Annie's Blog

Lots of random today, but that’s OK because today is the start of a (magic) three-day weekend. We’re starting the evening with a fish tacos experiment, with leftover Swedish meatballs for the kids. They don’t like fish. Actually, I don’t really like fish either, but every once in a while I get a tickle to try again. So, fish tacos.

Because of the fish tacos, I had to run to the grocery store to pick up some limes and some fresh cilantro. The local grocery store has signs up on all the doors and at all the registers letting you know that you can add a donation to the Red Cross for Haiti to your grocery bill. So I did. And because I did, so too did the man in the checkout line behind me. He thought he was going to have to fill out a form or something–when he saw how easy it was, he donated. That’s a good feeling.

So then I was checking blogs and saw that Crazy Aunt Purl had put up her own knit signal for Haiti donations. So I e-mailed her the grocery store option and she added it to her post. Which then led to a brief discussion of a.) the end of the world (otherwise known as a predicted 7 inches of rain in SoCal) and b.) a kernel of an idea to campaign for Cracker Barrel to come to California.

It’s slightly embarrassing to admit, but while we were living in Las Vegas, we once made a special trip to St. George just to eat at the Cracker Barrel. And that 2,400-calorie breakfast was *so* worth it! If I remember correctly, part of the reason that CB hasn’t come to California has to do with their supplier policies. I may be misremembering, but I seem to recall that the stores that aren’t owned by the parent company (less than one-third) are required to purchase from the parent company suppliers, and they don’t deliver out west.

But a girl can dream.

Speaking of dreaming, I better get moving so that I can get the fish in to marinate.