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I had a good holiday, though it had less family in it than planned, alas. On Christmas Eve my Dad came over - Mom stayed home as she wasn't feeling well. On Christmas day, Scott went to his aunt and uncle's for Christmas dinner and I stayed home as I wasn't feeling well. (Not the same sort of not-feeling-well as my mother, though; it's not a case of family being a carrier or anything.) But even if I missed the dinner, Scott told me about it when he got back. Apparently they got a Roomba and watching it was very entertaining. Scott is totally sold on them and wants one. I'm not sure how much the poor Roomba could get done unless we picked up a bit, but other than that it's good.
This week I am on call for work. As a consequence, I had shopping to do today. Even though I knew some of it was insane. This included:
1) A stop at the mall for a gift card we failed to get before the holiday (oops!), some on-sale treats, and try three at finding pants that fit me. This succeeded - the mall was busy, but it was not insane and I was able to find parking right away. Admittedly in part because I headed for the back of beyond at the outset, unlike the nut-cases. (The pants are hand-wash. This annoys me. But they fit and the washer has a "hand wash" cycle so close enough.)
2) A stop to pick up Christmas cards. (Yes, I bought this year's last year and the year before. Next year I'll have some of the same ones as this year and some new ones. I like the new ones also.)
3) Grocery shopping. Boring and highly effective; I shall be fed this week.
4) A stop at Fry's for everything from "needed" (a new UPS) and "highly desired" (a skate-thingy to raise the new desktop off the floor) down to "wants" (extra hard drive, maybe a graphic tablet). This was aborted. RAPIDLY.
See, Fry's? Fry's is huge. Warehouse-like. Fry's has a large parking lot, also, in which usually at most 4-5 rows are in heavy use on even a busy day. Fry's lot? Was almost FULL. I found about 20-30 open spots...in the far corner away from the door...on the road end of the aisles in front of the loading dock.
I took a spot because Fry's is also usually VERY efficient at moving people through, but I knew I was probably gonna leave. Went inside. One day after-Christmas sale. Nothing I wanted or needed was on the sale list. Poked nose inside. Was informed the line to check out had gone along one (large!) wall to the back, then across the back to the far corner there, and estimated time was 30-60 minutes. (Which is a good clip given that line size, but STILL.)
I left. I'm stupid. I'm not that stupid, though. If I can get the time this week in spite of being on call, I will go to Fry's on some more sane day. If not, I will go next week. Any time but today. O.o
And now I go to bed. That whole 'sleep is necessary' thing.
This week I am on call for work. As a consequence, I had shopping to do today. Even though I knew some of it was insane. This included:
1) A stop at the mall for a gift card we failed to get before the holiday (oops!), some on-sale treats, and try three at finding pants that fit me. This succeeded - the mall was busy, but it was not insane and I was able to find parking right away. Admittedly in part because I headed for the back of beyond at the outset, unlike the nut-cases. (The pants are hand-wash. This annoys me. But they fit and the washer has a "hand wash" cycle so close enough.)
2) A stop to pick up Christmas cards. (Yes, I bought this year's last year and the year before. Next year I'll have some of the same ones as this year and some new ones. I like the new ones also.)
3) Grocery shopping. Boring and highly effective; I shall be fed this week.
4) A stop at Fry's for everything from "needed" (a new UPS) and "highly desired" (a skate-thingy to raise the new desktop off the floor) down to "wants" (extra hard drive, maybe a graphic tablet). This was aborted. RAPIDLY.
See, Fry's? Fry's is huge. Warehouse-like. Fry's has a large parking lot, also, in which usually at most 4-5 rows are in heavy use on even a busy day. Fry's lot? Was almost FULL. I found about 20-30 open spots...in the far corner away from the door...on the road end of the aisles in front of the loading dock.
I took a spot because Fry's is also usually VERY efficient at moving people through, but I knew I was probably gonna leave. Went inside. One day after-Christmas sale. Nothing I wanted or needed was on the sale list. Poked nose inside. Was informed the line to check out had gone along one (large!) wall to the back, then across the back to the far corner there, and estimated time was 30-60 minutes. (Which is a good clip given that line size, but STILL.)
I left. I'm stupid. I'm not that stupid, though. If I can get the time this week in spite of being on call, I will go to Fry's on some more sane day. If not, I will go next week. Any time but today. O.o
And now I go to bed. That whole 'sleep is necessary' thing.
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Scary.
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The parking lot was somewhat over half full and there was no line at the checkout.
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YUCK.