[Sca-cooks] OT: About Trader Joes from the perspective of wife

[K C Francis]

Thank you so much for sharing that story.  I would have buried my head in 
the keyboard except that the others here in the library would have thought 
me bonkers.  I don't think I will shop there without remembering the little 
cookies dancing.

Katira


>From: iasmin at comcast.net
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org (SCA Cooks)
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] OT: About Trader Joes from the perspective of wife
>Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:31:53 +0000
>
>My husband treats me like a princess and I don't doubt there is anyone 
>among our circle of friends who would say otherwise. We indulge each other 
>little things that, like most married couples experience over time, may be 
>forgotten in years that one spends with a person who so comfortable they 
>mold to your soul.
>
>My husband is away on business right now, gone only a little more than a 
>week. It came as huge surprise to us. He'd just changed jobs and had been 
>with the company for well short of a month.  Most people would think "Eh, 
>business. Big deal." For him, though, it was entry into what the company 
>lovingly refers to as their "Top Gun" training program (after the 1980s 
>movie of the same name). Twelve people chosen out of 150,000 employees. We 
>found out about the nomination and his subsequent acceptance and travel 
>plans in the space of 3 days and short of emergency feast takeover, I've 
>never been so busy in my entire life. I barely got to say goodbye. He will 
>be gone until December 21st.
>
>How, you are wondering, does this relate to Trader Joes?
>
>We live near one in Michigan. It's a regular stop for me on the way home 
>from work because it lacks the hustle and bustle of large chains and still 
>manages to sell the organic, recycled, 
>granola-crunching-hippie-though-I-was-born-in-1968 supplies I've come to 
>desire in my short space of time on earth.
>
>And they sell cookies. Little ginger snap cookies. I can't eat them. I 
>don't desire them. But I buy them for my husband because they make him 
>smile.
>
>When he has to work on a weeknight when most people are watching TV or when 
>he has to finish a project, I bring him one or two and every time he stops 
>what he's doing no matter what and picks each of them up with the delight 
>most people only see in a two-year-old child. He dances them across his 
>desk and then promptly gives me a very nice kiss and tells me he loves me. 
>It's endearing. It's silly. And it's one of those things I desperately miss 
>now that he's going to be gone for so long.
>
>I went to Trader Joes yesterday, maudlin, when I saw the cookies. I bought 
>some. I couldn't help it. They're one more little connection for me while 
>he's away. When he called me last night before I drifted off to sleep, he 
>said "Luv, I found a Trader Joes near the apartment they've put me up in. I 
>found them."
>
>"Found what, luv?" I asked.
>
>"The cookies. Our cookies." I could tell he was smiling.
>
>"I can't believe we have a cookie like most couples have 'Our Song.'" I'm 
>sure I buried my face in the pillow.
>
>"It won't be the same dancing the cookies across the kitchen counter 
>though. I like it better when you bring them to me."
>
>*sigh*
>
>Damn. December 21st can't come soon enough.
>
>Iasmin
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