I feel like I've been pushing this old lawn mower around my 23 acres for hours. After work today Truett and I decided to go to Gainesville to buy groceries as well as purchase a new copier-scanner-color laser printer. The HP All-in-One I have downloads a new program every other day. It's flat out aggravating.
So we ate supper at GTO's and then drove to Gainesville and it's 6:30 PM. We decided to get the laser copier-scanner-color printer before grocering so Office Depot was our first stop. That, also was annoying and frustrating. I knew more than the sales person, some young punk who would rather have been unboxing sticky notes. Finally, we got fed up at his lack of knowledge and left. There goes one hour of my precious Friday evening. Now it's 7:30 PM.
Next we go to Office Max across town. There again, we spent 45 minutes of shopping time and 15 minutes trying to get our check scanned. I understand why. It's just like the young man said, "Who knows, you may have just written a big check to Home Depot and depleted your account."
Depleted our account? Give me a break. My feet were killing me and I was developing a headache. I wanted to deplete all employees of Office Max and Office Depot. Finally, we did buy the thing--a much nicer copier-scanner-laser printer. I suppose the lesson we learned is "buy the best the first time." It certainly would have saved us alot of time, trouble and sore feet.
Then on to Publix and finally home at 9:30 PM. I'm too exhausted to think about the past three hours.
On a happier note. I read my book Through My Eyes to my student's today. Look carefully at this photograph from my book.
A beautiful fall leaf. But not to children. The kids said, "Mrs. George, that looks like Patrick."
"Patrick who?" I asked.
'You know. Patrick on Sponge Bob Squarepants."
Obviously, I did not publish my photographs for children. What do they know anyway. To me it looks like a beautiful fall leaf.
Beautiful patrick leaf.
Posted by: Sherry | April 12, 2008 at 05:22 AM
I had to google Patrick since I'm not a spongebob-fan. Your kids were right - it does look like Patrick!
Posted by: Merry Jennifer | April 12, 2008 at 08:10 AM
Your book is SOOOO beautiful. I forgot to ask you if you made copies?
Posted by: Debbi | April 13, 2008 at 01:51 PM