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Like Candi, I had a little shopping excursion to Wal-Mart today. Let me just get this out in the open… Wal-Mart is EVIL. I had some items to return – a purse I didn’t want because I bought the Nine West one instead, LipFinity red lipstick that was too orange-y in normal light, a sweater and some flannel jammie pants that didn’t fit right (that’s what happens when you don’t try them on first!) and a copy of “Unbreakable” which Columbia House sent me because I was a dork and didn’t mail the card back in. Yes, I took it to the store and they were happy to give me $20 for it.

Then I went to pick up “a few things”. This is how EVERY experience at Wal-Mart begins. Thank goodness I was limited on time because I had to pick Jason up from his religion class at 10:15. I bought a folding chair for his room because I set the computer up on the computer cart in there last night. I bought “Office Space” for $14.99 (whoo hoo! It was $20 last time I looked!) and “The Cable Guy” for under $10. (I *love* both of those movies!) I got a different color sweater in the right size this time. I got this adorable little lamp for the shelves in my living room for $5. I bought a new plant to go in my beta jar, the other one looks pretty sad. I think that’s it. All for $87. When the cashier said it was $87, I said “Damn!!” She seemed surprised. Sorry, I wasn’t expecting it to be that much!

Since I got home and started cleaning out closets though I started to question my “need” for the new sweater. It’s this burgundy/wine/maroon color that I own 10 other tops in already. I seem to buy a new top every fall that is that color! Of course I look good in that color, so maybe I will keep it. I’ll have to see what all it will coordinate with. Clothes don’t get to stay here if they won’t play nice with others that I already own. Of course I am certified as a member of “Wal-Mart Returnaholics”, the gals at the return counter would probably be hurt if I didn’t return something from today’s purchase!

I decided to post the pictures from the Birthday Week Kick-Off on Shutterfly. Heck, if you want to order some go right ahead! (I wouldn’t think you would want to… but you never know!) The blue cow with the Calla Lilies on it is “Sherry’s Cow” in case you were wondering. The rest are cows that were around the Houston Chronicle and in Market Square.

It is Banned Books Week and at The Forbidden Library you can see the “why” behind books that have been banned. ALA has a database too of banned books.

I have read a number of the banned books. Hmmmm… is that why I am so corrupt? (Uhmmm, yeah, RIGHT.) I don’t think books should be banned – I think parents should pay attention to what their children are reading and make that decision. My mother would sometimes read the books before she would let me read them, and she never once said that I couldn’t read one of them. She did talk to me after I read a few of the Judy Blume books – but it was a good sounding board, a good starting point for us. Reading all of those books was a good thing in my opinion. Anything to foster the joy of reading. I love to read!

“[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” — Judy Blume

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” — Benjamin Franklin

From The Onion | 26 September 2001: “Former president George Bush issued an apology to his son Monday for advocating the CIA’s mid-’80s funding of Osama bin Laden, who at the time was resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. “I’m sorry, son,” Bush told President George W. Bush. “We thought it was a good idea at the time because he was part of a group fighting communism in Central Asia. We called them ‘freedom fighters’ back then. I know it sounds weird. You sort of had to be there.” Bush is still deliberating over whether to tell his son about the whole supporting-Saddam Hussein-against-Iran thing.”

Oh, the Onion always can make me laugh so hard I end up with tears in my eyes!

There is a saying – “I can’t even wrap my head around…” WHERE did this phrase come from? I started seeing it in various blogs after September 11, and just read it today at KeithBrown.com and it reminded me … I keep wondering … where did that come from? Is there some secret code language I am missing out on? At the age of 32 now am I suddenly un-hip?