Shopped Til My Hip Said Stop

What happens to a gal who loves to shop when she is finally kicks off her Army greens and is reunited with civilian life to include the malls that go along with?!



Now, I was not anywhere near as reckless as the e-card suggests (honest to God!!), but needless to say, I've shopped a lot since my con-leave began and I returned to Texas.  All warranted of course...  No, really!  I had all of like four civilian clothes outfits to last me thirty days worth of leave, ugh, no that would not work! O:) Nevertheless, I've added some cute shorts, even cuter tops, cute and charitable black flip flops (check out Buyamba Soles here) -- because all I had was brown and you cannot wear brown flip flops with black t-shirts, big no-no -- a cute outfit to wear to church one weekend while I'm home, and tons of awesome new undies -- which were quite needed thanks to all the lovely muscle I gained at basic.

Either way, I've enjoyed my spoil-myself days, and feel pretty darn satisfied.  You'd be amazed at how good it feels to spend some time and money on yourself after months of sacrificing life's little luxuries like wearing polka dot bikini briefs and enjoying a shirt without sleeves when it's a hundred degrees outside.

The best part of today's mall visit?!  Getting to spend a little moolah with an old bestie.  So good to see her pretty face, and, more than anything, to see her happier than I've seen her in ages.  And, as MonkeyHubby would be happy to know, I walked slow as not to wear out my hip and I spent way less money than she did!

Now, I've got some laundry to do...