LOL someone else brave enough to admit the wanting to be that fresh flower person but doesn't want to go through the hassle of being a fresh flower person!
Shout out to consulting the NYT Cooking app while shopping. It feels like consulting Encyclopedia Brittanica in the middle of a marathon. Totally impossible. Too much immediacy in the shopping environment, but yet we try.
When I still had my NYT subscription I couldn't afford to upgrade to the expanded access for the cooking. So it would only show me the mouth-watering, life-changing description of the recipe and then hit me with the paywall at the ingredient list. I'm not trying to throw shade on anyone lucky enough to be able to afford full-access to all the content (I couldn't have ever in good faith made a choice between Book Review and Cooking nor would it have been helpful to fantasize about somehow funds magically appearing providing access to both). Luckily the "objective, both-sides" approach NYT have been using to send their actual journalism straight down the shitter ended all of my suffering related to any of their content. Now I use the money to pay for a couple favorite substack subscriptions and just read The Guardian. My Costco membership expired and I can't decide if renewing it will actually save us money or not. It mostly didn't seem to, but then again I did find Matcha Lindnt truffles when they were on closeout for $3 and ate myself sick. I'd been paying full price once a month while they were there because I made the mistake of buying one bag the first time I saw them. I feel queasy just thinking about them so hopefully that's one lesson learned. My life isn't terrible, and I try to always remember that. Whether Costco is helpful to me in this struggle is still unclear.
Appreciate you using the s word, person who loves New Amsterdam. They changed the name for people like you--so I hear. Em dashes are all the rage now in journalism. To tell a cheap basterd, that I don't care what the tenth one is. I don't care who is in it. I don't care if there's a rumor the man liked feet. I saw the candid photograph online because he wanted it to be seen. (Him in public buying regular movies when the dirty ones are on display for no Earthly reason.
I read "d-bag" and nothing seems to confirm or deny that when a woman wants a thing to be clean--she has device(s) to do so. #ReleaseTheKevinSmithCut
Love Costco, but very relatable. Saturday is my Costco day for life reasons and sometimes it’s like... how long can we wait before we HAVE TO go? It’s a *whole thing* to go there.
I only go to Costco when I have a list and can get there within 15 minutes of opening. Otherwise my bank account and mental health take 1-2 months to recover.
Hmm, as a shift worker of 37.5 hours by working 6 or 7 days a week---no idea how the man did it, but I swear it works. I don't care when you come in. If someone knows how to help you find something--they want to help you find it, and someone in the store knows where it is. But if you want to shop like you are a lumberjack feeding a village. Hey, Hot Mulligan is pretty special (the lead singer fell trees in the Midwest, whateva).
Do you get the cheap pie near opening time to eat in your car alone instead of crying? Why else do you exist? To bloviate? Pick a different level and excell with ease. The ease the weasel does not have at an easel. (I may not be technically literate. Did you notice?)
I have tried to go at various different times and on different days, and it always seems the exact same level of fairly busy. Except for weekends, which feel like the seventh circle of hell.
And yet! I love Costco and I’m not afraid to say it.
Noooo I think it might just cost me money? It is always bizarrely close to the same large amount of money no matter what we buy, and has been for years. We don’t go all that often (also because: chaos).
Ah, beau of other origins for the honorific. I had a giant pock marked confused toddler teaching me quote unquote Junior Year English. "Because it is my name"-Mr. Wedemeyer. Stay safe.(If he reads this, I know was going to anyway. That's the "clean joke" that gets me out of asking Missus Janie: have you ever met an alcoholic, "I can't live without al co hole .#ClassOfWhoCares
Jeez kid, I told my older brother about the most beautiful conception of Bodshittivata's earned experience to re-birth of benefit and he took it on the chin like a man. Now he is not in the "Land of the Living" so to speak.
"Mature beyond my years." No, I know my age and I act how I think. Sometimes feelings are involved, and PC woke Grammar Authorities want me to care, LoL.
(H E double hockey sticks was explored by my man Adam Sandler in "Little Nicky" it's for boys psyched to see PG-13 with the bros. It literally doesn't work and other way and that's why: go in blind and have a good time. Do you have a 13 year old son? Hahaha, do you want one? I'm sorry. The Blackness of my humor is a result of the circles under my eyes (both sides, huh) and if I go "Blue Comedy" I regret it, and I'd appreciate not being called on the carpet like a domesticated creature punished for the nature of it's existing for that it exists at all.
