Queen of Rambles

Here’s a short but sweet entry for today, combined with a longwinded post from yesterday. The internet didn’t like me yesterday so I wasn’t able to post about my newest addiction. I know you are all so sad.

Anyway, we made it home safe and sound. It was pretty dicey for a while when we hit a white out blizzard in West Virginia. Six days ago we were enjoying the tail end of summer, so running head on into old man winter was a shock. Erik, Mr. “I’m a Snow Princess!” was loving it. He ordered us to go to the store so we could buy snow clothes, but there aren’t that many stores in West Virginia.

I finally got so freaked out that I pulled over and made Mike drive the rest of the way home. I get car sick, so I usually do all the long distance driving. Plus I am a horrible back seat driver and like to go nine miles over the posted speed limit. Mike doesn’t believe in speeding that much, but when you’re on an eight hour car drive, those extra miles per hour add up! Surprisingly, we were only home an hour later than our estimated time.

Also, surprisingly, we found a really tasty restaurant in rural Maryland. Every time we drive past Cumberland, I always say I want to stop because it looks interesting. This time we did stop because we were starving and we ended up at D’Artis on the far east side of the city. We followed the highway signs because we assumed it would be Italian, but when we arrived it turned out to be home of some weird, freaky grilled steak subs. We were disappointed and kind of freaked out, but went ahead and ordered some other stuff.

It was scrumptious.

Don’t you love it when you end up at a local resturant that has amazing food? It was so good we even fought over Erik’s home made applesauce. I had the best grilled ham and cheese sandwich of my life. I need to remember this place so we can go back if we make a trip up there again, but it might be rather difficult. I just did a google search and couldn’t find a single reference to it. Here’s my tip of the day: if you ever have to travel through Cumberland, Maryland be sure to stop by D’Artis.

And now for my naughty confession: we bought a guitar and the Aerosmith Guitar Hero game in Ashland, Kentucky. We don’t even have a Wii, yet! I am going to get a Wii and I am going to ROCK!

And now, my friends, bed is calling me.

Here’s the post that didn’t get posted yesterday. Also, I don’t know if Kisha has posted any pictures yet or not but you can check if you are curious. Swiper is awesome!

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Just call me Tom Sawyer. I have Kisha whitewashing a fence, while Mike cooks me dinner. Now I can relax and get on with a post for the day. Or play Guitar Hero. You people are lucky I’m willing to take time out of my rock and rolling to write this (or maybe you’re just lucky I’m a nice wife who is giving Mike a turn at bowling, otherwise there is no way I would waste time at the computer when I could be butchering Talk Dirty to Me. I am obsessed. We are getting a Wii.)

Anyway!

Kisha is not really whitewashing a fence. She’s finishing the Swiper costume, which is so awesome of her because I pretty much suck at crafts. That’s been mentioned, right? She’s cleaned up Swiper’s face and is making a totally awesome tail that snaps off the back so he can sit in his car seat. She is totally my best friend forever.

Now you know the real reason behind this visit. Usually I get her to do all my dirty work via the web, but there was no way she could do this with pixels and broadband so we had to drive ourselves and our felt all the way out here.

Kisha finally got to see my temper at work today when Erik smacked Evie in the face with his Wubbzy doll. I’m surprised she didn’t call the authorities. I couldn’t believe the little shit was so intentional in his violence and went a little crazy. I didn’t hit him or anything, but I did grab him pretty hard. He has been such a good little boy on this trip–just phenomenal–but the shoe dropped today. The kids loved playing together, but at this point they are both ready to be only children again. Poor Evie was running away with her barn so she could play alone, but Erik was faster and wouldn’t let her be.

Speaking of Evie, that little girl is the happiest child I have ever seen. She is giggly and fun and content to do whatever you want her to do. She has some major issues at bed time, but she doesn’t have a single sulk in her until you start trying to get her to sleep. I think if Erik was that happy we would have started considering HBN2 much sooner.

And now for the drama!

Kisha is a couponing queen and drew me into her little scheme today. I’ve been really confused when she talks about all the free things she gets because I don’t understand how a store can give away stuff, but she was right. There was a big ad for Rite Aid with a bunch of stuff that they were giving away. You pay for it upfront, enter your receipt on their website and they send you a check. You’re only out sales tax. The main thing, though, is that if you have coupons they come off the price, but you still get full price back so they are actually paying you to take product out of the store. Kisha had a fist full of coupons and a print out of all the good deals. She ended up getting two bags of products and $1.25. I ended up with one bag of product and paid twelve cents.

We had one coupon for $45 off a diabetic tester that was only $30. Kisha warned me that with such a big overage they would adjust the coupon, but the cashier didn’t! I was going to make almost $15 off my bag of stuff! I was smiling to myself, waiting at the door for Kisha to get done with her transaction when things went awry.

The manager came over to see what the hell Kisha was doing and figured out that the coupon needed to be adjusted. I was standing there, minding my own business, when she pointed to me and asked if I had used the coupon. I played stupid and asked “What coupon?” but my savings were suddenly over. She made me go back to the register, void out my entire transaction and start over again.

Now.

This pissed me off.

I could totally understand if it had happened before my transaction was complete. I don’t understand this overage thing anyway and it is totally fair not to make a bunch of money off these coupons.

However.

I was already gone! If I hadn’t been with Kisha I would have been out the door. She had no reason to start questioning my purchases after I’d been checked out for a good five minutes.

Of course, I am a giant wuss so I didn’t say anything and meekly stood there while they adjusted everything (which took for-freakin-ever). Kisha and I burst out into “I can’t believe that!” as soon as we were out the door. We talk a big game, but we’re both passive-aggressive at heart.

And with that, I’m off to eat chocolate cake and rock out on Guitar Hero. I am still shocked that it appeals to me. I was laughing at Magnus when he wanted me to play, but I took to it in about a tenth of a second.

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