Fun and flirty retail therapy

So it's been an awful last couple of days this week. First it's been super hot and humid for a couple weeks now, but not hot enough for enough days in a row so we aren't allowed to have air conditioning. I've been tool air conditioning is too expensive, but umm... I have 12 fans in my house right now going 24/7 and I'm sure that costs so much more then air conditioning would. Whatever though, it's the military so I can't expect them to be logical.

So the boys don't nap now. The sun comes up at 4 am ish to wake them up and shines in their room all day long. I can't open their window because we're on the fourth floor and Wes likes to try to escape (which is very very scary) so their room is so incredibly hot. Wes will nap if I drive around in the car for a while with the air on or if he's in my room right by my fan. Zach just doesn't nap even though he should. They're so tired all the time from not getting good sleep and we're all irratable from the heat and humidity.

Today Cody came home for lunch and fell asleep on the bed with Wes and I. His hour lunch break turned in to almost two hours before I woke up and woke him up. No one noticed he was gone for so long though (yay). My dad called the other day because I emailed my mom about Zach's poop issues. She apparently was worried about me a lot and couldn't call from work so daddy called. At almost one. Yes as in after midnight. He got the times mixed up (again), but it's okay because they were worried about us. It took a while for my heart to quit pounding though because I was so scared something horrid had happened at home.

So all of that (and a bunch of other crap) lead up to me taking Wes with me shopping today while Cody played a computer game. I wanted to get some more shorts, but I've come to the conclusion that my legs are just not pretty in shorts and I'm too short for capris (they only really work on tall skinny women I think) so that left me with dresses and skirts. I bought myself some really fun flirty skirts today. One is this pretty white long skirt with huge pink flowers on it. Sounds ugly as I type that out, but I swear it is not ugly.

How do I know? Because I got compliments on it today and I hadn't been in it that long. I wore it with cute little white heeled shoes and a PINK shirt (by PINK I mean very PINK). A couple women complimented me on my skirt and didn't believe me when I said I got it at the bx. I didn't tell them it was on uber clearance for... $5.50 (score). Then when we were walking to Magnums (a steak place on base) I was getting checked out a lot. When I took the boys to the car while Cody paid some guy almost ran into a pole when he kept turning around to look at me. Cody said it's because I have a beautiful smile and I've smiled a lot since putting on my skirt. I think I forgot how sexy and feminine I feel in skirts. It's been a long time since I've worn them as an everday item because of the boys. Some how you just can't play on the playground in a skirt ya know?

Anyway, so cute little skirts and matching tops plus new sandles that are adorable and a new bathroom set (brite puppies and kitties) for the boys. I feel and look so much better now. I so need to wear a skirt more often. Keeps me nice a cool and silly as it may be, I love the way I feel when I twirl in one too).

So now I'm full of steak, about to pop open a wine cooler to sip while I scrapbook (that should be interesting, maybe I should stick with digital tonight in case it turns out horrid) and listen to Green Day. Cody is taking care of the boys tonight and I'm going to relax. It's been a quite the week. yick.