A Real Entry!

This morning when I found out OD was working normally, I couldn’t decide whether to read favorites or make an entry first!
I am still doing the back strengthening exercises first thing in the morning and was rewarded this morning by walking into the kitchen, fixing a bagel and a cup of tea and sitting at the computer before I realizing I had left the cane in the bedroom. Before all this "stuff" started, and after the intense six weeks of intense PT, I was not using the cane in the house at all. During the worst of this "stuff," my back has been so painful that not only was I unable to move in the house without a cane at all, l but when I was out, I needed Jake’s arm to hold on to!
This morning I am going to Target, which is just across the road from me, to take a look at their grocery section. Until Jake mentioned it yesterday, since I am not a Target fan, I had no idea they even HAD a grocery section. I am trying to change my attitude to grocery shopping. I tend to wait until I am TOTALLY out of all necessities and having to buy twenty-five million bags of mostly food! Then I have to get them into the house and put them away! I grew up in an environment where my mother bought food almost daily and at local stores. I am not able to nor do I have the desire to do that, but I DO want to learn to think of going to get food at least weekly and maybe some day think of it as a pleasure rather than a chore! But until I get to that point, it will think of this as Fred used to say,"It’s all exercise!" Anyway, if nothing else, I now know there is a place close to me where I can get bread and milk!

An emotion is only an emotion.

It’s just a small part of your whole being.

You are much more than your emotion.

An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm.

If you’re aware of that, you won’t be afraid of your emotions.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. — Marcus Aurelius

Violet

November 6, 2013

I’m not a fan of shopping, either. The first step, I think, is to figure out WHY you dread it so much. For me, it’s the traffic and the crowds. To get around it, I shop at 6:30 in the morning on a day when everybody is sleeping in. Makes it a whole lot easier.

MargUK

Isn’t it lovely when we realise the work we’re putting into something is actually having an effect! I don’t like shopping either – could you shop online for groceries there? Most of our supermarkets have that facility here and some of the delivery men will take the bags through to the kitchen for you if you ask nicely! It is handy to have somewhere you can just nip into for the essentials though.

gray tabby

glad your back is doing better. i need to make sure i do my back strengthening exercises every morning before my day gets started. i go to the grocery store once a week. i check to see what i’ve used the week before and i replenish it. i never run out of anything unless it’s milk and only that when cameron comes over and needs milk for his mac and cheese. i didn’t know target had food. it’s good to know there is a place close by where you can get things you run out of during the week. my grocery store is a mile away so it’s no problem to go during the week. take care,

Jane Says

It’s funny, I buy our milk at the gas station down the hill from our house because their milk prices are capped at the state minimum, unlike the grocery store or even Wal-mart where the same milk can be up to a dollar more per gallon! The clerks there have gotten to know me since that’s all I buy, two gallon jugs of 1-1/2% every couple of weeks. 🙂

I don’t know about your Target there. Here, the meat is a little questionable at Target. I watch where the veg come from, washing them carefully. I expect that it’s our across-the-border sources. For packaged things, they’re very good, but a little more expensive than some others who give a senior discount.

BJ.

I’m glad that your back is better and you can get around in the house without your cane. I love Target, so much better than WalMart. Our Targets don’t have fresh produce but the entire stores are nicer and cleaner and a better atmosphere than WalMart so there is no comparison there. I usually buy my groceries at the supermarket but other things at Target but if it is close to you, go toTarget. I can’t stand the thought of running out of anything, why do it when you can go get it when you are out going some place? I stop by the supermarket when I need to, don’t have a set schedule. I don’t like to run out of something b/c when I want it, I want it so always have extras and put it on my list when I’m low. Hope you can learn to change to make it easier. I detest buying a large amount of groceries b/c I don’t like putting a lot of groceries away at one time.

TheWoodsprite

I don’t know why, but I have always LOVED to grocery shop. :o) !! There are some very necessary chores that I really hate doing, though, so I can relate. It’s good that you have a Target right across the road….too bad they don’t also deliver! ;o) !! hugs, Nicky

Telynor

I hear you about the groceries! I cheat now, I do it online and have it delivered, which saves me a great deal of hassle and misery. Now I just try to keep the list up, and that helps. I would love to be able to do the shopping daily, to get everything as fresh as possible, but that’s not going to happen unless I move to the City.

I hate grocery shopping!!! Even when I was back in Alabama and liked our super Wal Mart I hated that chore! Glad you’re getting around better! Hugs,M