grocery shopping..and the whip it is

so, this is how pathetic my life can be...here it is friday night and i am in the office working, atleast happy hour in my kitchen was a big hit. i barely made it before the 7:00 cut off time to gulp down a glass of wine and now in the twilight of the evening i have finished my second. ok, i drained the glass an hour ago and secretly have been fighting the urge to have a third piece of pizza.....

the one thing i have yet to do this week or the past three if anyone is counting around here is hit the grocery store. as i stated before we love our new house location and all except i am livid by the lack of decent grocery stores nearby. i can choose from super walmart or albertsons 2 miles southwest both having been built in the early 1900's or the newer super walmart and albertsons 1.3 miles east. while the latter seems a good choice 1) not so happy with albertson selection of meats and produce, lack of cleanness (surely there is enough profit in the grocery business to purchase a power sprayer and clean up the parking lot, there is even a distinct rotting egg smell outside) nor the layout of the store, which to me is very important to the comfort level of pushing two carts through store because i can never get the cart with big seat in front plus infant seat on top. actually i am really impressed with my ability to maneuver two shopping carts with one kiddo in each up and down each aisle around cell-phone talking barbie, bluetooth wearing beehive lady with just a small arm basket yet she is there the whole two hours i am, shopper who obviously does not have a legal driver's license because she/he is always on the wrong side of the aisle going against traffic flow, label reader who stops on every row in the middle of the row to read each and every ingredient on every single item. 2) i am a target devotee...the first time jeff persuaded me to enter the super walmart 1.3 miles from home i wore a big hat, large sunglasses and a moomoo just in case the target we see you trader spies happen to notice me. i will admit if i am thinking the 18.9 trek miles across town to a clean well organized tom thumb or even central market is out of the question this particular walmart is not so bad (however you won't see me buying meat or produce from there).

****so i started this blog several weeks ago and i am here to finish it....i went to walmart again yesterday because i just could not get the umph to drive across town to tom thumb or cm but while i used to think it was not so bad....i truly despise walmart now. i went through 8 big blue shopping carts looking for one with at least one seat belt that worked. i figured izzy is big enough if she wants to walk/ride she doesn't need to be strapped in, however, annie may still need to be buckled up, even though i am sure this little hause could crawl and have no problems. anyhoo, not one of the big carts at either door worked, so i put annie in the seat of a regular one and tell izzy she will have to walk. now she loves to walk when we go to cm but there are so many more things to get into there and with a balloon tied to her arm i can see her even if by chance she escapes my sight for a second. izzy had yet another virus this week and with this one came hives.....i promise we wash our hands and all but this kiddo picks up everything. so half way through the store i am carrying izzy on one hip and pushing a buggie weighing an easy 300lbs. before i left i told the manager my dilemma about the seat belts and he just looked at me like i was a crazy bitch and not appreciating the whole walmart experience set before me. needless to say next grocery trip in oh, roughly three to four weeks will be across town at my friendly tom thumb.


by now you are probably calling me a grocery store snob and i will admit to it. i believe that is the first step to admit you have a problem, but don't count on me changing any time soon. i tend to be a bit of a stubborn set in my ways crazy loon