hodgepodge:

Finally, back to a normal Monday night. I was afraid Valentines would never end. Then it did. Thank goodness. I like waiting tables a lot. I am good at it because it is a mindless thirty minute performance for which I am rewarded. However, it seemed that being slammed would never stop. On Monday it was slow. Whew.

Last night Iris behaved badly for the first time in public. Meg says that she has gotten familiar with Walmart and will pitch a fit there too. I had never seen her act up like that outside of her home. She just was not interested in the adults around her and almost exploded. Luckily, I wasn't the one babysitting her. Her Dad had her and scooped her up and swept her away. It was a good thing. The rest of us adults could go on being adults. Sometimes I would love going back to being a kid and other times I just really enjoy the peacefulness of adulthood.

I went to Snooty Snoots yesterday. It is the little girl store on the square. I got myself an aroma pen called "hope" and a pair of butterfly earrings. I love going in that store. If I were a little girl, it would be the ultimate reward place. It has dolls and fancy purses. It has sparkle jewelry and scarfs. Everything is pink and colorful with ideas of love and happiness in being a girl. It is hooked into this beautiful clothing store called Wandering Jules which is the flip side for Moms. It carries gorgeous clothes that scream luxury. What a great business marriage. I love going in there because the women who own the store are so loving towards me and are so well educated. The woman who owns the little girl store is a psychologist. The woman who owns Jules is a former merger queen from New York (she used to orchestrate larger corporate mergers). Both women are for me strong role models. I can only hope to have the effect these women have had on lives.