Scales, syrup, balloons and other stuff

It may be just me, but it seems extremely easy to get these nice little random thoughts to go quickly into random rants. I guess this week wasn't a good one for me, because I have a lot of random crap to say.
So, in our extremely expensive Wal-mart trip (between colds, mini-blizzards, and Halloween, I haven't done much grocery shopping), I bought us a new scale. I don't know why, I have kind of liked pretending that I am not as overweight as I am. Hubby and I sat in the aisle debating for awhile. He said he wanted the digital kind. Until I looked at him and reminded him that with the cheapie scale, we can pretend that the line is closer to the lesser pound. This one flat out tells you "Nope, wishful thinking. You are what you eat....three mini snickers, some skittles, and a butterfinger".

Remember the two balloons last week? Yeah well it turned to three. I will wait for you to stop calling me a bad mommy. Okay. Only one has passed. I think. I didn't get the rubber gloves out or anything.

I have single handedly figured out the reason for the national debt. MEN. All the presidents have been men. I discovered this last night as my husband and I were grocery shopping, and I counted 8 times (I actually stopped after this, and I didn't start counting until about the fifth time) that I heard either "it is only a dollar," or "it is okay, just get it," or "is it okay if I get this for bug/myself whatever?". If I had a dollar for every time he said it is just a dollar, I may be a rich woman.

Now, just to preface this, the mommy me and the Vicki me are pretty different. Vicki me doesn't care much about cussing, used to drink smoke etc. Point is, I am not overly sensitive. But mommy me gets a little peeved when I am trying to teach my son not to cuss, only to watch one of my fav shows Big Bang Theory, and have my son walk around for the next half hour saying "Son of a B&$@#." Ahhh. Little stinker is knows me too well, maybe it is time to address momma jokes, too!

Can we say addicted? Yep me. I am. My laptop's stupid power cord isn't working, so I am not able to use it. But we can't go to the store for about another hour and a half. How am I doing this then, you say? I am chained to my desktop. Horrible, I know. I need a new laptop. My buttons are all falling off. It is a big ancient thing. If only we could say "it is only a dollar!"

Speaking of said desktop, it sits right next to the window. And I am on a hill. It is amazing what people do when they don't think anyone is watching. I know, I know, I am the creepy neighbor that spies, but they are RIGHT THERE! But really folks, you are in public. I don't care if you wear your pajamas, I would too. But the butt-nose picking. EWWW. Well, I guess you figure you are picking up a warm pile of doo with nothing protecting your hand except a thin plastic baggie so what is the difference. Just saying-if you are somewhere outside, chances are someone is watching you. And please, don't all run to my window for some crazy exhibitionist thing. I'll stop watching, I promise.

I stopped at the candy store the other day with my son since he was good on errands. Did you know they sell soft pack candy cigarettes now? I guess I need to teach my son how to roll 'em up in his sleeve to protect them. Really?

I had to laugh at my husband last night who had to go into full detail with me on why those two little thuggy boys in Wal-mart were buying syrup. I sat there looking at him wondering if I knew everything about his past, and wondering why he was interrupting my calculating of what the least expensive pancake batter was. He sat there looking at me looking at him like I was supposed to be excited about my new found knowledge of what to do with syrup. Speaking of calculating least expensive, there is another little pet peeve. Wal-mart has made their brand look like crap, but then up the price. It is now less expensive to get the name brand. I was starting to rely on my Wal-mart. Guess it is back to shopping the ads.

Darn Secret deoderant and their samples. Did you get that clinical strength sample? I FELL IN LOVE! I liked getting in the shower and smelling melony. So I happily grabbed my coupon and skipped off to the store, to discover that the least expensive clinical strength is $8.00. You tried to sucker me in! I want to be sucked in! But I can't justify it when my reg deoderant, that you make, is I don't know, six dollars less!

Have you ever been so tired that you are literally typing and realize your eyes have been closed. If the grammar in this post is bad.....that is why. The back of my eyelids don't have a computer screen yet.

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