Happy Monday All! Its almost 9 a.m. and I am fully buzzing on caffeine. I hope you all had a glorious weekend. Ours was alot of fun. Let me clue you in on the festivites...
On Friday, Anthony and his friends decided to have an impromptu poker/guys night at my apartment (which I was mortified that our apartment was a complete mess but Anthony assured me that guys could care less anyway, lol) which led to me not wanting to be at home which led to my impromptu mini-shopping spree at TJ Maxx (my fav store!). I love a good excuse to go shopping! So I got myself and Miss Sophia showered up and ready and we hit the road. Boy, was I glad I went b/c I made out like a crazy bandit. For the last 4 1/2 years I have been wearing my favorite green winter coat that I purchased from Victoria's Secret for $99 (mixed in with a few other coats but that one was the top runner). Lately, my old faithful was showing true signs of wear & tear and I think I was prolonging it, but my hubby gently let me know that it was definitely time to retire "ole" green. Tear. Sniff. NOT! Hello, its like a fantastic excuse to go buy another one! I swear I am Becky Bloomwood in another body (yes I have read all and loved all of the books). So off I go in hot pursuit and do I score? I do and not once but TWICE! I always enjoy shopping for seasonal items at the end of the season b/c that is where you get the great deals so I waited patiently and it paid off. I found a gorgeous red wool winter coat by Laundry (retails for $300) and I paid $29 flipping dollars. Then as I was floating on retail cloud 9, a bright orange number caught my eye. It was an equally adorable, knee length, wool coat with a drop waist and the price tag? $20 dollars!!! So here I am with two gorgeous winter coats for less than I paid for my green one. Now I have 2 top runners for the next few years!! On top of my "steals" I also made out with a really cute white shirt that was originally $44 marked down to $6.99, a gray "slub" top with embroidery for $14.99, and a plain gray bubble top with an open back cutout for $9.99. Armed with some CHI thermal heat protectant hair treatment ($14 down to $7) I headed to the register. Of course the fun does not stop there, folks. In the past I have been very lucky to arrive when they have freshly unpacked a box of "upscale" beauty products that I have gotten first pick of (before the "grubbies" of M-town have opened everything and stuck their fingers in the makeup ruining it for all of us paying customers out there). And like a shining beacon of light...there they were a full display of Hard Candy makeup and eye shadow palettes. Now, at this point my lovely baby girl had decided that the shopping trip should be over and was squirming her little butt into a mini-tantrum. So what does the true shopaholic in myself do? I grab one in every freaking color. I mean, they were only $3.99 a piece (from ranges of $12 -$20 originally) and there were about 6 or 7 different ones so I spent like $30 bucks on what could have very easily been over $100 had I been in Sephora. La La La. I made out like a freaking bandit. Two gorgeous coats, 3 adorable shirts, and some awesome hair and beauty products for $120.00...woop woop. Becky Bloomwood ain't got nothing on me. I could budget shop her into oblivion. Now now, this is not an everyday or every week activity but a girl's gotta let her hair down now and again right?
Onto Saturday...my cleaning was postponed due to running errands and taking a random drive with the hubby (we like looking at houses). At 4 we headed out to my parents house for a family dinner and birthday cake for Daniel, he's 15 now! Em had mentioned earlier about all of us heading over to The Castle after cake but my parents didn't feel up to it so they were gracious enough to watch Sophia, Mia, and Bubba so we could all go. The Castle is this "fun center" type of place in Chester where they have a roller skating rink, lazer tag, go karts, mini golf, arcade, rock wall...you get the pic. So we (Me, Ant, Em, Kev, Kris, Dan, & our cousin/Dan's bff Aarron) piled into mom's van and headed over around 7. Em & I were really only interested in the roller skating so once inside, we all paid and the boys went their way and we went to rent our skates. Now mind you, I have not been on a pair of rolly-anything since like 1995 so I was a little nervous but half expecting it to be like riding a bike. Wrong! After getting my fat ass off the floor I quickly discovered I was not the graceful, balanced person I was back in the day. Any ounce of agility that I had was gone. So, I made it onto the ring and me and Em had to hold hands for a good 15-20 minutes to make sure that neither one of us would wipe out. I have to admit though, it was alot of fun and very reminiscent of the old days with pigtails and high scrunched socks. And what a crowd, it was supposed to be family night so this is what you had: the poor little 5-10 year olds that were trying their hardest and wiping out everywhere, the 13-17 yr old roller bladers that were too bad ass for words with their cool moves not giving a rat's ass about the poor little ones wiping out, and the middle aged single fathers that were doing everything in their power to get a pair of cuties ( like ourselves lol) to notice them. And what does a middle aged single father do to get a ladies attention? Act like a tool of course! He shakes his booty, jives to the music on skates, wears some rad, fingerless gloves that are absolutely pointless, and the best move of all-he takes off his shirt and flings it over his shoulder and skates in a wife-beater. Too cool for school. It reminded me of those Budweiser commercials, "Real men of genius..." Haha. I could hear it in my head..."we salute you Mr. too cool for school with your wife beater, fingerless gloves, and roller skates, with your fly moves and funky grooves, trying your hardest to find a new baby's momma for your future baby tool offspring." lol. Anyhow-it was a great time...eventually we were able to part and skate on our own and Em had a great idea of having a 70-80's theme 30th bday there...maybe we'll even get the VIP area right over the skating rink. Stay tuned.
Sunday was not as exciting. Ant headed off in the morning to paint ball with Kev, Kris & Dan and I stayed back to tackle my extremely delayed weekly cleaning. Sophia hung around with me watching "Bee Movie" and "Toy Story". It was a very quiet and productive afternoon. Then, at 5 I headed off to work to make no money since we were dead and managed to make it home in time to catch the end of the Oscars. There were sooo many movies that I really want to see very badly and can't wait to see them . The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Benjamin Button just to name a few. It is hard to get to the movies with Sophia so we pay the $10 a month for HBO and wait for movies on there or just rent them if we can't wait. Then there is the occasional date night or night out with the ladies.
Speaking of ladies night...its Monday! Usually Mondays are at my house with The Hills (now its the disappointment of The City but we watch it anyway) but tonight we're shaking things up. At 7 we are all meeting at The Outback for dinner (helloooo discount) followed by seeing Confessions of a Shopaholic. Yes I did read Tricia's spoiler blog (I couldn't help myself) but I am still curious about how it will be played out. I will let you know. I am very excited to hang out with my girl's and get dressed cute nonetheless. I even plan on wearing some of my new swag from TJ Maxx. Holla!
I know this blog was a little long and maybe drawn out (I think I am the queen of the run on sentence) but it is fun to recount my activities with you all. I hope every one's workweek has begun fabulously! Ciao! xoxoxo
My Laundry Coat that I got in Red: http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx/view.2/app.detail/params.aol_refer.false.tpl.detail.msn_refer.false.item.A85184.ref.BRS?cm_ven=BIZRATEFEED&cm_cat=Fashion&cm_pla=Outerwear&cm_ite=A85184
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