Mmmm… Calcium, and Light Posting
Sadie must have a calcium craving this morning. She asked for cheese for breakfast, and then for strawberry milk. Not coffee. Which has a lower proportion of milk in it than strawberry milk. She didn’t ask for a pickle, or fruit, or raisins or cashews or whatever. Speaking of pickles, we got a jar of the cutest little miniature gherkins yesterday. They’re Sadie-sized. Speaking of calcium, we got some yogurt, too, which Sadie hasn’t tried since she was a baby. Speaking of shopping, the night before last we went to the BJ’s in Taunton for the first time. I used to go to the Avon store, because it was under 5 minutes from the old apartment.
At two years old you would think the Taunton store was brand new, and built to acknowledge the fact of competition from things like Wal-Mart Supercenters (the amazing Plymouth version of which we went to yesterday). My first thought on walking into it was that the store layout exactly matched that of the Costco in Sherbrooke, Quebec, which is the only Costco I have been in, and a very nice store. From my father’s in Vermont, right on the border, it’s either shop up in that area, probably 40 miles away, or drive all the way across the state at an angle to Burlington, an all day jaunt.
The BJ’s even has parking for customers with infants! We thought we were just getting an insanely good spot - and we still would have even without that - but then we saw the sign… and it happened to apply. Go us.
That BJ’s is one of the nicest stores I have ever been in. My only complaint is the weird traffic pattern they setup for entering the plaza. Well, that and the pair of employees going around gathering empty boxes for the “free boxes” cart, who pretended we weren’t there rather than moving the box cart to the side a foot to let us pass and look at what we wanted in that aisle. They were being low life pricks and there’s no excuse for that.
Anyway, I have to work on billing. It should have been done several days ago. Even though they almost always pay faster, terms are net 15 and it’s the 15th and rent is due the 1st. I’ve just been a combination of busy and skittish about giving the big client a second really huge bill in a row. I figure the extra several days will make it feel less bad. These two will have been larger than all but a handful of other months since we started in January 1999.
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