Walking Backwards

We certainly have had an eventful couple of days :). On Friday I went to the mall to start my Christmas shopping. I got lost somewhere in the middle and couldn't find a lot of what I was looking for, but I did end up buying some candles for myself. So, really successful there. I think malls and shopping center are just designed to be distracting. We then went by Old Navy who had all of their clearance clothes an additional fifty-percent off. Apparently, some mother with a 2T son had gone through and cleared out almost all of the clothing in that size, so there wasn't much I could get Nicholas. I did get him some stuff in 3T for next year, hopefully it will still fit. I did find a few things for gifts there for most of the children I have to give gifts to and will refrain from describing them here as not to give away the surprise. Generally speaking, Friday was a boring shopping day. Oddly, the most eventful thing that happened was at Garden Ridge Pottery, which I don't personally think as all that exciting of a place. While I was looking at some terracotta pots to transplant my herbs into, Nicholas got into the plastic fruit. I now am the proud owner of two apples, two pears, a banana, and an orange all made out of plastic and all with chunks bitten out of them. The cashiers thought that it was hilarious. He probably would have tested all of the fruit in the place if I hadn't caught him. I just have to ask, though, who the hell buys a four dollar plastic apple, really?


Saturday dawned with me being generally surly and unpleasant to be around. I didn't get any sleep because the baby monitor was going crazy in the thunderstorm. I did have a massage appointment at 10am, so I had to pull myself together for that. The massage was fine, the coffee afterwards was better. I'm still having intense back pains, but the rest of me is all soft and pliable. We then went to buy a couch. I know, what more would an exhausted, over caffeinated, painfully relaxed person want to do, but go into a store with people following you around like used car salesmen? We did find a couch. Its the one on the left, although they both look the same:



Yes folks, I just bought an almost white couch with a two year-old. Will someone please warn me next time not to go into furniture stores under duress next time.


Later Saturday we all went to Annie's pumpkin carving party. It was fun. I did not carve a pumpkin because I didn't really want to carry it across the parking lot and up three flights of stairs, so we are probably going to carve them sometime this week. We ate chili and I got back to my roots by drinking Lone Star beer. Nicholas had a blast playing with our friend Seanna's son, Aiden. They really got along well, despite a few minor disagreements as to who deserved the computer keyboard more. We are supposed to go to the park with them today, so that should be fun. I'll try to remember my camera this time so you can see their cuteness in action.