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cblj_backupHere is a list of things which happened to me today.
-- received a bill for $300 because insurance wrongly declined something
-- received a notice from the government saying they were knocking $50/month off my student loan payment
-- Aforementioned job interview and burning bridge
-- Coworker Crush, who was in Italy, returned! She brought me an Italian Kit Kat bar. Yeah, I don't know.
-- Got stopped by tourists and asked for directions three times on the way to
-- Trader Joes, which I SAVAGELY raided and summarily conquered
My favourite tourist question of the day was a man with three kids who very hesitantly said, "Excuse me, are...are we on Michigan Avenue?" I assured him that he was, directed him to the Lego Store, and welcomed him to Chicago. His kids are going to fleece him for more Legos than they can carry, I predict.
The reason I stopped at Trader Joe's was that Mum is sad they won't be building one in Austin after all, and wanted to share the glory of TJ's with her coworkers. So I bought four kinds of cookie and a bin of toffee nuts to send to her, per her request, along with some bread and salami (I had a hankering) and some "Lacey Cookies" (chocolate-dipped florentines, basically) for myself. Nothing makes you want cookies like buying FOUR BOXES of them for someone else.
The cookies did not go unremarked.
Checkout guy: Having a party?
Me: Stocking up for the end times.
I have had a very long day.
THESE COOKIES ARE AMAZING
-- received a bill for $300 because insurance wrongly declined something
-- received a notice from the government saying they were knocking $50/month off my student loan payment
-- Aforementioned job interview and burning bridge
-- Coworker Crush, who was in Italy, returned! She brought me an Italian Kit Kat bar. Yeah, I don't know.
-- Got stopped by tourists and asked for directions three times on the way to
-- Trader Joes, which I SAVAGELY raided and summarily conquered
My favourite tourist question of the day was a man with three kids who very hesitantly said, "Excuse me, are...are we on Michigan Avenue?" I assured him that he was, directed him to the Lego Store, and welcomed him to Chicago. His kids are going to fleece him for more Legos than they can carry, I predict.
The reason I stopped at Trader Joe's was that Mum is sad they won't be building one in Austin after all, and wanted to share the glory of TJ's with her coworkers. So I bought four kinds of cookie and a bin of toffee nuts to send to her, per her request, along with some bread and salami (I had a hankering) and some "Lacey Cookies" (chocolate-dipped florentines, basically) for myself. Nothing makes you want cookies like buying FOUR BOXES of them for someone else.
The cookies did not go unremarked.
Checkout guy: Having a party?
Me: Stocking up for the end times.
I have had a very long day.
THESE COOKIES ARE AMAZING
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Date: 2011-06-29 11:05 pm (UTC)Yay for amazing cookies! TJ's also has my favoritest crackers evar. TJ's: it's a place of wonder!
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Date: 2011-06-29 11:13 pm (UTC)They do some very good crackers. They have a corn-based GF cracker that I'm very fond of.
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Date: 2011-06-29 11:17 pm (UTC)I may have eaten it.
LONG DAY.
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Date: 2011-06-29 11:25 pm (UTC)What did the Italian Kit Kat bar taste like?
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Date: 2011-06-29 11:42 pm (UTC)I don't know if they still do, but they used to sell what TJ's calls 'Lacey cookies' at Ikea, by the flat. When my former roommate and I would go, for some reason, we would get a box, and the cookies would not rest until they were all eaten. It generally took about a day and a half for her and I to finish off two dozen cookies. Good god, them and pirouettes (http://www.pepperidgefarm.com/ProductDetail.aspx?catID=734), capable of dissolving even the strongest of wills. Pure evil. Pure, delicious evil.
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Date: 2011-06-30 10:28 am (UTC)Pirouettes baffle me, because you're right, they're SO ADDICTIVE, and yet they're not actually that flavourful or tasty. It's like...the TEXTURE or something.
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Date: 2011-06-29 11:46 pm (UTC)Our relationship is not healthy!
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Date: 2011-06-29 11:50 pm (UTC)I sympathize about the insurance - I just solved one this week. They said $900 in charges for blood tests for my kid and then after I called, they said "Oh, that's about $93 now that we've recalculated." Sigh.
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Date: 2011-06-30 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-30 12:30 am (UTC)This.
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Date: 2011-06-30 04:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-30 12:15 am (UTC)I need to head to the Trader myself. Later!
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Date: 2011-06-30 12:21 am (UTC)Thing the 2nd: My town is getting a Trader Joe's RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM ME!!! The joy I feel in my heart is limitless.
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Date: 2011-06-30 12:46 am (UTC)Oh god this. Twice last week the chiller at work broke, so we were left sealed in a dark room with temperatures rapidly climbing through the 80s. A room which normally has super-dooper air-conditioning thanks to the hundreds of thousands of pounds of equipment in it. We were more than a little worried that the equipment would start going pop, never mind the fact that the staff were on the verge. And to add to the fun, this was leading towards the part of the day where we can't leave. So not fun. So add to that the people coming in remarking "it's hot in here!" and just... argh.
I wanted to make a sign which said "yes, it is hot in here" and stick it on the door.
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Date: 2011-06-30 12:23 am (UTC)oh Trader Joes, at least my tastebuds die happy.
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Date: 2011-06-30 12:24 am (UTC)Waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
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Date: 2011-06-30 01:45 am (UTC)We're getting In.gredients (http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/27/americas-first-zero-packaging-grocery-store-to-open-in-austin/) soon!
*eyeroll*
/agrees with the concept, finds the execution a bit poncy
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Date: 2011-06-30 01:36 am (UTC)http://web.mit.edu/chosetec/www/origami/ironman/
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Date: 2011-06-30 02:05 am (UTC)Typical.
Grrrr.
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Date: 2011-06-30 09:53 am (UTC)WTF, Oxford Comma?
Date: 2011-06-30 02:52 am (UTC)Thought you and your grammar posse would get a jolt from this mad breaking news. I thought at first it was from The Onion.
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Date: 2011-06-30 03:13 am (UTC)I don't want to believe it.
TEAM OXFORD COMMA FOREVER.
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Date: 2011-06-30 02:58 am (UTC)Anyway, other than that sounds like a good day, and I'd say that an Italian Kit Kat is a good sign.
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Date: 2011-06-30 09:53 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-06-30 04:50 am (UTC)What the actual fuck.
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