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Tuesday, September 28, 2004
shopping
I went shopping today. This was supposed to be a solo trip, but the person who was supposed to watch the kids while I went is a couple hundred miles away earning really nice amounts of overtime right now. However, I couldn't put off the trip, because I needed to get supplies for C's birthday present in time to actually, you know, make the present, which is going to be a nice frilly comfy flannel nightgown, white and pink with little tulips, yay. Anyway. This made it a bit harder to maintain the surprise, but I think she still doesn't know exactly what I'm going to make for her. It also meant that while I was waiting in the obscenely long cutting line at the fabric store (twice, thanks to my airheadedness, especially annoying since the second time turned out to have been unnecessary), and then in the also-obscenely-long line to check out at the fabric store, and then in the line at Costco (I don't even have to describe that one, since anyone who's ever been to Costco knows about the lines, and anyone who hasn't just wouldn't understand; it would be like trying to describe the fourth level of Hell, or something)... anyway, T's absence meant that while I was waiting in all these lines, I had children with me who were at first cooperative, and then a little overwound, and then whiny and droopy, and then more whiny and more droopy. So by the end of the day I was not only footsore and frustrated, but also almost ready to do that running-for-the-hills-waving-my-arms-like-a-madwoman routine. Almost. Then we came home and spent five hours cleaning the kids' bedrooms, moving in their new dressers, sorting through their heaped-up clothes, putting clothes away, putting clothes in bags to give away, putting clothes in the rag box, etc. I am so, so, so ready for bed.
Except I just remembered that my bed has two very big clothes boxes on it. oh dear. This may well be the final straw for the overburdened camel representing my sanity in this metaphor. I think maybe someone had better call the men in white coats, ha ha, hee hee, ho ho, ha ha, hee hee.
