My eyes are bigger than the backpack

It is getting mighty cold here in Beijing!

I am finding it a bit chilly riding the bike these days.  The wind just bites right into me, both the one nature provides and the one created by my moving fast through the atmosphere.  So this evening I walked to the market instead of riding.  I was only going for one item.....you know how that is.  I can send Mike to the store for one item and he comes home with exactly that one thing.......I am incapable of doing that because I know what is getting low or what I might want to make for dinner in a day or two.  So, on this excursion I was supposed to get yogurt for Mike's lunch.  I got carried away.......
This is me on a return from the store minus the flip-flops   You do not wear your shoes in the house here, too much nastiness on the roads and sidewalks.  Our high today was 36 degrees according to weather.com.  I don't know that it got that high as there is a leaky faucet on the side of the house and the icicles did not diminish in size during the day.  (Said leaky faucet has now been repaired by compound maintenance.)  (Notice the towel at the bottom of the door?  3/8ths inch gap has not been dealt with by said compound maintenance.)

Now that backpack doesn't look like much but it has a pretty good capacity.  I am holding a carton of eggs I decided not to squish on the way home.

However, all this stuff on the counter came out of the backpack and by the time I got home it was feeling mighty heavy:)  We have Mission brand tortilla's....although my friend gave me a great recipe for homemade ones that are fantastic.....cream cheese from Wisconsin, butter from New Zealand, and mozzarella from some other place......the eggs, milk,yogurt and chunk of chicken are from China.....how is that for international cuisine?  Those are frozen cranberries on the back left......not sure where they are from, I thought they were only grown in the US but perhaps not.

Can't just jump in the old jalopy and head on over to the store!!!

Love, fondly, sincerely,

zaijian,

Ramona