Today's score so far

[dianec42]

5 out of 6, not bad...

Parking: Only about the fifth or sixth best spot in all of Santa Monica... someone was leaving just as I entered the parking structure, so I got to park about 20 feet from the sidewalk. Score!

Barnes and Noble: Oh my yes. Bought loads of things I didn't even know I needed, including some last-minute pressies for stuartc. Also successfully killed time to 10 AM when everything else opened. (And they've started carrying Cross Stitcher magazine! Of course it was the Christmas issue, which I bought in the UK months ago. Still, there is hope for the future.)

Sur La Table: Successful Christmas pudding-age, sixpence included. Spared the agony of deciding whether to get a little one or a big one by the fact that they only had big ones left.

Ye Olde King's Head: Assam tea successfully acquired. Adorable Christmas mini-puddings successfully resisted.

Santa Monica Trader Joe's: Triple play! Found a street parking spot with 35 minutes still on the meter; they had plenty of semi-sweet chocolate chips on the shelf; and they had the express lane open.

Then I got cocky and tried to go to Albertson's supermarket to get brown sugar so I can make chocolate chip cookies... dear God, I feel lucky to have escaped the parking lot with my life, soul, and car intact. (Not to mention my liberty and pursuit of happiness, which probably would have been curtailed if I'd actually killed anyone. Like the cops could have got in there either.) Oh well, there's always the 24-hour Ralphs at 3 in the morning option...

Not a bad morning's work, and I suppose I can always make the cookies tomorrow.

Comments

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

dear God, I feel lucky to have escaped the parking lot with my life, soul, and car intact.

Oh my! I consider myself VERY lucky to be within walking distance of a Safeway! (plus it's never that bad out here or at the local TJs anyway. Much different then the mayhem that occurs in the parking lot of the Rockville TJs.)

(ooo choc chip cookes ;) )

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

(ooo choc chip cookes ;) )

Working on it... I've never seen such insanity in my life. (Sharing a parking lot with Costco is probably the main problem. *shudder*) Going to try the local Mexican market next, hopefully I won't have to ask where it is 'cause I remember "azucar" is how you say sugar, but I have no recollection whatsoever of how to say "brown" or even "dark"... and yes, I'm walking.

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

Chesuli posted this today:

(Oh, and you add one tablespoon molasses per cup white sugar to make light brown sugar, 2 tablespoons per cup for dark)

and yeah, I bet the Costco is the main reason. Ours has it's own parking lot - is also real close (but not quite walking distance) but it's insane there. Not just busy... but dangerous. I try to go there near closing or opening on less peak days, and sometimes I can't even stand to go then.

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

fya - (for your amusement) she's also making CCCs. Made her usual ton of cookies... but all the CCCs got eaten at her party and the firehouse santa asked for some.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Sadly, there's no molasses in the house either. I'd need to go to the... d'oh!

I'm really cranky about the Costco being so mobbed because the car's going to need gas soon, and they're like 20 cents a gallon cheaper than even Arco these days. Please, parking gods, let it be totally dead on Sunday...

Off to the supermercado now, cross your fingers for me.