Tsk, tsk, tsk. Lies. And Kabocha.

Ok, so I didn't mean to lie to you, but in fact I guess I did, because I don't see any piccies yet, do you? Sorry. I'll try to do it tonight. Assuming I don't work late again. I hope I don't - I need sleep badly.

*sigh* I picked a bad time to start this blog.

This weekend I went to a supermarket north of NYC. For those of you that are unaware of it, supermarkets in this city stink. Sometimes litterally. The produce is either not ripe at all, or just about rotted, the variety & selection is ridiculously limited, there is no bakery dept., and the parking lot fits about 15 cars, when there are 45 families shopping down the narrow, dusty aisles. The stores are not cleaned, pre se, unless something spills, and the employees doing the restocking will not only not ask you if you need help with anything, but will actually push you out of their way should they decide you are in it. And don't get me started about the inflated prices. It's a draconian experience. Now, I thought all this was normal until I started travelling to other places & seeing how the rest of the country lives. Outside the city, supermarkets are clean, bright, massive places with a level of selection & variety that makes my head spin. If NYC supermarkets were located anywhere else, they would go out of business within the week. So I hope that you can now understand why I would deem it neccessary to occasionally travel 75 miles to go to a nice, big supermarket.

It was so worth the trip. I am addicted to this Japanese pumpkin called kabocha - I LOVE it. Well, the supermarket had tons of it, and I finally found out that it's called 'burgess buttercup squash' here in the states. The only place to get it in the city (that I know of) is at the Japanese markets, at about 4x what I paid for it over the weekend. I am sooo happy.

I also got my car inspected & a mountain of laundry done this weekend. I did everything I needed to do except install the software for the camera. Grrrr.