A trip to the bookstore
Jun. 10th, 2007 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ann_leckieSo Paidhi Girl won a five dollar gift card to Barnes & Noble for getting enough points during the school year. (Points were apparently accrued by reading a book, taking a test on the book, and then the higher your test score the more points you got.) She decided she wanted the next volume in The Warriors, so she dug the extra couple dollars out of her piggy bank and off we went.
We just happened to pass by the SF shelves, and saw....Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition. Paidhi Girl remarked that it was really cool that there was a book with my story in it in the bookstore. I agreed. We also got a Captain Underpants book and two A to Z Mysteries that Paidhi Girl was sure Paidhi Boy hadn't read yet.
Then we went off to Trader Joes, where I offered to buy her a strawberry smoothie to drink on the way home, and while we were looking at the shelf (there was only one strawberry one left, we had to search for it) I saw rows and rows of green ones. "Ah," I said to myself, "I bet these have spirulina in them." And I checked the ingredients--they did!
Understand, Paidhi Girl has been fascinated by fish, and fish food, and has read about spirulina, and how some fish need it in their diets. And I told her about spirulina tablets, and how I used to feed them to my pleco, a lovely ten inch long thing that had been barely an inch and a half when I brought it home. She expressed a desire to eat some spirulina herself, and I told her that she certainly could if she ever got the opportunity.
I doubt very much this drink--which involves guava and grape juice and such--will taste very algal, but still. It's sitting in the fridge, waiting its turn.
We just happened to pass by the SF shelves, and saw....Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition. Paidhi Girl remarked that it was really cool that there was a book with my story in it in the bookstore. I agreed. We also got a Captain Underpants book and two A to Z Mysteries that Paidhi Girl was sure Paidhi Boy hadn't read yet.
Then we went off to Trader Joes, where I offered to buy her a strawberry smoothie to drink on the way home, and while we were looking at the shelf (there was only one strawberry one left, we had to search for it) I saw rows and rows of green ones. "Ah," I said to myself, "I bet these have spirulina in them." And I checked the ingredients--they did!
Understand, Paidhi Girl has been fascinated by fish, and fish food, and has read about spirulina, and how some fish need it in their diets. And I told her about spirulina tablets, and how I used to feed them to my pleco, a lovely ten inch long thing that had been barely an inch and a half when I brought it home. She expressed a desire to eat some spirulina herself, and I told her that she certainly could if she ever got the opportunity.
I doubt very much this drink--which involves guava and grape juice and such--will taste very algal, but still. It's sitting in the fridge, waiting its turn.