Had to upload it to youtube this time!
At least his bedding will be clean soon, even if he isn't....
Well ... Gay marriage lost in New York, but this is still worth a watch ... and maybe a second or third watching, too ...
Reasons I Am Buying Less At Trader Joe's
or
Items Trader Joe's Has (Apparently) Discontinued
in no particular order other than the most heartbreaking is first (also you might notice a theme)
- Mexican Hot Cocoa Cookies--I told the cashier last year that I loved these so much I wanted to marry them. Then I wrote Trader Joe's and told them that, and they said they were a seasonal item. And they didn't bring them back this season. I want to punch them in the face for this alone.
- Pierogies--these had become rather a staple for me over the last year or 2. I'm not sure if they have been discontinued but I haven't seen any in a few months.
- Hot chocolate mix in the round blue can--okay, they have the sipping chocolate which is good, and this one I can live without but still, just another turn of the thumbscrew.
- Chocolate yogurt--the kind with the real cocoa in the bottom that you mixed up and it was all delicious and shit, not that Eurotrash crap in the smaller container they try to shove off on you.
- Cookies with Perks--the chocolate chip cookes with espresso chips (or espresso flavored cookies with chocolate chips?). Haven't seen them since probably last winter or spring. Bastards.
- Milk chocolate cocoa almonds (are you getting the theme yet?)--now they have the black cocoa almonds, and they are pretty good, though unless you eat them with a spoon or chopsticks it's like you just read 100,000 newspapers (okay, newspapers that taste like chocolate, but still, it's messy!) Now---90% of the time I prefer dark chocolate, but this is one of the few exceptions (one of the others is the milk chocolate covered McVitie's digestive biscuits which I haven't had in years but I would probably sell a kidney for a packet right about tomorrow). Would it be SO WRONG to have both?
- I didn't check for it this time because I bought some at the regular supermarket since I couldn't find it at Trader Joe's the last couple times, but if they have discontinued their frozen broccoli florets I'm gonna bust up the joint.
- I don't think they have discontinued them (YET) but their sea salt brownies were really delicious until they lightened up on the sea salt. Now they are just bland.
- I didn't see the little chocolate mint cookie clusters. They were so good that I can't even remember what they were. They were in a brown and dark pink round container, like a pint of ice cream, like Thin Mints or something, all crumbled up and covered in chocolate, maybe?
- Also I haven't seen the dark chocolate toffee squares I've become rather addicted to, in a while. I bought some in September to bring on vacation. I have one left in front of me.
There are probably other things but it's probably like regular food that doesn't stand out in my mind like chocolate stuff. I will add things as I recall them. I know my neighbor was pissed about some croissants they discontinued, maybe almond croissants.
They are discontinuing stuff I like but not replacing them with anything as good or better. Are my tastes that eclectic? Do all the rest of the Trader Joe's customers have bland ass taste?
Oh--the first thing I ever had from Trader Joe's, before I lived near one, were these little chocolate animal cracker type cookies (my sister had them at her house when I was babysitting once and I wanted to eat the whole thing). They weren't chocolate covered or anything, they were like chocolate butter cookies that melted in your mouth. And they replaced them with something BLAND.
I seriously was planning on buying 10 boxes of those Mexican Hot Cocoa Cookies. And next trip I would have bought 10 more. I'm completely serious. I was going to stock up so I could have them at least through the spring. Or till New Year's. Or till I OD'ed on them, or at least till I vomited.
Quit breaking my heart, Trader Joe. You are getting to be evil and sadistic, getting me hooked on this stuff and then yanking them out from under me, without warning, before I can stock up and buy out every store in the area.
I thought this was kind of neat.
The Beatles Complete on Ukulele (recorded in Shabby Road Studios in Brooklyn!)
I was just looking again at a newsletter I got in October from Spottiswoode & His Enemies and noticed it mentioned at the bottom. Well, Spottiswoode does a cool version of Within You Without You which I downloaded for free. Yep, all of the songs are free to download. They are doing a song a week for 185 weeks till the catalog is complete. And if you happen to be in Brooklyn this weekend, they are doing a Benefit Concert for Yoko Ono. Last year it was a benefit for Warren Buffett, so I don't think it's like Yoko's broke and needs bone marrow transplants or anything.
Sunday December 6, 2009, from noon to midnight at Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Whythe Avenue, between N. 11th and N. 12th Streets, Brooklyn 11211.
more info here.
