I spent the entire day with my new family today. Shar¡ called at 8:30. I knew it was her and even though the call woke me up, I quickly perked up and refused to act the least bit tired. She answered my first hello with her excited inquisitive `Whatcha doing?!' line. I answered back in the same tone, `Sleeping!,' and she told me, `Well it's eight-thirty and it's time to get up!' She then told me that I didn't sound very tired and I told her that I was excited since I knew the caller was her. We talked for a while. They all were planning on doing some errands like grocery shopping and going to Wal Mart. I mentioned having to shop for my college stuff. Shar¡ always talks to Buffy while we're on the phone and Buffy said that she has tons of coupons off of everything that I can have if I want. Buffy then told me through Shar¡ to get dressed and to hurry and get my but over there. Shar¡ asked me if I wanted to come and I said yes and headed over. It was nine by then and she gave me until 10:30, although she said they'd wait anyway if I were late.
I got there at 10:05 but they weren't ready. We were both pretty glad to physically see each other. When we finally did leave, we first headed over to the food stamp office where she had put in an application and picked up her $240 worth of stamps for the month and a little bit of last month. Shar¡ sat up front for a little bit on the way over and I sat on the floor in front of the three kids. Emily and I stole Shar¡'s cigarettes and forced her to come into the back with me. We sat together and wrestled a little bit until I finally let her win and smoke. On the way home she came back and I sat in the middle of the back seat while Sean sat up front. She then sat on my lap and leaned back on me.
We went shopping at Food Lion and they bought $140 dollars worth of groceries. We picked up some tropical wine coolers that ended up being really cheap because we found a fifty cent coupon that the store doubled. We had quite an interesting time shopping. It's the first time in a long time that either one of us have been grocery shopping. We kept hugging all over each other. We walked around a corner once to see this fat employee coming out of the stockroom when he suddenly hiccuped really loud. Shar¡ did it back but louder than she had expected and we started laughing hysterically. It was really funny but mean to the guy. We ended up talking to him at the front of the store though. We ended up dubbing the noise a `yelp' and it caused quite a few good laughs throughout the remainder of the day. We went up to Publix later on to pick up a few things for dinner that the other store didn't have and she yelped once near the deli and boy did we have a hell of a time with that one. I acted all embarrassed and told her I can't take her anywhere again while all the while we were cracking up. I was on a roll today with my witty humor and we didn't stop laughing in that store.
We went back to her house and had dinner. It's funny how everybody always thinks I'm gross when I put ketchup on my ham or turkey sandwiches. We later sat outside while the kids played and each had a wine cooler. It was really good. I had never been to fond of them before, it just must have been the flavors I was exposed to.
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