Shopgasmic Girlfriend Getaway Weekend FINAL VOLUME
5.04.2005 ||
Continue here the mayhem. Well it's finally Sunday: We had both woken up several times during the night due to excitement of more shopping. 7:10AM: Wake up to 3 pairs of simultaneous alarms. 8:30AM: Nice "free" hotel breakfast. 9:30AM: Check out and go to IKEA. We went around every floor on IKEA and wrote down everything that we liked. It was so amazing. We were gushing over everything. I think anyone around us thought we were crazy. 11ish: Leave the good parking spot and go to the mall again to check out Urban Outfitters and return my shirt. I ended up buying jeans from Hollister and goodies like Playmate paraphanalia and liquor shot glasses for the will-be basement bar. The hotel bought us our blue living room lamp shades hehe.
We made a quick run to my car to unload our purchases when we were approached to buy M&M's from these kids. We walked up to one of them with a dollar each in our hands. We ask how much and he goes "1 for 3". For some odd reason Karen looks at me funny and starts going for her purse. She pulls out another dollar and hands the two including the one in my hand to him and grabs a packet. We walk away because we were bombarded by his friends to buy one. When we got back into the mall, I was still really confused. "Karen, I thought it was a dollar for THREE mini bags of M&M's" "OHhhh I thought it was THREE DOLLARS for one little bag. I am so dyslexic, I was thinking what a ripoff" "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, omg I LOVE YOU, but wait, maybe it IS 3 for 1, or is it 1 for 3? Oh now I'm confused" "Ahhhh well we did good, because of me, those kids won't sell crack, they'll sell M&M's" That's my fiancee!!
Anywho, The gold shoes I wanted to rock were still two legs and a dent in my wallet to get so I fed my need to rock the yellow by buying some old school bling. It will happen, dear, I will rock the gold. 2:15ish: IKEA ROUND 2. Now that we bought some decor from UF, we went back to IKEA. Food first though, we both got the Penne and Crawfish dish for only $5.02. It was like gourmet grub for fast food prices. DELICIOUS. I don't know how many orgasms one can endure during a weekend, but that added another one.
2:45 til AFTER IKEA CLOSED What ensued post stuffing our faces was a series of multiple shop-gasms. We raided each floor like cockroaches. We EACH had a shopping cart and they filled up so fast. We had sooo much fun that I don't even remember half the things we said or did. Our approach was systematic. We had taken pictures and notes down on paper during IKEA ROUND 1. So we knew exactly everything that we wanted. It was then a matter of reevaluating the wants and then putting them in the cart. Dare I say that the designs we have going are going to kick some ass?
Although the shopping was fun, we ran into some road blocks. The total cost of everything skyrocketed. We almost couldn't buy our high cafe tables and time was running out fast. We had found this AMAZINGLY cute off-white love seat that we wanted to be part of our "corner couch". It was an old floor model in the "As Is" section of the store. What they didn't tell us was that they would not home-deliver any As Is item, the buyers had to take it home themselves. Hence, the most amazingly kind man ever helped us out by allowing us to shop after closing hours to buy a couch that they could ship. My gratitude.
We ended up with the longest receipts I ever saw in my life. Together, I would guestimate 4 feet long. In total, we had 2 loveseats, 2 full shopping carts and 2 flatbeds of items. My wallet was in so much pain and so were my feet. The amazing thing though was that Karen and I stuffed EVERYTHING besides the two love seats and part of my closet into my coupe. MY COUPE! OMG, it was pure insanity. I remember us commenting on how it was like those bazillion clowns coming out of an itty bitty car only we were stuffing shit in. One by one an IKEA worker watched us calculate the space saving tactics for loading it all up. I thought I was going to have to strap Karen to the roof of the ride to be able to get home, but I love her too much and it was cold but we outwitted space. However, our genious (yes only one since we share a brain) was shortlived. We managed to bury the maps and directions to get back to the furniture capitol of the country, our home, GR. lol, ahhhh sigh.
In the middle of pleading with the nicest man ever, holding back being typical girls who cry (because we don't cry), shopping after hours, signing and resigning receipts, running outside and inside and getting to chat with all the employees because they felt bad that the two little grand rapids girls were stuck... I was shopped to exhaustion.
