irritated.

last year we did ALL of our christmas shopping on line.
all of it.
this year i've managed to do the most of it online. with the acception of a few small items i picked up at walmart for folks like the neighbors kids.
i can't find one thing.
ANYWHERE!
it's the last item on my list for TJ's nephews.
it's the crayola glow station. the big plug in black board that you wright on with a crystal looking pen and your art work glows in the dark. you can only use the thing holed up in a dark room but it looks so friggin' cool! i just had to get it for somebody. i wanted to get it for the 2 boys to share b/c it's about 30 bucks and that's dbl my budget that i would spend on 1 of them. so i thought they'd be able to share it.
only i can't find it.
it's out of stock at :
walmart - in store and online.
target -it's the same thing.
michaels websight says they have it but they don't allow purchases on line. if i were at home i'd call and see if the one down the street from me has it. but i'm not.so i won't.
no one has any.
not at toysrus, or kabee toys,or kohles.
overstock doesn't even have any!
most of the websights on crayola.com listed as "places to buy" don't return anything that matches the search results. so why are they on the list if they don't carry it?

and don't get me started on amazon.com

last year i found the BEST deals at amazon. i think we did almost all of our shopping with them.this year it seems like everything costs more on amazon. i've seen several items for dbl the cost of a normal store.
all of the normal stores have the glow station listed roughly between 25 and 30$. amazon has it priced starting at 39.99. some places that amazon sells for have it going as high as 60! and the one place that has it priced right on amazon is coming from target -who doesn't have it.
i guess i have to figure something else out.
anyone have any suggestions for anything for little boys 3 and 6 years of age? b/c i am fresh out!


i'm going to start my christmas cards today. i should probably start that as little TJ is taking a nap and i don't really want to waste doing nothing.

i'm still at my moms. i'll probably be here thru at least saturday.
i bought my nice neighbor a candle and i'm going to make her a basket of christmas goodies for being so helpful in my hairbrained, unexpected,extended christmas vacation. she offered to help. and she also said "if you want to stay longer just let me know."

so i thought i'd make her a goodie bag to thank her for putting up with me.

now if i could just make it thru a day without feeling dumpy i'd be good.
i do have slums of depression still. and i'm not at home to mope around about dh not being here. so who knows what the deal is. there's tension -terrible knots -in my back -the kind under the shoulder blade that you can't reach well - that my mom can't seem to get rid of no matter how much she rubs and mashes on them. i wonder if that's on of the ailments that comes with depression. the commercial says it can come with physical aches and pains. though i wouldn't say i'm severly depressed. not really even mildly so. it kind of feels more like PMS run wild.
of course i am pregnant. and looking more and more like there is a basketball under my shirt each day. and that is enough to cause all sorts of stress and tension. normally i relax more when i'm here.
go figure.

ok.
christmas cards.
i'm on it!

oh, and i don't guess i'm going to go see twilight again.as bad as i wanted to. i just don't want to go by myself.
i'm sure over the 2 weeks that dh is home this month he will take me b/c he'll want to make up for being gone.
:)