Alan MacVicar Blogs

  • Grocery Store Shenanigans

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    Or was it tomfoolery? It was something alright. In a previous post I wrote about how you can make grocery shopping ‘fun’, or make it into a competition or game. And before you know it, you might think of grocery shopping in a less onerous light. You might even look forward to it. Yeah right.…

  • I Live With a Ninja

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    It’s true, this isn’t just hyperbole. I want to shout this from the roof tops but I am deathly afraid of heights, so I will just say it from the streets. That is, I have lived with a Ninja for the last 10 years and not once has it let me down. Never. And it…

  • Breakfast Cereal Angst

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    amacvicar24
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    As I walked down the cereal aisle of Loblaws this morning (a price gouging grocery chain here in Canada), I took my sweet time and took it all in. You see, I am still off work still recovering from COVID and seeing that I am no longer infectious, (2 lines on the rapid antigen test…

  • How to Enjoy Grocery Shopping…More?

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    amacvicar24
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    Hello again, Feeling the writing vibe so I’m going to keep this writing train moving…..choo choo! (Seeing that trains are not propelled by steam anymore this gratuitous sound bite is outdated but please play along and don’t disembark from the metaphor). FIrst of all, you are probably asking yourself, “did I read the title correctly?”…