ahhh, a breath of fresh blog!

ha. long days that seem to stretch forever.

i have to put this down before i lose it completely.

i was in the store today, and was going to buy a carton of eggs. stop. wait a mintute. there are cage free eggs AND organic eggs. ummm. ok. i ask the worker next to me.

"um, excuse me, but what is the difference between cage free eggs and organic eggs besides the obvious?"

"?como?"

i point to the two different cartons.

"these eggs are free... they run around and are happy," i try to emphasize my point by flapping my arms and smiling really big. i wish i had taken a picture of her face...

"while these eggs are healthy but not necessarily free..." i then scrunch my body up to try to point out that while organic eggs might be hormone free, the chickens might very well be caged.

"oh!" she says, "these are free, and these not free. not caged."

"no, these are caged, but not drugged, you know, hormones.."

"yes, i see. i don't know the difference." then she pulls aside a young guy that works in the meat department and starts asking him in spanish. he looks at me like i might be an escapee from a mental institution.

"i don't know the difference wither." he says flatly.

"um, never mind," i say. i'll uh just sleep on it tonight and maybe it'll be clear in the morning.

as i hurried down the nearest aisle, it took every ounce of willpower not to look back to see if they were watching me. i was kind of afraid that i'd see them pointing me out to a couple of guys in white uniforms carrying an "i-love-me" jacket...