November 10, 2009

  • How Come Shopping Is Always Exhausting?

    Talked to the Beast this morning as he was on his way to Renoir's house.  He does it *hands-free* via some velcro on the dashboard and the phone on speaker.  Hey, it works!  But even so he wasn't watching the road closely and ended up turning onto a ramp to a tollroad.    Just struck me as funny for some reason.

    AND....it looks like brat and I both lost our bet.  He didn't come home either day we had chosen.  If he stays the whole time he said he was going to, we will both have to be picked up off the floor in shock. 

    I HAD to finally get my butt out and do some serious shopping.  I needed to start picking up some of the basics for Thanksgiving since I hate to do that all at once.  I bought the stuff for the sweet potato casserole, the green bean casserole and the cranberry sauce.  I already have the stuff for the pumpkin pies (and the real whipped cream, too).  I found a really nice pork sirloin roast that I cut in half since the Beast and I don't eat all that much and I am the only one that really eats leftovers.  Got some really nice Idaho potatoes that I intend to bake a couple for the Beast and I one night.

    I needed to stop at Murphy's for some cigarettes and then made a stop at the liquor store for some much needed vodka.  I debated taking the groceries home before I ran to the bank to make a deposit but thought...*What the heck?*  I didn't have anything that would go bad in the short time it would take me so I went into town and did that.  Before I headed home, I decided to take a little spin around the *town*.  I found some neat little stores (Mom & Pop type) that I am definitely going to hit sometime soon.  There's even a nice woman's store of the type I loved back in Ft Lauderdale.  Good clothes, decent prices.  Okay...okay...I admit it.  I didn't just cruise by that one.   It's going to be one of the first places I stop when I have my Christmas money in hand.

    Have you started your list for Christmas shopping yet?  I did.  Some of the people on my list are easy.  My grandkids in Tennessee want money.  The type of stores they like and the things they like are not easily available here.  One they like is only in Birmingham and no way am I going to make THAT ride.  Besides, I'm not sure of their sizes OR their exact taste of the moment.  I sent for a kids laptop computer for the baby.  It's got games loaded on it to help her learn her numbers and the alphabet and lots of other good things.  It's not Leap Frog but it will do for now with her fascination with computers.  It even has a mouse that works with it.  She will have a ball.  I caught it on sale in one of my catalogs I get in the mail so it wasn't very expensive at all.

    Buttmunch has been hinting strongly and often that she would just LOVE a digital camera.  Woo hoo.....have you priced those?  OMG....even the cheaper ones are expensive.  I shall continue looking.  I know people appreciate cash but I truly love to watch them open up gifts.  I do have some ideas that should work for a couple of them so I'm happy about that.  It's the Beast that always presents me a problem.  I'm thinking maybe that new hammer tool that they are advertising on TV.  You know the one I mean.....it will hammer in nails at odd angles.  He has a problem that way anyway.  It's the reason he got the nail gun but that's for nails you want to put in straight.  I was thinking the electric hammer would be good for when he works on expanding the deck out back.  Oh well, time enough......

    After I got done shopping and got home, I still had to carry everything in that I bought...and then put it all away.  When I got done doing that, I was exhausted beyond belief.  We never really get used to that, do we?  It hardly seems fair that we do the shopping and then have to put everything away, too.  I think more mothers should train their boys to do things like that and get the husbands to help so they (the boys) don't grow up thinking it's a woman's job.  I do remember teaching my boys to cook so they wouldn't feel they *needed* a woman in order to eat.  They also learned how to do their own wash.  I tried (god knows!) to teach them about cleaning.  The Navy taught my oldest son to iron and clean thoroughly.  He's the only one not married yet.  I still have hope since he's only in his 30's now.  I know he would love to have kids of his own and a good woman to come home to every day.  I always add that little memo in my prayers.

    The weather here sucks right now and we are under a flood watch in this area.  Don't forget, we are in the foothills of some mountains.  I'm not worried about that happening around us because of the topography of this area but it does mean that some nasty weather is moving in.  My internet connection is becoming very spotty so I want to get this set to post later.  I'm waiting to hear from the Princess that she has gotten home in one piece and had a good time. 

    Love you all.  Have a great day.  See ya!