Hurray for Raisin Bran!

Not the most glamorous title. Actually not a glamorous title at all, but the high point of today was finding raisin bran on sale at my local grocery. And actually it was Raisin Bran Crunch. I genuinely like cereal for a snack and my favorite cereals are the fancy raisin brans. But a box of my favorite kind -- the one where the raisins are covered with nuts -- is over six dollars a box. I can spend money on all kinds of things, but somehow six dollars for a box of cereal just gets me. The other thing that I have real trouble with is buying cut up fruit. Every big and little grocery has fruit all ready cut up and I especially covet the fresh pineapple, but loathe paying five or six dollars for pineapple. I also rarely go to St*arbucks, because five dollars for coffee gets me and I do love coffee.
In the mornings either I buy my coffee at this stand and try to refrain from indulging in a danish, or I go to this deli. The deli has iced hazelnut decaf and that is my favorite.

I do love living in New York. I moved here in 1975 intending to stay for only a few years and a few years became a decade and then decades and I really set down roots. I've come to understand how expensive New York can be. Everything has to be trucked onto this island, through crowded streets. But sometimes at heart, I'm just a kid from Connecticut marvelling at life in the big city.

Reflecting on this I'm going to go out after work tomorrow and buy myself a cut up pineappple and savor every bite.

P.S. Thinking over today...the high point was an email from my friend, Marcia, who became a grandmother for a second time. Ethan Anthony was born yesterday, healthy and thriving, and cute as can be.