As Seen On TV

I LOVE shopping and sometimes I think it may be a problem.... like when I had a bad day and only the purchase of a new shirt will make me feel better! And you know what normally happens to those new clothes? They end up in my closet to be worn once or never at all because somehow things look different from the dressing room to my bedroom. You would think I could just return the items, but no..... I always am very confident when I get my items home and rip off the tags and throw them away. No good. I thought I would share a couple of of my shopping experiences this week......

On Monday after work I decided to go shoe shopping at DSW and I found cute little black heeled sandals for the low low price of $29.99. At the checkout counter, the woman working proceeds to tell me about the weekend she wore those exact same shoes and how comfortable they were the whole time. She continued to tell me that she had been drinking quite a bit and maybe that's why her feet didn't hurt. Also, I now know about her that she drinks Tequila, goes crazy when she does, so that's why she doesn't drink very often. I found myself in a 5 min. conversation about how happy we were that she knew her limits and that drinking mass quantities of Tequila wasn't a problem in her life since she was responsible about it. Really... I just wanted the shoes.

I went to Walgreens to get.... well I don't remember what I was there for. Actually, I think it was just one of those feelings like, "I need to get something at Walgreens" and I was driving by one so I just went in. What I ended up buying was some makeup that I don't need because it was buy one get one half off and that's just a good deal. I tried to find stuff that I could use to help decorate for our trivia team's CSI theme, but had no luck there. And then there it was... the As Seen On TV section. For only $10 I became the proud owner of those little plastic rings that you hook onto your bra straps in the back that hold them together, so if you wear a shirt with a racer back, your bra straps would be hidden. I got home, tried it immediately, and I LOVE it! It does all the things that the commercial promised! I was so excited that I went into my closet to grab one of those hard to wear shirts that would no longer be a problem anymore. Here's the thing.... I don't own ANY shirts like that! Apparently I have been diligent about only buying shirts that will cover my bra straps as they normally are. Soo.... now I have 6 multi colored rings and no articles of clothing that require their services. On the up side, I feel like it's ok for me to go shopping again :)

It's just 100 calories!

I am completely addicted to the 100 calorie pack options that soooo many foods come in now. How nice of them to take the responsibility of portion control off my shoulders! You would think it would make more sense just to buy the regular box of cookies, read the label and decide how many I can have for only 100 calories... but this is too much work and those darn snack companies know me so well. I will pay more for the convenience of the individually portioned and packaged option. Why does it feel healthier!? I have been loving the Keebler Fudge Stripe Cookies and have one after dinner pretty much every night. A few nights ago, I grabbed 2 bags (because I was especially hungry for cookies and it's only 200 calories for both... that's still a low number. Don't judge me!) and after eating the first one, I opened the second one and got a big surprise.... they had somehow filled this bag to the brim with at least 3x the amount of cookies that come in a regular package! It was a little sad how excited I got about it, but it totally made my day because it was like cheating the system! I got 3x the cookies for only 100 calories (shut up, the bag said 100 calories and that's all I'm counting)! I think these little bags of 100 calorie goodness are the devil in disguise, tricking us all.

I would like to take a moment to note.... this is the kind of wild, interesting things that I will be blogging about. Fair warning! I told you my life isn't that exciting :)

You want to hear my every thought and opinion right?!

Do I have enough interesting stories to blog about? Do I want to be a blogger? Do I like the word BLOG? The answers to all of these questions is no. Do I have mass quantities of time while at work that need to be filled with something because you can only spend so much time on Facebook every day? Yes. So here I am... with wild stories of action, intrigue, and madcap adventures. Or, maybe just stuff that happens in my life that make me laugh a little and hopefully entertain the 1-2 readers I'll have on here (cross your fingers, I'm aiming high).