Things I'm Grateful For #2

I guess I've really not been any more frequent in blogging. For some reason things have continued to be rather busy. Not really in a bad way, as can oft be said when I spend innumerable hours in traffic but rather, just pleasantly full.

This week there was no rain to speak of. We have had, however some incredible fog.


As you can see in this photo, even without the rain the sun didn't make much of an appearance. For this I am quite thankful :)
It should also be noted that this photo attests to traffic being on the lighter side at least a couple of days this week. Another thing to be grateful for.

I am currently without auto. It was being repaired on Friday and not yet finished. The fellow at the auto shop put things back in order so I would have the auto for transport this weekend. I made it home just fine...however this morning it would not start properly.

I am now trying to figure out how to return the auto to the repair shoppe. I do not currently have AAA since they have been hasty to refuse service these past winters. I am now thinking I should have renewed.

Friendly, Helpful Folks

I'm sure at this moment you are wondering 'why in the heck is she posting the front of a Taget store on her silly blog??? Well...I know, it's odd.

I did, however, go to Target after work. This very Target in fact, which is located across the street from my humble abode. I had a list, it was all going to be O.K.

As I meandered through the store, an easy and dangerous thing to do in any store...but so easy in Target, I picked up a few things on my list...and began to add a few others to the buggy. All of a sudden there was a clerk asking me if I was finding everything I needed. Only a few minutes later a few aisles away, another inquiry as to my finding everything I needed...I think during my little 35 minute excursion through the store I was asked approximately nine times if was finding everything I needed.

At about the third offer of assistance I responded again with a smile, 'yes, thank you' and went along my way. I also looked down into my buggy and saw the things not on my list that I had tossed in.

Immediately the question I was being asked over and again by these very friendly employees glared in my mind. I was finding everything I needed...as well as these other things that were rather frivolous.

I might really want that new special edition movie and those really brilliant new ink pens in 15 different colors...and those snack cakes that look SO YUMMY...but really, I didn't need them--didn't need them at all.

Out of the buggy they went.

I have about ten other things on my list that are needed, they will be useful and used and I have to wait until I have the money in my little envelopes. I'd have to wait even longer if I purchased wildly unneeded items at will.

Seriously, as I went through the store I was awestruck by the friendliness of the employees--I felt like they genuinely wanted to make sure my shopping experience was going well. I don't think even one of them had the intent of convicting me to stick to my budget, which in the end they all did. I'm grateful for that. It's one thing to receive help locating the carpet dust...and really another to walk out of the store feeling like I was really helped! (but I do need a bikini in September in the Pacific Northwest, right??? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)

Cheers to all the kind Target employees!!