February 7, 2008

• Kitty is back to his normal freakish self!!! Yeah!! All up to date on his shots and hiding in my sewing room on top of my sewing basket. Silly cat. It is always an adventure with him. Not sure why his new hiding spot is in my sewing room on top of my sewing basket but whatever.

  
  

  So the fun of this past weekend for us was dresser shopping for the new baby. Yup that is right shopping for a dresser is going to be one of the next olympic sports from the island chain of Hawaii I think. The day started out nicely. Ate breakfast planned day. Went to the quilt shop to pick up baby's quilt from the quilter and then drove to the other end of the center (large center) to the naked furniture store with the intend of buying a dresser there that we would then pick up a little later in the week and DH would stain to match the crib. So we go in. Yup same model still on the floor. Okay cool. Find sales person. None in stock and none on order. So okay if we order one how long will it take to get here? 8 weeks. Nope not that much time left. All righty so she shows us another dresser that is taller, has deeper drawers and costs more. It is a floor model but you can purchase this one today and pick it up later. Now there are black marks and such on the top. Oh those can be sanded right out. That is cause we had stools sitting on top of it. No discount off the price either. Uh yeah we will think about it. So we leave and go to a music store in same center cause DH is looking for some cd. Think about dresser from this place more. Why would they offer to sell us the floor model of one and not the one we really want when they have nothing in stock and have none on order. Plus no discount off the one that has scuff marks on it. Whatever not going back there. Okay strike one. So we go to the Navy Exchange Furniture store. Find a cute little dresser in the kiddy corner of the store. All righty go to the front for a customer service person. I sit in a chair and DH deals with the dresser. They go to the back and see the dressers. 3 of the same one on the floor. Great do you have any new ones untouched in stock. Nope 8 weeks if you order one of those. No discount on the floor models and out of the 3, 2 had something wrong with them that I saw. Dents or dings in them on the tops and sides. Okay thank you never mind. Stirke two. All righty so off we go to the Navy Exchange. Mind you it is a payday weekend on the first of the month. This means masses of stupid people wandering around thinking that they own the place. DH has to pee when we get there so he heads to the bathroom on the ground floor. I head up the escalator. When we reach the top there is a line. Yes this line starts right at the end of the silver landing pad for the escalator. What is the line for you ask? Well that would be the attack of the stupid people who can't pull their id cards out of their wallet/purse/pocket or whatever as they are coming up the excalator. Now to go to any exchange or commissary anywhere in the military you need your id card at some point in the whole business. Some places it is as you walk in the door, other places it is as you pay. Well here at this particular one since they stupidly let normal people use the food court you must show it to enter the store. So I have mine in my hand and bypass the line. Show it to id man at door and I am in. This earns me a dirty look from an old lady. Whatever!!!! There is no rule that you have to form a line to go in the door and it is not my fault that you stood in it to show him your id card. After that I head to the baby department. Have to squeeze past more stupid people who are just standing in the middle of the isle chatting it up with their shopping companion. Get back there and you have 2 choices look in catalog and special order something or take the model that is on the floor. Okay well hubby hasn't made it to me yet so I will look thru the book. I look thru the book and see no dressers. Just the stupid changing tables with the shelves. Don't like those at all. Okay fine. DH joins me and opens same book. But he finds the page that has actual dressers on it. The one that they have in the book is okay but not really a big oh my want that one. But the book is on top of a dresser that is nice looking and the same color. So off he goes to find a sales person and I wait at the dresser. Cause you know I am not walking to oen spot to turn around and walk right back to it. He doesn't come back for about 15 minutes. I am wondering if knowone was at that counter and he had to go track someone down or something. Finally he comes back and has a receipt in his hand. We have success. Baby has a dresser. We can go home!!! Not picking it up Saturday because I am tired and waiting at furniture pickup would have made me very cranky. So home it is where we fold our laundry and then I promptly fall asleep on the couch for 2 and half hours.

  
  

  Then onto the next part of our exciting Saturday. DH plays poker with a group of friends most Saturday nights. Well he was playing that night. Time got away from us at home what with playing legos star wars and miscalculating the time it would take the pizza to cook in the oven. So we left the house at 10 till 6pm instead of the normal 20 till 6pm. Now remember it is attack of the stupid weekend. So we stop at the shoppette at the bottom of the hill before driving to the other side of the crater to where our friends live for poker. Oh man sometimes doing this is easy other times it is so painful you never want to do it again but you do. So we get there park the car and start walking towards the door. As we are walking up to the door a woman opens the door and then shuts it without entering. Huh? Well they are doing construction on the inside of the shoppette. Not sure what the heck they are doing or when it will end but whatever. So we get to the door just as it is closing with her still standing on the outside. On the door is an 8 and half by 11 piece of paper that says "Please use other door". Inside of this door you can see an empty soda machine blocking it. So woman starts to walk to the side of the building for some reason and then turns and says where is the other door. Okay it is a double door to enter the shoppette. You know the kind where non-stupid people can see two handles touching each other in the center of the big doors. Yup so I grab the handle on the left door and open it and walk in. DH follows right behind me with stupid woman and child behind him. Dirty look number 2 for me of the day. Whatever if you are stupid and can't see the other handle right there in front of your face you deserve to stand on the outside looking in. So we were late for poker. I mean everyone else for the game was all ready there and sitting in their seats. We are never last to arrive. We are usually first to get there. So we of course blamed it on stupid and tell the above story. Everyone laughs and they get down to playing. We were home and in bed by 10pm that night. It was not DH night at all.

  
  

  So since attack of the stupid our week has gotten better. Hopefully this weekend won't be as bad with attack of the stupid. But you never know.

  
  

  Have a great weekend!!

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