Chili Nights Indeed!

Got my first issue of Paula Deen's magazine this week and just love it! Thank you Kelly for giving the subscription for Christmas! Well, of course, just about the time I decide I need to RE-Lose those 6 extra pounds I've gained over the past few months, the magazine is filled to the gills with yummy recipes! The editors must know how everyone battles the cold......hot soups and chili! One of the articles is called"Tummy Warmers" and one recipe is for "Cold Night Soup".

Sounds so good!

Today I was in Fayetteville doing a little "Mother-of-the-groom" shopping! I had tried on an outfit in Springfield that the saleslady said "just came in for spring" and I really liked it. I am very hard to please, by the way, on clothes. I think I look awful in most things. Well, I really did like this two-piece dress, but felt it was a little premature to be getting it already since the wedding isn't until July. Of course, after I got home and started thinking about it and how the months fly by and I don't get out of town to shop that often and I REALLY like this outfit.......you know how it is......I probably should go ahead and get it or it will be GONE!

So I go over today and there it is.......except the skirt is floor length at this store instead of the short flouncy one I had tried on! So I ask the saleslady and she said even though it is the same store, different cities carry different things even if it is the same top!! The skirt was SO long I would have had to have more than half of it cut off and at that price.....no way.

So off I go up to Bentonville to the new shopping center to see if the main store there has the short skirt to match my top. OF COURSE NOT!!! They had my top but the long skirt only!
Good grief. I think Murphy's Law comes in to play here somewhere. So I guess tomorrow I will try to call the store back in Springfield and see if they will mail me the skirt!

This would not have happened if I just didn't really have liked this outfit so much. If it were cheap and ugly they would have had 40 short skirts and 40 long skirts to choose from! Ha!
Oh, well, I may end up wearing some blue jeans and a T-shirt to the wedding! After all , we are from the hills of Arkansas!

Speaking of Paula D's good soup recipes, I did get to have a wonderful bowl of potatoe soup from the Market Place in the mall and stopped on the way home tonight and had another bowl of chicken tortilla soup at Neighbor's Mill in Harrison. Delicious and unlike the weather outside tonight, very warm!!