Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Day 14: Shopping

After a day long struggle deciding where I was going to walk (it was raining in the morning, so that tears it for Pilot Butte; I want to save gas/too lazy to deal with going to the garage and facing all the stuff in there; (fill in name of park) is too isolated/has bad parking/is too small; and it look like rain, I finally decided to walk to JoAnne's and buy me a pad of colored cardstock as a reward for my walk, while it is still on sale, so I can make my lists on something that stands out.  I did my yoga at 3 a.m., and slept the hour after Doug left for work.  The Republican National Committee called, and so got me out of bed.  I did not call back.

On my way there, the little story scene was at Powers and 3rd, where a former U-haul truck was stopped.  The driver behind honked his horn a couple of times in a friendly way, then jump out and ran up to the other driver--the back door was completely open!  So the could-be disaster was taken care of.  "I didn't want you losing all your stuff!"

At JoAnne's the checkout clerk was a pretty blonde woman, maybe in her forties.  Her voice was very low, as if she'd had throat surgery and I wondered if it hurt her to talk.  I didn't ask.

On my way back, I decided to go by the store fronts of the Outlet Mall.  One of my co-workers from Park and Rec drove up, and he introduced me to his wife.

At Fred Meyer, I was going down the dairy aisle, and saw Nick, holding his son in front of him so as to have constant eye contact, and so I got to be introduced to Jaxon and congratulate the proud parents, as Nick's wife was there too.

And so to home, to make a dinner of shrimp, fried boiled potatoes, and coleslaw.  My walk lasted more than half an hour, and it went well.

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