The Grocery Store

Are you home when you know your way around your grocery store?
Or when you know which grocery store to go to?
It helps.
I remember when I first got here, I had no idea where to shop -- for even the most basic things.
Not to mention what doctor to go to (still working on all that), where to get my hair done (also still a work in progress), where to get a coffee (nailed that), the drugstore, anything actually.
I was so disoriented.
There are four grocery stores within walking distance of me, not to mention smaller specialty stores, like butchers, a fishmonger, bakeries (including the new Gail's), a dozen or more hairdressers (very lucrative business here), etc.
You get the idea.
I figured out quickly that the biggest grocery store was where I wanted to do most of my shopping. All the smaller ones have things I pop in for now and again.
I remember one day at the big supermarket early on being confronted by dozens of new brands of laundry soap in new configurations I had never seen (they're big on gel cap-like-thingies here that you put in with your wash).
I felt like crying. I did cry, I think.
Had spent 10 minutes looking for laundry soap in the big store.
Then had no idea what the hell to buy once I got there.
No to mention no dryer to finish off the wash.
Missed my old grocery store like hell that day.
Getting used to a lot now.
Know which laundry gel cap I like (they're actually pretty convenient).
Have learned to live without a dryer.
And a car.
And a big house.
Welcome Home!