Shop until you Wal-Mart

Today was a nice change of scenery.

I got up and did chores this morning and had some extra time to haul down some new bags of pellets and put out some mineral blocks for the fat cattle.

After chores, I headed up to my house to change clothes and grab everything I needed to go to Rapid. By 8:30 or so I headed for church. The priest was back today, so it was nice to sit through a normal service with a pretty funny sermon about Trinity sunday. I went down to the basement afterward and answered more curious questions and met some more people- I love little old ladies, they are so smart yet funny! I had never gone to Rapid from Martin, so I asked on of them adn she said the fastest way is to probably go through Allen and Kyle and then on to Sharps corner where you could turn and meet up with HWY 44. So, I ate my bar and cookie and headed that way. Most of the time I was "hoping" I was headed the right directino because there isn't much for signs and I haven't been out that way but once or twice and that's been over a year ago. But, low and behold I found myself in Rapid City and I only had to turn around once in Kyle (only because I wasn't paying attention to which way the road went east and which way it led west) to get there!

I spent most of the afternoon shopping for all sorts of things- upcoming weddings and showers and some stuff I needed at home, and oil change (cuz I'm too lazy to do it myself when you can just pay them $20 and it takes 15 min) a bunch of pictures developed, and a few extra little things here and there. It was nice to finally buy a cordless phone with an answering machine too- now I can get messages! yey:) So, all in all the day in Rapid was good minus the fact that I hate shopping and had to wander through stores forever looking for things on the gift registry...oh well, guess that's life. In addtion, I severely dislike the wal-mart parking lot and anytime they are busy (which is basically anytime you go before midnight). In fact, today there was a screaming child at teh entrance by the check out counters. As I walked to the back of the store to electronics...I could still hear the 4ish year old screaming. Seriously? What is wrong with people- tame your children! ...why is that ok these days? (yes, I jsut said these days). Then, while I'm in the store they loose two kids and announce it like 60 times over the intercom...then announce that they found them three more times. O Walmart... I got what I needed and that made me happy. Halfway through the day Merle called to tell me not to come home jsut for chores- that was nice, because I could keep on getting things done- so I did. I took the hyway back home, unpacked all of my purchases, and am now ready to take a long nap until morning!

Otherwise, things were pretty uneventful. I'm not sure that much got done here at home as far as work goes. I know that Merle fit a bunch of family into his pickup and they went prarie dog hunting- I bet that was fun! :) I can't wait to get out and shoot some p-dogs! The small ones are starting to come out and move around.

But, it's about that time- don't have a whole lot of news today but I'm sure there will be more to come.

"Anyone who belives the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another checkout line." -Ann Landers