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<\/p>\nCostco today was a madhouse. Few carts available when we arrived. So many people in the warehouse, like I haven’t seen in ages. Usually more like that AFTER Thanksgiving, but don’t hold that to me as a FACT statement, just a ‘seems like’ light comparison.<\/p>\n
By the end of it all, at the checkout, I was having some trouble not feeling like I was going to, I don’t know what, just anxiety kicking in with all the people in that checkout area … I survived somehow.<\/p>\n
My one good thing from Costco:<\/p>\n
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It was to be my birthday movie in July, but we never went. \ud83d\ude41 That’s O.K. now. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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