Oh Jessica! Are you actually maturing??

Last week I took the kid to one of our bigger malls in the city to go shopping.  I gave up actually shopping with him a couple years ago.  There is nothing more frustrating than shopping with a teenage boy who must look through every rack of t-shirts, inspecting each closely to ensure there's not a single mark on it that would suggest "gayness", while a man screams death chants over the stereo system loud enough to make my ears bleed.  No thanks.  I just give the child money, set a time and place to meet, and make sure he has his cell phone on.  And we each go our own way. 

I went in search of the Nine West shoe store to drool and touch and caress.  I discovered that pink seems to be in this summer.  All shades of pink - neutral to hot, and in all sorts of heel sizes too.  I was shocked to see that Jessica Simpson has actually "created" (ha ha) a shoe with a 2 inch heel.  Seriously?  I didn't think any of her shoes were anything less than 5".  The prices are ridiculous though, nothing under $100.  Actually, $100 would be a sale price.  Now I admittedly obsess over shoes but there's just no way I'd spend that kind of money on a pair.  In fact, I have a pair of Monolo's in my closet (that the man bought for me) and I'm terrified to wear them.  So they just sit in their fancy white box, wrapped in tissue, only to be taken out and admired once or twice a year, then lovingly packed away again.  It's a beautiful specimen, sure, but such a waste of money. Ironically, should I find the perfect dress (which I did that evening at Cleo's), I don't hesitate to slap the credit card down on $100 or more, but absolutely never on shoes.  Nope.  I just can't justify it.

Here's a new style of shoe Nine West is sporting that I can't say I've ever seen before:

Let me ask you - who would wear this?  Where would one wear this?  And clothing?  What would one wear with a pair of shoes like that?  I can only imagine.  Well, no, actually I can't.  That's my point.

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I heard on the radio yesterday an advertisement for some nutritional store promoting some sort of shake - a protein shake in fact, while stressing that the reason why people don't lose as much weight as they would like is because they don't get enough protein in a day. I guess the salami sandwich I made for my lunch today wasn't exactly what they had in mind in terms of protein, eh?

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I was selected by Ricki's to attend a focus group next week and, for my time, I get a $50 gift card. Now that was one of the most exciting things that's happened to me in months!!  I've never been to a focus group before.  I hope they have cookies.  I like cookies.

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