Went shopping today. I do this on occasion, shop on a Saturday. There’s no good reason for me to shop on a Saturday. But it wasn’t terrible, except the traffic. I went to a shopping center I don’t go to often because of the parking lot. I think the parking lot was designed by the guy who does corn mazes. It makes no sense.

But today I needed things that I could only get there. There is a closer Target, but it is teeny and carries very little. There is a closer BB&B, but it is also teeny and didn’t have enough of the window hardware I wanted. So I went to the bigger stores and had much success.

I got drapes and hardware for my bedroom, and drapes for the sliders in the dining room (I despise vertical blinds.) The DR drapes are cool, they have big grommets at the top so they slide easily on the pole. And sliding easily on the pole is very important (stop looking at me like that.)

At Target I was hoping to find some cool stuff in the clearance area, but they seem to have done away with it for the holidays. So instead I got Christmas cards and stationary (because I haven’t decided if I’m going to do letters yet- do people really hate them? Maybe I should just sign the cards with a link to here? Since none of my real life friends and few of my family even know it exists, that could be… interesting.)

I picked up new lights for the tree, too. I’m pretty sure I need them. I remember thinking last year that I need new lights, but I don’t remember if I thought that before Christmas, and bought new ones then, or thought it after Christmas, which would mean I needed to buy them now. I do know there’s no way I bought them after Christmas, you know, when they’re on sale for 70% off. That would have been out of character for me.
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Last night we went to see Nick’s middle school performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Nick was doing the lights, and I’m proud to say it was lit brilliantly. The kids did a good job, although trying to understand Shakespeare is hard enough without trying to understand it performed by mumbling 13 year old boys. There was much violence and cross dressing. I’m quite sure someone is going to complain to the school board about it.

At the end of the show Nick and his friend Troy (who did sound) came bounding down from the control room and onto the stage for their bow, and it really hit me, how big my little boy is.