Obsessive. Who, Me?

UPDATED!!!

On Wednesday, I wrote:

Next obsession? Miss Trish of Capri (for Target) sandals.



I found these super cute shorts at Target:



They are very high fashion-y. As I paid for them, the checker remarked, "Target is really stepping up the fashion game."

And it's true. They are cute how I have been wearing them, with heeled espadrilles, but I cannot wait to pair them with my Miss Trish of Capri sandals. If I could find them! They are available at "select Target stores" and apparently Temecula doesn't make the cut. Next time I find myself near "Target Greatland" in Escondido I will have to stop in and see if they are demographically-appropriate for Miss Trish.

Well, today, I stopped by Pickles & Giggles to wish Melanie Stofka luck with her Piggies & Paws fundraiser for the Nora Grace Johnson Memorial Fund, and while I was there, I ran into Target.

Guess what I found....



The are $29.99 and the Temecula Target store (on Rancho California Road at Ynez across from the Duck Pond) has very limited styles and sizes available.

I bought two so I can decide at home which I like best. That's why the annoying left-right string tie and tag are still on them in these pictures. I am partial to the ones with the green-eyed lion. The white patent ones have a bee on the toe.



I felt very flattered, too, that a hip looking twentysomething stopped her car in the parking lot as I loaded up to ask me where I found the shoes I am wearing today (my black Spanish rope espadrilles.) Which I am wearing with the above Target shorts.

Style rules.

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For those who don't read me daily (and if you don't, why not?!), here's the rest of my original post from Wednesday:

I am the first to admit I like things to be a certain way.

For instance, I love cashews. Dad got Eva started with cashews too and now my entire family loves them.

Scott bought us a jumbo container from Costco (labeled "Fancy" which is probably some nut industry designation but actually was a very accurate description of them, aside from the fact that they were in an industrial-size plastic screw-top vat.)



Our favorite cashews are from Fresh & Easy, though.



There's a new(ish) Fresh & Easy near home and another one near the synagogue, so if I have a coupon, I swing by and pick up cashews. If it's a "save $5 off $20 purchase" (or "save $6 off $30 purchase,"), the coupon I usually have, I just buy $20 worth of cashews. Sometimes I'll toss in a package of their passably good butter croissants. (Which at least are made with real butter. It's really hard to find good croissants made with actual butter. When I have time, I go to Vallee d'Brume, where the croissants are amazing(plus they have Harney & Sons tea) or if I'm organized, I'll make the frozen ones from Trader Joe's (defrost and let rise overnight. These are sold as "mini" here in the U.S., which means they are exactly the size they consider "normal" in France.)

(By the way, there are other fans of the Trader Joe's frozen croissants, who are just as excited as I am about the ingredients, the way they rise, and even their petite size. See here and here.)

I am also obsessed with an all-purpose cleaner popular with Mexican housewives, Fabuloso.

The first strange thing you might notice about Fabuloso is the bottle. Doesn't it look like Powerade or Gatorade? They introduced it in a standard Windex-shaped bottle recently for people afraid their kids (husbands?) might mistake it for something refreshing and take a swig. (Don't laugh. My cat was just violently ill from eating Play Do. It happens.)



Also immediately noticeable is the strong fragrance. Fabuloso used to have a linden scent. Nobody remembers it, internet searches turn up nothing, and the Colgate-Palmolive website (owners of Fabuloso) makes no mention of it. (They do have "Ocean Breeze," though, which I might grudgingly try. I'm not happy about it, though.)

I'm also obsessed with tracking down Bon Ami. We have "the pink stuff" on our shower door. The moment I heard it's a form of mold, I was....well, obsessed. It's alive. It must die!

Thick baking powder paste, plus elbow grease with a pumice. No effect. Straight bleach on a paper towel. Impervious. Ajax on a scrubber sponge. Nothing.

Someone told me Bon Ami is as gentle as the baking soda but much more effective. I have a lead that Stater Bros sells it so I'll head over there. (I love the chase. Watch out. I just might find it, buy it, and stick it in the closet for several months. Once the chase is over, the adrenaline is gone and I just want to put my feet up. The last thing I want to do is scrub my shower.)