When Lunch.... Isn't.

Have you ever been shopping in Target, looking for a bathing suit because your friends laughingly pointed out to you at the *end* of a day that you spent walking around in your bathing suit while at Glen Ivy Day Spa that your bathing suit was, in fact, so used that it was completely see through in the butt and then gently (or, really, not gently) told you it was time, even though you loved that bathing suit, to let it go and get a new one?

Well, I have.

So... that brings me to Target and bathing suit shopping after work one day which is torture in itself because, let's face it, those lights in Target are not flattering for anyone and it is way too late in the season to have any good selection of suits and the cute ones are all mismatched - you find a top, but not a bottom... a bottom, but not a top... and so it goes. Plus, you know, you are TRYING ON BATHING SUITS. Anyway, I digress...

There I was, going into the dressing rooms, and those two sales girls who always seem to have nothing to do but hang out in the dressing room area and refold the same shirt 100 times while they talk constantly about nothing? Well, girl A said to girl B "Are you going to lunch now?"

It was just after 645pm. Who eats lunch at nearly 7 at night? LUNCH! I get that you have a job where you work from 3pm to 11pm and that stinks, but your "break" is not "lunch" it is just a break away from work that is required by law and if you really need to label it as a meal, why not "dinner" since it is SIX FORTY-FIVE P.M.

I'm just saying.

Maybe I was traumatized by the bathing suit experience... but... I dunno. I've overheard this same nocturnal-lunch discussion (ie... "when is your lunch break" "are you going on lunch now" "are you ready to take lunch") in other stores too (Kohl's) and it always startles me when it is clearly night time and a good 6 or 7 hours past when I myself had lunch.

Have I been working day shifts too long? Am I tainted? Does that question make you hum "Tainted Love" in your head?

Target. Giving me things to ponder about on a regular basis.

Conspiracy In The Beauty Aisle

I had an eye infection. If you've never had one, here's the gist of what happens... your eye hurts, you go to the doctor, you use antibiotic eye drops, you go without a contact lens for a week, and POW you're good to go again. Easy breezy beautiful.... right?

But hold up a second Cover Girl. That is not the end of the experience. You then have to dispose of all of your eye makeup and then repurchase new stuff. Because I'm a low maintenance girl, for me that is only three products: mascara, eyeshadow, and eyeliner. I went to replace these three products from the beauty-store-galore, Target expecting to pay around $35 total.

However... there seems to be a conspiracy in the beauty aisle because.... the eyeshadow I love... the one that looks perfect on my eyes... that makes me feel cute... is no longer. The product has, apparently, been discontinued. Why? No reason. My simple pack of three perfect colors has been replaced by a pack of ten colors - some of which should never be on an eyelid, each portion of which is tiny and crammed in tight next to the others. I'm not spending $11 on that.

*sigh*

I went on a hunt and tried to find, amongst the other brands, a shadow trio that was similar to what I had. I thought that I found one... but when I brought it home and used it it was horrid! It was... sparkly. Like my eyes were all a-glitter. Let me just advise... if you have ANY eye wrinkles what-so-ever... adding glittery eye shadow is like putting a big arrow straight to your crows feet. Plus, glitter is for crafts, not eyeshadow.

Back to Target, repeating this buy, try, be horrified... process. And as you can imagine this starts adding up financially!!!

Is this a conspiracy? Could it be that all of these makeup companies are in cahoots with each other and do this constant discontinuation of products intentionally so innocent people like me end up buying a lot of new stuff from various brands trying to find something that works?

Has this happened to you too? Because this is not the first time it has happened to me!!!

What's your thought... conspiracy... or do I just like products that are unpopular?