Oct
23
2009

Furniture & Vegemite

...Just Not Together

Friday, October 23, 2009 - 08:20:07 pm
(Posted Under: Livin' In The USA Livin' In The USA)
Waking up at 7 this morning was nice, to give us some time to enjoy the apartment somewhat, straighten up a bit, and still get out too look at furniture reasonably earlier. Which is how we spent most of the later morning and early afternoon. While we made no purchases at this point, it was certainly a worthwhile endevour. Which we'll no doubt pick up again tomorrow.

By 2 we were both absolutely starving (and parched - go figure, the desert and all [wink] ) and so I elected the resturant to fix our hunger should be non other than Fuddruckers. Rather than go to the new Mesa one, we headed out to the one in Scottsdale. And absolute awesome decision on my behalf as a Fuddrucker's chicken sandwich was exactly what was needed to calm the raging hunger! At the moment I am completely in love with two inanimate objects - our new fridge, and Fuddruckers chicken sandwich. My love for both is probably a tad unhealthy. It's fine, I can admit it! [wink] (I've had a sordid love affair with the former for quite a while of course).

After the late lunch we decided to check out Tempe Market Place, the new complex (well, newish in the last few years) that I'm largely only familiar with because of the usual suspects (particularly Violet Wild) who have played shows there over the last few years). It was also new to Katie (the landfill cleanup only just starting while she was still here), and we were both suitably impressed. Quite large, and not half as creepy as say, Desert Sky Mall. The sheer size of it also brought an immediate thought to mind - fuck off the corporatization of Mill Avenue, do all your retail here and return Mill Avenue to an arts / music location. Look out, another Mill Avenue rant. Speaking of which, it was interesting to see that Ruby Tuesday has moved down here - the last time we were here we figured that it had shut up shop when we noticed the empty building on Mill and University last month.

In anycase, we picked up some great cactii at Target on sale for the apartment. I'm pretty happy with them! We're going to need more, but these two were a great start at a great price.

Next door was World Market, a store with foods from around the world. So of course, we had to check it out. It was pretty cool seeing Australian food that I haven't seen for a while. After a little while, we hit the jackpot. It was incredibly cute how excited Katie was when she spotted that yellow jar - yes, Vegemite! There had been somewhat of a search party keeping and eye out for some in the midwest, which turned up nothing. And hence I haven't had a single bit ever since I left Australia. Which I've handled quite well actually, put by about the third month I'd have some minor cravings for it here and there. So it was pretty glorious! And...expensive! US $8.99 for one of the little 200g jars (surprisingly the majority of other stuff was a lot closer to Australian prices). But of course, there was no way we couldn't purchase some, especially given the difficulty we've had finding any thus far.

I completely forgot about this product (oh the shame) it took Katie to remind me - savory shapes. Unfortunately they didn't have any (nor Salada, which is another thing I wwouldn't mind to taste again. [smile] ). In anycase, there was joy throughout the land at finding Vegemite (which ironically I'd been talking to Aaron (Mr. 'hooked on Bunderberg Ginger Beer' ever since he went to New Zealand).

After this, and then another Target to pick up a vaccum cleaner we found last night on sale, we headed over to the storage unit to pick up more stuff. With the plants in the car we didn't have enough room to clear it out tonight either. Honestly, doing the unpacking of it and moving it to apartment, I'm actually surprised with just how much stuff we got moved here with only our car. It's really quite impressive! Many things were well executed with the move, one of them being how room we gained using the overhead bag to transport our clothes. One more trip to the storage unit and we should be done though!

In half an hour we're heading out to see Scotty play. Woo!

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