Grocery shopping in Alameda
We had another successful trip to Trader Joe’s in Alameda this morning. We didn’t leave the house until 7:43 so it was just past 8:00 when I got in the Seniors’ Line. I’m beginning to feel a lot more at ease, especially knowing that I can come back in 2 weeks (instead of 3). The “big update” for today is that both TJ’s and Safeway will now permit us to bring in our reusable bags but we have to pack our groceries in them ourselves. That’s fine with me; the cashiers often make my bags too heavy, anyway! Today, because I knew I had paper bags in the car, I told them to just put the food back in the grocery cart because I had bags in my car. Thus, they are back to charging 10 cents a bag if you want to buy bags. I got apples and beets and spinach for putting into Emily’s next batch of dog food when Linda makes it.
We got to the Alameda Farmers’ Market right at 9 o’clock. I got our usual (our “new normal”) 4 dozen eggs, half jumbo and half large. We’re good for two weeks!
Pain Management group at 4pm
For some reason I didn’t have the right link to the WebEx session, so I phoned the Pain Clinic office and Gagan answered. She re-sent the correct link, so I was only a couple minutes late. Julie Whitehead was the host today and her tech-savviness is much higher than Angela’s! Julie did meditation and then facilitated a discussion on putting fun activities into one’s life as a strategy for mitigating pain.
Francis did the movement half of the program, with moving to music and doing other movements (like patting pretend balloons, popping pretend bubbles, etc.) designed to make us smile. He gave us a link for “fun yoga” (which I haven’t watched yet, but I’ll put it in this post):
