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02/01/2003 Entry: ""the biggest garage sale in the world...""
Those were the words I heard on the phone this morning. Now, I'm not sure I mentioned this yet, but my dh is a garagesaleaholic.  I don't know if you know what that is, but it's a person who is absolutley addicted to garage/yard sales--but very rarely actually purchases anything (thank God for that!) At any rate...dh had some errands to run this morning so he left us at home in our pjs. As he was out I figured he was garage/yard sale peeking. He was of course...and then...he passed our local K-mart--who had people out on the main boulevard with signs directing people inside trying to get them to come in there as they are going out of business! So dh calls me on his cell and says "It's the biggest garage sale of all time!!!" He wanted to know if we wanted him to run home to get us so we could experience this as a family or not...Well...of COURSE! So he comes home we are all abuzz trying to get dressed and he's threatening every few minutes to leave us!  He figures everyone else is going to buy all of the stuff he's not going to buy anyway. SO...we go to K-mart which is strangely packed...I say that rather sarcastically because on any ordinary day the place is deserted...of course NOW everyone shows up. Where were they all of these months before? We had actually become rather regular K-mart shoppers--after all they closed the Walmart that was in our backyard (okay that might be a ~little~ exaggeration--but it really WAS convienant!)--and opened the NEW SUPER WALMART directly beside the MALL! ~gasp~ You can't imagine the pain I had over that...sure it's a SUPER Walmart but c'mon!!!! You have no idea how bad the traffic is down there...it's like Nascar central,  and truly no matter what my Mom has told you--I drive like a little old lady most of the time! I miss my sweet little Walmart in my back yard! Okay okay...at any rate...since the closing of my sweet little Walmart, we had started frequenting K-mart--which although not in our back yard--is still just a little stop and go across the road kinda store from our house...probably 1/4 of a mile--and best of all...it was NEVER crowded! We usually had full reign of the store resulting in leisurely hours spent browsing...and the utmost in customer service as the employees didn't have anything else to do. So you know...I guess that explains alot about why they are closing down huh? So today was rather bittersweet considering that we were pretty dang excited about getting stuff for a fraction of the price (whether we needed it or not) and yet saying goodbye to "our" store.  At the moment most everything in the store is about 30% off--we got some tremendous deals on shoes though...and bought some crates for the kids rooms...a bunch of aquarium supplies for Tot--who looks to have a TON of eggs...and after research we find that she could have up to 400 babies! You know, I love my children with a passion put in me by the Lord Jesus Christ himself but I am REALLY glad I am not a crawfish!
Other than that we went to the party supply store to get the table stuff for the Blue & Gold Banquet and wouldn't you know it the entire store is Mardi Gras central and they had NOTHING for any sort of patriotic holiday so we are going to have to order some stuff from online and pay a MINT for shipping. Unreal. Where is their spirit. 
I had a hard time today with the Columbia Shuttle. I cried this morning when I sat and read the news report online. That's the second shuttle disaster in my lifetime. I was so torn up over the biographies of the people on there. They were people with such beautiful spirits...so excited like children over this great adventure in their lives. They left behind so many people...parents, wives, husbands, children...and us...because I think *we* as a nation feel these kinds of losses as a whole. Certainly never to the extent that the people who were a part of their day to day life do...but we do tend to feel like we "know" those people a little bit. There's that little part of us who is still a child who remembers playing astronaut...who dreamed of going into space and landing on the moon...I pray deeply for the Lord's comfort in the lives of those who lost loved ones---and even for all of us that our nation will grieve and then pick up our spirits and firmly square our shoulders--pushing our jaws forward with determination that our nation is known for to say "this will not bring us down--we will go on from here".
This evening we sat down and ate a bunch of Jelly Belly Jellybeans. YUMMY!  The kids had a few spit it out fast as you can wash your mouth out with water while gagging moments in spite of my warning them about a few of the flavors.  In spite of that we all survived. I love the Pina Colada ones! And the coconut ones...the good thing is that everyone in my family hates them so I get em all!
Dh is on LEAVE for two weeks. I am so excited. Thanks to some apparent flaw in our income tax return thier phone line (which okay it says to call after 3 weeks, but I just wanted to HEAR it say that they had my return in spite of what Tubotax was telling me, and I actually didn't SEE where it said to wait 3 weeks to call until AFTER I called--they bold the part about calling with the number, and everyone knows you don't read the light print stuff your eyes JUMP to the bold print and read that so...) tells me that there has been a delay in the processing of my return and to call some number to talk to someone. I'm really excited about this you know. I was a freaked out nervous wreck last week, and lo and behold if they don't have some DELAY on my return.  Goodie.  At any rate...maybe by Monday when I get to call there WON'T be but who knows...so where was I going with this? Glad you asked. The point was...thanks to some flaw in our return we will not be doing all of the big things that we had planned for our little mini-vacation at home (trips to the zoo, gulf shores science center, and the beach) but instead will be spending some quality time at HOME on vacation. Eh. If I didn't love my children and my dh so much I really WOULD be disappointed. We were hoping to get to go to GA for a visit too, but looks like that might not happen either unless Monday finds us talking to someone who says it was just a mistake (yeah right!) I will probably have dh call--as I don't trust myself to do it...you know it would go something like THIS:  (don't move on until you watch that smilie! It takes a few seconds to go through it's whole cycle but I LOVE that lil guy (thanks momof4!)...and am really thankful I don't look like that alot...but really that would be me lol) My gut tells me this whole delay thing has something to do with my business...if it is...all I can say is Lord help me...because I poured over that return for three or four days trying to be sure I did it all absolutely right. The real kicker is I mailed it off two days ago...I'm sure they haven't recieved it yet...and the really neat thing I have a gut feeling about is that they are going to say they will have to HOLD our federal return until they have processed our COMPANY return so they can compare the values on there. I hope I'm wrong and it was a phone glitch.  Although, for a moment today I was very nearly devastated by the thought that not only was our vacation going to be hijacked, but that ALOT of things that I was counting on (our car for one) was not going to happen if they delay that money--I prayed about it, turned on my praise and worship music, danced around my kitchen while I cleaned, got the best hug ever from my dh  and I felt all better. The Lord WILL provide. He WILL take care of us, and you know what? I bet our home vacation will be a blessing! So stay TUNED!
Be blessed my dear ones!
~A
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