I was all prepared to just sit at home tonight and edit dog videos. I finished dinner and was thinking... well, maybe I'll drive to our sister city and look at their Wal-Mart for the Pikachu 3DS. While I'm there I'll go to the Meijer and see if they have one. And I'm arguing with myself because I'm like THEY WON'T HAVE ANY. EVERYWHERE IS SOLD OUT. YOU MISSED IT. And they are not just on THIS side of our sister city, they are on the OPPOSITE side. Farthest away from me. It's a WASTE of time to drive over there and they won't have anything and it's stupid.
Finally I decided fine, fine - I need to go to Meijer for groceries anyway, so okay, I'll drive ALL THE WAY over there, I'll look, they won't have any, I'll be all bummed out and I'll buy my apples and go home.
I went to Wal-Mart first. None of course. I picked up a couple things I needed. I leave to go to Meijer, but somehow get turned around (the Wal-Mart is seriously in the middle of nowhere over there so I forgot which way I needed to go.) So I end up on the opposite side of town and have to drive all the way BACK over to the other side of town AGAIN. And I ended up taking a slightly different route than I normally would, and it's dark so my bearings are just not quite right, and I'm driving around going "I'm ALMOST POSITIVE I'm going the right way. I think I know where I am. Yes, I know where I am. Yes, okay. This is right yes? I think this street goes all the way through. YES, there it is! Okay!!" And all this time I'm swearing because I'm driving around like a lunatic to go to a store that will not have what I want and I'm going to be depressed and also I REALLY HAVE TO PEE.
Finally get to Meijer. I park and the restrooms are right up front so I go pee first. This Meijer is all screwy, everybody from my town always talks about how we can't find ANYTHING at this Meijer, like the cheese is next to the ladies socks and the toys are next to the toothpaste and nothing makes any sense. I can't remember where electronics is. I start walking down an aisle and I'm about to grab some cheese and start grocery shopping and think "No, just find electronics, see they don't have any, be all mad, THEN go grocery shopping."
I spot the electronics counter! Okay! Where are the game cases? Oh, on that wall. I walk up to the game case. I'm scanning for the Nintendo DS case. I see it.
I look down at the bottom where the systems all sit.
I see a bright. yellow. box.
There was this bizarre mixture of OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD and "*sigh of relief*" and I'm ready to start jumping up and down and start skipping and maybe cry and OH MY GOD.
I go up to the counter and I'm totally trying to play it cool right? And the guy is like "Hey how can I help you?"
"Can I have one of those Pikachu 3DS systems?"
"Sure!" he says, and he unlocks the case, picks one up and hands it to me. "Do you want to check it out?"
I grab it and I'm TRYING to play it cool and I can't help it. "EEEEEEEEEEEEE" comes out of my mouth.
He turns his back to me to lock the cabinet and I can see he's smiling and sort of laughing at me.
I DO NOT CARE.
I bought it. I wish I had thought of it last week because they would have price matched Target's ad, but I didn't realize I was going to be SO disappointed without being able to get one... so I don't really care that it was $40 more than it would have been last week.
He gave me the bag and I was so excited I almost ran out of the store. I got outside and started freaking out, jumping around and screaming "KYAAAAAAAH!!! I GOT ONE!!! EEEEEEEEEEEE!" And people are staring and I'm running to my car where I promptly start beating on the steering wheel screaming and squealing some more and trying to decide WHO CAN I CALL AND SCREAM THROUGH THE PHONE AT THEM GUESS WHAT I JUST BOUGHT?
I completely forgot I wanted to buy groceries.
BUT THIS IS MINE NOW.
I AM SO HAPPY.
), so maybe I can pick up some more program stuff after that.
