Today: Order in

I wasn’t sure if having our groceries delivered was lazy and wasteful, or just plain genius.  Now that our first Peapod delivery has arrived, I am leaning toward the latter.

I’ve been slow to make friends in our new building (save for the older gentleman who complimented me on my sequin shoes in the elevator yesterday morning, and then asked if I was hoping to get back to Kansas.  Brilliant.).  I think it might be because I look like hell on wheels, stumbling through the lobby after picking up groceries on my way home from work, dropping boxes of couscous or econo-packs of toilet paper or wayward bunches of asparagus.

Most nights, as I lead a one person parade of exploding bags, I’d pass a cool, calm and collected Peapod delivery person, equipped with a rolling cart and neatly organized green bins.  Why I took me so long to make the call is, as most things are, beyond me.

Being a generally lucky and observant person, I had happened upon a random $10 off coupon and was staring down a lengthy shopping list.  So I bit the bullet sat before my adorable Mac Book and added item after item to the virtual cart.  Fast forward 12 or so hours and an amiable delivery person was unloading our very own bin of groceries in the kitchen.  Amazing.

You know how I feel about Diet Coke (the jig is up, I unquit drinking the DC), but do you have any idea how I feel about a 3/$11 sale on 12 packs?  Am I really writing about this?  Regardless, carrying 1 pack, let alone 3, up the stairs is enough to make me want to quit cold turkey… but if someone else is carrying them… well hello, deally.

I am now officially ashamed I wrote 4+ paragraphs (and poorly, at that) about food shopping.  Please just take my word for it: While it might feel slothful and unconscionable in a recession, having your groceries delivered means you save time, you save gas, you don’t buy Twinkies or the Enquirer at the checkout, and you most certainly do not drop and shatter a bottle of Pom Wonderful on the floor of your building’s glistening lobby.  Disgraceful.

Also On Tap for Today:

• Study up for Trivia!  We have a 1st place title to defend.  I am hoping there are more French questions this week.
• Continue my hunt for the perfect birthday presents.

Who are the people in your neighborhood?  And how have you made a fool of yourself in front of them?