delivery system

The girls have quite the delivery system in place. Of course, this is with my full cooperation and frankly it is sort of fun.  As we are going to visit both of them this weekend...yes, I'm still dreading all those miles..I asked them if they needed anything from home.

Home, I guess, means Target. Now, neither of them have cars at school and the Target stores in both towns are not within walking distance. I don't even know if a bus runs there, so I am going to do their shopping.

Well, I have quite a Target list to procure now. I was able to 'shop' the linen closet for some things. That was a nice treat.

One thing I can't get at Target is a new Black Diamond Ball dress for the oldest. She has three big tests this week and doesn't have time to go dress shopping live or online. She asked if I would send her links to possible dresses. Sure. Okay. Done. Five dresses selected, links emailed, go for it!

Not quite the same as spending time with them at the mall or at our local Target, but I will take it.

Happy Wednesday!!

bracketology

I love watching the Big Dance. Tournament time is probably my favorite sporting event 'season' of the year, except when my girls were playing soccer.

Our work environment is pretty laid back, but sometimes they just need a nudge to have a bit more fun at the office. So, I took it upon myself to print off 6 brackets and told the other 5 folks in our department (communications/IT) that they needed to pick their teams. It was ON!

Of course, the IT guy had to run the 'numbers' before he gave me his sheet. I just laughed and told him I went by pure gut instinct. A perfect illustration of why he programs computers and I post silly stuff on social media to promote our association.

I will have to update our sheets this morning when I get to work. And let everyone know how they are doing so far. This should make for a fun couple of weeks. My boss told us we should all put in $5 and the winner has to use the money to defray the cost of all of us going out to lunch.  They loved that idea. We do love to eat there!

Okay, off to check scores and see what is what. In other news, I talked with the oldest yesterday and she has quite the shopping list for us to procure while she is home. I guess the joys of sorority rush continue to impact my checkbook as she needs certain things for August that she currently doesn't own. Thank goodness it is all stuff that is pretty practical and very usable. No feather boas or crazy colors. Tan wedges. No prob. Black shorts. No prob. We can do this.

However, we will NOT be taking the younger daughter with us. She always manages to con me into buying stuff for her when we are shopping for her sister. I know, I know, I'm a push over. But, she always looks so darn cute...and she always puts up a good argument for why she has to have that dress, shirt, skirt, shoes, shorts, lipstick, etc....

Basketball and sorority rush. It is going to be an interesting spring break!

we interrupt our regularly scheduled....

I ventured into Wally-world yesterday to buy the dog a bag of food. His Iams has been getting steadily more expensive at Target and Schnucks, so when I learned that 'the store that shall not be named' carried it, I bit the bullet and hauled myself over there.

Of course, being the efficient person I am, I decided I would be a big girl and get the few other things I needed beyond the dog food. I could do it, I had the will and the brains to outsmart 'the store.'

I managed to find all the items on my list; nothing worse than shopping for groceries in an unfamiliar layout. Sometimes things just aren't where they should be and you wonder at the logic abilities of those folks who make a living deciding where products should be placed. For example, why wasn't the Velveeta by the other cheeses and dairy products? Who would put it in the middle of an aisle filled with non dairy things? Ugh.

Once I got the last thing on my list, I headed back across the store to find an open cashier, grumble, grumble, grumble...I had already had my morning walk and it seemed like I was going to be treated to another one in order to pay for my purchases and exit the building. Along the way I passed the book aisle.

Evil book aisle. Lo and behold they actually stock some decent sci-fi, urban fantasy titles. I found the latest release by Lilith Saintcrow, "Redemption Alley." Of course, the price was such that I tossed it into the cart. I deserved a reward for successfully navigating 'the store' and tried to ignore the fact that the money I saved on the dog food was now going to pay for the paperback book I had to buy.

I guess those folks who decide where products go may know something about human nature after all. Because after you spend a chunk of time trying to get all the groceries on your list, you feel you deserve a reward and a shiny new paperback book priced at under $6 was just the thing to put a smile back on my face.

So, after I wrote all of my press releases, outlined the store manager's job for the bookstore, did a load of laundry and got dinner ready, I stopped reading Miss Julia and started reading all about Jill Kismet and her latest adventures keeping the streets of Santa Luz clean of hellbreed, scurf and other creatures from the nightside.

Go figure.