I am NEVER bored. If I don't have something to do I will write a book, read a book, or go grocery shopping. I love pretending. I could walk around stores all day, or surf Amazon, just shopping, just...pretending. It's the same when I go online to shop for food. My obsession began some fifteen years ago or more even...I have no idea how long PeaPods has been around. It's a store you can go to online and order food to have it delivered, but I never actually lived anywhere near where they actually did their deliveries...I just created an account and pretended.
So, I've been a closet grocery shopper for over a 100 years now I guess. I actually worked in a grocery store when I was in High School. Here's a fun fact, I was Oklahoma City's first "girl" sacker. Not that being a girl was really hard to do, but it was the title I had and I wore it proudly. I was hired a few hours before my classmate Lisa Gann, and together we worked the Humpty Dumpty store on 23rd and Rockwell..we are something! All the other stores had a bunch of boys doing the sacking, but Lisa and I...we were girls. (1978) There may have been other girls doing it, but it was our actual title!
Anyway, my love for food runs deep and wide and I will never apologize for it. I know it sound crazy, but if I need to calm down I just get online and buy $400 worth of food in my pretend world with my pretend money. I actually go to the stores to pick up the food rather than have them delivered. I just go online to look! Food porn! I'm so guilty.
When I get online and I start shopping, I buy anything and everything I ever dreamed of wanting or needing. There's no way it would all fit in my cabinets or my pantry, but I don't care. I'm shopping. Aldi is one of my very favorite stores, but even Aldi doesn't have everything I need. Winco has more to choose from; their bulk section...to die for. I could spend $$$ just in that part of the store alone. Truth. No really - - go look.
Tonight I had quite a good time pretending...buying, shopping, just picking things up and putting them into my cart. I must have filled that thing to the brim...$443! Yep, but to be fair, it does also include dog food, cat litter, and other things I can't eat - - but I do reserve the right to buy my paper products from Big Lots...they're cheaper, come from good brands, and I trust the store to have them in stock. I could shop Big Lots most of the night too...yep, and Lowes, Home Depot, @Home, Target, Hobby Lobby - - I love shopping, but my favorite shopping....food.
I get excited when I go into them too; just ask my bestie. She thinks its a chore to do her grocery shopping. I have never understood why. I go and think of all the dishes I'm going to make, and the smells....and the taste...yes, I love it. Dork that I am...dork that I will always be. If I can load up at Aldi's you bet I can do damage at Kroger or Winco where there are delis and fish markets, and all that....all that bulk!!
The dreams I'll have tonight! I can't wait.
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