Of grocery shopping woes and other things...

Shona and I just got home from Wal-Mart. Well, about 40 minutes ago. I just ate lunch, fed her, and put her down for a nap. When I say I ate lunch, I mean I had some potato salad, Lay's barbecue potato chips, and four times the normal serving size of Twix. (In other words, I had 480 calories of Twix.) I am doing great today, huh? We won't count how many times I went through an entire day on 400 calories...so today is a real improvement. But speaking of Wal-Mart...we go there all the time. As much as I hate Wal-Mart's food, I tend to do a lot of grocery shopping there (as well as at Kroger). It all started when Shona was a couple weeks old and she screamed allllll the time. I decided if she was going to scream, she may as well do it at a big store like Wal-Mart where there are lots of other screaming babies. The H-E-B here (and H-E-B is my favorite grocery store in the whole wide world) is tiny, and somehow or other I happen to know just about everyone who works there; so it would have been more stressful taking a screaming baby there. Anyhow, nowadays (or at least lately) Shona doesn't make a peep when we go grocery shopping; so I really could revert back to HEB.

But I said all that to say this: my brain is G-O-N-E. I'm standing in the store trying to remember where soap would be. I head in the direction where I think it is, and get sidetracked looking at pasta. I end up forgetting all about soap. Then I remember I need carrots. So I head to the produce department, locate the carrots, put some in my shopping cart and remember that I need celery. I see the celery a few rows down and walk in that direction when I get sidetracked by mushrooms. It's not until I get home that I realize I never actually arrived at the celery bin; so needless to say, I still need celery. It's crazy, though, because this is totally NOT like me. I'm usually (okay, pre-baby) very focused and could do my grocery shopping in record time. But these days it takes me ages just to remember what I came to the store for. Now I realize why I sometimes get weird looks from people - because I'm standing there staring into space or wandering aimlessly through the store looking lost, even though I've been to that store more times than I wish to count. LOL. No, the real reason I get funny looks is because Shona and I are crazy together. We have so much fun and I do a lot of crazy things, totally oblivious to the fact that there are actually other people in the store besides us!

But it sure would be handy to have a brain right now. I'm trying to sort out some landscaping ideas for our back yard but I can't seem to visualize anything. Caleb bought me 8 knockout rose bushes (bubblegum pink ones--they are SO pretty) and I want to plant them along the back fence but I'm having a hard time deciding exactly how to do that. I think I'm just going to plant them in the ground and add a row of mulch along the whole fence.

Hmm, I'm realizing I have a lot of typos. And those are just the ones I've noticed--who knows how many other ones there are!

Okay, I need to get some laundry done while Shona is sleeping.

Cheers!