Clairissa's Party

Wow, that was a lot of work and really fun. For the most part anyway. Thursday night I stayed up until 4:45 in the morning sewing the last 2 aprons. I had a Remington Steele marathon and sewed at turtle speed. I finally was so tired I couldn't handle a minute longer so I laid down until 6 a.m. when the kids I babysit were dropped off. I then finished sewing the last apron and once the kids aunt picked them up I started cleaning like a mad person. At 11:30am I stopped cleaning, got dressed and was heading up to SLC for an endowment session for our sweet friend Brittany who is leaving on her mission in January. At this point I still had food shopping to do for the party as well as picking up some party decorations.

We were out of the SL temple by 3:15, ran down to the South Salt Lake Costco and then to Zurchers for balloons and streamers. That is where we encountered the most "Twilight Zone" experience I have ever been through.

There we were, waiting in line for an empolyee to finish ringing up the people in front of us. Generic island music was repeated over and over again as it played on the overhead speakers with an seventies distant echo reverberating repeatedly.

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