hungry trip to whole foods

I get weekly emails from Whole Foods for their weekly specials. On Wednesdays and Fridays, they usually have one thing in the store marked down a lot. Yesterday's sale was for a shampoo and conditioner, normally around $8/bottle, on sale for $2.99. Pretty good deal, and convenient since I am just about out of shampoo. I normally use a different brand of shampoo, but it's kind of expensive and towards the end of the semester, money is always a little tight.

Can I say real quick, Part IV boards costs $1235?? I have to pay that next week! Ouch.

Anyways, back to my story. You don't care what kind of shampoo I use and really that is not the main part of this story. After a long day at school and at the clinic - I literally had no break between 7:30am and 6pm - I "stopped by" Whole Foods (very hungry and thirsty) to pick up four things: shampoo, conditioner, coffee, and pasta for dinner.  

This is what I left the store with:

• cherries
• strawberries
• blueberries
• grape tomatoes (have been delicious lately!)
• spinach
• corn on the cob
• soy milk
• RAW vegan protein
• chocolate almond toffee wafers
• fresh french roast coffee grounds
• lime flavored mineral water
• whole wheat pasta
• bobo's oat barns (yum!)
• bolthouse farms vanilla chai tea soy protein drink (yum yum!)
• Diva Cup (for my male readers, you might not want to look this one up)
• Diva Cup DivaWash ("Botanically-Enriched cleanser for the face, body and The DivaCup" ..... what?? I am not going to use the same thing to wash all three of those things)
• 3 bottles of shampoo
• 2 bottles of conditioner

I didn't pick up the shampoo and conditioner until the end of my shopping experience. I was so overwhelmed with the store and my desires to many nice things from it, I knew I just needed to get out of there before I put more things into my two basket-mini shopping cart (another reason I love whole foods, they were the first place I ever saw those darn cute things). So that accounts for the un-evenness of my shampoo/conditioner purchase.

I think it is important to note what I resisted purchasing:

• Seventh Generation lavender dish soap (smells so good)
• chocolate chip cookies
• mini fruit tart (the WFM bakery makes AMAZING fruit tarts)
• the large size fruit tart (I could never finish the whole thing...well, maybe I could)
• parmesan cheese
• asiago cheese
• parrano cheese
• cute little frog cookies
• fancy teas in silky tea bags
• more hair products to match my new shampoo
• Lavendar oil bath salt
• fresh mozzarella cheese

Something about all the beautiful produce (I have seen a lot of moldy produce at Hy-Vee in the last week), baked goods, cheeses in Whole Foods make me want to eat EVERYTHING. Especially when I am hungry. And it smells so good in there. I get this overwhelming feeling that I NEED things that I really don't need. Lavender bath salts? When was the last time I took a bath? Frog cookies? I thought "Josie would LOVE these" but Josie lives 1100 miles from here. Four different kinds of cheese? Well I couldn't really think of a great reason not to buy those except that they weren't on sale and I have some parmesan at home anyways. Overall I would give myself a B- for that shopping trip. There's room for improvement. Next time, don't go hungry.

Of course I have to include a very cute picture of my kitty. She brought me a hair tie and set it on my lap after I laid down to go to sleep and then played with it in my lap. So adorable. Sorry to you facebook friends who saw this picture twice.

On a last quick running note, I did my Tuesday Track run last night on the treadmills. Well first it was on the elliptical because the treadmills were full, and then I finished it out on the treadmill. Lesson I learned: the elliptical is not even close to running on the treadmill.