I had seriously nothing to do at work yesterday, and decided to celebrate this by not going in at all. I watched some TV in the morning ("Roseanne," and an episode of "Divorce Court" with this crazy woman who had a scary looking beehive hairdo with a tiny tiara glued in the middle) and then went out... shopping! Big surprise, right?

My first destination was K-Mart, where I almost never go, in search of cheap and cute clothing. There was plenty of cheap, but nothing cute. It wasn't a total waste; I found some super-adorable fancy barrettes (giant bobbypins, really), some coconut marshmallows (not as disgusting as they sound) and two books: Thomas Tessier's "Rapture" (awesome) and "Mistress of the Dark" by some woman whose name I can't remember. It sounded great from the description on the back (crazy waitress, weird sex, and so on) but it's not very well written. In fact, I feel kind of ripped off that I paid three bucks for it.

There was (is?) a big sale at Fashion Bug, so I went there next. For some obnoxious reason, they only sell super-plain jeans between April and September (I hate capris!) so I tried on a million tops (okay, six) but only got one. Of course, I ended up in line behind these two older ladies from Reno who were stocking up on what looked like a whole year's worth of clothes because they "don't have a Fashion Bug back home."

The cashier said, "Oh sure we do!" which prompted the ladies to argue that, no, there might be one in Las Vegas, but definitely not Reno. So the cashier actually found them a phone number for the Reno FB and one of the women looked at it and said, "Hey, that's a SPARKS telephone number!" Knowing nothing about Nevada geography, I feel safe in saying that it's CLOSE ENOUGH, woman. The pseudo-argument finally ended when the ladies decided that it might be in the new mall that they haven't been to yet.

Did I mention that I was standing there trying to endure this for about a hundred years (okay, five minutes... but it was a real five minutes, not like thirty seconds) and not once did the cashier say anything like "I'll help you in just a minute?" I mean, even if she had said, "I won't be able to get to you for ten minutes because of these obnoxious biddies," I would have preferred that to standing there and feeling invisible.

Eventually, someone else did help me. In the meantime, I probably could have read the entire "Figure" magazine that they sell there. But I don't see the point in spending $4 to read about a whole mag about plus-sized women; not when I can read my own diary for free. Ha!

My stomach feels pretty lousy right about now. I had a bagel and a muffin (yay carbs!) for breakfast, and a huge chai, and tried to make up for it by having this Lean Cuisine sesame chicken thing for lunch. I don't think it quite worked.

Still, I think I'm doing better than yesterday. I don't remember what I ate in the morning, but I had Jack in the Box for lunch (so good, yet so bad) and a fluffernutter for dinner. I tried to explain this sandwich to SC today, and she thought I was insane! I mean, I am, but it was a seriously yummy sandwich... in a disgusting kind of way.

And yes, you've caught me blogging from the office, but I am working, thank you very much. My sole assignment today is to make one copy each of 52 CD's. Ugh. Anyway, I'm actually multi-tasking by using two different computers at once. Not mine - that would be too easy. The CD recorder on my machine is permanently stuck shut for whatever reason, so I'm running back and forth between the computer next to mine, and one in the other office. Maybe this will make up for yesterday's junk food orgy.

I know what present I'm giving my mom for Mother's Day, but I'm kind of torn on what to do about a card. Should I go meaningful, or hilarious? I usually go for funny because I'm not a fan of sappiness, but having this long convo with SC today reminded me of how much of her life my mom has dedicated to me and the sibs (cue sitcom soundtrack "Aw!" here).

I still have no idea what to get my dad for his birthday in a couple of weeks. I can think of a lot of things he would like, but I want it to be something extra-awesome since it's kind of a milestone birthday.

The movie club that I was part of had disbanded and is now back together again, yay! Some of us are going to go see "Speed Racer" on Friday. I don't want to see that movie as much as some others that I'm interested in, but I think it will be fun anyway. I'm also pleased to report that "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" was really great. Then again, basically any movie with male frontal nudity in the first five minutes (several times) is probably okay with me.