Days Of Mine

So I ended up not going anywhere for my birthday. Except to Target. I went to Target on Saturday (3 of them actually) and at the first store I noticed that they had just marked down the lawn furniture that I really liked. To a somewhat more affordable price. Of course the first Target only had a chair and not the foot stool that went with it. They looked at their computer and said that X store had 2 foot stools. So off I went to X store but no, they were out of the foot stools also and that record showing 2 of them was from 8 am that morning. So off I went to Y store way the hell on the other side of town to get a foot stool that I was assured they did in fact have 4 of but since it was on clearance they wouldn't hold one for me. When did Target get so freaking difficult? My first job ever was at Target and I'll tell you the customers got away with way more than they allow people to do now. All of this though equalled me spending my for fun money on patio furniture instead of a trip out of town. Which was ok too. I've spent much of my weekend working on some craft projects which has been really fun. I've completed two receiving blankets that I had bought a pattern for months ago and hadn't been able to figure out the directions too. I finally took the pattern and fabric back into the quilt shop and the woman who wrote the pattern helped me figure it out. She was very nice about it. I also made a couple of hand stamped cards and made a scrap book page with the photos that I got today of my niece! It was really nice to get a couple of cards from my sis with photos in them. She is so cute. I've also watched a couple of movies that were really good. I watched "Changeling" which was fantastic. So sad that women could have been treated like that back in the early 1900's. They were though and not just in LA. I remember in nursing school while doing my psych rotation taking a tour of the psych hospitals museum and the list of things they could use to have women committed was frightening. PMS, grief, pregnancy. Horrible. Then I watched "The boy in striped pajamas" which was a really good but incredibly sad movie. Heart breaking. So my next movies on my net*flix que are comedies. I need some happy funny movies now.

On Wednesday I go back to work for 2 more nights and then have another 5 off. Yes I've had a bit of a gravy schedule the last few weeks. On 2 off 5, repeat two more times. It's truly going to suck when I have to go back for 5 in a row.