I was having a bit of an existential fit this morning: the work I'm doing, while enjoyable, is not necessarily the work I want to be doing. It is, however, the work that allows me to pay the bills and feed the family, so while it is important to acknowledge the general state of 'meh' that one faces when sitting down to write yet another article about dynamic exhibiting at tradeshows, it's also important to get over it fairly quickly.
However, today I just couldn't shake the schlumpf.
Enter the shopping cart. Hey, every family needs groceries, right? And there comes a time when it is only meet and proper to pay the phone bill, and that would be today, before the nice people decide to take their dial tone back.
So after lunch, into the car the kids go. We drive to town and whammo, buy more food than I've brought home in a long time. It's been a long spell between checks, so we were out of darn near everything -- we went to Aldis (a deep discount store) and stocked up and up and up some more. I love Aldis: they're the type of place that sells things you can't get anywhere else, because they've been discontinued or weren't great sellers. Who knew the demand for Miso Pea Pasta would be so low? We're rather adventurous eaters -- the poorer we are, the braver we tend to be! So we've had some fabulous meals from this place. For $60 I filled the trunk. Then it was off to Hannafords for produce.
I'll tell you what. The garden had better work, and I need to get veggie and fruit preservation down cold. Prices are through the roof and if the weather continues to destroy crops, they aren't going to come down any. $2.50 for a bunch of celery!
(I realize that these prices may not be high: my friends who live in metropolitan areas laugh at my sticker shock all the time. But for this region, that's astronomically high!)
In an odd offset, though, asparagus was 69 cents a pound, and sweet potatoes 19 cents! We bought lots and lots of sweet potatoes: so much so that I've got to figure out what I'm going to do with them all. Any suggestions?
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