In an effort to consolidate all things bloggy and potty (euw)...I'm moving most of my blogging activity, posting of items and all general stuff to:
But that doesn't mean I'm abandoning this space. At least...not entirely. I'll try to crosslink updates and of course, I need to keep this account active to keep an eye on you hooligans.
L♥ve
- naps
- the cool weather we are finally having in los angeles.
- costco pumpkin pie with whip cream
- foot insoles
- new set of acrylic nails
- new scarves, paul frank, and skull pj's i found on sale last weekend
- watching classic movies on the big screen
- catching up with old friends
- 98% done with xmas shopping
- candles
- newborns
- accidentally shaving my right eyebrow last night (TG for eyebrow pencils)
- drama
- cold office
- sleepless nights
Packing for the big move is virtually done. The apartment is empty but for two lamps, our airbed, a tiny 12-inch tv, our two suitcases with clothes and stuff that we'll need short term, and a very few last random things.
Decided that I don't have it in me to make it to work tomorrow as we'll have to be COMPLETELY out by midnight tomorrow. We'll have to shut off our cable, our phone, our broadband, and finish some last minute cleaning. We've been in the apartment for a decade so there really is no way that we're getting our security deposit back, but I still feel like we need to run the vacuum and clean up just a bit before we leave for good. Thankfully, our building managers have said that we can keep our mailbox keys until we are able to switch our mail delivery to another address (hopefully the house that we're still waiting to buy).
On top of the last minute things to do when closing up the apartment, I seem to have come down with a bad cold. Thankfully, though, S/O is back so I have company dealing with the packing and closing.
Whatever happens, this chapter of our lives is going to close tomorrow. We hope that the next chapter will open in our new house very shortly, but at this point whatever happens is going to happen. Interestingly, I've come to the realization that one way or another we're going to be fine in the end.
The past two weeks have actually been rather liberating for me as I've come to realize that, ultimately, I don't need a lot of stuff to live my life quite fully. That alone, I think, will make this process worthwhile no matter what happens in the end.
It is 6:11 a.m. and I'm back from my trip to Target.
Yes people, I was a black Friday door buster!!!
I set my alarm for 4:50 and I got to the local Target just as the door was opening at 5:00. The line was crazy long, but everyone was calm, orderly, and friendly. Virtually everybody entering headed straight to the back of the store where the electronics section is located. By the time I got to electronics, all of the 32" LCD TVs on sale for $246 were gone. Target, apparently, had all of the TVs set up in shopping carts lined up along the aisles of the stores and people just came in and grabbed one of the carts. As I went to Target specifically only to pick up that specific TV I was a bit disappointed, but decided that since I was up and about I might as well take a look around. A few minutes into my wandering, I came across a single 32" sale TV sitting on the floor at the end of one of the aisles. Apparently, someone got swept up in the excitement and rush of the opening, then decided that they didn't want the TV after all. S-C-O-R-E!!!
I picked up some extra Coldeze and I was out of Target by 5:40. I took a bunch of pictures of the crowd and of my TV in the back of the Jeep, but alas, I seem to have packed my USB to mini-USB cord and I can't download the pics (I'm too cheap to have a data plan for my phone so I can't even email the pic to myself ...).
But then, I got a 32" LCD TV for $246 plus a $10 Target gift card ... S-C-O-R-E!!!
I'm a glass half empty kind of guy, but I sure do have a lot to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving. Cliched as it may be, sometimes doing cliched things is good.
I'm thankful for Significant Other who knows that I'm high maintenance and loves me anyway.
I'm thankful that I think that I can honestly say that in the last few years my brother and my sister have become my firends as well as my siblings.
I'm thankful for my mom who truly is a woman ahead of her time and who has shown me how life can be lived with grace.
I'm thankful that the job that I love is a stable one.
I'm thankful that I work for, probably, the best boss ever.
I'm thankful that I've recently figured out that at this point in my life, if I were to lose all of my "stuff" while I think that I'd be incredibly sad, I'd be okay in the end.
I'm thankful that I have friends like Mrs. B who I can call for a dose of honesty when I need it (or a kick in the butt when I need that too).
There's a lot more, but needless to say I'm a very fortunate guy ...
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
Thanksgiving addendum:
I'm thankful for broadband access.
I'm thankful for the invention of the DVR.
I'm thankful for the invention of 12-hour decongestant.
I'm thankful for the development of Coldeze (which I'm convinced will kill off a cold more often than not).
