Vacation friends!

We ate the last friend pictured.

Decor addition

Donald Duck with his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, in a grayish-lavendar plastic frame.

I saw it in a thrift store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and like the Santa Claus boot, I just had to have it!

I unpacked it and stuck it up there last night. It really balances out the whole look, dontcha think?

Somewhere in Maine

Ice Box.

I got a super-weird soft serve!

I shoulda sent it back but instead I ate it.

(Note: I acquired a white hat to match Greg's Deck Plug! Plus I am wearing my special "vacation" T-shirt—oversized, formerly Greg's, purple heather, and with the neck and sleeves cut off.)

Vacation groceries

Twenty-one bucks!

(Note: two kinds of fudge.)

We had an awesome time.

Last night

Barbecue for three:

Eat it off the tray!!

Purchased!

At the staff sale at work:

The kindliest, most sweet-faced disembodied one-dollar goat head in existence. Right now he is perched on top of my computer monitor, gazing at me with loving kindness.

Just waiting for the moment when I need to MEASURE SOMETHING.



Yes folks—my new friend is also a tape measure.

Now do you understand why staff-sale day is the best day of the entire year??

Rainy Saturday errands

So much more fun to do them in a pickup truck with Greg!

Buy three pounds of coffee at the coffee store. And why not get two espressos while you're at it?

Hmmm. With Long Boys?

No—

Caramels of course!

Drink it in the car. Best ever.

Today

At the corner store with my friend Beth, I happened to notice this item in the freezer.

Yes, Mamita's Batata Cream.

I showed it to Beth and she was like—LET'S GET IT! (Somehow this radical step had not occurred to me: a key difference in our personalities.)

It was shockingly good!

Derlicious quiescently frozen tropical-sweet-potato-flavored frozen custard is now in my life!

Lunch

A can of tuna.





With salt.

My friend Beth said, "I imagine cartoon cats coming to visit you."

New

Platinum Sperry Topsiders.



These things are just . . . the best.

I need to remember the special lace-tying techniques I learned last time I had pair of these! In, say—1990?

More Value Village!

Purchased:

Supplies!

For something or other.

Is it weird

To buy a child's sweater when you don't have a child?

I saw this hand-made item at Value Village in Montreal and for some reason I had to have it.

And now I do.

NEW HAT

Check this baby out.

Vintage wool felt w/ pom pom! It stands up real nice.

What I really need is a spring hat, however.

"Editor" pencil

Half blue, half red.

Awesome! (Even though I literally never use a red or a blue pencil.)

A freezer full of Canadian butter!

President's Choice, yo!

Evidence of a weekend in Montreal.

New condiment

I'm excited!

I am going to win this on eBay

If its the last thing I do.

Plaid!!

eBay

I think these should probably belong to me.

UPDATE! I made an offer of $10, then someone made a counter offer of $20. What to do??

My favorite chocolate in the entire world

They changed the recipe in the fall—and the new formula is really bad. Since then I have been buying up and stockpiling all the original bars I can find. For a while I had quite the cupboard full.

Tonight I ate the very last piece. I actually feel really sad!

Bubble tea

Coconut.

With black bubbles!

I really love Chinatown.