Welcome to the MagnoliaVerse... Life and Comix (original) (raw)

Two of my friends, one in Montana and one in Texas, have raved about some cookie store so I figured there must be some in my Metroplex, and yeah, like half a dozen locations and one I know how to get to, so cookies were obtained. The store I was in was small with two computer tablets to place the order on and pay, credit card only, and then wait in line for them to bring the order to the counter. It was busy but to be fair anywhere on a Friday afternoon a week after Memorial Day is likely to be busy as hell, so efficient yes, user friendly not as much. The available tablet when I got there had an unfinished order on it and no clearly marked way to erase that so I could make my own order. I had already been to five other places to run errands today so was low on spoons, the place was packed full in a small space (crowd claustrophobia engage in three, two…) and I am the only one in a mask because I have chronic health issues, no immune system that actually protects me (it would rather eat me from the inside out) and social anxiety, so Bam! Not cool on any level. I got my box of cookies and there is cookie batter on both the top and bottom of it. That would be fine at home, I can clean that up and not even biocontaminate it by licking, but being handed that in a store seems, well, I wouldn’t have done that back when I worked in retail and even further back in the dark history of food service when I was a kid. So yeah, no points for cleanliness here, yo. But it was slammin’ busy. And the space is small, even what I could see of the production line seemed cramped. If we were still forced to social distance the line would have been down the sidewalk outside, there were a LOT of bodies crammed in there, yo. Yike. Also, I am out of spoons and tired (and rain off and on makes my aches ache and so not at my best) so I will allow that maybe it was just one of those days were the go never eases off and they were having a day of if it can go wrong it will, right? I did not go all karenified and whatever, I just said thank you and have a nice weekend and took my cookies home. I have given some to my roommates, I will find out what they think later. The sugar cookie I ate as soon as I was comfy at home (and after I fed the cat OMG don’t be doing your own food before the overdue dinner is given out to the small furry overlord) was very good. Soft and chewy the way I like a sugar cookie, thick frosting that wasn’t toothcurdlingly sweet, and huge, surely worth the four bucks and change for a single cookie. Four stars out of five because keep a counter clean for packaging the product for crying out loud. Crumbl Cookies, open until midnight on Fridays. Brave souls.

Rain, for the love of pete, so much rain lately. Yay for growing things and greening the yard but holy hells, the achy and the tired from the barometer swinging wildly between seasons, ouch, dood. Today there were no shrieking alerts on my phone while I was in the car that there are tornadoes bitch, get to safety. But man alive, the clouds out East and North sure looked like someone was on their way to Oz, ya know what I mean. South, on the other hand, was clear and blue (yes even while raining, the devil beating his wife a friend would call that), happily that was the way I was going so it rained, not really cats and dogs but certainly rats and lizards were coming down out there. Nobody seemed to be losing their minds and driving too bad, just usual Friday afternoon bullshit. Except the woman driving the wrong way in the one way parking lot at Hoffman Heights, she was an idjit and I hope that others she is near today are successful in avoiding her lack of driving skills as the three of us that encountered her earlier were. She is way more than an accident waiting to happen.

I need some double sided 12x12 paper for a thing and I went to two hobby stores and they had exactly zero, fuckallsquaredinnabox, I mean WTF beevis. Both stores seem to have cut back on their papercraftness, where they used to have two or even three whole aisles of paper and paper goods, now they have one. That’s it. It made me sad. I will endeavor to hie myself off to the really BIG hobby store that is not either near anything else I need or on the way to something I need and see what is there, they have a ginormous store, easily twice the size of either of the places I was today but I was too tired to go there after all the out and about today. They may have also tossed the paper section to the wolves, but then again maybe not. That’s an adventure for another day.

Normally I don’t go more than three places on a day out because in and out of the car is tiring, and then walking around in stores is tiring, and then getting my bags and junk into the house from the car is tiring. Ugh, old plus chronic illness equals suck and fail, y’all, it just does. I did twice that today and still have groceries to get tomorrow, so napping now. Spoons are at zero so I need to nap myself a little reload of energy and ability. But I look forward to having another cookie tomorrow and trying something new.