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The Real Housewife Lands a Dream Job!

The Real Housewife of Douglasville is offered her dream job

I have heard of too good to be true, but friends, it is really happening to me.  I’ve been offered a job as a……DRUM ROLL…..REALLY BIG DRUM ROLL….MYSTERY SHOPPER!!!

My heart is all aflutter.  Let me collect myself before I go on. 

I will be PAID to shop.  I cannot believe my luck.  Apparently, I just have to send them a little info and I will get my first assignment. 

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Now for those of you who do not know the Real Housewife well, let me tell you, I have raised shopping to an art form.  I don’t just go willy nilly into a store and grab stuff.  No sirree.  There is a method to my madness.  Let me also clarify that I am not one of those coupon clipping people either that spend hours on end cutting coupons, comparing ads, etc.  One must achieve a perfect balance, a shopping Nirvana as it were.

Proper shopping requires being educated about your product.  What is it you are looking for?  If you are like me, that will probably require sequins or rhinestones, or if you are really lucky, both.  I am known for my bling and proud of it.  Just prior to my recent surgery, I called my doctor’s office with a question about my pre-op prep (which, by the way, included drinking a WHOLE bottle of Miralax, FOURTEEN doses in one day.  I didn’t travel far from home that day).   Now I’d been to this office several times with my diagnosis and testing and what not.  And you know I had on my bling every single time.  So, when the sweet little nurse came to the phone and I said, “This is Myra and I have a quick question.”  Her immediate response was, “Yes, I will have you a sequined hospital gown.”  Gosh I love that woman.

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Where was I going?  Oh, yes, educate yourself.  One store that I could just spend HOURS in is Charming Charlie at Arbor Place Mall.  I am just crossing my fingers that I get this store as an assignment.  If you haven’t been there, GO.  Just about everything in there is sparkly.  Sparkly bags, rings, bracelets, EVEN the ink pens are encrusted with bits of colored mirror.  It is bling heaven.  And if it sparkles, I want it. I even found a pair of silver sparkly tennis shoes.  I wear them all the time, well in cooler weather.   Right now it is all sequined flip flops.  I digress.  When I wore the silver shoes the first time, I met my brother, Bill, at Cinco de Mayo on Highway 5, which, by the way is an excellent restaurant.  I showed him my shoes and he said, just as serious as can be, “Those are a little subtle for you.”  Bill knows me very well.

So, I am ready to accept my mission.  I will be proud to do my part for the retail establishment.  And hopefully I will even pick up a good bargain or two…in sequins, of course.

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