I like Tide. I like the giant jug like I'm ripping off the store, and I like my special little basket to carry it. Because "dry cleaning" is gross. "Ironing is disgusting. And I have digital cinematographic evidence of such a thing."
Oh god, this is giving me PTSD flashbacks to a former job where, before they started offering business delivery (this was early/mid-2000s) I had to go with a coworker who drove (everyone did but me) and get our office snacks/drinks every month. Any store big and crowded enough to drive a car in makes me want to curl up and die (see also: IKEA), so I was very mission oriented about getting the list items and getting the hell out, but the coworkers were like toddlers with their constant distraction and demands "Ooooh can we have this? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease??" It was one of the worst parts of that job for the first couple of years until, blessedly, Business Delivery became a thing!
I used to get very specific candles at ikea, and it felt like such a transgression to go in through the check out area and beeline to these boxes of candles and just bypass their whole planned circuit. It did feel like a win.
Charleston, WV is apparently getting a Costco next year. I don’t know if I’m brave enough. I went one time in the 16 years I lived in Louisville and felt ill prepared. I’ll hafta remember your tips if I brave it!
Having just been to Costco yesterday, this is the perfect description of a Costco trip. On par with Paul's Werner Hertzog description of a Trader Joes parking lot.
Protop: spray your produce with hydrogen peroxide and have tje fruit out of the fridge. That keeps it from rotting or molding and let's it sit and ripen to its full potential. Ripen pineapples upside Down. Pears take forever, but worth, trust me. Wrap unbrùìsed apples in news paper and store. Mabngoes take a while, but worth. Smell and feel. FYI many things to say about this, sorry, it's my jam.
Relatable.
I can go without groceries but not sparkling water. That’s when it’s time for shopping
Understood.
LOL someone else brave enough to admit the wanting to be that fresh flower person but doesn't want to go through the hassle of being a fresh flower person!
I’m plagued with streamlining my future.
Shout out to consulting the NYT Cooking app while shopping. It feels like consulting Encyclopedia Brittanica in the middle of a marathon. Totally impossible. Too much immediacy in the shopping environment, but yet we try.
Well put. Sometimes we monetarily lose our minds.
When I still had my NYT subscription I couldn't afford to upgrade to the expanded access for the cooking. So it would only show me the mouth-watering, life-changing description of the recipe and then hit me with the paywall at the ingredient list. I'm not trying to throw shade on anyone lucky enough to be able to afford full-access to all the content (I couldn't have ever in good faith made a choice between Book Review and Cooking nor would it have been helpful to fantasize about somehow funds magically appearing providing access to both). Luckily the "objective, both-sides" approach NYT have been using to send their actual journalism straight down the shitter ended all of my suffering related to any of their content. Now I use the money to pay for a couple favorite substack subscriptions and just read The Guardian. My Costco membership expired and I can't decide if renewing it will actually save us money or not. It mostly didn't seem to, but then again I did find Matcha Lindnt truffles when they were on closeout for $3 and ate myself sick. I'd been paying full price once a month while they were there because I made the mistake of buying one bag the first time I saw them. I feel queasy just thinking about them so hopefully that's one lesson learned. My life isn't terrible, and I try to always remember that. Whether Costco is helpful to me in this struggle is still unclear.
It’s unclear to every Costco shopper. I think the mystery is the draw.
Check if your library offers free access to NYT. Many do, LAPL definitely does.
Is it through Libby? Because that's just really lame of me to not have figured out already. Thanks so much!
No they give you a 72-hour login direct to the site, which you can renew when it ends.
https://www.lapl.org/new-york-times-digital
I love you internet stranger
LFPL does indeed offer this! 🗞️⭐ Thank you!
Appreciate you using the s word, person who loves New Amsterdam. They changed the name for people like you--so I hear. Em dashes are all the rage now in journalism. To tell a cheap basterd, that I don't care what the tenth one is. I don't care who is in it. I don't care if there's a rumor the man liked feet. I saw the candid photograph online because he wanted it to be seen. (Him in public buying regular movies when the dirty ones are on display for no Earthly reason.
I read "d-bag" and nothing seems to confirm or deny that when a woman wants a thing to be clean--she has device(s) to do so. #ReleaseTheKevinSmithCut
Love Costco, but very relatable. Saturday is my Costco day for life reasons and sometimes it’s like... how long can we wait before we HAVE TO go? It’s a *whole thing* to go there.
I only go to Costco when I have a list and can get there within 15 minutes of opening. Otherwise my bank account and mental health take 1-2 months to recover.
Smart!
