Wensday 1 Mar 06

Shorts weather is finally here!

My mother has her weekly Weight Watchers meeting this morning so she drags me along, my father too as she doesn't drive much any more. While she's weighing in, Dad and i get a cup of coffee, then walk down to Staples office supply store. They have a new post-it pad! It is a super-sticky 3-color cube die-cut in the shape of a 4-leaf clover! i didn't get any...no, i'm just kidding! i got 3.

Afterwards their routine is that they stop for lunch somewhere--weight watchers leaves my mother hungry!--and then they go shopping at Wal-Mart. No new post-it there, but i did get a micro-fiber cloth to clean my glasses with. unfortunately they came in a package of 2 of the same color but i wanted 2 different colors, so when no one was looking, i opened 2 packages and swapped 1 from each package.

We get home and Mom asks if i want to go shopping but i'm content to read my book (a large-print mystery i checked out of the St. Lucie Co. bookmobile) for a while. Over the years i've realised that when Mom asks a question and doesn't get the answer she wants, she'll forget she already asked it or not understand the answer or act like no decision has been made, so when she asked again if i wanted to go shopping, i said "sure." Dad does not do shopping, so i get to drive his car! We went to Big Lots, which i had already been to while mother was working at the thrift shop, and she buys some of those solar garden lights, and i buy a deck of cards i had talked myself out of monday, a long and narrow deck (about 5"x2") by umbra that may be perfect for playing handheld solitaire games on the bus! hard to shuffle tho.

we also go to an outlet for one of the major discount clothing store around here called beall's and she gets me 2 loud and flowery ultra-tropical shorts so that every one will know for a fact that i am a tourist! they'll definitely cause comment around the office on casual fridays!

we get home from shopping around 530p and mother suggests that we have leftovers rather than the stuffed peppers she had originally planned, but dad is irritated because making meals and serving them on time is about all he actually asks of her in the way of homemaker duties, and he says he knew as soon as we left that we wouldn't get home in time to make dinner.