Monday Randomness

Vintage Metal Shopping Cart
1. I don't know why this annoyed me so much: I went to the commissary and got a ton of groceries. The bagger took the cart out to my vehicle for me and unloaded it. I had another cart that I was pushing with Tori and Nick and my purse and a couple of bags that wouldn't fit in the other cart. I tipped him (they work for tips only - it's a commissary thing). Then he took ONE cart back to the store and left the other one right next to my vehicle. The commissary doesn't have cart return places (because they have baggers that are supposed to do it!). I don't think that I would have been so annoyed had I not had the exact same experience the last 3 times I was there! Come on, you just got paid $4 to bag my groceries and take them to my car. It didn't take long. The least you could do is take BOTH carts. I guess next time I won't tip until they have both of them in hand :)

Labyrinth
2. The kids have finally discovered the movie Labyrinth. They had watched it before, years ago but they hadn't seen it in a long time. Kate's jazz class is doing a dance to the "Dance, Magic Dance" song from that movie - you know the one I'm talking about: "You remind me of the babe. What babe? The babe with the power. What power?...." Now they are absolutely enamored with that movie and are asking to watch it constantly. Lexie is upstairs alone watching that scene over and over again :) It's a great movie. One of my favorites from my childhood. It's a bit frightening watching David Bowie with all of that make-up and hair and stretch pants though. Yikes! Today I actually had to download that song from iTunes for them :)

3. Why does Nick have to take his boots off every time we're in the vehicle?? It's really frustrating having to put them back on each time we get to where we're going. I'm about to duct tape them on :) I mean really - it's below zero here for 6 months of the year. He thinks we're in Hawaii instead of Alaska.

4. Kate is hard on jeans. She wears out the knees so quickly - plus she just keeps growing. The result is: I can't wash them fast enough. She will get dressed in the morning in a skirt or capri pants - obviously not something she could actually leave the house in! So, today I bought her 2 new pairs of pants. She was excited that they weren't hand-me-downs and she actually got to pick them out. They have all sorts of sparkly things and do-dads on them. She tried them on when we got home and said "Mom, I've got Bling!" WHAT? Where on earth did she learn to say that?? :)

Thanks Christine for the idea of putting all of the randomness into one post :) I think I will do this every week!