CAUTION: Woman In Progress

Somebody wrote a book about my life!     Except they got the subtitle wrong. :-/

So. Um. Yeah. It's almost Friday and I'm JUST NOW getting a weekend review post up. Ya'll know my life. I don't have to explain. Right? Anyways... So, we had our annual "girls day out" this Saturday and it was a lot of fun. Both kids had spent the night with Nana and Bobo Friday night so we had to drop the boy off with his daddy and pick Sis2 up and then we headed to the next town over where the Mall lives and wore ourselves slap out. She's eight, but she still loves the "rides" in the mall.  I think we spent a buck fifty between the two of us. And yes, she used her own quarters for the first ride. I wish my knees were still in good enough shape to get all up in some books like that. :-D I told her I'd buy her one book. She had the hardest time choosing which book to get. She narrowed it down to two and then did eenie meenie, miennie, moe and STILL couldn't decide which one. She wanted them both. My first instinct was...

So, I guess I disappeared for a while and then came back with no explanations. I'm cool like that. I'm all, "Y'all, I'm mysterious and I have mysterious stuff going on that I'm too cool and mysterious to tell y'all about."   ROFLOL   Right.   No, what I am is busy. And sometimes loading photos from my phone to Blogger is an ordeal I don't have the patience for. But...lucky ducks, I had some patience AND time today. So here it goes.   Other than work stuff, which is totes boring, I went on a little mini vacay Labor Day weekend to visit Sis1 and Emmy in Tuscaloosa. I hadn't been in I can't even tell you when. I can say with certainty that Emmy was a foot shorter the last time I was in T-town, though! I left Thursday night and came back Monday and we had all sorts of fun in between. Like, going to see War Room .   And taking selfies at the theater. I'm so glad I have a teenage niece and a sister who don't mi...

    I went to Target for the very first time a couple of weeks ago. We don't have one in my tiny town and the nearest one in my state is three hours away. When I went to visit my sister in Tuscaloosa I made her take me to the Target there. I had really high expectations, having seen meme's like this and reading blogs by upper middle class women who talk about their Target addiction and how they never get what they actually went in there for because everything is so beautiful.   Imma be honest and say, "I am too poor to shop at Target." The sticker shock for me was terrible. There are plenty of beautiful things there, to be sure, but for me, it was no different than walking into an upscale department store in terms of how far out of my reach it is. And I'm not even just talking about the home goods or clothing items. I'm talking the basics.   For instance, I hadn't brought my own bodywash to T-town because I figured I'd just use whatever ...

See that little "seed cross" in the upper left corner?  I totally did not do that. I looked up from chopping mushrooms and there it was. Just a little hello from my redeemer. :-) 

Sooooo... Okay, y'all know I read food blogs, right? Well, actually I read a lot of different blogs. The kinds that are wildly popular. I generally tend to avoid reading the comments, though for two reasons. A) They're totally fangirling over nothing really special or B) they're criticisms. Drives me bananas. I mean, I have left a comment or two on a couple of well established blogs that complimented them when I really enjoyed a particular post and just recently I begged Katie Bower to switch her font back because the tiny fancy script she'd changed it to hurt my eyes. (Which she kindly did because she is super sweet.)  But believe me, I generally tend to agonize over whether or not to comment.  I typed and deleted that font begging comment multiple times before hitting publish. Keep in mind, these are the blogs of strangers, not friends like Trixie who I try to comment to as often as I can and usually with something silly ...