Weekend Plans Post: Not Dreaming, Right?
I know it seems weird to be tentative about easing back into public life after a flight to Florida and a trip to Disney, of all places… but it still feels a little weird dipping back into real life around town.
Like, you still have to wear a mask to go into the good donut shoppe or the Culvers or to pick up your stuff from the pharmacy… but back at the beginning of this, we had to ration out our risk. No more just stopping by the store on the way home for garlic bread. At the height of the awfulness, it was our risk budget to get takeout from a favorite restaurant. The rest of the time? Grocery delivery and cooking at home and setting up dates where we’d watch a half hour show together. Short walks to the park. Sometimes we’d drive up to Cascade and turn around and drive home. And that was it. It was exciting to go to the pharmacy because I could grab a hand basket with a dozen items while I was there. Bacon. Cheez-its. Ice Cream Novelties. Walk through the paper aisle and see how the Kleenex is doing.
And now? Well, if we want something… we can just up’n get it? Like, if I need some chives, I can just wander over to the small Safeway and get some chives? Holy cow. I can just go to Costco? And get some of those little roll-up cheese/lunchmeat tubes?
And so this weekend is going to have a little bit of dipping the toes back into shopping. Go to King Soopers and see that particular grocery store again (haven’t been there since February 2020). Go to Costco and see what’s cookin’ there. Maybe hit the Petsmart and get some cat litter. And, yep, laundry.
Oh, and Sunday Night is a wrestling PPV. I’m going over to my friend Dman’s and we’re going to get chicken wings and watch a PPV. Like nothing had happened.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “dipping his toes in, literally” by massdistraction is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
you’re right about the grocery thing! No more will I have to shrug and go “okay, guess I substitute then” because I was out of some thing and it was only 2 days since my last store trip. Once again I can stop off at the small local grocery on the way home from work if I feel like something different from what I have on hand.
I even drove down to Pottsboro last weekend and went to the enormous Brookshires for a better, fancier grocery experience than I can get locally. I think I will be trying to make time to go there for “big” grocery shopping this summer.
I do need to do a bit of cleaning up here, and planning, this weekend – Tuesday I leave to go visit my mom for the first time in nearly a year and a half (it involves an overnight trip on Amtrak, and I didn’t feel it was safe until both she and I had been vaccinated, and then I had to wait for the semester to end)Report
I haven’t used a hand basket or a cart but maybe once or twice since March–I’ve been walking in with one or two shopping bags, filling them up, emptying them at the register, and then filling them back up again. Those carts and baskets are vectors, man. And I’ve got a bottle of hand sanitizer in my car and I hit it after every trip.
As to the docket…a friend’s alma mater is in the final four for the NCAA soccer tournament, and I’m trying to convince him that this is as good a reason as any to get together for a couple of beers in his basement–he’s got one of those basements we all dreamed about having. Otherwise just not much of anything.Report
Last weekend was our Covid Liberation weekend, so we had a weekend getaway with fancy meals… so now I guess it’s back to mowing the lawn and pastures. Oh wait, this weekend is a friend’s 50th which was going to be outdoors at their new party barn… and now that the Mask Mandate is gone will still be outdoors at her party barn. Will see some folks I haven’t seen in over a year.Report
I’ve still got a week before I’m street legal, so no plans.Report
My 2 weeks elapsed yesterday. Sitting down in a restaurant and dining this evening with my in-laws. Wish the rain would quit so I could hit the links.Report