Shopping Thirsty
Apparently, I went shopping at Fred Meyer tonight while thirsty. 2 bottles of V-8, 3 of Powerade, a 12-pack of Coca-Cola, a gallon of milk, a carton of grapefruit juice, and a pound-bag of Longbottom Coffee all came home with me.
My grocery trips are always a bit haphazard: never planned or thought out. Lists are optional (though I usually check with Janette on any have-to-haves). If Starbucks is open, I start there, of course. Then I wander over to the lottery machine to verify my current tickets (damn! still didn't win). From there, I start wandering the aisles. My discoveries tonight:
- Disney's Old Yeller big-ass-bag of dry dog food was featured on an endcap. Old Yeller; dog food. Okay, is it just me, or is that creepy? Particularly given the current scare over pet food safety, do you really want to link your pet food to a dead dog? Rabies, wasn't it?
- The Fred Meyer I visited had RGIS tags everywhere. They start inventory tomorrow night. Having worked retail for many years, I remember those all-nighters well. At my first RGIS inventory with Wherehouse, the store manager drank so much Jolt cola that my co-workers were racing him through the aisles in a shopping cart by 3am.
- Starbucks was closed, and I didn't have enough energy to get to our 24-hour Starbucks nearby.
Also they moved the Star Wars toys (Gabriel may be disappointed), and I couldn't find any good, singing, kinetic toys for Hannah. The best ones we have found so far are:
- Playskool Bumbling Bee [need to post a picture!] - Hannah's favorite. It has a kinetic switch in it that activates lights and singing when it is rolled. Hannah makes a "bee"-line to it when she wakes up each morning. It teaches phonetics on one setting; sings a song on the other. Particularly fun when the batteries are running low: kind of a playing-a-record backwards voice: "I'm... the... buuumbling... bee. Sing... a... soooong... with... meeeee...." Also like an original Teddy Ruxpin doll with a cassette tape of Yazoo's "Winter Kills." Quite scary; try it if you can.
- Playskool Twinkling Star Symphony. Five different colored plastic bears sit in their cradles and will start playing a song if buttons are pushed or bears are knocked down. Hannah enjoys it, signing to it to keep singing to her. She can also control it herself because it doesn't require high fine motor, and we all know Hannah LOVES C-O-N-T-R-O-L (what three-year-old doesn't)!
So the kids got nothing tonight. And we got liquid, lots of liquid. And I got a moment or two to myself (thanks Janette!).
-- Dad
