November 21, 2005

• Of the Weekend, Thrift Store Scores, and Heinous Teens     Friday morning I put on a pair of jeans...     ....which promptly slid down to plumber crack level. ::Grrrrrrrrr::      Uhhhh....no. I have to say this isn't the look I am striving for.     Every pair of jeans I have are doing this except for a black pair I purchased a few weeks ago. ::we were going to a casual birthday/anniversary party, and black jeans are a bit dressy, no? serious desperation too...no baggy arse pants at a party where 50 people will be:: They were in the laundry being washed and would not be ready to be worn in the 10 minutes I wanted to head out the door.   Monday the head gasket blew on Michael's car.::weee...fun. Great...just...great::. So the balance of the week was spent with Michael taking my van, my borrowing his mom's car, and his arranging to carpool with someone in his department. Friday he had a ride and I could catch up on all the things I had needed to do all week.   Thanks to our friend Brian who is not only a mechanic but a danged good and honest one, the car will be repaired this week. . There is nothing worse than needing help with repairs ::household, car, or what-have-you:: and not having a person you can trust to do the work. Brian is not only one of our best friends but a huge blessing in many ways. He also makes me laugh more than most anyone on the planet! Bri's planning to swing by this week to look at the engine and see if it really was the head gasket or another problem. I was so tired last night that I can't remember what else it was he said might be the issue, but as a head gasket is an expensive fix, here's hoping it is the lesser fix of the two.     Anywho, back to my plumber crack experience.     Needless to say I wasn't flying with that one. So I dug out a pair of sweatpants, which barely stayed up also ::sheesh:: and decided the first stop we would make would be Goodwill to hunt for jeans. ::I am liking this weight loss but the not having clothes thang is a byatch...an expensive problem::     Have I ever mentioned that I NEVER find jack squat in our local Goodwill? I don't know if it is just because it is so heavily shopped, but  I am disappointed constantly every time I go in there. Not only do I rarely if EVER find anything , but they are, in my humble thrift-store-shoppin'-kinda-gal-experience, expensive on what they do have. I know they get a ton of good stuff in as I watch people line up to drop things off ::I have dropped stuff off there myself on occasion::. It may be that the items are being distributed to different area  stores because I am not seeing them IN the store. Many of the things they have out in the store are dirty, worn, and nasty yet they put prices on many of these things that are comparable to what one would pay for a new item.  My question is WHAT THE HECK are they thinking???   I guess my next question would be why the heck do I keep going back? ::Desperation. Hope. A super tight budget. They do occasionally have sales that I try to catch::   So again it was a bust at Goodwill. I tried on 3 pair of jeans but each was just a wee bit too small. I am between sizes and the 18s and 17s wouldn't fasten over my stomach. ::()*( ed stomach...Why is that always the last to go?:: I would have gotten all three pairs to have for the next down-sizing, but money is tight this week and I needed jeans I could wear NOW.   So I decided I would bebop over to a local consignment shop that I hadn't been able to get to when it was open. I NEED PANTS that don't look like I am trying to emulate a pre-teen boy with the big ole droopy drawer thang.    Up the road 2 miles we go. YES they are open. ::best be as  it is the middle of the day:: In we go...Brenna heads to the kid's clothes, I head to the jeans. Towards the end, because I am still in plus sizes and those are always scunched into the end of the rack. Kewl...there are 18s and 20s here that are looking brand new! Store tags on some of them...I grabbed 6 pair to try on...    ...end result being that I scored 3 pairs of jeans, all brand new with tags, for $18! AND they aren't baggy-butted, high waisted, heinously unattractive mom-jeans either ::have y'all been watching Saturday Night Live and seen the Mom-Jeans skits? buahahahahahsnort:: What a huge relief! I have been purging my clothes and it has left me with just the one pair jeans I can wear plus a bunch of jeans friends have blessed me with that are yet too small. Those are going to be packed up for when there is "less of me". I need to make a trash pile, thrift-store pile, and an eBay pile. I need to fund my new wardrobe!      Oh, I didn't mention that I wore a pair of jeans up to the counter and pulled the tag off for the girl when she went to ring it up. I was SO not going to try and wrestle myself into those pants outside in my van! lol Neither was I going to wear those danged baggy sweatpants that were falling off.     