As long as I gaze on Waterloo Outlets I am in paradise....

Up until the army sent us to the frozen tundra, I lived less than 45 minutes from the Premium Outlets. It was great. Banoonoo Repblics, Gap, Hartstrings, and, of course, Claires (just cant get enough of that bedazzled stuff) and the holiday store where you buy those gigantic cheese and sausage logs. When I moved part of my soul died. It was terrible until I discovered the Waterloo Outlets down the road a-ways (well, like 2 hrs, but I am cool with that) up here in snowville. I have only had 1 chance to go before, but when I went shopping, I went shopping. I am pretty sure I am going to have to sell some organs on the black market to pay off the credit card, but who cares? Anyway, we had to make the trek to Rochester on Tuesday for a drs appt for G-Money and Master P got out of his indentured servitude to come with so it was a happy family subaru affair and on the way home we stopped at, where else, Waterloo!!!

Now I went with the idea that I would just buy shoes for G-Money and that would be it. Yeah right. I did go straight off to the Stride Rite store and picked up summer shoes in about .2 seconds. Now, I am probably going to upset some of my imaginary readers and ruffle a few feathers, but if you dont like it you can take your imaginary butt elsewhere, thank you, but back below the Mason-Dixon, I have a terrible time finding G-Money's size in cute shoes. Up here, I have a problem just finding cute shoes. Most of the clothes, shoes, etc for children up here is just straight up out of order or hard down butt dog ugly. I often wonder what will posess people to dress their kids in bedazzled and puff painted Dora and Diego gear, but I reckon it takes all (tacky) kinds. I digress. I found these Stride Rite sandals which would be the exact style he has been wearing since he was a real small fry. I also got him the usual low top Keds sneaks. It is disgustingly precious that Liddy will be wearing matching shoes, since I have kept EVERYTHING G-Money ever wore.

I only ended up forking out around 32 and some change for the little shoes. Not too bad, and I had saved some cash money (Keds usually go for around 25 and the sandals go for 35).

So, as previously stated, I went with the best of intentions to be, well, cheap and not spend all day dragging my exhausted children from shop to shop. Well, as my momma says, the road to hell is paved with good intentions! Wheee!!! I dragged G to every store I could (Master P had Liddy) and I ended up with not a whole lot, but what I got was 5 shades of fabulous. Banoonoo was, of course, my main damage. I picked up a Lily Pulitzeresque silk blouse and a new pair of (get this cause I am soo excited I can hardly contain myself) size 2 britches!! I came out at right about 60 smackers, which aint bad...the britches were 40% off and while the blouse was full price, it was full OUTLET price which makes it okay in my book of justification and denial. What was I saying? I forgot, but the point is, I am a shopaholic and I like to eat generic pop tarts, so it equals out.