Chardonnay, Cabbage, and Carrie

The last couple of days I have been consumed with March Madness and watching my beloved Kansas State University Wildcats. I have been wearing my purple polish for my toenails, purple flip-flops, purple shirt...you get the picture...all things purple. I am Wildcat Proud that we made to the Elite Eight, but alas we lost yesterday to Butler. And now we wait for football season!!! The Cats played yesterday afternoon so I had to make sure that I got to the grocery store and back home and groceries unloaded before the game started. I love going to the grocery. I like to go up and down every aisle looking at all things high and low. It can sometimes that me two hours, but yesterday was a "shopping by the list only" adventure. The bottled water and wine share the same aisle and it was there that I met my stranger. I was loading flavored water into my cart and a mother and her little girl bounced down the aisle. The little girl said something about getting a different kind of wine and I snickered. The mom turned and said, "I guess she shouldn't probably know so much about wine." And I said, "My kids are very familiar with wine in a box. And I drink something that requires a corkscrew - they wonder if it is a special occasion." She said, "Oh thanks for saying that I need to get something with a screw-top as we will be outside." With that I knew that I had found a kindred spirit (pun intended) and I extended my hand and gave her my spiel; "Hi my name is Donna." Next thing I knew I was shaking hands with Carrie so I asked how it was spelled. She said, "C a r r i e, like Carrie Fisher and oh that's my last name too." "Oh my goodness, just like the actress?", I asked. "Yes, and I sometimes get autograph requests when people find out my last name," Carrie said. "That is too cool," I said and I go back to loading my bottle water and Carrie and her daughter select a screw-top wine. I wish them a good day as we both leave the aisle; they go right and I go left towards the dairy section for two gallons of milk. No looking at the new items in the dairy section, I am strictly shopping by the list. Off to the cereal aisle, coffee, bacon. Oh wait, is that corned beef??? I didn't have corn beef and cabbage for St. Patrick's Day so maybe I can get a couple of things not on the list. Added corn beef, red potatoes, and cabbage to my cart and off to the check out line I went.

Remember the bottle water that I purchased? Well, when I went out to my car to put the groceries in the car, one of the bags with water in it split. Yup, you guessed it. I am was chasing bottles of water, six to be exact rolling down the parking lot. Did I mention that on Saturday we had wind gusts up to 20 mph? So those bottles weren't just gently rolling - they were rolling at the speed of a NASCAR warm-up lap - about 70 miles an hour and different directions. I am sure I was quite a sight chasing my bottled water across and around the parking lot. Thank goodness I only had to chase six bottles - could you imagine if I had bought a 24 pack? Oh lord, I might have just called my friends in Rockwall, TX and told them to be on the look out for them rolling down Highway 66.