FINALLY, we got it all figured out. We got into my stuffed car and with the directions of how to get to a gas station for directions to GR, we were about 4 hours closer to home! It was 10 or so CENTRAL by now. IKEA closed at 8PM. So we get to the gas station to ask for directions and buy a map because I don't have any lol. Instead, we hung around for 20 minutes at the BP making french bread pizza, having small talk with the girl working there. We called Eric who gave us good directions, and kept my mood up. Then we got on the road and I got distracted during the drive because we were talking about boys and our pasts that I missed the interstate change lol.
We were stuttering through the entire weekend. It was fun though because no one better to understand it than us. We knew of that White Castle in Michigan City and agreed to stop there and make it our last fast food submission for a long time. Buff Thao and Karen are making a comeback. Well I needed gas so we got off the exit to get gas and grub. I pumped the Speedway, then I drove down the road. We got discouraged because we didn't know where to find the Kingdom of steamed burgers. I was in a turn lane (NO MICHIGAN LEFTS SUCK BTW) when my partner in crime let out a screech. There was the White Castle in all her glory attached to the side of a Speedway. HOW perfect was that? Gas and Grub, Kerosene and Chicken rings... mmm mmm mmm. I turned around and we drive-thru'ed it.
"Hi, I have a question, what state are we in??" The toothless man at the window says Michigan City, Indiana. Then he says, "Why? Where are you going?" "We said Hawaii!" HAHAHA, APRIL FOOLS! We should have though because it was funny as hell. We were going to do that Super Troopers thing where we drive through again and ask him what state we were in meow, but didn't do it. Anyway, finally back on the road listening to my "Falling in Love" mix CD then bipolarly listening to my "I hate you, Die bastard" mix CD. We were sitting in my car with hundreds of dollars of merchandise. We got so much for our money though if you discount the gas, the hotel and the shipping of the loveseats lol.
We got back to GR around 3AM and decided against unloading into the basement. I had to be up at 5:30 for work so I voted for sleep. Christy was moved in and the crazy thing was that she brought in this huge ass couch after we went through the trouble of buying the two matching Klippan love seats. Oh man, the situations of timing that we have been through lately. But that just means that our basement will be even more hooked up than ever.
That was basically my weekend. This whole entire week has been devoted to getting everything together which blows because it's my last week before school starts again. I go home on Saturday morning. Hopefully my Friday night plans rock and Thursday we get to dab in the ladies night crowd. I miss my closet...
Categorized: Friends
We made a quick run to my car to unload our purchases when we were approached to buy M&M's from these kids. We walked up to one of them with a dollar each in our hands. We ask how much and he goes "1 for 3". For some odd reason Karen looks at me funny and starts going for her purse. She pulls out another dollar and hands the two including the one in my hand to him and grabs a packet. We walk away because we were bombarded by his friends to buy one. When we got back into the mall, I was still really confused. "Karen, I thought it was a dollar for THREE mini bags of M&M's" "OHhhh I thought it was THREE DOLLARS for one little bag. I am so dyslexic, I was thinking what a ripoff" "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, omg I LOVE YOU, but wait, maybe it IS 3 for 1, or is it 1 for 3? Oh now I'm confused" "Ahhhh well we did good, because of me, those kids won't sell crack, they'll sell M&M's" That's my fiancee!!
Anywho, The gold shoes I wanted to rock were still two legs and a dent in my wallet to get so I fed my need to rock the yellow by buying some old school bling. It will happen, dear, I will rock the gold. 2:15ish: IKEA ROUND 2. Now that we bought some decor from UF, we went back to IKEA. Food first though, we both got the Penne and Crawfish dish for only $5.02. It was like gourmet grub for fast food prices. DELICIOUS. I don't know how many orgasms one can endure during a weekend, but that added another one.
2:45 til AFTER IKEA CLOSED What ensued post stuffing our faces was a series of multiple shop-gasms. We raided each floor like cockroaches. We EACH had a shopping cart and they filled up so fast. We had sooo much fun that I don't even remember half the things we said or did. Our approach was systematic. We had taken pictures and notes down on paper during IKEA ROUND 1. So we knew exactly everything that we wanted. It was then a matter of reevaluating the wants and then putting them in the cart. Dare I say that the designs we have going are going to kick some ass?
