feast shopping day
Nov. 1st, 2017 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaThis morning's walk to work had some lovely timing. As I left the neighbourhood I passed the guys who are working on digging the trench for the cable for the internet fiber-optic cable, one of whom was digging by hand, so I paused and chatted briefly with him (in Swedish!), where I learned that they will be working in our neighbourhood till the end of the week, and the scheduled day for first having signal flowing through the fiber is 18 December. So I called David to report as I continued my walk. I reached the road and started across it as my phone was still ringing, and what should I see driving down the road, but David & Caroline on their way to work from the apartment. So instead of answering the phone he pulled over into the bus stop, gave me a kiss, got my report and then they headed on their way (her to Gammelstad, he to Piteå) and I went the other direction to uni. There is nothing like an unexpected kiss to brighten one's morning. (Not that there had been anything wrong with my morning before the kiss, but it still made it better.)
After work Cajsa picked me up just after noon, and we went shopping for the feast food. Our cook lives in Oulu, Finland, and will be bringing passengers from Helsinki with him, so he doesn't really have the space in his car for the food, to say nothing of it being easier to buy the food with SEK than having to convert between € and SEK to pay him back. Since I want to have a good idea of how much is being spent on the "other meals", which I am responsible for, and how much on the feast itself we decided to do it in two trips. First we did all of the shopping for the meals I am responsible for (Friday dinner, Saturday and Sunday breakfast) and took that (1 fairly full shopping cart) out to the car. Then we went back in and started his shopping. That wasn't as easy--I had organized my list sorted by type and based on where the things are located in the store. His list was based on what dish things were needed for. Plus there were times when we weren't entirely certain what he meant. A couple of things weren't available at all--our store doesn't carry tapioca flour, and I could't find a gluten free bread that didn't contain gluten free wheat (and at least one of our gluten free people can't eat wheat or even oats). Hopefully Gilbert will be able to find that in Finland.
We did put off shopping for two items. He wanted lamb, but they didn't have as much available today as he wanted (9 kg), so we ordered it to be picked up on Friday, since Cajsa will be picking up a couple of students who live right next to the store anyway. Since she was coming back we also ordered the bread to be picked up on the same day.
While we were shopping my friend Åsker called to say he was at my place to pick up his SCA stuff that we have been storing for him since the last event he attended. (He flew south directly after that event, and was loaning his car to a friend while gone, and didn't want to leave the stuff in the car while it was being borrowed. He could have driven the stuff an hour north to drop it off then, and then turn right around and come back to Luleå to fly out, but that didn't make sense.) We were getting kind of close to done shopping at that point, but I didn't think we could be completely done and back home in less than a half an hour (it actually took almost a full hour) he decided not to wait for me, but just took the bag of costumes and feast gear from our shed (which isn't locked), and decided to get the bedding, which I had tucked into the empty roof-box (which he had given me in the first place) to keep clean and out of the way, later, because I had moved that roof box to the container when it arrived, as it fit under the shelves of wood there, but not under the shelves in the shed. Of course the container was locked, and the key in the house which was both locked, and the alarm turned on, so he wouldn't be able to get that without waiting for me. But he assures me that he has other bedding at home he will be able to use this weekend, and went on his way.
A bit later the service place called to say that the car was ready, so we went from the store to pick up my car, transferred the food to my car and she went home to meet her new housemate who is moving in this evening, and I came home and filled the second fridge with food, finishing that task at 16:35, so more than four hours after leaving the office!
Then I turned some of the flour and butter I had bought into enough pie crust dough for 12 pies. He had suggested that we buy pastry, but I would far prefer to eat home made dough, so it was worth my time to make it. However, I have decided not to bake thank-you cookies this year, I don't really have the time/energy to manage that. Before Friday morning I need to have finished packing everything, print menus and other event stuff, decide which people who booked beds are sleeping in which house (and print that, too), finish the embroidery on the hood, and keep working on memorizing my poem and my period tune. I wonder if there are any students going who would like a ride to the event in exchange for helping me with loading and unloading the car? I need to go look at the list...
After work Cajsa picked me up just after noon, and we went shopping for the feast food. Our cook lives in Oulu, Finland, and will be bringing passengers from Helsinki with him, so he doesn't really have the space in his car for the food, to say nothing of it being easier to buy the food with SEK than having to convert between € and SEK to pay him back. Since I want to have a good idea of how much is being spent on the "other meals", which I am responsible for, and how much on the feast itself we decided to do it in two trips. First we did all of the shopping for the meals I am responsible for (Friday dinner, Saturday and Sunday breakfast) and took that (1 fairly full shopping cart) out to the car. Then we went back in and started his shopping. That wasn't as easy--I had organized my list sorted by type and based on where the things are located in the store. His list was based on what dish things were needed for. Plus there were times when we weren't entirely certain what he meant. A couple of things weren't available at all--our store doesn't carry tapioca flour, and I could't find a gluten free bread that didn't contain gluten free wheat (and at least one of our gluten free people can't eat wheat or even oats). Hopefully Gilbert will be able to find that in Finland.
We did put off shopping for two items. He wanted lamb, but they didn't have as much available today as he wanted (9 kg), so we ordered it to be picked up on Friday, since Cajsa will be picking up a couple of students who live right next to the store anyway. Since she was coming back we also ordered the bread to be picked up on the same day.
While we were shopping my friend Åsker called to say he was at my place to pick up his SCA stuff that we have been storing for him since the last event he attended. (He flew south directly after that event, and was loaning his car to a friend while gone, and didn't want to leave the stuff in the car while it was being borrowed. He could have driven the stuff an hour north to drop it off then, and then turn right around and come back to Luleå to fly out, but that didn't make sense.) We were getting kind of close to done shopping at that point, but I didn't think we could be completely done and back home in less than a half an hour (it actually took almost a full hour) he decided not to wait for me, but just took the bag of costumes and feast gear from our shed (which isn't locked), and decided to get the bedding, which I had tucked into the empty roof-box (which he had given me in the first place) to keep clean and out of the way, later, because I had moved that roof box to the container when it arrived, as it fit under the shelves of wood there, but not under the shelves in the shed. Of course the container was locked, and the key in the house which was both locked, and the alarm turned on, so he wouldn't be able to get that without waiting for me. But he assures me that he has other bedding at home he will be able to use this weekend, and went on his way.
A bit later the service place called to say that the car was ready, so we went from the store to pick up my car, transferred the food to my car and she went home to meet her new housemate who is moving in this evening, and I came home and filled the second fridge with food, finishing that task at 16:35, so more than four hours after leaving the office!
Then I turned some of the flour and butter I had bought into enough pie crust dough for 12 pies. He had suggested that we buy pastry, but I would far prefer to eat home made dough, so it was worth my time to make it. However, I have decided not to bake thank-you cookies this year, I don't really have the time/energy to manage that. Before Friday morning I need to have finished packing everything, print menus and other event stuff, decide which people who booked beds are sleeping in which house (and print that, too), finish the embroidery on the hood, and keep working on memorizing my poem and my period tune. I wonder if there are any students going who would like a ride to the event in exchange for helping me with loading and unloading the car? I need to go look at the list...