Day 14 – April 25
Nothing particularly exciting happened today, so I’m going to write about grocery shopping. I can’t remember a time if my life of ever going to the grocery store without a car. Even in college when I didn’t have a car, I ate mostly in the dorm and didn’t have to worry about carrying all of my groceries. Well, now is a very different story. So, I am told that the most convenient grocery stores are actually in the town were I work and that the guy who lives in the area where my new apartment is, actually buys his groceries here, hikes to the DART station, rides on the train for 20 min. and then walks to his apartment. This may not sound too bad, but have you every tried carrying your groceries around town for 40 min? It takes very careful planning to determine what you need for the next 2-3 days, making sure that it will all fit in your backpack or whatever bag you are using and then dealing with pedestrian traffic and a crowded train. And somehow trying not to crush your eggs and bread. I also am a bit curious about the lack of refrigeration. Eggs in the grocery stores are not refrigerated….Hmm…is that ok? They also have brown shells vs. white. I’m not quite sure why they are not refrigerated. Also, at work each morning there is a small jug of milk set out and people use it throughout the day in their coffee. It is not refrigerated either…how can the milk not spoil? I haven’t tried the milk because I have been too afraid of a tummy ache!
I’m looking forward to reading a book tonight! I didn’t really have space in my suitcases for reading material, so I have been reading all of the Ireland travel books that I brought. I am really ready for a story! A girl at work talked about a work book club and some of the books they have read in the past. She brought in a couple books for me to read. Yeah! I haven’t adjusted to the tv over here. Last night 3 out of the 4 tv channels that I get were soccer. I knew the sport was popular over here, but I had no idea that it occupied so much prime time tv!
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Hi Tara, OK reading your entry I was curious so I looked up the egg and dairy questions. (I have heard more than once that it was all right to leave eggs out at room temperature). What several websites said was pretty much that they wouldn't leave either of them out for more than two hours at a time and in 38 states it is now illegal for retailers not to refrigerate egss. Jen
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