So, I'm going to bore you to death with details of my shopping expeditions today. Mainly because I"m trying to kill time....I need to take a shower because I smell like sweat and grossness, but in my haste to do a quick clean-up when coming home I ran the dishwasher. Whoops....now I gotta wait for it to run its course so I don't get stuck with a freezing cold shower.
Anyways, I had a couple hours to kill between taking some gym classes today - partially poor planning, partially the fact that if I go home, I can't leave again because Atticus gets mad. Yes, my dog runs my life. I know it.
So, Central Market is the local place to buy everything imaginable. It's a lot of local products, and they cater to every kind of diet out there. I've been there countless times, I've wandered the aisles in a daze, and each time I go I find new and cool things. And very expensive things. Very very expensive things.
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| Like this chai. I'm excited to try it. It's going to be a work treat. |
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| I have searched the entire ethnic section of Central Market several times over, each time unable to locate tahini. I even googled "where to find tahini at the grocery store", and each time they said the ethnic section. I finally asked. It was with the peanut butter. Yeah, no wonder I never found it, I never actually go to that section. |
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| I bought these for work. Long story. Jonathan, hopefully these fit my healthy requirement! |
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| The veganstoner, who has one of my favorite recipe sites, mentions this in a lot of his recipes. I never knew what it was, and was never interested enough to research it. Tonight while I was looking over the 30 different kinds of flour, I found it! Now I'll have to go back and find some recipes that take TVP. |
After Central Market, I had more time to kill, so I headed over to goodwill. There, among all the plates and cups and saucers, was an entire HUGE set of midnight sun. After looking them over, I discovered a couple things....#1 - the pricers at goodwill set aside two sets of regular bowls and didn't include them with the other sets. #2 - the rest of the stonewear was divided into 2 large sets - 24 & 28 pieces. The 24 piece set was labeled $24.99 for the set. The 28 piece set had no price. I had every single piece in both sets, except for set #2, the unpriced one...it had 2 sets of bowls that I didn't have. I would swear I looked over each piece in that set and couldn't find a price. So, I asked an employee, who brought over the manager. I explained I just wanted these two sets of bowls (not the ones that were over in another section), and while I would pay for the whole set, I just really wanted the bowls. She ended up looking for a price tag as well, and couldn't find one. So, she sold me the bowl sets for $3.99 each set.....
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| Wide brimmed very shallow soup bowls (i'm assuming) |
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| I should have taken a pic of these next to something else. These are big serving size bowls. |
looking these up on pfaltzgraff.com, I think the top bowls are "rim soup bowls", and retail for about $9.99 a bowl. The second set I *THINK* are pasta bowls,which retail for about $11.99 a bowl.
Ironically, when I got home and was loading the bowls into the dishwasher, I found the price tag on the very bottom bowl. $24.99 for the set. I don't feel bad. Not one bit. I don't need any more large plates, small plates, mugs, regular bowls, etc etc, but I think I want to go back in a few weeks to see if they're still there.
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| I also got these brand new shiny shoes. Mom - remember at top drawer I got those blue slip-on shoes and I was telling you about the brand "BC Shoes". These are also BC shoes!!! |
In other news...
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| The shirts I made for the 3 year old. The color is off due to the flash, but I think they're pretty fun. |
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| Received in the mail today. I'M OFFICIAL!!! |
Hoping tomorrow to cook a bunch, including making vegan cream cheese!
Do your little bit of good where you are. It's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
~ Desmond Tutu
