Category: Shopping

I didn’t sleep more than 4 hours Sunday night thanks to Alaethia. I had tons of books to check-in even though the library was closed after 8:45 when I was absent Friday. Mrs. V. closed the library since she had interviews that day. She had two more interviews that day and I got to meet both candidates. One of them was a woman who wanted to volunteer at the beginning of the year but for some reason it never worked out.

The internet was so slow that day. I don’t know why it still surprises me anymore. Mrs. Ruiz was there that day so we got to talk all day long. The day passes by much faster when she’s there.

I had a doctor’s appointment that afternoon. I was actually supposed to have it on Wednesday but since I’d already missed Monday and Friday of the previous week I felt guilty taking another day. I still had about 3 more days to use up but oh well.

Everything was good. I weighed 140.4, which is great. I got to see Emily’s beautiful little hand wave at me. It was a quick appointment. They’ll be seeing me once a week after my appointment on Feb. 2nd.

Jaylen had been begging to go over to Aaron’s to play, so his mom and I set a play date for that afternoon. I dropped Jaylen off and then Mary and I picked up Church’s. We ate and then I went to Target with Mom while Mario watched the kiddos. The social committee at work was having a baby shower in honor of Mrs. Saenz and me so I wanted to go to Target to get a few more deals. I was shocked by how much beautiful new stuff was on the shelves that wasn’t there yesterday! Mom got Emily a bunch of stuff.

Jaylen was dropped off with Mario before I got home. They’d gone to a party but he and Aaron still got to play Playstation for a little while.

Eenan kept calling the whole time I was at Target to ask if I’d bought his book yet. He’d been waiting for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw for months now. I’m glad he’s excited about a book.

I started making chili for our lunch tomorrow. Alaethia’d fallen asleep since 8:20. Grr. I hope I get to sleep tonight!

I went to town with Mary and Alaethia. Mom and Mario stayed with the boys. Our first stop was Target where I needed to create my baby registry since we’d be passing out some of my baby shower invitations at Yvette’s baby shower.

We met Andy and Noelia there and I got started filling out all the info on the computer. They handed me a scanner gun and I got to work. As I’m scanning stuff I start noticing that some of the clearance items were scanning at half of the clearance price they already had. I got crib sheets for Alaethia’s bed, some onesies for Emily, a crib set for Yvette’s baby and Mary got me a whole crib set for Emily. Andy and Noelia also bought a crib set for their future son and other miscellaneous things.

I was drawing a blank trying to figure out what to scan but I went through each aisle just in case. I was getting tired fast, so we got ready to pay. The items that had been scanning at 75% off were only scanning at the clearance tag price at the register. I was irritated and left the big stuff at the register. I went to customer service and asked if I could have the items at the price they’d been scanning on the registry. The guy said sure, just to go get my basket of stuff back from the register I’d left it at. He did the transaction easily and everyone left happy :).

Andy and Noelia went their own way after that and Mary, Aly and I went to Walmart. After that we went to Yvette’s baby shower. We were sitting talking to the aunts when we found out that Yvette’s little boy would be making an appearance at his own shower because he was born 3 weeks early! We had no idea!

The doors of the room were both open and Alaethia kept following the bigger girls (ages 3 and 5 LOL) around. She was acting like she was really grown up. She knew I didn’t approve and kept giving me that smile of hers that she does when she knows she’s doing wrong. I drew the line when she ended up at the bathroom with the other kids. I kept closing the doors but someone kept opening them and they were all escaping. Even though she was throwing tantrums I held onto her. I don’t know how everyone else isn’t paranoid about their kids running off on their own.

We got home and I started getting ready for the next day. I could hardly believe it was actually my last week of work!

I dragged John and Mario to go with me to town to exchange the felt bags I’d bought at Target and search for pails or cute jars or something to complete the centerpieces. Actually, Mario had been busy and he’d kind of ignored me when I said I was leaving so John and I left. He calls when I’m putting gas in the truck at Aziz and says, “You leave without Petrie?” LOL So back I go. The only reason he really wanted to go was because we were going to Kumori for lunch.

We get to Target and as we’re walking towards customer service I see the cutest white pails with pastel hearts on them. Mario returned the bags while I searched for the pails. I got the only 6 pails they had. We paid and immediately went to L.A. Imports and bought 2 more Care Bear cubs for the centerpieces. I went across the street to the other L.A. Imports and bought some iridescent basket grass to stuff in the pails with the Bears. The guys were really surprised (and relieved) that I was done so quickly. They were quite happy to make it to Kumori. We ordered some extra rolls this time, the Venus rolls and they were pretty good. I need to start ordering rolls other than my Fiesta Rolls (even though they are my favorite).

We chilled out the rest of the day. Alaethia was playing with her girlie toys; such a different and beautiful thing to see!