I found some things yesterday that bothered me. Its all in the past, so im not going to go into it here.. its inane.. but anyway. I went home feeling a little out of sorts.. feeling like hiding from the world.. just me and the kitties... and some good chocolate.. but I had plans to go buy a Christmas tree.. had the truck to do it and everything.. so I figured Id go do that, and see what happened. I haven't totally been in the christmas spirit lately.. so I figured it would be good for me (either that, or really really bad)
After getting home, I sat and talked about my day with SO.. and after getting rid of all the negitive energy I had going on, I felt battered and bruised.. it wasn't pretty.. but I had things to do.. One of which was deliver a christmas card that had come to our house by mistake.. So I don'ed my brand new high folutin santa hat, and went out. Our neighbors are probably a little older than we are. For some reason I thought they were old old folks.. no idea why..
Then we went to the place where we always get our christmas trees now.. Kings varity fruit and veggie stand.. its a small house type structure that has fresh produce all year round, and grows their own corn.. they were the first place I saw that had purple potatoes.. I really like it.. they are cheep, and friendly and a local business. We've always gotten good trees there.
We drove up the street, and got out and started looking around.. Josh walked over and asked if we needed help finding anything.. and of course my answer was "a christmas tree" (yup.. im the master of the obvious sometimes).. Let me take a second and talk about Josh.. he was probably 20 or younger.. possibly a collage student.. not incredibly cute looking, but not bad looking either. He was wearing a sweatshirt and some thick gloves for handling the trees... After he got over my silly joke, he started talking about the trees.. telling us that the trees with blue ribbons on them were "damn good trees".. this just tickled my fancy.. and made me giggle... he went on to say they were fraisers, and they held their needles longer and kept their scent too. The trees with the red ribbons were.. and he stumbled for something as cute as 'damn good trees' and couldn't.. so I suggested, 'not damn good trees'.. I was smiling and laughing.. I felt so much better.. I would have hugged josh if it hadn't been totally inapproprate.. mostly cause he wouldn't have understand how much better he had made me feel.
It was a nice night for tree shopping.. it was warm enough, but just a nip in the air.. I was wearing a sweater and a leather jacket... Usually I have to wear gloves, mittens, a scarf, a heavy jacket, three pairs of socks, etc.. Its been so warm here... the chill was nice. We picked out a tree, which of course was in the farthest spot from where we parked.. (this ALWAYS seems to be the case for me.. I should just give up and tell who ever is running the place to just go to the far back corner and get me that tree.. cause it always seems to be there), and a wreath, and went to go check out.. we had just enough money to cover it.. it came to $56.00 (36 for the tree.. 19 for the wreath, which was of very decent size) I saw some adorable potted trees. They are about a foot high, and were put in little christmas pots with a little santa statute in it. I thought it was sooo cute, so im rummaging through my pockets for the $5 they wanted for it. The guy at the counter said I could have it for $4.00. Which again just made my heart swell... he even came over and helped me pick one out. Again.. I would have give him a kiss on the cheek if I thought he would have understood.. I so want to send them cookies or a pizza or something.. They so made my day.. I LOVE places with awesome customer service..When I find them, they have a customer for life in me..
So we loaded up the truck and drove home, and I was so exhausted. I realized it felt exactly the same way I felt the moment I realized my father had made it through his sugery and was going to be ok.. beaten and bruised emotionally, but happy.. I went home and worked out, which always makes me feel like Ive accomplished something.. and went to bed, and watched The Muppet Christmas Carol and glued on some false nails.which look suprisingly good..
Im now at work, and we are goofing around cause our database was down all morning.. Diane just had a discussion with our boss about the fact that our prices were way too high, which is obnoxiously true.so hopefully the prices will come down and I'll actually have work to do while at work.. which ofcouse if that happens I probably wont want to be here.. lol.. speaking of which.. that's the phone..
Ranted by ~*Connie*~ at 11:04 AM
