All Things Anne

You know how days like this go…you start to do one thing then remember Oh yeah, you gotta do this and that also. Well, it kind of happened that way today. Originally, Mom, Tess, Rase, and Jay were going to go to the dollar store to get Eric’s gifts and pick Joe and Eric up from work. First stop was the dollar store.

We met Kelly’s wife in there (TJ was with her) and we talked for a bit. This older man comes up and he sees us all standing in a circle, kind of, and says “Hey, you know kids, what I’d do before I leave? I’d ask for ice cream. And if I didn’t get it, I’d throw a fit and raise heck until I did! Yep, that’s what I’d do if I were you!”
We all laughed, and he laughed too. After he left, Mom said, “You know if a kid did that he’d tell the parents to make the kid behave!”
Mom bought some potato chips there and I think I ate too many, because I felt really really sick later!

On our way to pick up the boys, Mom remembered “Oh yeah…I forgot raviolis!!”
I laughed.
“I wonder what other important things I forgot!”
“Did you remember the cup o’ noodles?” I asked.
“NO! I didn’t!”
“The English muffins?”
“No! I guess we have to go to Walmart!”

Well, after we picked up the boys, we told them the situtation, and Joe wanted to go to Walmart on the West Side because that one has the wool gloves he likes. So we went across town. Mom told me a funny thing Abby said. Abby’s sock had come off one foot in her sleep, so she told Beth while wiggling her foot…”I need a sock on this end!”

We needed to buy some water jugs to fill for going hunting, so we went down there, and got four jugs and filled them from the Culligan thing. We all kind of wanted to sit, and thought they should have put a bench there, but they didn’t. Across the aisle from the water filler things though was bunch of cases of beer. Someone had arranged them so it looked like a chair! Joe saw that first so he got to sit there. Then the corner was also a good spot, so Rase sat there. When Joe got up to shut off the water and fill the other jugs, I stole his seat.

We met Ben…or rather, he met us at Walmart. His phone ran out of battery, so he used the boys’ phone to make some phone calls. Then we met him at a Holiday, and went in to get drinks. Mom and I got those cappuccinos (Ben was still in a phone call so he came in a bit after us). We tasted them, and it was like…yuck! Watery! So Mom told the clerks and the guy came over.
“What should we do with this?” Mom said, meaning the coffee we had poured.
“Just pour it down here.” He showed us where there was a drain.
Mom and I started pouring 20oz of watery cappuccino into the drain.
“I feel really guilty doing this,” Mom said.
“I know, me too!” I was giggling.
Then the guy refilled the super mocha one (it was out of powder) and pushed the powder container for the pumpkin spice one back in…and they worked. Yay! When Ben came in, he and I dawdled, trying out those fancy flavored creams. We had fun.
The big boys went to Checker then home, and the rest of us just went home.

(By the way I just have to add this…Eric’s playing this game Autofrag: Sumo which is an action game, but his computer is so slow he says it’s turned into a strategy game!)