I have come to the point in life where honesty and the reality of humanness is more important to me than perfection. I am OK with testing and sharing the edges of stamina and sanity, the foundation of truth. Perfection ISN'T and I am perfectly fine with sharing my less than stellar self.
Here is my ridiculously, non-stellar, gently demented story of grocery shopping:
My whole goal was to go to the Drug Store in City Market and get Russ' heart medicine. Easy. Another item added to the list was batteries to change the smoke alarm. Again, easy. So my mission was prescription and batteries, two items. Of course in a grocery story you always pick up the extras. As I wandered towards the back of the store and the Pharmacy I tossed a few things into my cart.
- melon
- pork chops
- 50% discount Christmas cards for thank you notes
- Gluten Free bread
- the batteries
- butter
- 2 baking potatoes
Now for the prescription and paying for that before going to the self check-out. At check-out I unload my basket and wondered "where are the batteries? I KNOW I had them? Hmmm, they must have fallen through the crack in the basket." So I ran back to batteries and got another package. Back to the check-out and I wonder "Hmmm, I thought I had more than this". But my reality was that I had the prescription and the batteries. List complete.
Home again, I went to retrieve the potatoes to wash them and get them ready to pop in the oven. No potatoes! For that matter, no melon, no pork chops, no butter! Four items missing. In fact five items because the batteries had been missing also, but those I had noticed and replaced. I had thought my basket was missing something but just didn't take it a step further. I was so tired, my brain was on vacation and I knew I had the necessities.
Happy New Year. Don't take yourself too seriously.