Date Night on a Budget

Break out the coupons kids, we're having a night on the town. After having the living daylights scared out of me while working out of our Alpharetta office and getting two *seek shelter immediately* weather texts, spending 3 hours on the phone one night helping someone meet a deadline, two days of acting like an adult hosting our Regional Vice President, and figuring out how to order mints, I was smiling from ear to ear when I left the office on Friday.

After talking myself out of running into traffic I called Paul to declare tonight "ice-cream night" and we decided that we should also have hamburgers, because, duh, you can't have one without the other. FALSE statement. It was freezing outside and, although the ice-cream would have warmed me up, I declined. You know, just in case it made me colder. Dinner for two under $9. Check.

Next up on our lets-not-spend-money date night, a trip to the Dollar Store where we were greeted by the horror of Valentine's Day, vomited all over the store. P'jones quickly asked for reassurance that Marco's pizza was really all we were doing for 2/14. We ended up "giving" each other presents while at the Dollar Store (and promptly leaving them there). Paul made me a beautiful bouquet of flowers and I found (1) At home Drug Test: Marijuana and (2) Toad-Ally Snax: Hanky Panky. I found a sweet man didn't I? And well... he got...me? Maybe we should have bought the Drug Test so that mom can use it on Beanie's urine sample she was supposed to collect. Hmmmm.

We weren't going to let the fun stop there. No sir. We were off to Target to comb the back aisles for good deals. And I found one... coupons for $2 off P'jones' vitamins with two free sample vitamins. There were four of these coupons attached the the bottles. So we'd have two days for P'jones FOR FREE. But that little cricket on my shoulder told me "now now Mary. Those are to reward the folks who pay $20 for the vitamins they are attached to." Stupid cricket. I hope someone gets healthy off those samples.

 As everyone in the world knows, I haven't made it through any of the Lord of the Rings movies without falling asleep, but I did see a giant spider and an anorexic midget chase the guy with big, hairy feet. Naturally, I got really excited to find this Lego kit at Target and tell P'jones that I knew which movie it was from. Don't ask me which LOTRs it is from because you'll get a blank stare and mostly a response of "the one that was on tv."

Lastly, Target has an obsession with sausage dogs. As do I. They sing. They dance. They attack your face if they want to play with the ball they thankfully broke the squeeker on. These little guys are in their Target display and now the wallpaper on my phone for Valentine's day. Check it out on your next visit. There are giraffes too. As we were trying to leave Target to go to the closed at 9 o'clock Home Depot, I hear "OH MY GOSH! WHAT IS THAT?!?!" Anyone know what this (on the right) is? I mean besides WRONG?