Firsts....

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{First} first of today. Has anyone heard of a resale shop called Plato's Closet? In our parts, this is a teen's resale shop that carries a LOT of A&F, Hollister,RUEHL, (they are all one company so it's kinda all the same stuff),and all those other teen name brands that are usually WAYYYY overpriced. I stopped into one today to see if I could find some things for my Zumba class/workouts. I ended up getting several random items including a comfy cute navy blue skirt with white polka dots (not for Zumba), a couple pairs of soft cute workout shorts (puma and another name brand I am blanking on right now..) a longish black stretchy tank top with ruffles along the bottom for Zumba, a short flippy skirt for Zumba (I'll layer either biker shorts or leggings under), some pink footless tight thingies I will use for layering, and a cute pair of white capri pants all for under S40!! As I was buying my things, I told the tatooed-rasta-uuber dred-hair guy checking me out- that I might shop here more now!! He seemed like he was happy about that.(Although by his smooth voice, and perma chill half smile, I think he'd be happy about anything I had said- any way...) What a deal! And as my sister said today, "When you are doing the mom thing for a while, suddenly the clothes at Plato's Closet start looking like 'high fashion' ". hahaah. I hate to say it but I kinda was feeling that way today.

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{Second} First of Today-

So I was going to do my grocery shopping at my favorite quick grocery store, Aldi (its small,affordable, and easy to maneuver-thus my favorite!) with Elsie. Both older kids were in school. This all happened in about 2 minutes as I was getting my cart. This store is not in the "best" part of our town...but I have never felt unsafe there. Anyway.. I was rather absent-mindedly talking on the cell phone to my sis, and getting my cart and putting Elsie in somewhat slowly while chatting. Along the strip mall, I vaguely noticed some black guys walking down the way...toward my direction. I will say that I got an unexpected weird feeling previous to even really looking at them. After getting that feeling I did turn around and look closer to see who was walking my way. Honestly, they looked kind of young, overweight, and not very foreboding. After that, I dismissed the thought I had.

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They cruised rather casually right by me (where I was alone with Elsie, getting our cart) and within about 20 seconds and 20 feet further down the sidewalk, out of the blue a police car tears past me at high speed. And quicker than I could blink twice there were 3 police cars, and 3 police men with GUNS DRAWN, yelling at these guys and throwing them to the ground!! I just stood there, frozen, baby Elsie sitting there in the cart, watching it all go down! M heart jumped, realizing that who knows what could have just happened to me with them right there. You just never know!! I quickly made it into the store, and when I left they were all in the back of the police cars....and I felt like I was being stared at as I put all my groceries in my car.

I admit I was staring back...because I had no idea why or what had just happened.

Bizarre!!

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{Third} First of today- SO, tonight as I was feeding the kids dinner, I was eating Tortilla chips with a mild fresh pico-de-gallo style salsa..when Elsie is like leaning and screeching to get a taste!! So I scoop a tiny bit into her mouth...and I guess this little baby girl has my taste in food, because for the first time yet she SIGNED the word MORE to me for more salsa!!! haha. I couldn't believe she was actually doing it...until she did it about 15 more times for more tastes! haha! It was SOOOO cute. Girlfriend likes her some Pico-de-gallo!!

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So there you have it.

Three random completely unrelated somewhat interesting parts of my regular old day today.

And now I am going to hit the hay.

Nighty night!