peepless

First, I'm getting behind on my cookie recipes!  Sorry, this week, my brain is in party mode!

What a day, what a day!  I had a mile long list of things to do today.  I ended up doing about half of it. And I'm going to be in bed tonight before eleven if it kills me! Last night's 3 hours of sleep didn't cut it at all by this afternoon!  I had a great visit with Doug's brother, lunch at Chili's with Wendy and a fun Survivor night with the family. But, most of the afternoon was spent in search of Ghost Peeps.  To No Avail.  I searched every single store in our valley that sells any sort of food products and NO ONE had Ghost Peeps... I was not amused and will step up on the proverbial soapbox for a moment to vent!

After Chili's and looking at ShopKo, our next stop was Hobby Lobby to pick up the candles for the wedding that no one ever brought up yesterday. Denise, who was shopping in Ogden today with her daughter, Ashlee, called from a Target to ask me if I still needed Peeps.  She'd found a ton of them.  (Lee's was out of them last week when I bought the rest of the supplies for Marilyn's fun little party favor idea.)  I said that I'd call K-Mart really quick to see if they had them, to save her the effort, if possible.  At this point, I only knew that ShopKo and Lee's were out...not that everyone in the valley was.  The guy at K-Mart put me on hold then returned and said, "Oh, yeh, we've got tons of Ghost Peeps and Pumpkin Peeps."  I explained that I needed 40 of them.  "Oh, sure.  They're here.  We've got plenty."  I called Denise back and said that I'd found them, then we immediately crossed the highway from Hobby Lobby to K-Mart. 

I ran inside and asked the guy at the service desk for direction to the Peeps and went straight back to where they were supposed to be.  No. Peeps. After a five minute search through all of the Halloween stuff, I went back to the front, still quite confident that the Peeps were displayed someplace else, since, according to phone guy, they had "so many".  Service Desk Guy wasn't too interested in helping me now and said, "Ask that lady."  She walked me back to the shelf that was filled with 20-some packages of orange pumpkin Peeps and ONEpackage of Ghosts.  ONE. PACKAGE.  I took it up to the front and asked where the guy was that I'd talked with on the phone ten minutes ago.  "Oh, he left."  Okey dokey then.  I dialed Denise's number as quickly as I could and she was already halfway to Brigham City by then... far from Target! with. NO.PEEPS!  The guy did scan and see that somewhere in the store there was one other package, but probably in someone's cart.    My bet was that the first guy never even bothered to look and now I was without Peeps. 

Over the next hour, I called, literally, every store in Cache Valley and even one up in Preston, Idaho.  No Ghost Peeps.

I sent a text to a few friends who I know work out of the valley to see if anyone happened to be stopping by Target and got the funniest text back from Dave about an hour later.  He'd checked a store for me on the other side of the mountain and sent:  "Peepless in Brigham City."  Peepless.  Like Sleepless in Seattle.  HaHa. Get it.  Maybe you had to be there but it made me laugh and I needed to laugh at that point. 

Last year, I made witches brooms for everyone.  This year, with all that's going on in life, a Smores Kit. This is Marilyn's Peep adorable idea... Not what I ended up with.  You didn't think that I'd show you those before the party, did you?
 

I had to get creative quick and come up with a Plan B since the shower and Brew are the next two nights and these were to be my little favors.  Plan B works.  It's cute and almost complete tonight.  I'm happy but I really wanted Peeps and I really wanted to tell the guy who "left" that I wasn't amused. 

Now, the other favors are done and they are dang cute.  They cost three times as much but they are cute.  I'm over it.  And I can laugh at it now.  However, during my three hour peep pursuit, I wasn't amused.  Tonight... no biggie.   Funny how something so small and simple can be such a big deal "in the moment". 

Tomorrow, I'll be baking and cooking and tablescaping and cleaning and then finally entertaining.  I'm sure that I'll burn or underbake something, I'll forget to clean under something.  I'll realize that I forgot to grab something at Lee's.  (Like the green onions!  DANG!)  And in the middle of it all, my plan is to just chill and think of the peeps.  And I'll remember...Don't sweat the small stuff.  It's all small stuff.  My quote today is one that I've never heard before.  But, I think I need it somewhere permanent in my home as a reminder.  Life is good...even without Peeps!  Enough said.

If things go wrong, don't go with them. 

Comments

[Pamela K.]

What a cute party favor, but I'm sure "Plan B" will be even better. :-) Look forward to seeing how the party went.

[susan]

is the treat bag you couldn't do a 'smores kit?