Renaming stores would make shopping so much easier

I have 6 days until the National RWA Writer's Conference in Reno and I am shopping for some professional clothes. As a writer, I work in my home office wearing the comfy-est of pajamas and sweats. Since it has been years since I was doing the office scene, my professional clothes are a tad out of date, so....off to the mall.

Now, I hit the mall every once in a while like everyone else. Gotta have new shoes, new jeans, new sweats, etc. But I think something happened to fashions this summer because I have decided stores should simply name themselves after the type of consumer who would purchase their items. I walked into several stores that I hadn't bothered to shop in before and quickly discovered why. In the spirit of easy shopping I would like to recommend a few store names that would save shoppers such as myself alot of time and energy. Sluts-R-us would help divide the skimpily dressed from the scantily clad. For those moms who actually get their hubby to take them out dancing, step on into MILFwear. Just want to putter in your garden? Go to Granola chic. Have you given up on life entirely and just don't care how you look anymore? Welcome to the MuMu hut.

See, wouldn't shopping be so much easier if each store had a clear message and tag line that would invite their desired clientele with open arms? Well, that's just my opinion. Just for the record, I purchased a few items from Desperate-2-b-hip-but-still-look-my-age. Oh yeah and a shirt from MILFwear because....hey, I don't have to justify myself to you. :)

Happy Shopping.

Addicts

I am an addict. I know this entry will read much like a 12 step support meeting where the newbie stands and states their name and confesses their terrible addiction, but my name is Serena Robar and I am an entertainment addict.

Yeah, I know, you are all a bit disappointed that I didn't confess to a struggle with drugs, alcohol or, gasp, sex but it is a crippling addiction nonetheless. How did I discover this addiction? Well, I have always suspected I had a problem. For instance, when I get a new book, I read it. Now, what is the big deal with that? You ask scornfully. Everyone reads their new books and aren't addicts. Yes, but everyone probably puts the book down to eat, take care of their children's demands, do the laundry when no one has clean underwear but I DON'T. I don't do anything until I have completed the book in one sitting. Kids don't get fed, house doesn't get clean, phone doesn't get answered. Nothing sways me from my task of completing the book.

So, with that said, I have a confession. You haven't seen me blogging in the past three weeks because I have been watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I never watched the tv show but always wanted to see it. My friend owns every season on DVD and loaned them to me. I have done nothing else but watch 7 season of Buffy in the last 3 weeks. That is roughly 144 episodes in 3 weeks. Let's do the math here people. I have been watching about 6+ episodes a day for 21 days straight. Yes, you read correctly.

I am done now. Completely. I did no writing, no ANYTHING else but watch Buffy. And now I have an itch to watch the Angel seasons, but luckily my friend only has the first season of that. I have a serious entertainment addiction. So there. I feel better. I have confessed. I feel cleansed. Now I can move forward and get back to a normal life. And please, NOBODY offer to loan me the rest of the Angel seasons. I have a serious problem and you will be enabling my sickness so don't, don't offer the Angel seasons. PLEASE offer me....er Don't offer me....ARGH!