Yay!!!!

It’s the beginning of a 3 day weekend for those lucky enough to get Labor Day off. It should be 3 glorious days of lounging around the house, firing up the BBQ, and drinking my favorite 12oz beverage.

What it will be is a mad scramble to get my damn kids prepared for school (which starts on tuesday).

I can almost taste the rapture of fighting to get the last box of colored pencils, a pack of college ruled loose leaf paper, and those crappy little pens with erasable ink.

Sure… I could have gone and done this weeks ago, but the thought of immersing myself in the visceral stink of a crowd of Wall*Mart shoppers is so tantalizing, that I had to wait for the last minute!

Actually… truth be told, I’ll slink into the local Staples. It costs a few cents per item more than Wall*Mart (which keeps the unwashed masses at bay) and they always have a huge inventory, so I can do it all in one stop.

Of course, I gotta buy clothes for the kids too.

Buying school clothes for a 15 year old boy is an exercise in frustration at best. Everything has to be cool, and pricy… and he won’t wear half of what he picks out after the fact. I’m sure girls are worse, but it can’t be by much.

Pray for me!