Another Issue For My List
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 5:37PM Rich got a bit of a bonus this week and so I went out and did what any good, red-blooded, American wife should do.
I went to Target.
And there I discovered that I have bulimia - Target Bulimia.
See, there isn't a Target handy to my house (a clear oversight by the city planners). So I don't just pop in whenever the mood strikes. Instead I let the craving, the yearning, the need for Target build in my system and then I walk through the doors and lose all control.
I took the girls. We were just going in to get a few basics. Period. End of story. Socks and underwear and whatnot and we were outta there.
But there's that nifty little $1 section right inside the door and Reagan asked for Spiderman markers.
Yes she is a 14 year old girl. Apparently Spiderman has universal appeal.
They were only $1 so we threw them in.
And then I saw the sunglasses and I need sunglasses - mine are all scratched. While I was trying them on the girls meandered into accessories. A necklace, headband, three pairs of earrings and the sunglasses later we moved on.

But we had to pass the Juniors section. And the tank tops were on sale. Reagan wears a tank top or cami nearly every day - and they were on sale. So we threw in four or five. But then, I had gotten Reagan something so I had to balance that out and get something for Faith.
Thus the leotard.
And leggings.
Finally, we made it to socks and underwear. I don't know what the girls do with their socks, but they disappear rapidly. Also, the cats eat them, which I cannot explain but it's true. So we looked for socks that they both liked and that seemed unappealing to the felines' culinary sensibilities and threw them in. Of course Reagan can't just throw in a pack of underwear, she has to go through bins and pick out the cute ones which meant that Faith and I may have wandered a bit.
To the shoes.
Oh how I love Target shoes. They had these.
Obviously, clearly, most apparently, Faith needed them. And then the fair play thing came around again and so I had to get Reagan a pair.
And if Faith got new shoes, and Reagan got new shoes, well then I certainly needed new shoes. And they had leather flip-flops! I love leather flip-flops. They make me feel like I'm wearing an actual shoe when I wear them to work. Everyone knows that you can't wait to buy leather flip-flops because then they will be all gone when you come back and the thought of what could have been will haunt you forever.
We can't have that now, can we?
By now the pile in the cart was getting quite large but I just wanted to peek at the bathroom accessories. We are re-doing the kids' bathroom and I just wanted to see what they had.
What they had was this.
I'm sorry, but are those not the cutest?
And yes, at 9, 12 and 14 my kids are indeed too old for monster bathroom accessories. None of us care. And as if the counter top stuff were not cute enough, check out the rug.
Instead of one rug, it comes as a set of two monster feet!
I heart them.
On the way out of the store, we meandered through the health and beauty section and even more items found their way into the cart. More than I realized actually. At check out, I was unloading the groaning cart onto the conveyor belt and there were more than a couple items that I had not approved in there.
My girls are sneaky!
We got home and laid everything out and I realized I had done it again.
I had Target-binged. Big time.
I need to check WebMD for the symptoms, but I'm pretty sure this is clearly Target Bulimia
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