Other: Buying Mother's Day Gifts

I'm posting this up just because I know that neither my mother or my grandmother will find out about them ahead of time from this blog. But anyways, I found this pair of absolutely adorable enameled Faberge eggs for Mother's Day and I bought my grandmother and my mother one each, different from each other of course. Why this? Because cut flowers die too soon and cost about as much as the eggs, my mother has almost every piece of jewelry manufactured, buying clothing online is a waste of time, and my grandmother loves decorative pieces. In addition, my family loves things that remind them of Russia. Not the Soviet Union though. So do I need a better reason?

I bought my grandmother's no problem, but the problem came with the egg for my mother (much like my relationship with her). The card I had used on my grandmother's egg was drained, so I got out my other card, but it got declined. I looked into the account and I had enough money, but it just would not let the purchase through. So I gave up...kind of.

A smart solution would have been to go to transfer money. Electronic would have taken too long, but there was also the problem that the bank of one of the cards is not anywhere near the area I'm in. So after thinking for an hour, I looked up if that really was the case. The computer said there was an ATM within walking distance. When I got there, it wasn't of that bank, but it did the withdraw with no charge. I then walked all the way to the ATM of the other card's bank and put the money in. Then all the way home. And these aren't small distances either, though they aren't something tedious because there is stuff to look at on the way there.

So I got back and finally managed to pay for my mother's gift. I hope she and my grandmother like my gifts. And now I'm pretty much broke and starving. Crap...