le sigh

[schmerica]

Grocery shopping today, yay! Much less ridiculous than last time I went, but I'm still kind of concerned about how much I'm spending. I really need to figure something out there, because money is ... a concern.

I was made sad by Safeway apparently no longer carrying the one product I thought was absolutely brilliant, i.e. individual garlic cloves. Last time I went with sprkid, we each picked up a bag -- they were fresh, already peeled, vacuum-sealed in smaller things of four cloves each within the bag. They were more expensive than just buying garlic, obviously, but not really by that much, and they lasted me a good long time. Normally I think these time saving things are kind of stupid and wasteful -- pre-shredded cheese, for example, combines the three joys of being a) expensive b) tasting gross and c) going moldy and bad way too quickly -- but this one was GREAT. But it's no longer there by the tofu, so back to peeling my own. Mmm, sticky stinky fingers.

On a completely different note, I am now about 95% sure I will not be going to Escapade in 2005. There is a very very low chance I may be out in the East Coast in the spring and crash with fox1013 and maybe get up to New York for a day, but this pretty much depends on money situation. We'll see how my birthday and Christmas go.

Next two months: birthday, my last days at Evergreen (and all the papers and finals and evals that go with that), yuletide, ds_seekritsanta, fox1013's birthday, Thanksgiving at home. Hmmmm. Interesting.

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Well, if my garlic had went moldy, I would be bitchybitch too, because that really, really sucks a lot.

Although! Did I tell you that my last loaf of bread totally went moldy last week before I got a chance to eat most of it? I have decided the thing to do now is just not let any bread into my room. Ever.

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

you have to 'frigerate the bread, erica. or freeze it. (nod)

but ach, the garlic!