(no subject)

[mrissa]

So. Freakin'. Tired.

timprov actually has a post about the doctor visit of this morning. We've been playing phone tag trying to get his next appointment set up (different doctor). We classify this as progress. (Umm. As I was writing this, the person called back to schedule the next appointment, and the first opening she had was late June. So we're going to call around to see if we can get something better than that, because...no. Not okay, really.)

markgritter also actually has a post about how he's doing. So really, I'm not in charge of telling you people for once.

I adore Byerly's so much. Sometimes I think I should use the line from War for the Oaks in my lj bio: "'I have it on good authority that anything that can be got at all can be got at Byerly's.'" Yah. For true. And for important, too. I now have things for tonight dinner and tomorrow dinner, and they can be lovely and tasty and at least moderately healthy. And I'm even a little excited about them, even as tired as I am, because they will be so good. Ohhhhh, Byerly's goodness.

I went and poked around until I found the old journal entry with that quote in it, "In Which We House Hunt With the Not-Dead Ghost of Emma Bull." You know what? The people who told me to prepare to be disappointed moving back here were wrong. It is, in fact, all that, plus whatever groceries you like. It is all that and a bag of chips purchased at Byerly's. Go read that entry if you want more Mrissa Story right now. I'll try to come back with what I promised jmeadows I'd tell tonight, but right now I'm just ready to lie down and stare at the ceiling for awhile. I probably won't. But I'm ready to.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Okay, so the point in the entry itself:

--I am glad to be home.
--There is an extremely comfy-to-me store in my home that carries things that cater specifically to my wants, needs, and tastes.
--I am willing to quote other people's obvious hyperbole to join in their praise of that store. (At least, I thought it was obvious that it was hyperbole, both within the context of the original book and within the context of this journal entry. You know and I know that Byerly's does not sell even close to everything one could want or even everything I personally could want. Books and women's clothing are both conspicuously absent, without even resorting to life insurance. So the idea that this would be taken so literally did not occur to me.)

Then the point of lefse as an example, keeping the above in mind:
--Other places in the world certainly have things that this store does not -- and in some cases certainly have more things than this store has -- but they are not necessarily my things, and some of the places with larger total selection will omit things that rate fairly highly on my personal scale of what is and is not important. Lefse is an example of something disproportionately important to me, available at Byerly's, and fairly likely not to be available in a Japanese department store.