Twisted Christmas Shopping

I am not one to fight crowds. I am more the research the bargains at home and then dispatch Hubs to fight to the death-er-I mean find-the bargains. This year WalMart pulled a fast one and screwed up the Black Friday thing for me and so while I had planned to be completely done with my shopping, in fact I haven't started yet.

It is now 1 week til Christmas.

Is Kwanzaa later, because at this point I would consider changing holidays if it bought me more time. Anybody know when Festivus is?

OK, we are probably committed to Christmas at this point. Which means I had to get off my lazy butt and get it done. Having exhausted my Amazon-ability; everything else on my list requires shopping in an actual store, I headed out. Oh goody.

God blessed me with, as me call it in nursing, a 12 hour bladder. I can usually do an entire outing without having to brave disgusting public restrooms.

So how funny is it that I have to brave insane last minute shoppers, cranky with cold, and jacked up on holiday sugar, when I have a bladder infection? Me, who seldom, if ever, has to pee in public is now doing more toilet testing than a bored toddler.

Good times.

I had to stop at McDonald's before hitting the mall, and still had to dash off between mens' wear and household items. I had to slip into the john before tackling the boutique begged for by my precocious daughter. WalMart was having its usual super-sized crowds and inadequate checkers and I had to break off twice. Ick. Their bathrooms aren't great in the best of times but extra shoppers and slush is not a pleasant combination. In fact, they were so nasty for a -brief!-minute I considered stocking up on Depends.

Due to the constraints of an angry bladder I only accomplished half my list. Which means I get to go back out and brave the Madness again.

Is it better to wait until my Cipro kicks in, even though it will bring me closer to the big day, and thus escalate the pushy crowds/obnoxiousness factor or take my chances with unknown bathrooms?

To pee or not to pee, that is the question.