Skipped a week of posts due to travel and catching up with work. Sigh.

There was baby kicking! Yay! I love baby kicking. It was hard not to poke at them when they were quiet. Well, except when I wanted to sleep or needed to pee.

So we just made the decision to pull Nate from middle school and enroll him in Florida Virtual school.

Both the boys have taken classes with FLVS and I was very pleased. I think it is a good choice.

{{DJ & Jon}} I'm sorry it has been such rough time for you. Also, it is so very good to see you here more again. I've missed you.

We went to see Time Traveller's Wife.

How was it? I enjoyed the book well enough, but am hesitant to see the movie for some reason.

Well, most of the stuff that I wanted at the health food store was more expensive than it is at Whole Foods. Why can't my neighborhood have a decent supermarket? Almost all of this stuff is stuff that I've seen in the bigger Safeways and Giants, but never in the tiny one near me.

I also bought some goji berries, which cure everything and make you live forever, or something like that. They taste kind of like halfway between dried cherries and dried cranberries. They're way too expensive to have more than a few a day, though.

The Whole Foods debacle made me look up online a bunch of stuff I could only get retail there (JASON's sweetener-free toothpastes and scent-free soaps) online, and they're unsurprisingly cheaper. So I'm glad for that.

Oh, good. I really like JASON stuff. I don't shop at Whole Foods though, anyway. Now I have to remember where I get my JASON stuff. I think at Longs?

Hil, you'd love my hood's little organic grocery. It's maybe 1k square feet, but they do a fantastic job. I can't believe it's tucked away in a strip mall on the border of San Leandro and Oakland, but there it is. Such a lovely little surprise to find when I moved.

Fortunately, WF stopped carrying the JASON moisturizer I use (not in all stores, I think, just the one near me), so I'm out of reasons to shop there anyway.

At the Safeway near me, it's kind of hit or miss whether they'll have tofu on a given day. They never have any of the spices I want, and fruits there are apples, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, grapes, bananas, and sometimes strawberries. There will usually be a few other things in addition to those, but those are the only ones that you can count on them having.

There's a co-op with local and organic goods half a mile from me, as well as a lovely farmers market a similar distance away on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I also go by a Fresh Market on the way to and from work. I have no earthly reason to go to Whole Foods ever again. It's sort of like boycotting bourbon when you have a fine selection of reasonably priced single malt scotches three blocks away.

Wasn't there a TT thread on WF a long time ago? I vaguely recall an employee (or maybe more) writing about her awful experiences working there. Ring a bell anyone?

I'm probably not going to be able to maintain this no-Whole Foods position. There are just too many things that I can't get anywhere else around here.

Wow. Wow wow wow. Someone screwed the fuck up, and there's a hell lot of silver lining for it (well, for me).

Someone, apparently, gave my email to a local artist I love for mailing list needs. So far, so good.

I click on the email to read, and see all of the recripents' emails. Among, some big name VIPs, Everyone Who is Someone in the Israeli Indie/Alternative Scene, but most of all - the fangirl gasped - the emails of the two artists who gives me goosebumps and, y'know, there are no words to say how much I cherish their musical work - well, there are, but I won't post them here and now.

HA!

Now, I'm all Goody Two Shoes who'll NEVER use said email to, let's say, write a sentimental love letter to two of her top fucking beloved artists (Katamine (Assaf Tager) and Noam Rotem, if you're keeping track). But I'm all greening widely and madly here, at the start of pulling a white night to finish a paper for tomorrow, because of this (well, that and the Soulsavers' new album that's on streaming now).

Seriously. I know I'm, like, 12 year old for getting all excited over this, but a part of me goes "Yeahhhhhh!".

Um, if Ofra Haza were still alive and on the email list I woulda bribed you bigtime for her address!!! I am kinda still not over her death.