I've been all over town today. I've managed to get some boxes for packing our books in, to prepare in case we do get the condo. I gave away those boots I've been trying to get rid of ever since I bought them - $80 Corcoran jump boots, worn for a couple of hours, indoors. I gave them to Goodwill. I hope they get even $60 for them. It sucks, but it's a weight off my mind to not have to worry about trying to find someone who wants them. And the guy said they could use my ragged clothes as well. Well, he didn't say it so much as affirm, because he's deaf and can't speak, so we were communicating in notes. I felt right at home. :)

I randomly found some of the tiny hot peppers we've been looking for forever - yay!! :D I also bought some large dried peppers and some spoons. I was looking for green peppercorns and was completely unable to find them, though I went to four stores (and have been to at least three more stores around here on other days, recently). Green peppercorns. You wouldn't think it would be that difficult. I also bought three plane spoons for taking in our lunch bags - they ended up costing me fifty cents rather than the $1.50 they were marked, I think because the kid at the counter was embarrassed that he'd missed them when he was ringing up the peppers. And I determined that a teapot like the one I bought in England for about the equivalent of $9 would have cost me $35 - $40 if I'd bought it in the chi-chi kitchen store downtown. :)

I also bought a new rice cooker and for goodness sake I can NOT believe how much the price of those has gone up in the past few years. Although Eor points out to me that I'm supporting a local store who still stocks the same thing I want, Zojirushi brand - they haven't discontinued it and come out with something cheaper and poorly made, which annoys me so damned much when it happens - like ALL the time with everything I want. But it does suck to have to replace our rice cooker every five years because the non-stick surface starts peeling off. Is a nonstick surface inescapable and essential to a rice cooker? Eor thinks it is, and I understand the reasoning - it sucks to have to wash rice off, it does stick like a bastard - but it scares me that I've been eating that non-stick stuff. My brother says it causes tiny cuts in one's intestines just like eating finely ground glass, and one of my co-workers says he's heard that damage to the intestines can often instigate gluten intolerance. What are rice cookers like where you live?

On "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" they had the guy who's playing Sabertooth in the new "Wolverine" movie. He is (apparently like many actors who play super-villains in movies) originally a Shakespearean actor, and he says the work is not that much different, although you don't argue the lines when you're doing Shakespear. :)

Groceries will have to wait until tomorrow - there's not much of a list anyhow. I'm not even hungry, today, this is odd. I've been going since breakfast on nothing but some tea and ice cream. I have had a headache a good deal of the day, though. Laundry is done, dishes await before I can make dinner.