luscious_purple | Today's adventures

Today the boy toy and I committed more consumerism. First we went to IKEA College Park, which had been closed for a while. There are metal railings set up outside the main entrance to control lines of people who want to enter the store, but since we were visiting on a weekday, the store wasn't that crowded. (Since we live so close to IKEA, we do our best to avoid going there on weekends, when the place is jammed.) The restaurant on the upper level is closed, but it wasn't mealtime for us anyway. We bought a little three-drawer rack for my SCA stuff, plus a few other items we've been waiting to purchase.

Then we went to the local Amish market for some meats and cheeses. (As at all places we've been, masks are required. The Amish and their employees also offer you a generous squirt of hand sanitizer as you enter the building.) Next, we checked out the going-out-of-business Pier 1 Imports just over the line in the Anne Arundel part of Laurel. I bought a few cloth napkins for SCA purposes, because most of my current ones (which came from Pier 1 way back when) are getting pretty stained. I'm going to miss Pier 1's sense of style, although countless other stores have copied them over the decades.

Finally we ended up at Total Wine to buy some beer for next weekend's holidays. I went to the bathroom and someone in another stall was coughing, so I didn't linger. I hope I didn't come into contact with anything she touched. I'm 60 years old, I'm obese, and I have type A blood. So, yeah, covid-19 risk factors.

At least I don't have anywhere to go this weekend. I'll be puttering around and thinking of new projects.