i’m warning you, this will be all over the place.

this morning for the first time in, oh, 6 or so months i woke up feeling tony the tiger gRRRRReat.  this could have been because of 2 reasons.  one being that i came up on some excellent bed sheets at tj maxx yesterday for $20! this being after we spent a few minutes droppin’ our jaws at prices we saw at macy’s home store in south coast plaza.  i figured macy’s would be pricey but never expected $300-800 sheet sets.  um, hell to the no on that lol it’s not like egyptian ladies were sewing them together with their own saliva.

so back to what i was saying, the other reason being that my pops is finally back in texas! lol  i adore my folks and would help them out with anything but it was time to go.  my pops & C were driving me crazy with basketball talk.  he was out here because of work and was able to transfer back.  so yes, maybe a combo of those 2 things made me sleep like a baby.

let me go back to yesterday, we stopped at chevron and i noticed gas is at $1.93 again :( we’re driving down beach blvd. and i see a big naked lady wrapped with a blanket pushing a cart and think to myself, how sad.  we get to mitsuwa, everyone is in their grab & go section, i grab myself a shrimp musubi & california maki, we pick up some snacks, pay.  i want to check out the food court.  we decide on getting some food but every place has the dreaded makeshift “CASH ONLY” taped to their registers.  we walk away sulking.  i stop at the japanese travel agency.  no deals for april :(  i walk away sulking even more.  we peek in the japanese bookstore.  i look at a few fashion magazines and get excited over the styling and photography.  i take my 13/365 photo of a girl looking at the magazines.

C brings up going to h&m at south coast plaza.  i tell him only if we can get in & out fast lol  i really despise that mall and was feeling subpar without my mascara (spanish for mask aka face makeup).  i call their mall info line (or did the site say concierge heh) and ask them where can i enter to get to h&m, the nice voice tells me there’s 2 h&m’s and which one did i want, i say kids, she says enter on bear street, park at macy’s home store and it’s on the 3rd floor.  we do that and it’s just like she said, mall concierge = awesome.  we walk in looking for some jeans for the kid and he sees a batman long sleeve, he throws it over his shoulder and walks away happy.  this is not your usual 3 year old, i think we’re in trouble.  i pass by some mirrors and make a mental note about how fuckin’ WHITE i am.  sheesh it doesn’t help that i’m in shorts either.  call me La Casper eh!  we find him a pair of awesome jeans, it’s $19.99 and we’re out.  we exit through macy’s home store and ohhh & ahhh at all the nice furniture.  as we get down to the 1st floor i see that they have a restaurant, nice!

we head back home, strollin’ once again down beach blvd. and now we see the same homeless lady a couple blocks up and on the other side of the street sitting at a bus stop.  she looks like she put a wheelchair in the shopping cart and a cop is talking to her.  i start praying that she gets to take a shower, some clothes, some food and a place to sleep tonight.  she’s still on my mind…

we get to target, there’s a cute car cart in the parking lot and we put the kid in, as we walk into the store i notice target associates making comments.  then C and i realize that the cart probably doesn’t belong to target, oh well.  we continue shopping, C goes to pay, i go to use the potty and as i’m heading towards him i hear an associate ask a security guard what he should do when we leave the cart in the parking lot.  when we get outside i look around as to where it could’ve come from, nowhere i can see for at least 5 blocks, weird.  poor abandoned cart.

we get to costco and i’m hoping to find a wii fit.  nothing.  C is hoping to get some samples but there isn’t any, weird.  we pick up the usual, i get cash back and we have dinner there.  my slice of combo pizza isn’t so good but the churro makes up for it.  it’s barely 6pm and there isn’t even a breeze, it’s probably like 75 degrees still.  winter come back.

we get home, put all our buys away and i put on our new sheets.  they look sooo good.  probably better since i got such a great deal on them.  the kid immediately jumps on the bed, moves like he’s swimming and ohhhs & ahhhs.  we wait till later to ohhh & ahhh at it.

so we made it out alive, didn’t have to pull out the macy’s card, it was a good day lol