A somewhat silly morning of errands
Jul. 18th, 2025 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterOverall I have been finding that signing myself up for 3 rowing practices per week is the right level of commitment for me. Part of this is because there are benefits to having a couple mornings a week where I have some time at home to do things like cook myself a hot breakfast and tackle small house and garden miscellanea.
While I ate breakfast this morning, S and I had a bit of conversation about meal plans for the upcoming week. At this very moment we have a fair amount of foodstuffs around the house, but didn't have any broccoli on hand in the event that it becomes time for me to mix up a batch of broccoli-chickpea burrito filling. Somehow or another, this conversation led to the idea to run up to the Farmer's India Market in the car, with side trips to the grocery co-op, sporting goods store, and hardware store, before dropping me off at work.
It was good to get these errands done, although ultimately it was a somewhat silly trip, because we weren't actually able to get any of the 3 items on our "Asian Grocery" list from the Farmer's India Market (good Japanese soy sauce, giant cans of hominy, Salsa Lizano). Not finding any Salsa Lizano was the most disappointing; we know of other places where we can get the other two items, but Salsa Lizano has historically been almost impossible to find on store shelves, and I was thrilled to find it at the Farmer's India Market last year.
Somehow or another, we still left the Farmer's India Market with an ample supply of various other enjoyable things, like mango-flavored Tang, frozen okra, pepper spread, and the good kind of sheep's milk feta. And we got broccoli and other items at the grocery co-op, so we're set on groceries for the week.
We also struck out on finding another swim buoy for S at the sporting-goods store at the mall, but did have lots of chances to marvel at how many arcades were there, plus all of the stores that somehow still exist all these decades later (Hot Topic! Newbury Comics!). Best of all, we probably won't have to go back to that mall again for a very long time.
So now the rest of today and the weekend can be devoted to other things.
While I ate breakfast this morning, S and I had a bit of conversation about meal plans for the upcoming week. At this very moment we have a fair amount of foodstuffs around the house, but didn't have any broccoli on hand in the event that it becomes time for me to mix up a batch of broccoli-chickpea burrito filling. Somehow or another, this conversation led to the idea to run up to the Farmer's India Market in the car, with side trips to the grocery co-op, sporting goods store, and hardware store, before dropping me off at work.
It was good to get these errands done, although ultimately it was a somewhat silly trip, because we weren't actually able to get any of the 3 items on our "Asian Grocery" list from the Farmer's India Market (good Japanese soy sauce, giant cans of hominy, Salsa Lizano). Not finding any Salsa Lizano was the most disappointing; we know of other places where we can get the other two items, but Salsa Lizano has historically been almost impossible to find on store shelves, and I was thrilled to find it at the Farmer's India Market last year.
Somehow or another, we still left the Farmer's India Market with an ample supply of various other enjoyable things, like mango-flavored Tang, frozen okra, pepper spread, and the good kind of sheep's milk feta. And we got broccoli and other items at the grocery co-op, so we're set on groceries for the week.
We also struck out on finding another swim buoy for S at the sporting-goods store at the mall, but did have lots of chances to marvel at how many arcades were there, plus all of the stores that somehow still exist all these decades later (Hot Topic! Newbury Comics!). Best of all, we probably won't have to go back to that mall again for a very long time.
So now the rest of today and the weekend can be devoted to other things.
