Yes, my husband and I can even make buying a lamp to be an adventure. 

Buying furniture, no big deal.
Buying a washer/dryer, no big deal.
Buying a car, went pretty smooth.
Buying a lamp, an adventure.

Perhaps we should have just gone down to the local Texaco and bought some of the lamps they have for sale.  We’ve been joking for years about a gas station selling lamps.  And no, they aren’t little desk lamps.  They look like lamps that someone would put in their living room…if that someone were a redneck.  However, purchasing a lamp from Texaco would have saved us from the adventure that followed my query “Where else can I find a lamp?”

This started Friday night when I’d looked at a few lamps at Target.  I need one for my desk, and they had some really cute bases with lamp shades.  Small ones that would be perfect for my desk.  However, while I found the perfect base, I did not find the perfect shade. 

Let me give you the quick summary of what it took for us to buy a lamp:
1.  Go to Lowes…find lamp shade I love, but no bases to suit.
2.  Go to Target…realize the base I love doesn’t have the hardware for a lamp harp.
3.  Learn what a lamp harp is.
4.  Go to Home Depot…realize Texaco has more lamps than Home Depot, but do manage to get lamp parts that will allow us to attach the harp to the base I love.
5.  Go BACK to Target…purchase lamp base.
6.  Make one more trip to a different Lowes for the final part of the lamp.
7.  Put together…*Poof* Lamp made from the parts from four different stores.

In retrospect, going to Texaco might’ve been the way to go.  Sure, the lamp would be ugly, but we would only need one store.