weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I am a very happy person right now. Yesterday I got to see some of my kiddies* for the first time in a very long time and it was so good to see them, which is a very good reason to be happy, and is more than enough to keep me on a high. But to top it off I was given a belated Christmas gift of a $50 gift certificate to a book store; a big chain bookstore that has sales and online specials! Yes, we could talk about the evils of the corporation, blah blah blah (not to dismiss this, it is very important and some corporations are very evil), but! I get to play around and figure out what I want most and what prices are excellent and get as much as I can for the $50! And then! Wait for a parcel to arrive for me in the mail, possibly even get to track it! It gives me a happy little glow – why yes, yes I am excited easily, why do you ask?

I’ve been in desperate need of some retail therapy and it’s a good thing that I can get it out of my system before my OSAP lands in my account next week. It could be dangerous. Right now I’m bouncing at the possibility of trying out a Gordon Ramsey cook book and getting a knitting book with this amazing castle chart in it that has me drooling and bouncing and thinking of all the possible uses for it (baby blankets, sweaters, crazy wash clothes, did I mention the most awesomest- yes I know this is not a word but I feel that it applies here- baby blankets?). I needed to share and although my mother would fully understand this excitement, most other people look at me as if someone mistakenly let me loose from the loony bin and they’d better walk away slowly while figuring out how the hell to get me back in again. And now I shall go bask in the glow of this wonderfulness while I get full on yummies with an old friend and possibly have one too many drinks for the middle of the day and just generally enjoy myself.

* By my kiddies I mean someone else’s that I look after or have looked after. There are a lot of them, the number of families is in the 10s and the number of kids is climbing from the 20s to 30s, but there are about 7 (3 families) that I have spent the most time with and that mean the most to me.