do you ever find yourself wanting to blog...and needing to blog...but not being able to sort out all yer thoughts and put it in a post? i'm having one of those moments right now.
tonight, i've been splitting my time between the computer and piecing together a jigsaw that lois and i started yesterday. for the past fifteen minutes, i have resisted the urge to go smash in a few pieces and remained at the computer to actually blog.
the puzzle is a $1.99 special from Big Lots. it's a still life called, "Sewing Circle." mainly, it's a jumble of spools in a basket, a couple pin cushions, and a classic Singer. lotsa colors and not too much frustration ;) good thing it's only a 500 piece and not 2000...
stopped by the local Family Dollar with susie this afternoon. she needed to buy some laundry detergent and dish soap and i had the urge to buy things that i did not need at all; the best reason to tag along. in the end, i found some blue and green xmas ornaments that were .50 a pair, another jigsaw, junk food (in this case, Little Derbs Twinkie knock-offs), a brown winter hat, and some 13-gallon size trash bags. sooo exciting.
the jigsaws at Family Dollar are good deals. only a buck and some nice photos. however, the 500 piecers tend to be somewhat small (10"x18"), which makes for some small piece searching. the Big Lots puzzles we've been buying have bigger pieces and come in sealed bags (inside the box) - keeps the dust down.
well, maybe i shouldn't say that the items i bought weren't completely necessary. let's just say that i had no intentions of looking for these things. does this buying things on the spot qualify me as an impulsive shopper? after all, they were needed and will be used...
the brown hat was just a stroke of luck. i knew that lois didn't have a brown hat to match one of her coats. yesterday, when we were downtown, lois had realized that she hadn't brought a hat and i had left my gloves in the car. so...we wandered in to the Walgreen's amidst throngs of people who were looking for NYE hats, etc. bought another hue of (blue) gloves and (red) hats for a few bucks. while we were shopping, we saw a gal who works with Lois, Mari Cruz. she was there with her two kids and niece, rummaging through the New Year's paraphenalia.
strange, over the past three days, with the exception of Mari Cruz, we've been running into people that we haven't seen in a while. i wonder if it has been less coincidental than fateful.
take, for example, our trip to the mall on tuesday. we were there to find some shoes for Lois at the Easy Spirit store, which is upstairs. well, instead of taking the escalator, which is just in front of the entrance, i asked Lois if she wanted to take the stairs instead. she had no problems with that and we huffed up the stairs.
right after we reached the second floor, i pointed out a young gal who was walking past us with a yorkshire terrier puppy in her arms. owning two squeak dogs always elicits stopping and chatting with other squeak dog owners.
turns out that the gal was a best friend of one of lois' former co-workers. they chatted a bit, passed the puppy (Henry) around, before we headed for the shoe store.
of course, lois found three pairs of shoes that she couldn't live without. deciding on the shoes was greatly helped by the fact that numerous styles were half off and that we were armed with a coupon too. and actually, there were five or six pairs, but her size wasn't available in a couple.
anyway, as we left the store, i looked down on the ground level and saw a Peaberry Coffee stand. can't leave the mall without me indulging in an almond latte... so we took the elevator down and...ran into Ronda, who went to high school with me (but is two years older) and was my main study buddy (fifteen years ago) for Chinese class in college! hadn't seen her since 2001 though..so we caught up...got her business card (she's a Reiki practitioner now)...and treated her to a vanilla latte.
tonight, we ran into Zach (good friend of Susie's) at Black Eyed Pea...which was my choice for dinner. hmmm...four encounters in three days. what if we hadn't:
gone to Walgreen's on NYE? i had considered going to Rite Aid, across the street.
taken the stairs up to Easy Spirit? escalator would have gotten us there faster...
decided on stopping for coffee?
decided on the Pea and gone for BBQ instead?
had we not done those four things, we wouldn't have seen those people...
all this coincidence/fate talk is making my head spin. think i'm gonna make a bag of microwave popcorn. wonder what would happen if i decided against this...would i miss someone/something? nah, guess i'd just be hungry ;)
sorry Katie, no M&M's or Equal to sprinkle on the corn...call me boring lol
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