Sheep can kiss my ass.

I don’t know what it is, but I’ve noticed that clothing today has a lot more wool and other natural fibers in them then they did in the past.  Has cotton really become that scarce?  Or do clothing manufactures think we really like our skin to be inflamed all day?  Recently I was shopping at Banana Republic and noticed that even their even light weight sweater “t-shirt” type tops had wool in them.  They were soft, however, if a top can’t be thrown into the washing machine then it’s not going to thrown in my shopping basket.  Just try to find a sweater that doesn’t have some sort of wool in it.  I dare you.

Ug.  Wool, cashmere, merino … blah blah blah, all those natural fibers mean itchy, annoying and has to be dry cleaned.  Give me cotton any day.

As far as big chain stores go, I’m against them. Wal-Mart? Forget about it! I’d rather pay a few bucks more and shop somewhere else. However, Target is my only exception. I used to shop there all the time. Need to pick up undies, some CD’s and a gallon of milk? Hooray for Target! You’ve got my back … thanks I appreciate it. It’s chic products that are made surprisingly well combined with an atmosphere a gazillion times better than Wal-Mart or the just depressing K-Mart, makes Target one of my favorite places to shop. So, you can understand why I miss Target. The closest Target is either 40 minutes away to the south or to the north. Do I either want to drive into hot annoying Santa Maria or do I want to drive into hot annoying Paso Robles? You see my delima.

So why isn’t there a Target closer? You see I live in a small community where big chain stores are protested against and voted upon. We finally got a Cosco and Home Depot a few years ago – those are even about 20 miles away (in San Luis Opisbo). Nothing will ever be built in Los Osos, not ever a sewer system! Target has been considered a possibility in the future for SLO. Good ‘ole measure ‘J’ passed, so eventually a Target might be built. Local officials are still debating an off ramp that will accommodate all the people like me dying to shop at Target.

Now, I realize this isn’t the prairie. I can shop at other stores for life’s quintessential items. However, this requires more driving and subsequently more aggravation. Who needs that? Not me.

Home Depot screwed us again. First it was the wrong color blinds with the wrong operating thingy in our house in Oceanside, now it’s taking down the wrong phone number.

To understand what I’m talking about, look below this post to figure it out. Around noon I was starting to get really ticked off, so I called my mom to ask it they had called her number instead of mine. No, they had not. She also said she left the paperwork at my house (considering I was going to be the one dealing with the floor guy). So, I looked at the paper work and they had misprinted our telephone number. Replacing a 3 with an 8 – those aren’t even close on the keyboard & don’t sound very similar … hmmm. Damn it. Hubby called Home Depot and got transferred to many people and was on hold for quite some time as well. Finally he talked to a person and they said the person we needed to actually talk to wasn’t there. UG! A message was left for this missing person (I hope), and hubby and I are now still waiting for something to happen in regards to the floor measurement. Good god!

Also, in terms of waiting … we’ve listed a bunch of stuff on Craig’s List. Thus, we’re having to sit around and wait for people to either call us or come ambling up to our front door.

So, basically this day has been waiting around for people who probably won’t call or show up.