Hmm, as a shift worker of 37.5 hours by working 6 or 7 days a week---no idea how the man did it, but I swear it works. I don't care when you come in. If someone knows how to help you find something--they want to help you find it, and someone in the store knows where it is. But if you want to shop like you are a lumberjack feeding a village. Hey, Hot Mulligan is pretty special (the lead singer fell trees in the Midwest, whateva).
Do you get the cheap pie near opening time to eat in your car alone instead of crying? Why else do you exist? To bloviate? Pick a different level and excell with ease. The ease the weasel does not have at an easel. (I may not be technically literate. Did you notice?)
I have tried to go at various different times and on different days, and it always seems the exact same level of fairly busy. Except for weekends, which feel like the seventh circle of hell.
And yet! I love Costco and I’m not afraid to say it.
It is always chaos. I love it too. I don’t think it saves me any money? 🥶
Noooo I think it might just cost me money? It is always bizarrely close to the same large amount of money no matter what we buy, and has been for years. We don’t go all that often (also because: chaos).
Ah, beau of other origins for the honorific. I had a giant pock marked confused toddler teaching me quote unquote Junior Year English. "Because it is my name"-Mr. Wedemeyer. Stay safe.(If he reads this, I know was going to anyway. That's the "clean joke" that gets me out of asking Missus Janie: have you ever met an alcoholic, "I can't live without al co hole .#ClassOfWhoCares
Jeez kid, I told my older brother about the most beautiful conception of Bodshittivata's earned experience to re-birth of benefit and he took it on the chin like a man. Now he is not in the "Land of the Living" so to speak.
"Mature beyond my years." No, I know my age and I act how I think. Sometimes feelings are involved, and PC woke Grammar Authorities want me to care, LoL.
(H E double hockey sticks was explored by my man Adam Sandler in "Little Nicky" it's for boys psyched to see PG-13 with the bros. It literally doesn't work and other way and that's why: go in blind and have a good time. Do you have a 13 year old son? Hahaha, do you want one? I'm sorry. The Blackness of my humor is a result of the circles under my eyes (both sides, huh) and if I go "Blue Comedy" I regret it, and I'd appreciate not being called on the carpet like a domesticated creature punished for the nature of it's existing for that it exists at all.
#BenAffleckVSSuperman #Buffet #spelling #FatPride
Powdered laundry detergent - Charlie's Soap is good. Maybe a solution to the laundry detergent weight/plastic issue. https://www.charliesoap.com/product/natural-laundry-powder-detergent/
I like Tide. I like the giant jug like I'm ripping off the store, and I like my special little basket to carry it. Because "dry cleaning" is gross. "Ironing is disgusting. And I have digital cinematographic evidence of such a thing."
#AbuseOfHashtagsIs #HashtagAbuse
After checkout, does anyone else play the fun game of “Guess How Much It Was This Time!”
That’s any big box store trip for me! 😩
Starbucks egg bites for sale at the grocery store??! 😍
Oh god, this is giving me PTSD flashbacks to a former job where, before they started offering business delivery (this was early/mid-2000s) I had to go with a coworker who drove (everyone did but me) and get our office snacks/drinks every month. Any store big and crowded enough to drive a car in makes me want to curl up and die (see also: IKEA), so I was very mission oriented about getting the list items and getting the hell out, but the coworkers were like toddlers with their constant distraction and demands "Ooooh can we have this? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease??" It was one of the worst parts of that job for the first couple of years until, blessedly, Business Delivery became a thing!
I used to get very specific candles at ikea, and it felt like such a transgression to go in through the check out area and beeline to these boxes of candles and just bypass their whole planned circuit. It did feel like a win.
Charleston, WV is apparently getting a Costco next year. I don’t know if I’m brave enough. I went one time in the 16 years I lived in Louisville and felt ill prepared. I’ll hafta remember your tips if I brave it!
OMG THIS IS BIG 😂
Made the decision to become fresh-flower people last month. So far I feel it makes a small but noticeable day-to-day difference!
Having just been to Costco yesterday, this is the perfect description of a Costco trip. On par with Paul's Werner Hertzog description of a Trader Joes parking lot.
Thank you!! I’m not worthy!!! 🙇🏻♀️🤭
Protop: spray your produce with hydrogen peroxide and have tje fruit out of the fridge. That keeps it from rotting or molding and let's it sit and ripen to its full potential. Ripen pineapples upside Down. Pears take forever, but worth, trust me. Wrap unbrùìsed apples in news paper and store. Mabngoes take a while, but worth. Smell and feel. FYI many things to say about this, sorry, it's my jam.
Thank you!