English loot

Yes, I'm going to write the wedding up, and all the other posts I should make, but somehow this one wants to come first. It's all listage, anyway.

What I got in England was ( books, )

( food, )

and ( miscellaneous other papers )

(maps and schedules and such).

Hm. Should that "was" be a "were," since I listed books before food? Hm.

bits and pieces

• An unexpected side effect of the Mahoney's on Mem Dr. closing: that extra little block it was on is now closed off on Sundays like the rest of that stretch, which is annoying. I need to remember the traffic pattern has changed.
  
• Trader Joe's has kosher Pop Tarts! Well, toaster pastries, anyway. Nature's Path stuff is all organic, too. I had the Apple Cinnamon ones, and they're pretty nice. (Though I would've been very happy to never have seen the phrase '"kidalicious" EnviroKidz^TM line" (of products).)
  
• I need to remember that I have addictive tendencies when it comes to games (sometimes reading, too, but I seem to have replaced games for books). Games that can be played solitaire, so I can keep on playing and playing and playing and playing... even when I know I need to stop. *sigh*
  
• There's a kosher pickle factory in Worcester! I got to sample their sours and half-sours, and yum! (I'm not even a big pickle fan, either.) Note, though, that the "small" container is one gallon, the large is four gallons.... Perhaps I need to host something at which I can serve lots of pickles :-).
  
• I got a couple of day passes from Healthworks. Anyone (female) interested?
  
• Happy (happy?) Memorial Day! (should that be Mem Day?) For the Britishers, happy Bank Holiday (is it the spring holiday?)

numbers from England (read: apparently obligatory reference to recent holiday :-)
days in England: 6.5
games of Cities and Knights played: 6
packaged sandwiches eaten: 6.5
meals eaten in restaurants: 1
meals cooked: 1
rolls of film brought: 8
photos taken: 0
plays seen: 1
movies seen (DVD): 3
walks including public rights of way: 2
modes of public transportation used: 4 (allowing light rail as not the same as the Tube or a train)
new LJ friends made: 4
loads of laundry done: 0.5
rain events: unknown but many

to do

• order a composter, gosh darn it!
  
• buy dirt, and transplant plants
  
• find some new skirts and/or jumpers for summer
  
• figure out what I want to do about the mortgage (ie refinance or not)
  
• consider upgrading to DSL (any suggestions for providers?)
  
• pay the dentist
  
• clean, laundry, dishes, cook, yadda, yadda, yadda
  
• write the posts that have been meandering around my head, if only to make room for something new.