then i looked outside.
that mindset went completely out the window and my mind automatically went from wanting to be productive to lazy as all get out. i am not quite sure why this weather does this to me, but i am not fond of it. i didn't want to do a thing except stay in my pj's all day and chase Dylan around and chill inside. but then i remembered that we had no milk (Dylan will go into full blown trauma without his milk) and no food for the weekend. i knew i should've gone to the grocery store yesterday. ugh!
so after Dylan woke up and decided to fall down a couple of stairs and go back down for a little snooze, i decided to put on my big-girl panties and brave the snow, slush and stupid drivers and run my errands. i seriously deserve a gold star for doing this. it was a very hard yet mature decision on my part.
so after getting Dylan ready for the storm, we buckled up in the car and headed out on our errands. and since i was already in the car and in the slush and in the snow, i decided that i deserved some sweet reward for my efforts of even braving this blizzard. so the car ended up pulling into The Wood Connection parking lot. i expected it to be dead because of the blizzard and was looking forward to this, since that store is teeny, yet amazing. but no, of course it had to be some sort of amazing Friday deal thing they had so i couldn't even find a decent parking spot. or a spot at all for that matter. i had to drive around for 10 minutes waiting for one of the million people there to leave. finally after parking and getting inside, i shoved my way through and grabbed my goodies (ooooo i cannot wait to get started on my projects!!) and then i waited in line for 20 minutes, carrying Dylan in one arm (seriously they need freakin' carts there...they are retarded. it's a mom sanctuary for crying out loud! get some carts! because 90% of the people who shop there usually have a litter of 3 or more with them!) and my super heavy basket in the other arm (that doesn't hold crap. you would seriously need like 3 of those baskets to even hold everything you buy. hence, another reason for the carts!). yeah, i was glad to finally be in the line to leave.
once we got out of that H-hole (i am never going there on a Friday again. ever.) i decided that we would just go to Winco to get our groceries since it was right there, and their prices are just too good to pass up. and after an hour of filling my cart with goodness, i got to the checkout. i don't know if any of you shop there, but i have only been a couple of times. you have to bag your own stuff, not a fan but the prices are certainly worth it. so i am in the middle of bagging my hour-long's shopping worth of food, and the guy tells me to swipe my card, so i do. then it asks for my pin#. i tell him i only brought a credit card. he then replies that they only take debit or cash. what the freaking H? was he trying to be funny? i thought he was, because i started laughing. he looked at me with his little beaty eyes and repeated their stupid policy. what kind of messed up store only takes debit or cash? i have never heard of this. but it's the dumbest thing i have ever heard. it sure would've been nice to know your dumb-a policy before i even walked through the door you pee-brain! maybe you guys should put a sign somewhere, since he then told me it happens all the time and just to drive home and get my debit card and come back. oh yeah, totally, i have nothing else to do with my time and my son isn't screaming right now because he is tired and wants the milk i came here to buy him. yeah, let me just run on home and waste not only my gas, but my sanity! no. i told them what a retarded policy that was and wanted to tell them where to stick it but just left. i honestly am never shopping there again. i don't support stupidity.
so Dylan is screaming by this point, and i have to admit that it was like 10% my fault for stopping by the Wood Connection before grocery shopping, but it was 90% stupid Winco's fault for having such a stupid policy. i gave him the last bit of goldfish he had and decided to just go home and stop at a gas station on the way for his milk, then to starve to death over the weekend. well, then i remembered i had to mail a disc to a client, so i went to the post office that was right next to Macey's. my mind debated. go in with a ticking bomb and hope he doesn't go off or just go home...i decided to risk the ticking bomb. and mind you, i am doing all this in a flipping snow-storm so honestly i felt like mother of the year at this point. we ran into Macey's, picked up the bare necessities, i gladly paid with my credit card (you have my business for life Macey's) and filled up my car. and Dylan didn't even cry once while we were there. a divine intervention from above!
since Dylan had been so good on this outing, i decided i wanted to get him his first meal from a restaurant. and what better place then Zupas :) so i got my soup, then i ordered him a grilled cheese with soup on the side. of course, when i got home and opened his sandwich box to give my little man his sandwich, it was soaked in soup! honestly, can i not catch a break today? first of all, what moron puts the soup inside the sandwich box? and second, what kind of moron puts soup in a to-go container and doesn't put the lid on all the way. they were lucky it was a blizzard and that i had already had it that morning or they would've seen me march right back in there demanding a perfectly dry grilled cheese. and to top it off, Dylan only ate like 3 bites. and i wonder why i never buy him his own meal.
after such a fun morning, the rest of the day was amazing. i will show you through pictures...
snow fun...
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