We spent today wandering about, checking out a few different parts of town. First stop, The Cat's Meow op shop, where all money goes to local animal shelters. Shop for the cats! I picked up a nice woolly cardigan and the very informative
Tea Rooms Northwest. A trip to Rite Aid for soap led to crazy M&Ms purchase - I looked down and they were just there, in my hand. And then it turned out they were two for one, so they were suddenly both in my hand. I swear! To counteract the M&Ms, I picked up some of my favourite Trader Joe's toothpaste. Call me lame, but I love grocery shopping in this country! A post-dinner stop to
The Book Bin yielded a few books on my holiday reading list -
The Wordy Shipmates (about the pilgrims in New England) and
Assassination Vacation (about US presidential assassinations) by Sarah Vowell, and
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark. The Mary Shelley bio by Muriel Spark was an added bonus. What to read first, I wonder?
We've also enjoyed a little TV today. The highlights? Parking Wars, a reality show about parking inspectors in Detroit, and Storage Wars, also a reality show, about people who the contents of abandoned storage lockers at auction (you may remember this from the This American Life episode,
Contents Unknown?). Because bidders can't enter the lockers before the auction, people use all sorts of strategies to guage the value of the mystery contents. On tonight's episode, one guy brought two psychics along to the auction, much to the annoyance of the other attendees. The psychics got a weird vibe from a locker that turned out to have an esky full of shrunken heads in it. Ah, reality television!
Other notable moments -
Frozen yoghurt with many toppings
Nuggetssssssss
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