Shopping

Remember when shopping used to be fun? Me either! Cindy talked me into taking Tuesday afternoon off from work and go into town with her to go Christmas shopping. The stores were absolutely ridiculous.

We went to Blockbuster and Best Buy for gift cards, then we went to the mall. That was a definite experience! I literally waited in line for ten minutes at our local Christian bookstore to have the girl that was working the cash register to actually step away and help another customer find something right as I got to the counter. She was then gone for another ten minutes when I began to whine (I'm good at that). They then called her back and I made my purchase.

After the mall we went to Toys-R-Us for the little neices, then to the meca of Christmas shopping, we went to Wal-Mart, or maybe better named Zoo-Mart! I think they brought people in from three states to shop there Tuesday afternoon. We did escape with our lives, but it was close!

As I went to bed Tuesday night I was replaying a lot of the day in my mind, and I actually found myself smiling. It was not because of the crowds in the stores, or the gifts that we bought, it was the time that I got to spend with Cindy. We rarely get an afternoon like that. With her working at the school now, we rarely get an afternoon together. To be brutally honest, it was fun to be with her, even among the sale-hungry shoppers. After almost 19 years together, we still love and crave our time together. Pretty awesome!