The Grocery List

08 September 2010

It was our wedding anniversary on Monday and I woke up with a plan to make a nice dinner for DH. This included a really nice bottle of wine, which I love, but have avoided drinking alcohol while TTC. Since we are on a break month, I figured that I can indulge in a glass or two. I set off to the store to make my purchase and while enroute I remembered that I was getting low on prenatal vitamins yet again (to continue with these this month was a non-negotiable with the RE). I picked up the vitamins at the drugstore and being environmentally friendly, didn't ask for a bag.

I nipped next door to the liquor store to pick out the perfect bottle of wine. As I paid for the wine, I set my vitamins (with the pregnant belly rubbing woman on the label) down on the counter, and looked up to see the scowl from the cashier. Oh, boy this honestly didn't even cross my mind as the association between prenatal vitamins and actually being pregnant have been so far from my reality. I didn't know how to respond, so I didn't. I was not going to go into a soliloquy with the liquor store cashier about how I'm not pregnant, but I've been taking these vitamins for years anyway, and that I'm preparing for an IVF cycle, and I haven't had a glass of wine in a really long time, but it's my anniversary, and you will sell me this bottle of wine damn it!

Note to self: next time, take the bag. I did end up having the anniversary dinner with the really nice bottle of wine, and the prenatal vitamin on the side.