Hastey Gift Basket

I mentioned Friday that I was in mourning because my fellow event coordinator was leaving to move back to the northeast. We planned brunch on Saturday for a final goodbye.  I realized that I hadn't event gotten her a goodbye present (I know...bad friend).

An event kept me at work late Friday, then I stopped by her goodbye happy hour.  By the time I left, it was too late to go to the store to get anything (and by too late, I mean I live in south part of the city now so I refuse to be out shopping alone past 9).  My alarm was set for 9am, so I could gift shop in the morning before we met up.  Apparently I was more tired than I thought.   At 10, she texted me asking if 11 works.  I said 11:30 is better, then I high tailed it to Target.  I already had the idea that I wanted to do a road trip package for her, since she had a twenty-five hour drive ahead of her, I just needed to speed shop and make it cute.

Road-trip snacks, inside joke items, and crafty items were frantically tossed in my shopping cart.  Then I sat in the parking lot of Target and pulled it all together.  It all worked out but I learned my lesson, don't wait until the LAST POSSIBLE minute to make a thoughtful gift for someone.

Some of her favorite items

I bought card stock, ribbon and wavy scissors and wrote inside jokes on a few items.

For some reason, a line from the movie Contagion where the little girl uses the expression "really grim" in a text is the funniest thing in the world to us.  So anything that goes wrong is referred to as really grim lol