shopping

mark and i were supposed to go to ED’s today....instead we went to most every store i the surrounding area...and then ED’s....thats what happens when a store closes for 2 hours for lunch...any-who on our grand adventures we went to many cool stores that are dangerous for me to be in.... i like to shop. it’s not a good thing to like doing. there was a craft store that had tons of fabric and cool wall stickers and all that. some really cool buttons as well...really big ones. in there they had those little balls of yarn that are really fun and crazy. normally in the states those are at least 3 dollars if not more. they had a whole gob of them for only a 1, 50 each! so basically i get to make a pretty cool brown scarf only costing me 4, 50....I'm happy. the sad thing about this store was that they didn’t have a very large selection of crochet hooks....i guess knitting is the thing here in France the largest size they had was a 7 which isn’t small but it definitely is not big! but it was made of bamboo so that was pretty cool. it was 5 euros...a little more than i wanted to pay for it but the lady said that that is all the bigger they are.
also in that store were some really cool wall stickers. big ones! we are thinking about maybe getting some just so our walls aren’t so bare...they had some really cool ones of flowers and trees and then some kinda weird monster ones but it was cool all the same we didn’t buy any yet because we aren’t sure what will match with our very vibrant floors.... in fact, I'm not sure the floors even match each other very well but i suppose thats what doors between rooms are for. :]
Anywho, so we went to another store to look at shoes because i have decided that my reflections shoes, that i have had for nearly 4 years now, may have finally given up the ghost. they aren’t totally dead, but they are definitely not pretty anymore. we saw some very pretty brown shoes at a store called Gémo. i found that my shoe size is 37 or 38. Allthough the brown shoe was adorable....it was not adorable on me.....it had way too much toe cleavage, and toe cleavage is not attractive! At least not mine anyway. So the cute shoes remained at the store however, at another store called Kiabi I got 2 shirts for 2 euros! That was pretty exciting.
we then headed home because it was getting late. at the bus stop we met a very nice old lady who lives in an old folks home not far from our house. i understood most of what i heard her say. when she first talked to me i didn’t hear her soi looked to mark to see if he heard her. he took that as “HELP! i have no idea what she is saying!” she said it again and i heard her that time mentioning that it was going to rain. i understood her right before mark to ld what she said and then proceeded to tell the lady that i only know a little french. she then said (in french) “well you should know french cause i don’t know any english!” she was a very kind lady and wanted to talk and seemed a little sad that i didn’t understand her. but mark did very well in taking to her and curbing her need to kick the breeze with the younger folk. :] mark is so good with helping me. he is sweet. i am excited that i am starting to understand more. i’ll probably have to tell him to stop when i understand alot more because i’m usually so quiet he doesn’t realize i’m starting to understand...for the moment however it is fine. :] i still need him very badly! lol
anywho, things are going well and i am very excited to move into our new place on saturday. it is incapable of coming as fast as i would like it to...or so it seems. but its alright. we are in a good place right now. i am just excited about the future as always. :]