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Jun. 1st, 2015 12:53 pmI spent a lot of this weekend being domestic, including three loads of laundry on Friday night. Saturday was grocery shopping day and yesterday was clean out the fridge day, which pretty much meant throw out a third of the contents of the fridge, cook another third, and leave the last third (condiments, some of Saturday's veggies, and smoked salmon) alone.
I was a bottomless pit this weekend, but mostly it was because if it was a fruit or a vegetable, I wanted it. On Saturday I ate half a cantaloupe, a pound of cherries, a pound of strawberries and a very large bowl of arugula. (Which is what it was after I ate the burrata off the top of it. Burrata, while exactly what I wanted, turned out to be disappointing in terms of being a large number of points for not enough quantity to make me happy.) On Sunday I ate another pound of strawberries, another bowl of arugula and an entire head of roasted cauliflower. At least I expected the cauliflower; every time I make that, I end up eating all of it at once when it cools off enough. And yesterday was a good day to roast things, anyway, since the weather was cold and soggy. I now also have two pounds of roasted grape tomatoes, and what I really want to put them in is a pound of pasta and a jar of alfredo sauce, but that wouldn't be a good idea.
I also started the Great Work-Appropriate Summer Shoes Quest again yesterday. The current list of what happens when I walk home from work in any given sort of shoes goes like this:
- Tevas: horrible big-toe-knuckle blisters
- Clarks sandals, 2 pairs: semi-horrible heel and under-ankle-bone blisters
- Clarks Mary Janes: blister on top of my right fourth toe
- Brooks sneakers: heel blisters (gotten around by wearing expensive running socks)
So, Zappos is going to be my friend for a while. Probably the UPS Store is, too.
Speaking of stores, I was mildly disturbed on Friday to find that both the Walgreens in Coolidge Corner and the Staples at Harvard & Comm Ave are going away. The Walgreens is the less convenient disappearance (I don't WANNA go all the way to Aspinwall Ave!) and it's been there for ages, and I hope something else is going in there that isn't a drugstore because it won't survive given the 2 CVS stores on the same block. The Staples probably didn't need to be where it is, but I worry about what (if anything) it will be replaced with. There's already the ex-Marty's on the other corner that was supposed to be a Tedeschi's as of last fall and is still empty. That corner doesn't need two large empty retail spaces. File under "If I ran the universe..."
I was a bottomless pit this weekend, but mostly it was because if it was a fruit or a vegetable, I wanted it. On Saturday I ate half a cantaloupe, a pound of cherries, a pound of strawberries and a very large bowl of arugula. (Which is what it was after I ate the burrata off the top of it. Burrata, while exactly what I wanted, turned out to be disappointing in terms of being a large number of points for not enough quantity to make me happy.) On Sunday I ate another pound of strawberries, another bowl of arugula and an entire head of roasted cauliflower. At least I expected the cauliflower; every time I make that, I end up eating all of it at once when it cools off enough. And yesterday was a good day to roast things, anyway, since the weather was cold and soggy. I now also have two pounds of roasted grape tomatoes, and what I really want to put them in is a pound of pasta and a jar of alfredo sauce, but that wouldn't be a good idea.
I also started the Great Work-Appropriate Summer Shoes Quest again yesterday. The current list of what happens when I walk home from work in any given sort of shoes goes like this:
- Tevas: horrible big-toe-knuckle blisters
- Clarks sandals, 2 pairs: semi-horrible heel and under-ankle-bone blisters
- Clarks Mary Janes: blister on top of my right fourth toe
- Brooks sneakers: heel blisters (gotten around by wearing expensive running socks)
So, Zappos is going to be my friend for a while. Probably the UPS Store is, too.
Speaking of stores, I was mildly disturbed on Friday to find that both the Walgreens in Coolidge Corner and the Staples at Harvard & Comm Ave are going away. The Walgreens is the less convenient disappearance (I don't WANNA go all the way to Aspinwall Ave!) and it's been there for ages, and I hope something else is going in there that isn't a drugstore because it won't survive given the 2 CVS stores on the same block. The Staples probably didn't need to be where it is, but I worry about what (if anything) it will be replaced with. There's already the ex-Marty's on the other corner that was supposed to be a Tedeschi's as of last fall and is still empty. That corner doesn't need two large empty retail spaces. File under "If I ran the universe..."
