Who stuck the target on me?

Ever leave the house and feel that both your clothing and your car have big targets on them? I could live with a Kick Me sign if it meant Donald and Goofy were my only worries.

Yesterday I went to Joann's to get Christmas print fabric. Between the fabric on sale and a $10 off coupon, I am covering three 8' tables and making bread basket liners for under $30. I was happy. Until I left the store. I didn't notice it, but apparently a target was attached to my cute little car.

Silly ole me...following rules that would make my high school driving instructor proud...I was driving within a lane in the parking lot. Cars were parked in their proper spaces. Silly cars. By doing so, they blocked the view of the %*$# idiot who almost sideswiped me while driving much too fast diagonally across the lot.

She had the nerve to glare at me when she slammed on her brakes! Oh to be Kathy Bates' character in the parking lot scene of Fried Green Tomatoes. Do you recall it? If not, here is a link to that clip: Click here

Next I stopped at Kroger, hoping to get everything I needed for the rest of the week. My son and daughter-in-law are having Thanksgiving dinner. I am making the stuffing, lemon meringue pie and had hoped to try this dessert called Pumpkin Lust Cake that I just discovered this past weekend. If you read the recipe and the blogger's comments, you'll know that this ingredient

could be difficult to find.  Ha!  I live for a challenge! I tied my Super Hero cape on, unaware that it too, had a target on it. I had carts rammed into me, someone walked off with my cart by mistake (humorous apology made that incident fun) and more than the usual number of shoppers who stopped at that midpoint in the aisle that prevents anyone from passing on either side.

I noticed lots of expressions that looked like these. I hope my face didn't look like either one!

Kroger disappointed me, not at just one store but three. One of the Kroger stores was next to an Archiver's (scrapbook) store. I spent almost as much in there as I did at the original Kroger where I bought groceries for the week. We won't discuss that with hubby just yet. No sense in both of us feeling agitated.

Meijer stores are a chain in Michigan and Ohio. I avoid grocery shopping there because the stores are huge like Super Walmart stores, but in I went on the quest for the pudding mixes. I needed two. Meijer had one left. I bought it and another seasonal pudding mix, Classic Turtle.

I hope to make the dessert with pumpkin at one end of the 9x13 pan, and this at the other. Wish me luck. If you are venturing out amid crazy drivers, either in their vehicles or behind shopping carts, I wish you luck too.