as you may or may not know, i am a craftsy person. not exactly a must. make. something. crafty. today. or. die. type of girl, but i do like getting into all this hands-on schtuff whether it be crocheting, sewing, painting, scrapbooking. naturally that means i love my craft and fabric stores. joanns, hobby lobbys, and most definitely a.c. moore. for awhile, about 80% of my money would go to purchasing stuff from a.c. moore. hehe. when we moved here, i remembered that there was one not too far away from us. lo and behold, i checked a couple of months ago, and there it was.
last sunday or actually maybe it was last last sunday...pooey, i am losing my memory, seriously. oh okay, it was two sundays ago, i asked my mum if we could go to a.c. moore after church for a quick art supply run. she was quite reluctant, and i decided that we shouldn't go after we got home, but mum insisted we did. i didn't want to because she seemed reluctant, and she insisted we should, because she didn't like me changing my mind. long story short, we got grumpy but still decided to go. well, i got a little hesitant when were got in the car because our gps had been acting up. it was about five years old and had been malfunctioning lately. it would tell us to go right when it was supposed to be left and to get off every exit on the turnpike we passed, the map would blank out, the screen would freeze, on and on. you get the idea, i'm sure.
like i said before, mum and i had been to the a.c. moore maybe a three or more times in our area, so getting there was not a problem. what the REAL problem was was getting back. the gps would take us on a complicated route and we had gotten lost before even with the gps working...i couldn't really remember how to get back either...mum and i were still a bit grouchy about earlier...in conclusion, this story was not getting better. so i buy my supplies, we visit marshall's next door to see if they have something i want, don't find it, get on the car and head out. i vaguely remember having to take this u-turn off an exit after we got out the plaza....unfortunately for us, my mum misses it...so we keep driving with no clue where we are going. i start getting a little nervous. the stupid gps has blanked out. we keep driving. mum spots the sign for the turnpike. i feel better already because she's familiar with the turnpike and knows how to get home from there. we get on the ramp towards the NJ turnpike, pass the ez pass toll and then we see the fork. there are two signs, one above each ramp:
Turnpike South or Turnpike North
oh dear. mum guesses north and the second we get onto that ramp i know very well we're headed the wrong way. mum figures this out about a minute into it... we both start to get nervous because we have no idea where we are. we need to find an exit to make a U-turn. as luck would have it, there weren't any exits coming up. finally, i spot a sign. hallelujah! could it be an exit? oh, it's a blue sign. blue signs give information. we get closer and i see that it's a sign for a service area. not quite what i was looking for. we pass right by the sign and i read the letters in nice bold print:
Last Service Area in New Jersey
1 mile ahead.
my heart literally just kinda sinks into my tummy. we were either headed for pennsylvania or new york. new york was my guess. the car starts slowing down, and there is a MASSIVE traffic jam ahead. like ginormous kind that gives you a headache and makes you wail and pound your head on your steering wheel..or window...whatever works. mum points out that there is a huge bridge a mile or so down and there a tons of cars just stuck in the jam on it. we both assume it's the george washington bridge, which can only mean one thing...WE'RE GOING TO NEW YORK, BABY! it was already 4:40PM and at the rate we were going, we probably wouldn't even be able to make it into new york until 7PM, and then we'd have to figure out how to get back home without directions. at this point, mum and i are no longer grouchy, just completely scared out of wits end. we inch along for another twenty minutes and i see the sign for the service area, aforementioned, a couple feet away with the exit leading away from the traffic. i point out to mum and tell her maybe we can get a map there. she pulls over to the exit and as she gets on it, i see two signs on both sides of the exit.
Official Use Only. DO NOT ENTER.
and then i realize my mistake. the service area sign had read "SERVICE AREA: NEXT RIGHT" uber fail on my part. but we can't back up, so we plunge ahead, following a car ahead of us and right behind us is another car, following closely. mum and i are seriously freaking out because i'm positive a police car will pop out of nowhere and give us a ticket of a hundred thousand dollars and who knows what. the "exit" we took turned out to be a huuuuge loop going underneath the traffic and BAM! it took us right back on track, a nice big U-turn. hallelujah.
i feel like this is the part where you give me a wide eyed look and say "no way man!" and i totally give you that nod that accompany the 'hey sup' that guys do and say "true story bro".
so yeah. true story. hu hu hu hu. <<---obnoxious guy laughter.
on other note, i am getting up at 5:30 tomorrow morning. for what? for school. because i love it to death and have decided to devote my early mornings to do it. pshh, NAWWT. we have group projects for my history class...and since most of my classmates can't meet in the mornings, or the weekends or the evenings...and the whole thing is due monday, we've decided to meet at 6 in the morning to discuss our project. seriously, i have never woken up this early for school. it's ridiculous coming from the homeschooled person. oh well, i'll get over it. strangely enough, i do like being awake super early in the morning while everybody is still sleeping and getting things done. it makes me feel very productive and my brain functions best in the mornings. :)
okay closing this with a quick favor. prayer requests? i've been having terrible headaches off and on for the whole week. they make me feel very nauseated. it's just terrible. i don't even know what's causing it. somebody make it go away! <frowny face> also, a little something unspoken for a family member very, very dear and close to my heart. it reaally hurts to see people hurt. that's all i can and will say for now. prayers will be much appreciated. okey dokesss. all for now.
(as a certain somebody always told me) peazzz, lurrve and jesuss! ;)
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