Strawberry Fields

Just got back from strawberry picking with my mother. We go out to Denmark ... sit in a row ... and pick strawberries. The only draw they have going for me is that you can eat as much as you want while you are there. Then you pay for what you're taking along. One of these times I'm just going to go out there ... pick a bucket full and then sit there and eat them all. Mwahaha.

Other than that - it hasn't been a real eventful day. I couldn't sleep last night. Again. I need to have the air conditioning on! I need to be able to wrap up in a comforter and snuggle down. I like to be cold/cool when I sleep. Damn stupid centeral air that keeps freezing up. So anyway - I'm tired. I have been for a while. Can't get to sleep and then when I finally do ... something happens. The cat jumps on me, my mom/dad/nephew/brother/sister/insert someone here walks into my room and wakes me up. Or - my least favorite - the alarm clock.

I had a "here's your sign" moment at the health food store today. I walked in with my mother and we are getting the regular pills that I have been getting there for a while now. I know what the bottle looks like and I'm trying to remember where exactly I get them (it's a small store). And this guy walks up and wants to know if he can help us. I steer towards a different isle. I hate being helped ... when there is nothing I need help with. I am one of those people who - if I can go in, grab what I want, and go to one of those new computerized checkouts, and never have to talk to a person - I'm only too happy. I am very low-key customer service. I will find you if I have a problem...not the other way around.

So anyway, I get my bottle and start looking around. I would have sworn the last time I got them for $5. Now they say $11.95. Hmmm. So I am looking around - perhaps there is another brand with a bigger bottle or something. If I have to spend more than $10 anyways - I may as well get the biggest there is, right? Well, that guy comes back around and tries again - is there something I can help you ladies find? I'm like, yes - is there a bigger bottle of these? I don't care what brand they are. (Notice the key words here - bigger bottle) He brings me around to the first isle, grabs a bottle and drops it into my hands. Big smile. And off he goes.

I then read the bottle. Same type of supplement. However, this one says only 60 pills and they are chewable. My origin bottle has 250. As the guy is walking away, I have my eyebrow raised in wonder. It really is a bottle about twice the size of the one I picked out. Huge bottle. Less than half the pills though. And I say to myself - well, I did ask for a bigger bottle.