A safe place

I rented a ZipCar to do my biannual shopping trip at Safeway. Knowing what I now know about the Potrero one, I went to Church and Market to find that it luckily has not been yuppified. Phew.

I managed to spend $165.00 on groceries, which is pretty impressive since other than one bottle of booze I had hardly any items that cost over four bucks. My original savings plan was to use the CoinStar machine towards my groceries, but naturally I waited in line 20 minutes behind three other people to have the one machine that was working break right in front of me. So then I got to carry my weighty bag of change back home.

I now have enough canned food to last me quite a while. I bought a lot of frozen fake meat products but I have no willpower when it comes to that so it always goes first. And once again, I stood in the vegetable aisle confused and sad. I think the problem is that vegetables are ingredients in other food, but as 90% of what I eat requires nothing but boiling water or condiments, cooking a vegetable-something just seems too hard.

Fans, this is the point at which you're supposed to volunteer to come cook vegetables for me. This hinting around is getting me nowhere.

I swear if it weren't for drink garnish I'd have scurvy.