is this thing on?

there's a chick-fil-a nearby that is celebrating their 5 year anniversary. one of their very kind employees (and i'm not singling him out, they are seriously all very kind employees- have you noticed?) came into my office and gave us some coupons for a free chicken sandwich to help them celebrate. he also handed us a flier informing us of all the fun activities they would be hosting all week in their celebration. i was immediately drawn to Monday's activity: if you go through the drive-thru to get your free sandwich, you get a free antennae ball. i have never owned an antennae ball nor have i ever really had the desire to have one but for some reason i got really excited about it. apparently i am in a stage of my life where i am ready for my first antennae ball. so i made plans to go there on my lunch break and i made sure i followed the directions exactly and went through the drive-thru. the very nice drive-thru cashier handed me my bag of goodness and... alas, she did no

i've decided to start blogging on here again. call me finicky. i just got back from the 24-hour wal-mart. the one closest to our house just so happens to be the wal-mart that doubles as a circus. and over the months, i've learned that the demographics surrounding this wal-mart like to use it as a means of entertainment for their small children. who needs a babysitter when you can just unload your children into wal-mart and let them run around and play with toys for hours on end while you can have a nice, quiet dinner at mcdonalds? i will have to log that solution away for when i have kids of my own. we went because my husband desperately needed shorts. he has been aware that he needed shorts for a while now. but tonight, tonight was the magic night that he had to go get shorts. now. (he limits his options of fine shopping when he does that. seriously.) he wanted me to come in the fitting room with him and when i took a step towards him, the fitting room guard growled,