This was one of the most frustrating days EVER!!! I decided to take Nathan into Savannah to go to the Boy Scout store. We needed to get a Wolf book, plus the patches for his new pack here. According to its website, the store is open on Saturdays 10-2. Now, I could have gone earlier in the week, but I thought the traffic wouldn't be as bad on the weekend. SILLY ME! Got stuck in an 8 mile traffic back up. I know how to get to Abercorn street in Savannah, and that's it. I was trying to make it to the store before it closed, and I was afraid that if I got off Abercorn, I'd just be lost in Savannah (which has happened before). Thought for sure that there must have been an accident or construction work. But NO!!! The back up was due to people getting to the mall...
Now, please believe me. If I am planning to going shopping in the month of December, then I am prepared. I already know that there will be lines, no parking, and lots of waiting. I embrace the suck, and I can tolerate the hordes of people. Today, however, I wasn't anticipating mall traffic and nearly went ballistic. I said several words that I don't want Nathan to repeat (several times), and glared at a lot of people who cut me off and nearly sideswiped me. I barely managed to avoid flipping the bird at least twice. Now, in the back of my mind, I knew that the road rage was out of proportion to the aggravation. And that it was the height of irony to be so irate as I was listening to my favorite Christmas CDs in the car.
We did mange to make it to the Scout store about 30 minutes before it closed. My blood pressure did not subside, however. Apparently, according to the side on the door, the store isn't actually open on Saturdays after all. I was so upset I was about ready to cry. I'm sure by the time I GO BACK on Monday, I will have my angst under control, and I won't totally flip out on the store staff for their erroneous website. Maybe.
Nathan and I did go onto the bookstore to pick up a present. While we were there, he found a dragon model painting set, which you see here. Unfortunately, we did not get back in time to go to the battalion Christmas party at the YMCA.
The other picture is from his boy scout meeting this week (before he got his glasses). The den is providing a table decoration for the banquet on Tuesday, so they were making a gingerbread house.
Mom and Dad, and Aimie, we got your deliveries today. I did get all of Nathan's presents wrapped on Monday. Made me think how not green Christmas is. All that paper. Gift bags are the ultimate in green gifting, but if you're trying to keep the kid from peeking, you gotta wrap. And could kid action figures be any harder to wrap? The packaging should all be required to be squares or rectangles. And those people who go all out with their light displays? Please, don't even get me started! I saw one person whose electric bill goes up $1000 a month for the holidays! WHAT? Are you kidding me!>@>#?
I'm probably really out of sorts because my laptop battery finally died. I've had to order a new one online, and it will take a week or so. I knew that Eric would be taking the laptop with him to ANOC, but I wasn't expecting it to just die on me, without me being able to take stuff off of it first. Good thing I'm not really doing genealogy right now. All my stuff is on there. It's just not the same blogging on the other computer, and having to share it again with Eric. The minute one of us gets up, the other one slides into the chair. Which isn't fair, because Eric has another computer upstairs in the radio room.
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