Yesterday, I got fancy for lunch. Diced beef with sautéed onions and melted Provolone cheese on a good quality sub roll. With both dill and bread&butter pickles and a bowl of diced heirloom tomato on the side. And a salad. And read the newspaper while eating it.
Started laundry and then went out on errands. First I thought of the best path and order. Some things I needed were perishable, so they had to be the last stop.
So, glasses first. A lens popped out (2nd time in a month). The place resets them for free, but there is something about this frame that seems unfriendly. From there, that gave me the most direct path to PetSmart. I needed Marley's kidney-care diet food. Bought a 24 case each of the 4 flavors he dislikes least. Poor guy, but it keeps him healthier. And once a day (of 6 meals) I give him regular food. He deserves it.
From there, it was across the street to the Safeway. I have a lot of home-made main meals in the freezer, but I was out of fresh fruit and low on fresh veggies. It's weird, but the intersection allows me to go from PetSmart to Safeway, but not the other way around.
From Safeway (with nothing perishable) to Walmart. There are some things Walmart sells at 3/4 the price of Safeway, and I have that pretty much memorized. Milk, cat litter, kleenex, pens, canned stuff, etc.
Left the house at 3:30 and got home at 5:30. This town is a permanent traffic congestion. A commuter hub in 3 directions. A bedroom town for commuters going to and back from Washington DC. But I've learned when the stores are least busy, so that sort of balances out all the slow traffic. I would move, but it seems such a hassle. I'm on a quiet dead-end street and there is no home-owners association (by "grand-fathered" regulation). And I have too much clutter.
Took a half hour to put all the purchased stuff away. Started another load of laundry. Fed The Mews again. Turned on the TV to listen (too busy to watch) to the Univ of Maryland women's and men's basketball games (they followed each other).
Cleaned the litter boxes of course. Another 20 minutes...
Started making dinner. I'm not very fast at that. A lot of food prep time involved in my meals and I sure like a good dinner. When my elderly Dad stayed with me in his declining years he said after a couple weeks, "You make Sunday Dinner every night". Yes I do. I like to cook.
All that time adds up. I ate dinner at 9 pm, LOL!
2 comments:
Just 'living' takes a lot of time and thought, and who ever realised as a child that adulthood would just be thousands and thousands of days trying to answer the question, 'What's for dinner?'
Megan (who doesn't like cooking)
Sydney, Australia
I had friends whose Moms had specific foods for each day of the week. Tuesday was pork chop day, Friday was fish day, etc. Sure saved the Mom a lot of planning. On the other hand I LOVE to cook and consider what to make each night differently.
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