A moment of your time

I was shopping with my cousin to buy a bridesmaid dress for her wedding at Windsor at the block. Most of that isn't relevant, but I'm just painting a picture.

As I'm grabbing dresses off the rack an employee asks if I'd like her to start a dressing room for me. I comply and continue searching.

The girl, we'll call her pixley, approached me again to take the newly acquired dresses. I told her I was ready to try on the dresses. In an attempt to be personable she started a conversation that went a little something like this...

Pixley- what are you shopping for?
Me- a bridesmaid dress.
P- are you getting married?
M- no she (as I point to my cousin) is.
P- (toward my cousin) are you excited?

Let me interject here and point out what is obvious to everyone, wait... no, you can figure it out yourself.
Back to the conversation

P- (doesn't wait for a response) I mean has it hit you yet? Because I am turing 21 next week and it like hasn't really hit me yet, ya know?

She leaves and let's us try on our clothes in peace.

We find the perfect dress but I need it in a bigger size so we ask our dear pixley if they have it at a different store. She looks it up and informs us that there is one in the store. She pauses for a second and realizes that it's the one on the mannequin.

P- do you want the dress on the mannequin?
M- yes that's perfect.
P-(after she takes the mannequin down and removes the dress) hold on, let me put the sensor on it.

She is putting on a sensor so I don't steal it? I guess I understand, but I've made it pretty clear that I am going to purchase this dress.
Since she went to the trouble of putting the sensor on the dress I tried it on again. It fit great and I just had to buy it.
Walking up to the checkout counter I overheard

P-(to her co-workers) I heard cochella was legit
(silence)
P- yeah my sorority sister totally went

I didn't so much overhear it, as I was forced to hear it when pixley decided to have a one-sided conversation with her co-workers rather than ring up the customer right in front of her.

But I must thank pixley, if that is her real name. Without her I would not have this wonderful story that has overshadowed the story of buying the dress for my cousin's wedding.

Thanks for listening

the challenge

Here is the sandwich bag full of smarties I have to eat!

Eric asked how much it would cost him to see someone eat these beautiful pieces of candy. I shrugged and said $5, Shawna laughed and said it would be more like $50. It didn't quite seem like a real request at first, but I guess he wasn't expecting me to offer such a low number.

I am going to take a picture of the bag each hour and see just how long it takes me. Hopefully this doesn't ruin my dinner, or keep me up all night because of the sugar!

Side bets are also allowed, like how long will it take me to eat a smartie after this endeavor or will I need to make an emergency run to the dentist because my teeth are rotting?

Pants on the ground

I know there is a tornado warning, and I know that the weather is a little more crazy than usual.

But why does this give everyone the green light to go insane?

Don't get me wrong. I'm not mad. Their behavior is so entertaining I don't necessarily want it to stop. I just don't understand the panic.

Can someone explain it to me?

Sharp hint of new tears

You expect me to apologize for things that you've done wrong.
You're owning up to nothing.
I wish that I was gone.
Because you're not going anywhere.

A change will do us good

Now we're saying aloud the things we've declared in our silence

-cec

Baby alert!

buster sighting!!!

bja spotted heading home to get her fix of madmen

the buster bump is starting to show

what tv shows do you think you'll be craving while your baby home is occupied?

Favorites

Photo challenge #2

Let me explain this to the one person not involved that might stumble upon my blog. Some of my friends and I are addicted to google sharing. This has given us (or just me) unrealistic expectations of our creativity and abilities. Someone thought it would be a good excercise to have a prompt which would be the catalyst for us to blog more consistently. (This is actually the reason I started a blog in the first place, and I am a sucker for any kind of game). So all of my previous blog posts were in direct response to the first prompt:

Challenge Title: The Way I See It....
Rules: 6 pictures within 7 days, of life through your eyes. Post on your blog and google share the link, or send to me and I will post and share.
Start: June 6th End: June 13th


Now the second challenge has come and gone and I didn't do anything for it, so this is my make-up assignment, enjoy...

Theme: Favorite Things
Goal: Post 6 pictures of your favorite things, places, people etc. on your blog and then share them on Reader, if you aren’t on reader I’ll share them for you.
Start Date: July 9th, 2009
End Date: July 23rd, 2009

These are the things I

my family



my roommates


eating and sports


Dressing up


laughing


rock band


and sleeping




To my google sharers- sorry it took so long!