Best Shopping Day EVAH

[devilgrrl]

Rockland decided to have no school today and tack one on to the end of the year so, because I am a supremely awesome and responsible adult, I begged my mum to make me an eye doctor's appointment so I can get contacts before the wedding. My eyes seriously got really worse. My "good" eye needed a 4.25 up from a 3.75 a year ago. When I told Mum she laughed, because my eyes are finally worse than hers. Thanks, Ma.

I totally hit up pinkandsilver to meet me there for lunch. After some baby-mama drama, Steven decided he could use a break and tagged along for lunch. We went to Brighams because Johnny Rockets was a clusterfuck. It was tasty, but we established early on that I definitely woke up on the bitchy side of the bed and needed a handler. Steven took off after to pick up the kidlet and sleep, so Nicki and I ventured off into the mall. We eyed Build-A-Bear and poked puppies before my bladder died and I had to go pee in Sears. As we were meandering out, I saw some Hello Kitty sheets. Steven had previously informed me on no uncertain terms that if I ever bought HK sheets, he would never sleep with me again, so I called. He was distracted and told me to get whatever I wanted. We're sleeping on pink HK sheets tonight.

Officially, we were looking for shoes for the wedding. We hit The Maxx where I bought cute silver flats and a wallet, but Nicki struck out. We went to Coach after and I became the worst influence ever. She bought a cute wristlet. I bought Steven's Christmas/wedding gift at Sharper Image and we lugged things to the car/froze to death. We hit Claire's after, where I got leggings and earrings and Nicki accomplished wedding earrings. Yay! Macy's was also a shoe strikeout and the shoe guy definitely wanted to eat both our souls, but I did get wedding lippie. We petted pretty dresses before The Body Shoppe and their magical vanilla spice lotion. Then: smoothies for not killing anyone.

We tried to be good do-bees, but were seduced by Aeropostale because everything was 50% off. Like seriously everything in the whole bloody store. I bought shirts, socks, and fleecy pants. We swung by Starbucks for coffee and headed back here. I justified my purchases to Steven by reminding him of Nicki's Coach bag. And with bribery!

I dawdled more about cooking after since I had to pick up a script for tramadol and we needed a bottle of wine (read: 3 and beer) for tomorrow. We also ended up going to Shaw's because I forgot to buy chicken stock to make the gravy tomorrow. I cooked most of the dinner tonight, including our onions, sweet potato casserole, and the squash, plus one of the pies. Oh my god, I'm leaving Steven for our new KitchenAid mixer. Holy god. It made making the pie sooooooo easy. I pretty much turned it on and left the room to make the bed. So much easier.

We still have a tonne of cleaning to do, which kind of blows, but we're eating way late and just having people here for dessert, so we have all day and we can shove things in the bedroom, I guess. I'm so tired. I'm going to bed after I check LJ again and finish talking to mermaidinblack.

Comments

[dolphinluv2783.livejournal.com]

I am so jealous of your KitchenAid mixer. I would kill for one, but Luke just doesn't get that. He says he's not getting me a kitchen appliance for Christmas. He doesn't understand that it is so much more than any other appliance. :)

[devilgrrl.livejournal.com]

He's just afraid that you, like me, will leave him for it. At least Steven and I have an "understanding" about how many nights I can spend with KAM.

[dolphinluv2783.livejournal.com]

So if Luke and I come to an agreement on how many nights I can go off with my own mixer, then he'll be okay with me getting one? What would be a good amount of visiting that would be non-threatening to my man? :D

[devilgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about two or three nights with the mixer per week, more during holidays and the Superbowl.

You could also see if he'd be willing to try using the mixer with you. Who knows? He may like it ;)

[dolphinluv2783.livejournal.com]

He usually likes new things that we try. ;) I'll approach that slowly and see if he'll warm up to it.

[devilgrrl.livejournal.com]

Perhaps he could help in choosing a colour and attactments? Or spend some time alone with the mixer himself.

(I read this to Steven and he cracked up.)

[dolphinluv2783.livejournal.com]

Eh, he's one of those guys that's opposed to trying out new toys by himself. But if I'm there with him, I think he'll be willing to play with it.

(I'm glad Steven got a kick out of this!)

[devilgrrl.livejournal.com]

It's a little weird at first, you know admitting you might need a little help cooking, but you do learn to love it or at least accept that it makes cooking easier and more fun for everyone.