An Ode to The Little Things

Except not really an ode. Because there's no way in the Secret Garden that I'm going to write poetry with looming AP exams.

I write this because I realized on the way home from Food Lion that grocery shopping (with a reasonable amount of money) is truly one of my favorite things to do in this world. Some people like clothes shopping - and I do sometimes too - but clothes JUDGE YOU. People in the store judge you for your choices. You judge yourself for how you look AND your choices. Food don't judge, friends.

Well. You may get some judgment from others if you buy thirteen gallons of Blue Bunny. But then you can forget about that while you butter pecan your sorrows away.

Anyway, speaking of junk food, that's not what I buy for my enjoyment purposes (no, I buy other things (;). When at fast food places, I'm more like Blue Bunny girl, but in grocery stores that have a freaking rainbow of plant reproductive organs, that's what I go for.

A. It's super cheap. Calorie to cent wise, yes, food stamp researchers, junk food IS cheaper, but volume and nutrition to cent wise? SO MUCH DEAL COMES FROM FRESH THINGS.
B. Because of A, I can buy a lot. Which makes me haaaappppyyy. I came home today (on $21.47) with a bag of large shrimp, 4 kiwis, 4 Roma tomatoes, about a quarter of a cabbage head (they gave it to me free cause I wanted what other people ripped off muahaha), a yellow squash, 2 zucchini, pad thai noodles and seasoning, a red bell pepper, many bean sprouts, sliced baby bella mushrooms, and joy. With some pasta and such I have at home, I have minimum 10 servings of food. Don't even tell me college kids have to eat ramen. They only have to eat ramen if all they know how to work is a microwave. Which makes college meal plan pricing very clearly a pile of BS that I will not continue after freshman year.

See? Simple things. I, Moriah Murray, derive great pleasure out of selecting fruits and vegetables. Meats, cheeses and dairy too. (A guy actually asked me to help him pick a lime tonight because he said I looked like I knew what I was doing, perusing all that fruit hahaha. He'd never done it before, apparently.) Having simple decisions that really have no negative consequences and can only bring positives is the most soothing thing ever, especially now that people (very much including me) are having to run themselves dry with tough decisions.

I also enjoy sitting in the aisles of Books a Million just smelling the paper, where I found a book in which a man wrote down things that made him happy for some ridiculous amount of time. Many years. Every day. And it was awesome, because they weren't like "ohoho, I enjoy my frequent vacations to my private island", they were things like argyle sweaters and, well, the smell of paper.

So, revelation to me in the driver's seat of a Chevy Tahoe (which I am not getting in the future, so loud) that I will share with you: don't dread everyday things like buying food, doing laundry, etc. They're so much more fun when you want to be there, and are singing while you do them.

XOXO and Stuff,
Moriah