Random Snippets

An open letter to the sackers at my local Kroger:

Dear keepers of the Paper or Plastic:

Let me begin by thanking you for no longer rolling your eyes every time I step into your line. Or running off on your break. Or offering to collect the trolleys in the relentless heat.
Thank you for attempting to use the cloth bags I bring to the grocery store. You are not only saving your company money--you are helping me save valuable landfill space that I will need once the KidZilla is external and generating many, many disposable diapers.
For these things, I thank you greatly.
I just have a few complaints that I think we can work on:
First, please do not put all of my heavy items into one bag and then tell me how big and heavy the bag is. If you are having trouble lifting the bag, there is little hope that I will be able to do the same. I am 37 weeks pregnant, if you did not notice, and while I have maintained some muscle definition, I am reserving all of my strength to push out a baby in the upcoming weeks. Not try to pick up three gallons of milk and orange juice. Please try to spread it out. I'd appreciate it.
Next, I assume that you must live at home and someone else buys your produce. Or you consider french fries a vegetable. Whatever the case, let me inform you that fruits and vegetables are not free. Nor indestructible. Please do not place my perfectly ripe peaches at the bottom of a bag that you are filling with canned items. I know the cloth bags really throw you for a loop, but the same sacking principles you learned at sacking school still apply.
Finally, and this is a little one, please do not try to sneak my groceries into plastic bags while I am distracted trying to pay or buy stamps or find my coupons and then put the plastic bags into my reusable bags. I'm bringing them to save plastic trees--bagging once is enough!
Oh, and for the the ignorant country bumpkin store manager who sneered at me and my cloth bags and declared "Waaaall, I've a-never seen THESE thangs bafore" with complete and utter disdain. . .just shut up. You suck and are stupid and could learn a lot from Nathaniel and Torrey, who are EXCELLENT grocery sackers and a lot more intelligent than you are at their tender 16 years of age. And they are nice, too.
So, please keep up the good work of making the world run smoothly by bagging our groceries and for indulging my whims. You really are wonderful. But, please, just use some common sense when sorting my more-than-ten-items into bags.
We'll get through this together, I promise.

Lots of love,
Sabrina

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Just to let you know that when I got into my truck after grocery shopping yesterday, the thermometer in the truck read 107F. That's 41 Celsius. I am seriously going to slap the next person who remarks that it is not all that hot out there yet.

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They just don't make maternity clothes that fit during these last few weeks. And who wants to buy more muumuus for the final month of pregnancy? Certainly not me. So I'm just looking really high class and exposing all kinds of midriff. And getting creative. Like right now I'm wearing a pre-pregnancy dress as a tunic over some leggings. I guess I was complaining about how I want to be wearing my pre-preg clothes again. Just didn't think about this option. . .

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I just found out that Chica #1, my buddy in Ireland who's from Greenville, is moving to Perth, Australia for the next two years. In my ignorance, I was all like: "I have a blog buddy who lives down in Oz and is awesome". Like she would just pop over to Willowtree's house some day. In my defense, I did look to see that the distance between Perth and WT's 'hood is something like the distance between New York and LA. Anyway. . . I think it's really awesome that they are going down under. Very exciting!

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I went to a yoga class this week, and it was one of the most challenging things I've done during my pregnancy, but it was also one of the best. I felt SO much better after the class than I have felt in ages. Absolutely amazing! All that stuff I've always told my students with achy joints, etc. in my yoga classes really IS true! I was always afraid it was a bunch of hooey since I've never had joint issues. Now that everything is really achy, stiff, sore, and swollen I can relate to my students better and assure them that while working it out doesn't feel great at the moment, the rewards are sweet.

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That's really all I have for now. I am pretty pooped these days. I still feel phenomenally good! Especially for being so large and pregnant. Not ready for this little one yet! Not tired of being pregnant yet, that's for sure! Well, gotta run!