Rainy, but Beautiful

or... Because of Winn-Dixie, not the dog, not the book, but the grocery store

Wonderful day today. It started with the mood-brightening sleeping in. True, it was only until 9:00, but it felt good.

Next, lunch at Quizno's. For those of you who don't know, they recently did the Million Sub Giveaway. Basically, if you didn't register for it within the first four or five days, you missed out. A free small sub. So, Blake and I headed down to our local shop and got our free subs, which were extremely tasty. May I just say that Quizno's is a million times better than Subway? Their food quality if so much better.

Then, I went to the library, which is one of my favorite things ever. The one closest to me is a branch library on the Pensacola Junior College campus. It's not very large, but books are books! I spent an hour in there, just perusing the shelves. It was great... and I got seven books out. They do four weeks, which is just plain awesome.

Then, I went to Wal-Mart for Blake and then, to Winn-Dixie.

I'm from New York State. We do not have Winn-Dixie grocery stores. Our best stores are Wegman's... and what stores they are. *sigh* I do love Wegman's and I miss them terribly, truth be told. Well, today I did my first serious shopping at Winn-Dixie and I am very impressed. The prices, the food, not that much different from Shaw's or Publix (which we also don't have in the north), but the deals! The deals were absolutely astronomically, orgasmically, beautifully beautiful.

Their buy one, get one deals were the best I have ever seen. I got eight jars of Classico pasta sauce , two packages of pork chops, two packages of chicken thighs, two bundles of broccolli, two bags of tilapia, pasta on sale, cheap tuna, sale milk, and cheap Parm-Romano cheese.

I saved $35 with all my sale items. I was in heaven.

To round out the day, last night, Blake and I made chocolate-chip-oatmeal-raisin-cookies. I found a recipe that is hands down, the best cookie recipe I've ever found. Yes, like all other recipes, it could use a little tweaking of amounts, but they're tasty. They also look like a picture in a book, like those expensive cookies they charge you four bucks a pop for at Starbucks.

Now, I'm going to play video games until I make myself motion sick (approx. 30 mins) and then read. Yes, I am having a very good day indeed

p.s.
This motion-sickness thing is creepy. I used to be very, very sensitive to first-person video games when I first started playing, though I've never been sick on anything but a roller coaster in my life. After awhile, my body learned to deal with the video game movements. Then, I received Quantum of Solace and man, it's like being a noob again... thirty minutes tops.