Wednesday, December 01, 2010

toes

i am very excited....

roughly 5 months ago i opened a new gmail account to correspond with my new last name. as much as i felt it was important to have an email address that complied with the name change i was saddened that my email history was gone. and besides that, it was a massive pain to have to switch account to find old files that i needed. BUT i've just discovered that i can import my email email history from my other account!! so i started the process. it said that it could take up to 2 days to complete. so far i'm loving it! i get to see my old emails from 2006 appear in my inbox. so far my favourites are emails from melissa back when we were just becoming friends. i saw one from when i was her spare key person and had gone in while she was away to feed her old cat or something. anyways, i woke in the night afraid i hadn't looked it behind me so at 2 am i drove to her house to make sure the door was locked. hahaha. anyways, i just came across the email i wrote to her explaining my midnight adventure. so funny. i'd totally forgotten about that!

i have 119 new old emails in my inbox, and that's only 2-3 months worth. what a relief it will be to have everything in one spot. i'm so happy that gmail is so clever.

my dad was telling me the other day that the new store "freshco" is totally awesome. he raved about it in a manner true to my family. so i decided to give it a whirl. he said the prices were comparable to food basics, if not better. so i bought a bunch of black plums, among other things. they looked great. picture perfect plums. but i've noticed something over the last week of eating them for my morning snack... they have next to no flavour. they don't taste like anything! it's kind of disappointing. i wonder if they've been enhanced to mature faster which cut out the opportunity to develop their juicey flavour. odd.
 
when you sit right down in the middle of yourself
you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

4 comments:

Jill said...

Hey, do you know if it's possible to import old emails from another provider (such as hotmail) to gmail? When I switched over. When I switched over, I too was saddened at not having all my old messages.

Rachel said...

The problem with your plums is that they are not in season here, so they would have been picked while unripe somewhere like California and then ripened on their way here. Things always have less flavour when they have to travel far and didn't get to ripen on the tree.

Where is Freshco? I've never heard of it.

Lesley said...

yes jill! see the email i sent you with instructions.

ah! thanks rach! they have an italy sticker on them. i might have to come up with a different snack.

freshco is across the street from rona. it used to be price chopper.

devious said...

maybe if you chop them up and dribble a bit of lemon juice and honey on them it'll wake up whatever bit of flavour's in them. or you could bake with them. yummy.