Darla Stories
A few more things I thought were funny….
Just because it’s spring break doesn’t mean crazy stuff isn’t still happening. Oh no! It’s happening. I thought I’d share a few things that happened as we were getting ready…
*First, I bought a cute new jacket at Target in their workout section. On the tag it said “fun pink” so of course I had to have it. Took it home and made a cute outfit with my black yoga pants. I noticed it had a hole above one of the slots on the front of the jacket where you can warm your hands. “Great”, I thought…I got a jacket with a rip." What I later learned, thanks to the nice folks at Target, is that the “hole” was actually an IPOD slot. Yeah, I knew that. Really.
I will be letting 2009 know I am on my way soon.
*This should come as no surprise though. Bill and I once returned garbage sacks to Walmart - I kid you not - because we didn’t think they opened. We could have sworn they were sealed shut…both of us! We pulled out like 5 of them and couldn’t find a way to open them. (You know like the produce bags at the grocery store where you try and try to get the right end….never mind that it’s printed on the bag!) When we returned them to the store and told the Walmart employee about the defective bags she didn’t even speak. She just (somehow) stuck her hand in some (unseen to us) slot and opened the bag.
We exited that store faster than you can say “Hefty, Hefty, Hefty.”
*Took Caroline shopping to try and find some jeans. Not an easy task as she is very tall and very thin. Things were going well until we hit Hollister. I, considering myself very hip and cool (remember I Twitter now!) held up what I thought to be a skirt. It was smocked on the top and then flared out towards the bottom. Thought it’d be precious on her. When I said….“Caroline, isn’t this a cute skirt?”….she looked at me like I was a freak of nature and said….“Mom, that’s a shirt.” Why I doubted a teenager, very comfortable in that unnaturally loud store, as to whether it was a shirt or skirt, I don’t know. But I did. So I asked the cute employee (less than 1/2 my age)…“is this a skirt or a shirt?” I could tell….I mean I could see it on her face….that she tried to keep from laughing….when she answered “Mam, it’s a shirt.” I don’t know what embarrassed Caroline more, the fact that I asked or the fact that I could NOT control my laughter for the rest of our Hollister shopping experience. I’m thinking teenagers these days will wear anything because that thing looked like a skirt in my day.
Caroline spent the entire rest of the day ignoring me anytime I said…. “Isn’t this cute?”
*And, last thing…speaking of being a freak of nature…
I stopped by the Clinique counter on our shopping trip to get the “free gift with purchase” they were offering. I tried on the new lipstick (which I liked) and thought…“oh look….it has this shiny lip gloss to go on top.” And so I glossed. And then I looked like a freak of nature…because of my silvery-bluish lips. The print was very, very small on the container so I squinted and sure enough…it said….“quick eyes cream shadow.”
I’ve never seen cream eye shadow.
So back to my message to 2009 …. I WILL be there soon!