I went out today to try to get some things done. The main thing was to take care of the graves (my dad's and my maternal grandparents') for my mom. She wanted me to get Christmas arrangements or cemetery logs for each of them. Then I also wanted to get this photo printed and framed as extra gift for my sister "from Woody." I wanted to do laundry as well. Unfortunately, doing laundry involves going out because our washing machine is broken. What an inconvenience. I wasn't planning to go to any laundromat, but to my in-laws' but still, what an inconvenience. I mean, I like putting in a load of wash and then going and doing stuff around the house. And that's hard when you're not at your house.

So anyway, I headed to Plainville with laundry in the trunk and the photograph on a CD in my bag. They only had one Christmas arrangement at Gnazzo's, the local market, so I decided to head over to this place where I've gotten plants in the past, called Sunflower Farm, only to find they're out of business -! Not just closed, but out of business. Oy, so I drove aimlessly through town and then pulled onto a side street and called my mom. She was actually I surprised that I was trying to do the graves (because of the snow she said), but I had promised her so there I was. I told her about my dilemma and she suggested since I was already in Plainville I might as well try to go ahead with it, and suggested I see if they had cemetery arrangements at Big Y.

So off I went, only to find a huge line of traffic backed way up, far from where the Big Y is. There's a whole shopping "area" there now (with lots of big box stores) so I guess that everybody and their brother (as Nana used to say) was out shopping there and causing a veritable traffic jam. I was already reaching my frustration threshold and knew that inching along for forever to get store that might not even have what I needed could put me over the edge.

So I pulled off onto a side street, headed to a "fancy" store in (fancy) Farmington and found cemetery logs for $19.99. Yikes. I called my mother again and she told me that was too expensive, thanks for trying and go home. I briefly looked into a cheap hair salon there to see if I could get my ends lopped, but there were 4 people already waiting so I bagged the idea and headed home listening to a A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector. I did stop at Walgreen's to make the print of the photo, but it wasn't going to be ready right away so I went home (maybe Sweetie can do the laundry tomorrow).

Labels: busy life, family, holidays

posted by Miss Rachel 12/22/2007 08:26:00 PM

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