Wishing Upon A Star

July 9 --Shopping Plots

This has been such a busy week! Night after night of meeting is too much for me. It really makes me so tired and draggy in the morning.

I don’t know that’d I’d go to bed any earlier if I was actually at home. . . but still!

Of course if I didn’t come home and check my mail, write responses, watch some t.v, and then go to bed to read I might not be so tired!

That’s part of my ritualistic personality, though. I’d do the same thing if I was going to bed early, especially the reading part.

It’s not bad if I’m only half into a book, but if it’s really grabbed my interest…I’m DOOMED!! I’ll be forcing myself to stay awake until I ultimately fall asleep with the light on, only to wake up when the book eventually whaps me in the face!

This was true this past week.

I was reading "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood". This is one of the most wonderfully endearing books I’ve ever read. I had heard the author in an interview and figured I’d give it a shot.

It’s not the type of book I would have just picked up on my own. (I’m far more likely to pick up a soppy romance of some sort -hey a girl can live vicariously!!)

It’s been a book that’s made me laugh out loud, as well as shed some tears. It’s very well written and I was sorry when it ended.

I’ve recently discovered that there are Ya-Ya cults around. On my rubberstamping list they even had a "Ya-Ya’s memory box" swap. I didn’t participate though, that would have required way too much work and energy. There’s even a Ya-ya website .

Now that I’ve finished it, it’s time for something with no redeeming social value!

I’m convinced that Wal-Mart is a government plot to keep the economy going.

I go in there for one or two items and never seem to escape for under $50. I find all sort of staples that I seem to think I need to hoard.

Is there some earthly reason that I need to have twelve bottles of shampoo and conditioner? Or saline solution? Let me tell you, if there’s ever a reason to go live in a bomb shelter I will have the cleanest hair around. And I’ll be able to wear my contact lenses for years!

I also have this need to stock up on underwear. It comes from living in an apartment and having to find time to go to the laundromat.

Sometimes it’s just easier to buy new stuff.

The Christmas Tree Shop is a similarly evil place.

They have so many nifty things, and the prices are so cheap, that I just can’t resist!

And don’t be fooled by the name, it’s not just Christmas stuff. They have summer things to use at the pool, picture frames, chotchkes, and all sorts of other things that I just find it totally impossible to pass up.

Which explains the amount of "stuff" that I have crammed into this place! Now I have even more bags to empty.

More shopping is on the agenda for tomorrow.

I’m going to Northampton for a barbecue, but it doesn’t start till five, and there’s this mall that is calling me…… I’ll be allotting a good amount of time to wander. The place is huge and I haven’t been there in years.

Do I NEED to buy anything?

No….but why should that stop me!?!

Of course they’re predicting rain for tomorrow, so if it’s monsoon-like I won’t take on a hundred-mile drive. The Mass Pike can be miserable on rainy days. If it’s just ordinary rain, though I’ll mosey along. (Actually I have a lead foot, and have been known to break land speed records on the Pike.) I do want to see my friend Deb who is coming in from Chicago, and this would be our only chance.

So I’m crossing my fingers that the weather is tolerable.

Time to go peek in the Wal-Mart bags and figure out what I bought…
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