there's hope out there for us winos afterall and it's called the south.
someday soon i promise to actually post a real honest to goodness snark. but you've got to take it when you can and since i'm still acclimating to my life here in the non-frozen tundra, including trying to get internet access, figure out cross streets, and, oh, yes, find a house to buy, it's a bit hit and miss.
but.
some mini snark for now:
1. yesterday, driving to liv d.e.'s house to pick her up for an afternoon of open house crashing, i tuned into npr and prairie home companion. garrison referred to his home as the frozen tundra, meaning, of course, minnesota. my frozen tundra is not his frozen tunda. but of course, my frozen tundra isn't mine anymore, either. yea!
2. where i live now has some mighty wicked rules on the buying of alcohol. first, if any liquid has higher than a 6% alcohol level, you can't buy it at the neighborhood schnucks. second, if you want to pick up some banned item unavailable at the grocery, you have to go to a wine and liquor store. third, you can only buy said items after 11 am, unless, of course, it's sunday, in which case you're banned from buying said items at all. yes, that's right. it's now stock-up saturday as opposed to stock-up sunday.
3. crazy ladies who show houses and chastise pretty young things are not realtors you should buy houses from.
4. wearing no stockings and putting away the wool mid-march? wonderful. freaking wonderful.
but.
some mini snark for now:
1. yesterday, driving to liv d.e.'s house to pick her up for an afternoon of open house crashing, i tuned into npr and prairie home companion. garrison referred to his home as the frozen tundra, meaning, of course, minnesota. my frozen tundra is not his frozen tunda. but of course, my frozen tundra isn't mine anymore, either. yea!
2. where i live now has some mighty wicked rules on the buying of alcohol. first, if any liquid has higher than a 6% alcohol level, you can't buy it at the neighborhood schnucks. second, if you want to pick up some banned item unavailable at the grocery, you have to go to a wine and liquor store. third, you can only buy said items after 11 am, unless, of course, it's sunday, in which case you're banned from buying said items at all. yes, that's right. it's now stock-up saturday as opposed to stock-up sunday.
3. crazy ladies who show houses and chastise pretty young things are not realtors you should buy houses from.
4. wearing no stockings and putting away the wool mid-march? wonderful. freaking wonderful.
posted by inga at 8:57 PM
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Minnesota's alcohol rules reflect the state's Scandinavian Lutheran culture: no alcohol sold for off-site consumption on Sunday (Bars are open, though); liquor stores must close by 8 pm Monday through Thursday; liquor stores may stay open as late as--yawn--10 pm on Friday and Saturday.
I don't know if the ban on alcohol in grocery stores is state-wide, though. I'm not even sure we have it in gas stations. Huh.
Although, I really don't mind these sales restrictions. I like that ordinary people must go to liquor stores for wine (or wine shops, no less). And I like that people are encouraged to drink in establishments along with the rest of the public rather than always at home. In many respects, we're forced into community in order to gain our fix for what we need often to put up with community!
-cK
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