In the beginning of the year everyone on SPIRITUS is assigned a weekly task that they’re responsible for overseeing and taking care of. We call them our designated duties, also known as DD. Every week there is allocated DD time to accomplish the chores, and once they’re finished, we all continue to live in blissful coexistence together… :) well sort of. Life is peachy here at SPIRITUS. Birds sing, unicorns frolic, and each person's DD differs from another’s. My task at Mount Tabor Center (along with Anastasia's at Faustina House) is grocery shopping. It may sound dreadful for any ordinary person, but I love food/nutrition and I love shopping. It made sense.
Anna and I are like a dynamite duo when it comes to spicing up the monotony of “picking up more eggs and some chunky peanut butter”. Yep, there’s never a dull moment when we’re pushing a grocery cart. It’s almost like we’re special agents, on a mission to feed our small army on a budget. We have an allotted amount of money every month, so half the battle is to get the necessities, then to appease the taste buds of our teammates so they can accomplish the mission! How to dive straight into the hearts of our team? One word: bagels. Everything that’s on the list is purchased in bulk. I’m entertained most frequently by seeing the questioning faces of people we stroll past, with our overflowing cart of $250 plus of food. Sometimes a curious soul will comment on my cart, wherein I reply, “yeah, big family” and continue on my merry little way. So if you see two young ladies scavenging the aisles of grocery stores in the Appleton or Neenah-Menasha area, feel free to say hello, comment on our abundance of goods, and direct us to the cream cheese. :)
-Elizabeth Senkyr
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