a hot plate next to the frozen foods aisle? You realize you can get a $1.50 hot dog after check out.. right?
However I really do NOT like going to Costco. It's like people just leave their brains in their cars before they hike across the parking lot. Or Costco attracts hordes of folks who are missing common sense. I'm still not sure which yet.
I've tried going at many different days and times - thinking that I'll eventually find the 'sweet' spot. So while Tuesday morning at 10A might be a lot less crowded, it's the slow moving Grandma and Grandpa set paired with the small restaurant business owner. Not a good combo.
I am strategic in my shopping there. I NEVER go down the 'gauntlet' if I can help it. (i.e. the middle aisle where people just stop their carts willy nilly, completely blocking everyone and everything. Completely unaware, or purposely unaware of their surroundings. Drives me NUTS! My husband thinks I'm crazy when I scream at him 'no no!' 'not that way' if we go shopping together. But I have a STRATEGY! Apparently he needs a field briefing before we go in...
But what just gets me the most... is the free food sample days. People will LINE UP down an aisle, crowded around a hair net wearing woman screeching the attributes of whatever foodstuff she is hawking... and they WAIT! You're waiting for that tiny sliver of quesadilla? For that fruit juice sample? You desperately want to have that meat ball? That you'll wait in a LINE for it? It boggles my mind. Am I alone in this? You're so starving that you absolutely just HAVE to have that sample and will elbow a 4 year old out of the way for it? Okay....
So fess up - have you hovered around a hot plate next to the frozen foods aisle? You realize you can get a $1.50 hot dog after check out.. right?
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