DAY 95: Still Shopping…

Normally when I come home, I have problems sleeping in. Today, such was not the case. I woke up at 12:45pm. After the week I had, I probably could have hibernated the whole day, but alas, there was last minute shopping to be done.

Itching to get out of the burbs, I made my way over to Uptown to shop amongst the Hipster-lite. I popped some pills, loaded up on Starbucks, and prepared myself for an afternoon lost in a sea of other frantic last-minuters.

At my first stop, The Kitchen Window, one of the employees got awfully flirty with me. Normally, I would act all weird and make myself seem totally unavailable, but today, knowing I was safe because I was only in town visiting, I just smiled and looked pretty. Of course, it could have all been in my head. Or a sales ploy. Come to think of it, I did spend $50 there.

After briefly stopping in a few other shops where I knew I wouldn’t find anything, I couldn’t hold out any longer… I said fuck it to Christmas and decided to go Thrifting.

While visions of tsochke and nic nacks danced in my head, I got in to my car and drove to the best Salvation Army on earth. The moment I walked into that store and got a whiff of stale, smokey, mothball-ridden, second hand goods, I felt like a crackhead getting high for the first time all over again.

However, I did manged to show some restraint, and I only bought a few things, including:

1.

One of my (many) goals for 2008 is to cook more. And what better way to motivate myself to do so, than to have these cute little hollowed out, ceramic peppers in my kitchen! Just think of all the fun stuff I can keep in them. Like drugs!

2.

I bought this record because A.) I love cheesy album covers and B.) It goes with the color scheme of my kitchen/living room. Upon first glance I thought the woman on the cover was a drag queen (especially on the far left), which of course only makes me love it more.

3.

I really don’t have a place for this mirror in my house, but it reminded me of something that a teenage girl in the 80’s would have had in her room… so of course I had to have it. If nothing else, I can put it to good use when Jeffrey and I have a coke party. (P.S. You’re welcome for the crotch shot of me.)

After I got my used goods fix, I made a quick stop at the best liquor store on earth to buy a bunch of wine. (With my family, when in doubt, buy them liquor.)

Sadly, I still have plenty of shopping left to do. But now that I’ve left everything until the last minute, and I’m starting to stress… it’s really starting to feel like Christmas.