My lunch today, post encounter with my lover, Trader Joe:
-Tarte d'Alsace--ham slivers, gruyere, caramelized onions, etc., on a pastry crust. DIE. In Heaven. Shout out to Sarah, who told me to try this!! Violet wouldn't touch it because she's a total butthead like that.
-Mixed Spring Baby Greens w/Champagne & Pear Vinaigrette, dried cranberries, & walnuts
-Trader Joe's Spicy Cider, chilled & iced. Fall love!!!!!
With a glistening bead of drool at the corner of my mouth, I carefully unwrapped my Tarte and got ready to place it in the toaster oven. Looking up, I glimpsed my Dad stumping towards the kitchen. Gah! I got the HECK out of there. Waited for 7 minutes in my "living room". Came back out to the kitchen to find/smell...freaking, EFFING mystery meat hamburger patty sizzling away on the foreman and covering up the joyous fragrance of my holy Tarte!!! Soooo much offense and anger in my heart.
But. My "living room" is a sanctuary. I can solitarily consume my Tarte, salade, & cider, while reading away at my laptop and listening to the happiness of Wright/Violet as they play with their Trader Joe's balloons ("Ball! Ball!") and watch Little Bear.
As for the that neighborhood? Well. It is engineered to appeal to my old-fashioned sensibilities. Mixed, old-style house styles. Street parking in the front, garages in the alley out back. Trader Joe's and coffee within walking distance. And those pretty, pretty park areas all over the neighborhood. *Sigh* I sooo identify with New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Design. (Huh? Wikipedia that sh!t.)
The thing is, I started to think, how is a neighborhood with upper, upper middle class to wealthy income houses mixed development? Sure, they have an apartment complex thrown in there, but please. That's just lip service. Then, I found out that earlier this year, its residents completely freaked out because a non-profit bought a home there to house autistic adults. They, like, protested at a town meeting & everything. People were all, we're scared to walk our children, eek! Like, fly your ignorant bigot flag SO high! Un-believable. I mean, I'm sure not all the residents felt that way, but sheesh. Buncha rich douches. (Oh, I've sooo put on blue-collar-ish resentment today!)
Nah, they can have their faux neighborhood and silicone breasted wives. Imma take my garage in front, big ol' backyard in the back master planned development where everyone stays inside their own yards. Er, eventually. *sniff*
Hands down, the best Trader Joe's around, though. And it has this awesome fountain & park right outside it where Sam can let the kids run around like crazy while I shop.
(I still want to live there.)
(Kinda.)
9 comments:
haha! I love it!! Isn't it like The most delicious thing ever. I don't even want to share it. I can never move away from a TJs or I would DIE! I wish I had a TJs in my neighborhood(and Starbucks) Oh, btw there's a house in our development, LOve the floor plan, the people I used to babysit for lived in one and it's so nice, up for sale!! Check it out... :)
http://willisallen.idx.roost.com/moreinfo/2230-Golden-Oak-Pl-Escondido-CA-92027-6507/11173186/
Wow! That's definitely NOT the Trader Joe's I shop at! I LOVE Trader Joe's. Great prices and yummy food and good wine and yummy cookies and I can't wait until the pumpkin bread mix comes back. That says "FALL has arrived" to me.
Okey, I'm totally envious and jealous... minus of course the whole Dad-meat-patty-thing! :)
and yes I know how to spell Okay!!!
Hey, Canadian okeys are okey here, soo don't worry aboot it, okey?
confession: I have forever lusted after just about every home in Bressi Ranch since...yeah they were wooden frames. Its just so...ideal and cozy and yet class and arogance at the same time! The wrap around porches...to die for. But...yeah- buncha snobs and really....the price...outta control. And, your post made me feel like I'm really missin out on something amazing because I'm not shopping a TJ's. Maybe me shoulds rethinkith that one?!
Lyn! You don't shop at TJs?!?!? OMG, where have you been! Get over there and enjoy the awesomeness that is Trader Joes!! :)
But Lyn does always have lovely, well-organized food in her spotlessly clean fridge. I'm afraid shopping at TJ's might mess up her system! It's like learning another language when you start shopping there! :)
I know- its a sin isn't it? Its just soooooo far and I'm 1. lazy when it comes to driving 2. only know how to shop at (dare I say it?) Costso or Sams club. okay- you may burn me at the stake now.
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