4am :|

yes i am up. with an itchy chest area that was so itchy during the night i just had to get up and get dressed and make coffee and fold laundry and make soup for lunch and sit down to research my condition when......... a child peeped his head around the corner to ask if it's up time yet. arrghh!!! no, it's most definitely NOT up time!! i have an itchy chest and am busy researching if it's a key symptom of H1Ni and i should be doing more than dousing my chest area with caladryl :

gap kids now has a stella mccartney collection. despite having a father who is the human equivilent to tofu (he's only awesome standing next to someone awesome - case in point: Heather Mills) i quite like her and so i excitedly waited for the big boys section to pop up. the cool looking (but instantly rejectable by my kids) sergent pepper jacket popped up but only in under 5s sizes despite having a picture in the BIG BOY section : and my baby's turning a big 5 :( and it's $128 so even if they DID have it in big boy styles i wouldn't ever buy it because my boys would never wear it for more than 3 seconds for a picture in a vinyl record store, in return for a chocolate milkshake : i am disappointed and ps these are a dollar at the dollar tree : and encouraging kids to "customize" (ie vandalize) their shoes with felt tip pens will NOT win you any mommy friends :

i used to like the gap a whole LOT!!! so much so that i had a gap card. now that card sits with a $10 credit balance that i can't find anything worth going into the red again for : now i never see anything worth buying and if i do find something remotely wearable it's only available in fushchia or all sold out in everythig but size 0-6 months :

and while i hate to go on and on and on about walmart and how much i adore them... i have to add one more reason to my ever-growing list - they now stock both eastern and california king bed sheets. target don't do that. for bedding for an eastern king bed you have to physically go east to AZ or NV to find it. target sucks!!

oh and another walmart like, i want these scales for rattie pictures - they are in stock at.... santa ana walmart (i always spell santa as satan... i know it's because santa ana is my own personal idea of what hell looks like :) i don't go to santa ana walmart ever, even though it's my closest walmart on paper. but today i must... so wish me luck... i'm goin' in :