hello! well i am sitting here all stinky! i just slathered myself in some sunless tannin junk....WHY does this stuff have to smell so awful. UGH, i hate it!!!! last summer i even paid for that new sunless stuff that you go and get airbrushed on you....ask me how humiliating it is to be standing there naked having someone paint you!? oh the things we go through to look good!!! stupid me spent a bundle and bought 6 visits, i only used 2 so far, so i have to get back there soon to use the other 4, but i think i am just going to try and go back to the regular tanning beds....it is just so much easier. the spray stuff is great, but it still smells! plus when you first get it done it is sticky, and you can't get any kind of wet for like an hour. then you can't even shower til like 12 hours later. it looks great, but for me it only lasts for about 5 days if that. then it starts to wear off, more in some places than others, and if you aren't diligent on going every week like you are supposed to, then you are part tan, part untan, and it looks awful....and i am NOT good on going and getting stuff done like that on time.....i'm lucky if i make it every month to get my nails done. once i even went 2 months! i think she ended up filing down my whole fill they were grown out so bad! oh well, so now here i sit, trying to breathe through my mouth so i don't smell myself. but it was just soooooooooooooooo nice out today almost 80!!!! it is still 73 now and it is after midnight!

i can honestly say that i was outside more today than i have been probably since i was a kid out playing.....why? because now i have a kid and he was out playing! which got me motivated to spoil him some. so what did we do? spent almost $500 at walmart!!!!!!!!!!!!! what?!?!? i went freakin nuts! they had some shorts and tops on sale for clay for only $2.88. well he desperately needs play clothes for summer, and how can you pass up $2.88!!! that is about 100% cheaper than the resale shops, and these are brand new! some others that i got were 2 pc, outfits, but they still weren't more than $6. so i went friggin bananas!!! thank god we were short on time.

the first, i swear, hour i was looking for this damn swing set that i want to get for clay. i showed it to my mom and got excited, she told me to put it in layaway, so i think she is going to help me pay for it which is cool!! they didn't have it needless to say, so he told me to call back tomorrow and i guess talk to the "toy lady" and she can try to find it and get it there for me, since online it says it is available, but i am not paying $69 for shipping. so hopefully i will remember that.'

the other reason we went was for a sandbox. when we were there last weekend i saw the turtle ones, so went looking for that. well they didn't have that, but they had a blue one that sort of looked like a castle. it was the last one, so i snapped it up real quick!!! we have sand around where our pool goes, and the past few days clay has been sitting there for at least a 1/2 hour playing in the sand. i don't even want to think what may be there, thanks to all the neighborhood cats, so i was damn sure going out and getting him his own to play in. we were all in it for about an hour after we got home tonight. i think he liked it!

i also got him some sidewalk chalk. since that "coloring" also keeps him sitting still for an extended period of time, i thought that would be fun for him out on our patio. he was ok with it, bob was playing with it more than clay though. also for the little spoiled brat, was one of those popcorn things that you push, well my kid pulls everything. he really liked that too.

so after my cart was filled with stuff for him, and by this point almost 2 hours into our visit and still no food or anything, i went to do our food shopping. then even after i told myself no, i went and looked in my size clothing. MISTAKE!! i just wanted to get a pair of capri's. it is supposed to be in the 60's this week, so thought those would be great. well, about 20 articles of clothing for me later........i told bob we need to get out of here!!!!!!!!! i just really need clothes badly. the clothes i have from last summer are all too big, and the clothes i have pre-clay are sadly too small. so i needed some in between stuff. i got 3 pairs of capris. one coral, one like an army green, and the other jeans. a ton of tops. most of them were on clearance for $5. couldn't pass that up!

so all that plus some odds and ends, 4 bags of sand and 2 cartons of cigarettes.....$500! boy how does it add up?!?!?!? so i had to pop out the new credit card, that just a few hours earlier i told bob i wasn't going to use it cause it was going to be either for our new central air, or privacy fence. shot that all to hell didn't i?! oh well.......we should be set for a while. clay needs no new clothes now til fall/winter. i am still hoping(praying) to lose at least 20 pounds, and then hopefully i can fit back into my pre-clay clothes

well, i still have a few other posts to write, don't want to make it one whole big one....so TTFN......remember that!?!? (ta-ta for now) :)