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Brownie Points
Apr. 6th, 2022 10:04 pmMy Monday night/Tuesday morning dreams were Not Good. Sleep was elusive as well. Consequently, my Tuesday night/Wednesday morning sleep was much, much more. It will make a fun blip on my sleep readouts when I start them for the month.
Escape Calico was twining around my legs when I did get up, and leading me hopefully to the back door. I opened the back door! (And then very quickly made sure that the storm door was fully shut, before she could wedge her head in the crack and make for FREEDOM!!!! She longs for the WILD PLACES, like INGVA.) I opened the sliding window over the screen, so she could sniff! I showed her how to stand up and look, but she wasn't having that. So I pulled the kitchen chair over, and she did take to that, and spent quite a while looking out and sniffing.
Belovedest is working late this week due to that's how the schedules worked this week. My pharmacy is only open until 7 (and will soon be closed for a lunch break, so I suspect they are not a particularly inviting work environment). So I gathered myself together and went to pick up my two prescriptions. The impression of an uninviting workplace was reinforced by the paper signs about customer service being closed for the night, also due to "staffing issues". Jorts would probably make stinky feet about them.
I'll have another prescription ready tomorrow, apparently. I went back to my car and didn't want to go home quite yet, so I looked for curb alerts in the area on the Craigslist and swung by. Nothing looked worth getting out of the car. I had a bright idea and meandered off to Costco.
This Costco refrigerated produce section was as uninspired as the one we'd seen at the other one. But they did have little chocolate pots de creme. I decided that we'd sample those. And snagged myself some See's cards, since that was my bright idea. (Significant discount.)
The other miscellaneous candy store that used to be in the mall has closed! Woe. It was one of the places you could get small amounts of the stuff that you otherwise have to buy in 5lb bags from candy supply places. I proceeded to See's, thinking wistfully that I would certainly like to bring home samples to the housemates, but that's not the sort of thing you ask for.
See's was occupied but not completely slammed, even though there was one person working the closing shift. By the time it was my turn, everyone else had cleared out and had not been replaced. She got started on filling my boxes in an ergonomic fashion.
Two other people came in, selected some things, and were hovering around looking ready. I asked them if they were ready. They said yes. I then told the counter person that if she wanted she could pause filling my order and take care of them. Which she did, but not before handing me "my sample" (two chocolate caramels) for "while I wait". I stuck them in my bag, as I didn't want to take off my mask in the small store space.
The first terminal broke down as she tried to use it, and it took Quite An While to process the payment.
More people had come in. She resumed filling my boxes. I paid (the transaction took Quite A While for me also). While we waited, I heard and saw some rustling in the area of the big box o' samples. The transaction finished, she handed me the shopping bag, and she told me that "my samples" were in the little paper bag, and thanked me again for my general helpfulness. When I got out to the car I checked. Five more chocolates, for a total of 7, so 6 bonus on top of the usual 1. She'd said the one type was chocolate covered caramel, so I looked up the dark heart shape before trying it. The decoration pattern matched the Deep Dark Chocolate Truffle. It is very dark!
Being decent occasionally pays off in more than just surrounding yourself with decent people, I guess!
I should probably do up my sleep graph pages tomorrow, as well as attempting to pick up the next prescription.
Escape Calico was twining around my legs when I did get up, and leading me hopefully to the back door. I opened the back door! (And then very quickly made sure that the storm door was fully shut, before she could wedge her head in the crack and make for FREEDOM!!!! She longs for the WILD PLACES, like INGVA.) I opened the sliding window over the screen, so she could sniff! I showed her how to stand up and look, but she wasn't having that. So I pulled the kitchen chair over, and she did take to that, and spent quite a while looking out and sniffing.
Belovedest is working late this week due to that's how the schedules worked this week. My pharmacy is only open until 7 (and will soon be closed for a lunch break, so I suspect they are not a particularly inviting work environment). So I gathered myself together and went to pick up my two prescriptions. The impression of an uninviting workplace was reinforced by the paper signs about customer service being closed for the night, also due to "staffing issues". Jorts would probably make stinky feet about them.
I'll have another prescription ready tomorrow, apparently. I went back to my car and didn't want to go home quite yet, so I looked for curb alerts in the area on the Craigslist and swung by. Nothing looked worth getting out of the car. I had a bright idea and meandered off to Costco.
This Costco refrigerated produce section was as uninspired as the one we'd seen at the other one. But they did have little chocolate pots de creme. I decided that we'd sample those. And snagged myself some See's cards, since that was my bright idea. (Significant discount.)
The other miscellaneous candy store that used to be in the mall has closed! Woe. It was one of the places you could get small amounts of the stuff that you otherwise have to buy in 5lb bags from candy supply places. I proceeded to See's, thinking wistfully that I would certainly like to bring home samples to the housemates, but that's not the sort of thing you ask for.
See's was occupied but not completely slammed, even though there was one person working the closing shift. By the time it was my turn, everyone else had cleared out and had not been replaced. She got started on filling my boxes in an ergonomic fashion.
Two other people came in, selected some things, and were hovering around looking ready. I asked them if they were ready. They said yes. I then told the counter person that if she wanted she could pause filling my order and take care of them. Which she did, but not before handing me "my sample" (two chocolate caramels) for "while I wait". I stuck them in my bag, as I didn't want to take off my mask in the small store space.
The first terminal broke down as she tried to use it, and it took Quite An While to process the payment.
More people had come in. She resumed filling my boxes. I paid (the transaction took Quite A While for me also). While we waited, I heard and saw some rustling in the area of the big box o' samples. The transaction finished, she handed me the shopping bag, and she told me that "my samples" were in the little paper bag, and thanked me again for my general helpfulness. When I got out to the car I checked. Five more chocolates, for a total of 7, so 6 bonus on top of the usual 1. She'd said the one type was chocolate covered caramel, so I looked up the dark heart shape before trying it. The decoration pattern matched the Deep Dark Chocolate Truffle. It is very dark!
Being decent occasionally pays off in more than just surrounding yourself with decent people, I guess!
I should probably do up my sleep graph pages tomorrow, as well as attempting to pick up the next prescription.
