Shopped Until I Dropped

I shop, therefore, I am…tired.  Took the kidlings school shopping today since I had the day off and shopped well…always seem to be able to do that for others, but not for myself, especially in the clothes department.  One thing I noticed is the teenage girl, who wore nothing but pink for 13 years, now wants nothing to do with it.  Talk about a major color shift adjustment in my recommendations.  But, it wouldn’t have mattered anyway, because if I thought something was cute, she declared it, “gross.”  Still, I used a little reverse psychology, and she walked out with several of my choices.  The teenage boy was much easier.  He saw the rack of discount polo shirts and cleaned them out.  Ta-da…done in one expedition.

So, while I was out, I decided to deal with the situation on the kitchen floor.  The linoleum had several gouges out of it and the devil in four-footed fur, otherwise known as the puppy Gina, pulled those gouges up and left a 3-foot hole in the floor.  So, I’ve been tearing out linoleum and hope to have the tearout and scraping done so I can start installing the replacement floor tomorrow.  That will leave me only the carpet in the living room issue to deal with…for now.  I now have a vague recollection as to why I did not want another puppy. 

Tomorrow, I should be able to knock out the rest of the prep the kids for school stuff and even mow the lawn.  Yes, the vacation is truly over.

I’m missing me some JMD. 

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.
~ Marcelene Cox

Published on: Aug 18, 2006