I know I know...they were in a thrift store. They were new with tags, and I said a prayer over them that any germs would die.    I was desperate. It's too cold now to have my bumm hanging out.    Plus my bumm isn't hanging-out worthy. Maybe next year.    Off to other errands: match a piece of fabric at JoAnn's for a project, a quick stop for lunch,  homeschool portfolio review, the library, back home because Brenna left her library books at home ::she was the one who was nagging me about getting to the library and she walked out without the bag of books...heavy sigh::, back to the library, over to mom's to start her furnace for her since it actually has gotten cold here now ::20 degrees at night 2 nights ago...yuck::.     After mom's my friend Andrea returned my call from earlier. She was having her 15yo daughter's birthday party at a local ice rink so offered to come by if she needed any help/wanted company with all the teens. Her husband works every Friday night so I knew she would be on her own with it. I decided to go ahead and take Brenna skating and hang out with Andrea, and Brenna and Andrea's middle daughter are friends. Morgan would be able to have a friend her age to skate with and Brenna had been asking me to take her ice skating again.Not a bad Friday night!    So now we had an hour to kill and there happens to be a good thrift store right around the corner from my mom's. Yes! Another good score! Three shirts and a pair of snow boots for Brenna. I didn't look for anything for myself, but I will go back after payday.     A quick stop for something to eat and then we headed off to the ice rink.     Can I just tell you...the ice skating was good *I didn't skate because of the foot I broke that is still healing* and the kids had a ball, BUT...    ...I have never in my life seen teenagers so disrespectful of property, messy and foul-mouthed as the bulk of the kids were at the ice rink. They were throwing food, spraying soda, dropped every bit of trash that there was on the floor. While it wasn't every kid that was there that was acting that way, by in large it was the bulk of them. It was appalling I have to say. And sad. I will NEVER drop my child off there alone. I couldn't believe people that dropped there 9, 10, 11 year olds off and just left them, not having a clue what is going on there. My gf overheard two 10ish, 11ish year olds " Can I touch your booby?" "Yes ::giggle::""Can I touch you there?" "Yes ::giggle::"    Oh good Lord in heaven those kids best be glad it wasn't me that overheard that exchange. I would have shadowed them until I found out their names or til I saw their parents pick them up. *shakes head* I am so sad and disgusted and appalled and ... it just goes on. My stomach is sick just thinking about the future for those kids.    Needless to say I wasn't impressed with the Friday night open skate. I will stick to taking Brenna during the day.    Saturday I went over Andrea's to fix her computer and have her cut Brenna's hair. Andrea is a hair stylist so we were trading skills :0) Brenna's hair looks SO much better, and Andrea's computer is now virus free and working properly. Morgan came home with us and spent the night.    Sunday morning meant getting up early for church, and leaving church early to come home and make lunch. Since Andrea and Grahaem were going to come by after church to pick up Morgan I invited them to lunch. I made grilled teriyaki pork chops and burgers. Yummy! Then we went outside and took pics of her kids for Christmas cards. It appears something is going on funky with one of my camera bodies. ::grrrrrr:: Andrea said that everything looked good but the pics were really dark and shadowed. I need to see the film since she took it to get processed, but I am SO not pleased needless to say as I just bought the camera body a couple of months ago. I'm hoping it was the processing and not my camera, but until I see the film I won't know.    Brenna then went to Becca's house to play for a few hours, and I picked her up about 9.    I only slept about 4 hours Saturday night and was soooo tired all day yesterday.  After Mike took Brenna to Becca's I sat and cleaned out my laptop and fell asleep for about 1/2 an hour. Slept like crud last night for some reason and now I am kinda tired today. p~~~    But I am wearing jeans that fit! The sighting of my pasty white arse is not something that Harford County Maryland needs fear anytime in the immediate future. And should that make for a good Monday morning in anyone's book.                                                                                                            ~Kathie

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