A Trip to Pete’s + Grocery Shopping
What a nice Friday we had here in the Valley 
It was sunny and warm and just what the doctor ordered after this rainy week!
After a double dose of Zumba this morning I decided to let Wendy cook up my lunch
Half Baja Salad & a small frosty
Here’s a little tip for you if you like the Baja salad from Wendy’s. When ordering take-out, they put your chili in a container so you can add it yourself when you are ready to eat. They sell two sizes of salad, the half and the full size. The full size salad is something like $2.50 or $3 more than the half. The trick is – they give you the same amount of chili for the half as they do the full side salad (but only when you get the take out. When you eat in they put the chili on the salad when you order). So really you are paying an extra couple bucks for lettuce and that’s it. Sometimes (like today) they don’t fill the chili cup to the very top when you get the half-size, but I still don’t think it’s worth $3 to get 1/4 cup more chili and some lettuce leaves. I’d rather save my money and get a frosty on the side. 
This afternoon I got an e-mail letting me know that my card pass at the Athletics Complex on campus had been dis-activated (again) because last week was the end of the school term. They always dis-activate our cards at the end of the school year and again at the start of the new year. This is always such an annoyance. Why? Because to get it fixed it means a trip to my least favourite place on campus
It seems like every year it become as bigger and bigger ordeal. I get there, nobody is there, or they can’t find me in the system, or the person that updates the cards isn’t there, or whatever. Last year it took a full 2 months to get my card sorted out. No exaggeration. Thankfully today it was pretty painless. I was in and out in a matter of minutes. Now the true test will be on Monday when I go to teach class, hopefully they did everything correctly and my card actually opens the door!
Since I was dreading going to get my card updated I promised myself if I went and got it done I could go check out the new Pete’s Frootique that opened this week in Wolfville.
My Nova Scotian readers will know that Pete’s Frootique is a local market with all sorts of fabulous goodies. Since I live in the straight up country, I was excited to see what new stuff they brought to town for me to try
Well I certainly wasn’t disappointed
Sorry for the blurry pic, that dude was watching me as I tried to be a sneaky blogger taking photos with my phone :/
They have all the produce a girl could dream of finding! Including what might just be the biggest sweet potatoes I’ve ever seen:
This photo doesn’t accurately convey their largeness
I found all sorts of goodies I wanted to take home with me, but I controlled myself and left with only a few items including a pineapple, raspberries, dates, a mystery item (more on it tomorrow!) and these lookers
FYI – they are not something one should attempt to open while driving…
What the photo doesn’t show is the cocoa all over the ledge by the speedometer where a couple of the almonds flew, nor does it show the cocoa dust all over the front of my pants in the crotch area. Lovely. When I got to the grocery store I had to use on of the wipe things they have to disinfect your grocery cart on my pants.
I’m a classy girl.
Grocery shopping was a bit of a “throw whatever looks good” in the cart situation. It’s never good to go without a list. Now that I’m home I realize I forgot to buy yeast. Crap.
A few of the other items you see are for this month’s foodie pen pal, and some of the others are exclusively for J (the bread, mini pizzas, and bagels to name a few) and of course the pop chips are for me
After all that shopping I decided to rehydrate with my favourite limeade
It’s everything a limeade should be and more, I heart it!
Well, it’s our first evening together since last Saturday (I’m not counting last Sunday since I was a big sickie) so I’m off to hang out in the basement with that guy I married while he goes for a run on the treadmill.
Have a good night!
To my local readers: have you checked out Pete’s yet? What was your favourite find??
I Choose the Tea
ONce upon a time I was a very organized person. Obsessively organized. I would organize magazines in waiting rooms, my movie collection was always in alphabetical order grouped by type (DVD vs Blu Ray, Movies vs TV Series), organizing a paperwork was my idea of a good time.
Then I became self-employed.
I teach classes every evening Monday-Thursday, as well as classes during the days. I am my own accountant, marketing dept, and well – everything else. On top of all of this one doesn’t just show up and teach Zumba, you must KNOW your songs and routines. So I listen to Zumba music all. of. the. time. Even on my weekends and days “off” I’m actually working, just not teaching. Most self-employed people will tell you when you work from home it’s hard to take the work hat off in order to maintain a balanced personal life.
And then there is my little blog. The blog that means so much to me but time and time again gets neglected. I have wonderful ideas for posts and videos to share with you – but they never seems to get done.
The girl who used to fly through paperwork like it was on fire now sits aimlessly at her desk looking at piles of papers, DVD’s and CD’s wondering what she should do first.
Enter the sign-in sheets/accounts from last week?
Work on songs for the masterclass next week?
Work on choreography for classes in the coming weeks?
Shred that huge pile of paper sitting next to the desk?
Finish getting plans ready for the trips coming up in the next three months?
Do one of the other three million things that need to get done?
Or forget it all and go have some tea?
Today, I choose the tea.
Well at least for the next 20 minutes, after that I have to throw supper together and hit the road for an afternoon class….
