2 scoops for you?

so last time we met i was talking about a scarf, tv tax and my new job.

so i have gotten a number of free organic products as well as international goody products. ruth was very nice and gave me a pack of burts bees lotion set, so i have shared those with my roommate fransesca, there is no reason to horde, i would just have to give them to her when i left in a few months anyway. so the final day of the work week came with a paycheck, and getting to leave a half hour early. it was really slow on saturday in the shop. i must have straightened every shelf like 3 times and then some. i restocked what i had, dropped a bag of soya beans, as they call them not in the US, on the floor and had to try and sweep them up.

and i'm sure you want to all hear about the allergy doctor, he comes in every saturday and tuesday to do allergy tests, i saw the little machine, i don't know what it does and i really don't want to spend the 40 euros to find out, but perhaps my discount applies to this as well. so whenever i talk to him or say hello or something like that, it's like talking to the southpark character with the snowsuit pulled over his head. i can barley understand him from his irish accent and he mumbles. he was eating a piece of candy off the counter and he offered me one and i said "you be the taste tester and just let me know how they are" there was a laugh and then some candy wrapper noise, then pretty soon he was handing me a piece of candy, so to make him happy i just took it and ate it, i decided it would be easier he then threw the candy wrapper in the flammable material can...i don't know...i just work here. but he's a nice guy, no incidents with the toaster today, i think he went out for lunch.

i was also sent to the resturant juice, to get Amon, Ruth and myself a juice we all got: apple, carrot, beetroot, ginger, sparaiglina. it was not bad i must say, and i am getting used to these lame little errands around the town.

during my lunch break, fransesca met me in temple bar meeting squre (started by the quakers but now used for cultural events) there was an organic market that takes place every saturday as well as a book fair. i bought us each a feta cheese, black olive, pesto, sun dried tomato, table greens crepe, absolutely fabulous. and the crepe was fresh, and from a van (ask kevin erickson for detail on the lefse van). we also each purchased a dessert but both decided like most irish desserts had too much butter. i had a piece of banana cake, not very bananaie, and fransesca had a lemon bar, not very lemonoy. but beautiful fruits and vegetables, all sorts of foods you could choose from, there was an olive bar, a fruit and nut stand so cheese stands etc. no live animals though. there was also someone playing bob dylan songs, but not bob dylan. i also found out a rumor about who my boss is at Down to Earth, apparently according to some irish people who work at Cultivate(our competition, kind of) the owner of Down to Earth is none other then...Colin Farrell's father, wether or not this is true i don't know, i'm not going to ask unless, someone else in the shop brings it up.

so my day will end with me making some pizza from a pizza crust i bought at the shop, and some sauce i made yesterday for my free organic spelt noodles, with pinach, garlic and fresh mozzorella from the food hall, it's kind of like a mom and pop grocery shop only with a wine seller, ready to eat foods and some other gourmet stuff.

tomorrow morning, fransesca and i hope to go to the mountains, by bus and hike for the day, then i will go shopping on monday for another pair of pants to wear in the shop, since i currently am wearing the same thing on a daily basis, as i would do as experiments, and out of sheer lazyness at barnes and noble, old habits die hard.

so funny saying of the day "football free zone" written on a sign outside a coffee shop on abbey street. it is starting to get out of control with the people misbehaving, i heard someone kicking the side of a garda vehicle as it drove by this afternoon, but this could have also been the israel peaceful protest outside of the post(office, the people who dole out the TV tax).

xoxo,
christie