MAIL is like
The LOTTERIES... You
WIN some and You
LOSE some....
Still WAITING on
Something IMPORTANT to
*Arrive*, which is a
Week LATE! --
Not a Good Thing... However, We
DID receive some
GREAT Mail Today - the
Christmas PARCEL from My
BROTHER,
"SGT.DOC" and His
lovely New Wife,
"MAID-MARE"!
The
SANTA BROACH is
one of
M-M's Creations... There was
also a
couple of Her
"Mitten" People for
MOTHER [
Pics of Those - Tomorrow]. Also, got a
GIFT CARD for the
Store where I get My
FACTORY ENDS from... [
*Happy Dance!*] -- Looking forward to
*using* THAT!
Meanwhile, We ventured OUT
Today... I had
figured that it would be a tad
less Hectic than what
Tomorrow promises to
be!
Imagine My
*surprise* to
discover that I was CORRECT! --
COSTCO was actually
almost "Civilized"!
SCARY!
From There, We headed to one of Our
other Regular Grocery Haunts... Next door was a
MARK'S WORK WAREHOUSE - I still
needed the Proper
LACES for My
Boots. The
temporary Ones I'm using at the moment are a bit
too long, thin, slippery, and
stretchy... I figured that
THIS would be
the Place to FIND exactly
WHAT I was
looking for.
And
yes, the
SHOPPING GODS were looking out for Me!
The
STORE was near
empty of
Customers WHEN I
first walked in - [
They were later "transported" in FRONT of Me at the CHECKOUT!]....
HELPFUL-YOUNG-GUY-SALES-CLERK escorted Me
right to
where I needed to be!
Ahh... choice, choice, choice.... However,
none of THOSE
hanging on
The Racks were
precisely *what* I wanted.
Nuts! --
hold on...
That Pair that's lying on the
bottom of the
Display, appears to be
promising from a distance... doesn't
look quite as
Shiny as the
Others... A CLOSER examination
is in order.
YES!!
Having a
CINDERELLA-BABY-BEAR Moment here!
Proper Length,
proper Thickness,
proper Material, the
ONLY ONE There!! --
ZEN-SHOPPING!
Why can't I
pick WINNING LOTTERY NUMBERS this EASILY??!!
And, speaking of which...
Later,
when We got to
THE MALL... I'm
about to fill in My
LOTTERY Sheet,
when the nearby
Apparently-Lonesome-MALL-SANTA walked over to
"CHAT" Me up!
NOT SO LONG STORY SHORT - My
Numbers DIDN'T come out This Evening!
So much for
that Good-Luck-SANTA-"Hug"! Seriously, the
only Person who got
"Lucky" was the
"Loser" in the
RED SUIT!
Serves Me right, I
suppose... The
Part where I
never did get
any CANDY from Him,
should have been My
*first* Clue! --
"Next" Time, I
*USE* the
LACES!! ...I've always
been GOOD with
KNOTS...
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