Raymond says "wal-mart sucks"

We slept in until 8:30 today. Over slept. Ashley was already up playing Tony Hawk.


She made her own completely green character. We had to rush to get Ashley to her 9:00 church rehearsal for the Christmas pageant tomorrow. Sarah took her in, picking up Anna on the way.

Then Sarah came home, we showered together. After the shower we called Mom and Andrew to get ideas for Christmas present, and took off on our errands.

First to Wal Mart. We didn't really want to go there, but the girl that we picked for the giving tree wanted clothes with the Olsen twins, and you can only get those at Walmart. We told ourselves that we'd just get that one thing and get the heck out before the evil seeps into our skin like old ink.

The problem is that things are really cheaper there. Undeniably so. We found the coffee maker for my Mom at $20.00 less that the same coffee maker elsewhere.

We picked up Ashley and Anna from the church at 11:00. The original plan was to drop me off at this point. I was going to stay at home and write a little, spend some time in relative silence with my Mac in the basement. While Sarah took the girls to Toni's too look at some discounted stamps or something.

But i got talked into coming along. Somehow I always do... oh poor me... gnash gnash... oh the ashes....

Sarah promised to keep is at 10 minutes or under. At 11:30 she left me sitting in the car.

I don't mind it much though. Silence becomes a tangible, almost medicinal commodity at some point

Even the relatively short drive from the church to Toni's was nearly enough to break me. Both Anna and Ashley talking in the back seat. Yes, both talking, not figuratively, literally. They just talk over each other, not waiting for the other to stop. Their conversation wasn't so much a tennis match, it was more like a dodgeball game with at least 12 balls in play at once.

And Sarah talking to me nearly the whole time. "mmm hmmm" and "ya" for my part of the conversation. Not that she was saying annoying or pointless things, I just over loaded at some point.

And beneath it all the radion station I was trying to listen to.

I've been listening to too much 92.1, Air America, lately.

It's a liberal radions tation, and though I usually like it, sometimes it's just rhetoric from the other side of the spectrum,

11:57, they're back... looks like my rhetoric rant is cut short, lucky you. All three of them are talking already, thy doors to the car haven't even closed yet. Here we go....

...the mall was hell. Hell I say!!!! It was so packed, and everyone was so focused on their own frenzied chaos tha all common courtesy wand human communication was lost. And that is hell.

Lunch at 2:00, reheated chili. Scavenge for supper. Jelly on toast and cereal. Why can't all meals be breakfast? Played Star Wars duels with Ashley as I ate.

I'm watchign "the day after tomorrow" w/ Sarah now, and will rpbably fall asleep soon. I should remember to write up a little review of the movie for my group.