Well what can I say about Simply Southern but this...
We had a blast, there are pictures, I did not do it, I deny it... that is not my face and the water really was not all that cold once I put my head under.
Well, Teresa and I were up all night the night before trying to get kits put together. Teresa cannot stay up past 10pm or she will turn into a pumpkin. Well, I had her up until 4 am and she was not feeling me.
I am about to digress...
We had to take a mid evening run to IKEA for Michelle Luther. Now, I had already picked up a 5 by 5 Expedite bookcase for her and drove that to Nashville the last time that I was there.
Michelle has gotten a bug in her ass about changing over her craft room. She has more stuff then a store... Oh did I mention that she owns the store Timeless Reflections...
I have no clue where she is going to put all the stuff that she has, but she wanted this particular desk and was driving to Huntsville to pick it up.
Now mind you I had sent my Dad two times to get the desk which they did not have in stock, and I had been down there on two other occassions to get this desk.
By now we had spent more money in gas driving back and forth then if she had just paid the shipping or came to get it herself.
So you know that you can not let me loose in IKEA. I have to walk the floor and then I went down to the self serve to get the desk. Of course, Teresa is just following me and indulging me through out the whole process.
Well, half way thru the marketplace, my pocket book got really heavy and I decided to turn it over on a baby changing table and clean it out. Yes, I just dumped the whole thing out and cleaned it up. No, it did not get any lighter, but what the hell, now I had a clean bag and we could keep moving.
As we are walking Teresa says to me in her very Southern way, "Lauren, why did we come here?" I had to stop and search my brain just for a short minute and realize that she was being southern. So I said, "Well, I figured since we were here, I would look around."
Well why did I say that. She got that funny look in her eyes and her eyebrows went up and her mouth gets all tight. Yikes, I am in big trouble. The next few mumbled words went something like, "I'm not staying up all night, this is not my class, I am NOT driving ANYWHERE. I told you that we could do this later.... BLAH BLAH BLAH."
So we finally get to the Aisle 20 Bin 3 and guess what NO DESK. OK, so maybe there is some thing wrong, lets go to get the legs. OK, off to Aisle 20 bin 18, we need two legs, there is only one leg.
I turn and see Teresa pushing the cart, that of course has a mind of its own like the ones in London, you know the ones where you have to walk on the side of the cart to get it to go straight, looking at me with that lifted eyebrow again. No mumbling, just that damn eyebrow.
Ok, so I say let me just see if the support beam is here and maybe they have it all over in on section. You know that could happen. So I go down to bin 30. Yippee, there are 500 of these support beams, I come skipping back with it in my hand and a big smile on my face. Teresa looks at me and says that is it that is all you have.
So I get on the phone and call Michelle, I told her what had happened and I also told her that she was going to have to take some of the heat off, because Teresa was looking at me funny. I also wanted her to get online and tell me if they still had any in the store.
Come to find out, they only bring down so much inventory for any given day. Once it is gone, it is gone and they do not go back to fill up bins in the self serve until after the store is closed. Something about Insurance and not having things falling on the public. SO yes, there were there, just that days inventory had been sold.
Well off we go for the fifth time eithout this desk. And I with a happy grin tell her that we can stop and pick it up in the morning because we have to pass right by here anyway.
OMG, the daggers come out and she looks at me with that look over her glasses and says "We have to come right past here in the morning and we are out here now. What the HELL were you thinking?''
Well we get in the car and she just has that shaken head look and I proceed to tell her that we will not be up all night and that she did not have to worry, I would drive all the way to Hunstville.
So off we go to finish kits.
Oh, but I digress... Where was I
OK, so we finally get home, get the kits done, get the car packed and get about three hours of sleep. I get up get the kids ready for school, take a shower and off we go to the Land of Cotton.
We get there finally. Amy who has been at work all day gets to the Civic Center almost an hour before us.
My other friend Michelle Smith, also from Nashville, is waiting in the parking lot of the hotel because I am running late.
I thought that class was at 6pm, I get there at 6:02pm and come to find out my class is not until 6:30, Yep, I was early after all.
This first class goes smooth as butter on a piece of hot toast.
We go out we eat dinner and get some sleep. Oh but what was in store for us on the next day....
until we meet again,
Sitting here LAUGHING MY BEHIND OFF!!!! I KNOW THAT LOOK!!! I've seen it on more than one occasion.
Posted by: Scooter | 08 December 2007 at 12:12 AM