grocery shopping..and the whip it is

so, this is how pathetic my life can be...here it is friday night and i am in the office working, atleast happy hour in my kitchen was a big hit. i barely made it before the 7:00 cut off time to gulp down a glass of wine and now in the twilight of the evening i have finished my second. ok, i drained the glass an hour ago and secretly have been fighting the urge to have a third piece of pizza.....

the one thing i have yet to do this week or the past three if anyone is counting around here is hit the grocery store. as i stated before we love our new house location and all except i am livid by the lack of decent grocery stores nearby. i can choose from super walmart or albertsons 2 miles southwest both having been built in the early 1900's or the newer super walmart and albertsons 1.3 miles east. while the latter seems a good choice 1) not so happy with albertson selection of meats and produce, lack of cleanness (surely there is enough profit in the grocery business to purchase a power sprayer and clean up the parking lot, there is even a distinct rotting egg smell outside) nor the layout of the store, which to me is very important to the comfort level of pushing two carts through store because i can never get the cart with big seat in front plus infant seat on top. actually i am really impressed with my ability to maneuver two shopping carts with one kiddo in each up and down each aisle around cell-phone talking barbie, bluetooth wearing beehive lady with just a small arm basket yet she is there the whole two hours i am, shopper who obviously does not have a legal driver's license because she/he is always on the wrong side of the aisle going against traffic flow, label reader who stops on every row in the middle of the row to read each and every ingredient on every single item. 2) i am a target devotee...the first time jeff persuaded me to enter the super walmart 1.3 miles from home i wore a big hat, large sunglasses and a moomoo just in case the target we see you trader spies happen to notice me. i will admit if i am thinking the 18.9 trek miles across town to a clean well organized tom thumb or even central market is out of the question this particular walmart is not so bad (however you won't see me buying meat or produce from there).

****so i started this blog several weeks ago and i am here to finish it....i went to walmart again yesterday because i just could not get the umph to drive across town to tom thumb or cm but while i used to think it was not so bad....i truly despise walmart now. i went through 8 big blue shopping carts looking for one with at least one seat belt that worked. i figured izzy is big enough if she wants to walk/ride she doesn't need to be strapped in, however, annie may still need to be buckled up, even though i am sure this little hause could crawl and have no problems. anyhoo, not one of the big carts at either door worked, so i put annie in the seat of a regular one and tell izzy she will have to walk. now she loves to walk when we go to cm but there are so many more things to get into there and with a balloon tied to her arm i can see her even if by chance she escapes my sight for a second. izzy had yet another virus this week and with this one came hives.....i promise we wash our hands and all but this kiddo picks up everything. so half way through the store i am carrying izzy on one hip and pushing a buggie weighing an easy 300lbs. before i left i told the manager my dilemma about the seat belts and he just looked at me like i was a crazy bitch and not appreciating the whole walmart experience set before me. needless to say next grocery trip in oh, roughly three to four weeks will be across town at my friendly tom thumb.


by now you are probably calling me a grocery store snob and i will admit to it. i believe that is the first step to admit you have a problem, but don't count on me changing any time soon. i tend to be a bit of a stubborn set in my ways crazy loon

not going to cry over spilled milk....

so we have been out of milk for three days.....yeah, another award for mother and wife of the year headed my way,. i have found so many conveniences with the internet like, blogging to relieve myself of thoughts taking over my limited brain space, online shopping (most of it does get returned, nothing beats actually trying stuff on), online shopping for the girls (love my gap card...lots of discount coupons and free shipping with my "gold card"), amazon exploring (this is like hitting every store in the mall in one stop) oh, and of course, craigslist and ebay (for all your slightly used shopping needs). the one thing i have not found yet is how to grocery shop online....years ago when i was in college there was a website (i have no idea what it was anymore but they had a green and white delivery truck). i don't understand this....there has to be other people other than myself that find finding time to make that weekly/biweekly/monthly depending on schedule shopping trip near to impossible. for me it takes being out of milk and dear sweet husband saying, "we are out of milk again" for me to schedule a trip to the grocery store. this is no small feat because like i have said before*.....i despise the stores near me....it just puts me in a bad mood thinking about it. more than likely i will stop by 7/11 for a quick gallon because i know i have something scheduled for every day this week that will put me near my beloved central market.

this past weekend was dear husbands birthday and i surprised him and and a few of his friends with a box to the horse races at lone star park. we had a wonderful time, that being said, it is crazy how hard i work (like before the cleaning ladies come) to line every thing up for my truly awesome M-in-L. she stayed with both girls on saturday for over eight hours......i am not sure i have ever left izzy for this long except during the birth of her sister and then i was out of the hospital and home in 24 hours. however, she did a wonderful job and we walked in the door to this....

so......once we got to the races i gulped down a miller lite so fast i was embarrassed to look around and see i finished long before any of the other guys in our box did......slowly moving my bone dry cup to the back of the monitor on the table as i waited for the waiter to come by and bring me another one. i slowed down after the second and switched to diet dp for the next two rounds. i forget what it is like to be a part of the real world, you know one, without atleast one baby strapped to my side....one without the need to stop and change a diaper every time i can find a little privacy....one where i can talk to other "adults" and not be interrupted...one where hell it was okay to shout "oh, fuck", when i realized i bet on the right horse but not in the right way to win a small fortune (well, enough to pay for my starbucks habit the next two weeks). so anyways, i felt human again when we returned home and to top it all off we had dinner at my newest fav sushi joint, sushi axiom.

on sunday the girls and i joined jeff on a little road trip to somewhere between rockwall and sulpher springs to pick up a mower of some kind for the tractor we lugged out to granbury a few weeks back to purchase. gotta love craigslist! on the way back we stopped somewhere east of dallas and lake ray hubbard (i know kept up with landmarks..) at chucke cheese to burn off some of izzy's energy from being couped up in the suv all afternoon. now don't get me wrong, i like the fuzzy rat pizza shop as much as the next guy, but it truly trips me out to people watch there. in some ways it is actually a boost to my confidence level.....there are some scary people out there. it also made me realize most of the time in my stressed out, overly scheduled, lack of sleep state i am a pretty good mother, no i am a damn good mother. kuddos to all you out there who don't realize panty lines are not meant to be seen in public (i at least cover mine up when in the world outside of my front curb), thunder thighs are okay, but should also be covered up, the salad bar is not a "diet" with a plate full of lettuce drenched in ranch, non wearing bra lady or lady with racer back tank and regular bra....because of you i am feeling pretty good about my non showering, hairblow drying, three outfits that actually fit, forgot the make up wearing self!!!

*just realized i never posted my blog about grocery stores.....will finish it and get it up so maybe this makes more sense.