Although the shopping was fun, we ran into some road blocks. The total cost of everything skyrocketed. We almost couldn't buy our high cafe tables and time was running out fast. We had found this AMAZINGLY cute off-white love seat that we wanted to be part of our "corner couch". It was an old floor model in the "As Is" section of the store. What they didn't tell us was that they would not home-deliver any As Is item, the buyers had to take it home themselves. Hence, the most amazingly kind man ever helped us out by allowing us to shop after closing hours to buy a couch that they could ship. My gratitude.
We ended up with the longest receipts I ever saw in my life. Together, I would guestimate 4 feet long. In total, we had 2 loveseats, 2 full shopping carts and 2 flatbeds of items. My wallet was in so much pain and so were my feet. The amazing thing though was that Karen and I stuffed EVERYTHING besides the two love seats and part of my closet into my coupe. MY COUPE! OMG, it was pure insanity. I remember us commenting on how it was like those bazillion clowns coming out of an itty bitty car only we were stuffing shit in. One by one an IKEA worker watched us calculate the space saving tactics for loading it all up. I thought I was going to have to strap Karen to the roof of the ride to be able to get home, but I love her too much and it was cold but we outwitted space. However, our genious (yes only one since we share a brain) was shortlived. We managed to bury the maps and directions to get back to the furniture capitol of the country, our home, GR. lol, ahhhh sigh.
In the middle of pleading with the nicest man ever, holding back being typical girls who cry (because we don't cry), shopping after hours, signing and resigning receipts, running outside and inside and getting to chat with all the employees because they felt bad that the two little grand rapids girls were stuck... I was shopped to exhaustion.
FINALLY, we got it all figured out. We got into my stuffed car and with the directions of how to get to a gas station for directions to GR, we were about 4 hours closer to home! It was 10 or so CENTRAL by now. IKEA closed at 8PM. So we get to the gas station to ask for directions and buy a map because I don't have any lol. Instead, we hung around for 20 minutes at the BP making french bread pizza, having small talk with the girl working there. We called Eric who gave us good directions, and kept my mood up. Then we got on the road and I got distracted during the drive because we were talking about boys and our pasts that I missed the interstate change lol.
We were stuttering through the entire weekend. It was fun though because no one better to understand it than us. We knew of that White Castle in Michigan City and agreed to stop there and make it our last fast food submission for a long time. Buff Thao and Karen are making a comeback. Well I needed gas so we got off the exit to get gas and grub. I pumped the Speedway, then I drove down the road. We got discouraged because we didn't know where to find the Kingdom of steamed burgers. I was in a turn lane (NO MICHIGAN LEFTS SUCK BTW) when my partner in crime let out a screech. There was the White Castle in all her glory attached to the side of a Speedway. HOW perfect was that? Gas and Grub, Kerosene and Chicken rings... mmm mmm mmm. I turned around and we drive-thru'ed it.
"Hi, I have a question, what state are we in??" The toothless man at the window says Michigan City, Indiana. Then he says, "Why? Where are you going?" "We said Hawaii!" HAHAHA, APRIL FOOLS! We should have though because it was funny as hell. We were going to do that Super Troopers thing where we drive through again and ask him what state we were in meow, but didn't do it. Anyway, finally back on the road listening to my "Falling in Love" mix CD then bipolarly listening to my "I hate you, Die bastard" mix CD. We were sitting in my car with hundreds of dollars of merchandise. We got so much for our money though if you discount the gas, the hotel and the shipping of the loveseats lol.
We got back to GR around 3AM and decided against unloading into the basement. I had to be up at 5:30 for work so I voted for sleep. Christy was moved in and the crazy thing was that she brought in this huge ass couch after we went through the trouble of buying the two matching Klippan love seats. Oh man, the situations of timing that we have been through lately. But that just means that our basement will be even more hooked up than ever.
That was basically my weekend. This whole entire week has been devoted to getting everything together which blows because it's my last week before school starts again. I go home on Saturday morning. Hopefully my Friday night plans rock and Thursday we get to dab in the ladies night crowd. I miss my closet...
Categorized: Friends
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