The best laid plans....

A couple weeks ago I was faced with the big question, "what to get my mom for Mother's Day?". My mom really isn't in to stuff- she's got it all and seen it all, and is very happy to have nice cards and promises of fun outings together. My siblings however are always looking to buy elaborate things, so I feel like I needed to step up my game a bit.

In the Macy's circular I saw a beatiful Guess watch. It had a white leather band, and the face was a beautiful paisley. Then the whole face was surrounded by Swarvoski crystals. Now, I have a bit of a watch fetish, and I also adore paisley. I thought Big Helen and I both deserved this watch. Natalie and Mommy, Esq will tell you of my great love a coupons and a bargain, so I headed off to the store with an extra 25 % off pass. Unfortunately, they were sold out. The nice store cleark encouraged me just to order them online, and that I would still be able to use the coupon. I did just that and got both watches for a great price. Many people posted comments about how much the loved this watch! Now, I just hoped they would arrive before the weekend.

Well, they came lickety-split. When I opened the box, I got a little surprise.
They were HUGE!
I mean the faces are two inches wide easily. I look like I should be wearing it, opening the door to my garash mansion and saying, "Welcome to my crib".

I was bummed- the watch was big on me, and my wrists are small, this was going to be massive on my teeny, tiny mother. I hemmed and hawed- do I send it back? do I see if she would like it? I considered just wearing it around her and watching for her reaction. I kind of did just that- and she loves it! It is HUGE on her, but she's excited that I feel that she's stylish. (Well, we're making her more stylish)

Aren't we cute :) and aren't we styling!

Social Commentary Sunday

I really do enjoy blogging. Like others, especially my buddy Mommy, Esq., I especially enjoy comments and the knowing that people are reading my blog entries. I have no one to blame but myself that I’ve been a gigantic blogging slacker. I’m in a mad countdown to the end of the school year and I haven’t felt very inspired to write anything.

To that end, I’ve decided to try to force myself into some kind of routine. Lots of other bloggers participate in some kind of weekly event like Thursday Theater hosted by Goddess in Progress or Makes My Monday. I’ve decided to start “Social Commentary Saturday or Sunday”. Hopefully, every weekend I will do a little blip about something having to do with life and society.

Like other Bostonians, I love my Dunkin Donuts. People who don’t see me in the early mornings at school, are surprised and don’t believe that I am a coffee person. However, I do get up quite early, and in the winter I find it very comforting. I hit a personal milestone this year when the lovely people at the downtown Andover DD would see me in line and have my coffee- Medium Extra Cream, Regular Sugar, waiting for me when I reached the head of the line. (This may have also coincided with when I decided to go on my diet, and thus I haven’t seen my morning friends lately.)

Now that the warm weather is upon us, I have begun to convert over to my other great DD addiction- Iced Tea. I believe that is was debuted last summer and I’ve been hooked ever since. I’m a great connoisseur of iced tea; having made the great transition from the sugary powdered stuff of my childhood to true fresh brewed. It’s rather embarrassing when I collect up my recycling and I see the ridiculous amount of cups in my bin, and how much I’ve actually drank (and spent- that’s for another blog).
How do I like my tea you ask? Well, I like a medium with lemon, REGULAR sugar, and just a little ice. They have this truly awful thing called “liquid” sugar. Apparently Dunkins corporate instructs their peeps to make their iced tea with this liquid cancer. Ugh! I have had many, MANY conversations with their people about this. (And unfortunately, have had to send back a lot of teas that have been made incorrectly.) Sometimes I have to tell them granulated sugar. When I’m on the wagon, I don’t use any of their sweetener, but try to use natural plant sweetener stevia instead.

My inspiration for today came when I dragged myself to get some breakfast. The woman behind me in line ordered, “Medium ice coffee, a splash of skim milk, and two equals.” Isn’t funny how everyone has “their” thing, the way their drink must be?
What’s yours?

Below is last week’s cartoon from the Boston Globe. I love checking on line every week to see what clever people have written as captions. Funny!


The caption read, "They're from Boston, all right. They're demanding Dunkin' Donuts coffee and have ordered us to "pull ova in the watta."