am I capable of posting without a photo?
One Jedi cloak from Value Village to inspire it all. Four girls with too much time to complete a mission. Four hours of searching for a blue, plastic lightsaber. Eight stores void of the item they sought.
Diana, Godzilla and CathErine eat their respective feet as Jenn pumps gas so we can go on our quest to find the perfect lightsaber!
While thrifting the previous day, we found match pants that look like couches in each of our sizes and took it as a sign. We also each purchased a "bathrobe" coat, and as mine makes me look like a Jedi, I decided I needed a lightsaber to match and off we were to find one.
Our first stop was Display & Costume, where we searched for pirate costumes to wear to SeaFair. Obvious, that isn't exactly what we found...
We spent over an hour trying on every costume in the entire store with no intention of purchasing anything.
With no lightsaber to be found at the costume shop, we checked out Toys 'R' Us (out of stock), KB Toys (out of business) and Suncoast (never stocked). At this point, we needed bubble tea to console ourselves and so we began... the Quest of the Make-Shift Lightsaber!
RiteAid lacked Star Wars paraphernalia, but they did have an excellent tiki section. I also posed with a tiki torch, but the photo is not worthy of posting. CathErine is posing as Neo here (note the black bathrobe and sunglasses).
Target had an entire wall for lightsabers, but it was entirely empty, so after chasing employees around the entire store (who knew they could run so fast?), we headed over to Walmart, where we were greeted by Godzilla.
Two Walmart employees attempted to help us find a lightsaber, but one directed us to light savers (energy-efficient lightbulbs) and the other to life savers (the inflatable kind), and neither of them had ever seen Star Wars. Therefore, Diana and I had to settle for a different kind of saber...
CathErine felt the need to acquire a Make-Shift Saber as well, so she used the car antennae while I used the "BOB" plate.
Diana realized in the Walmart parking lot that all I needed to do was look into my heart and discover my Innersaber, and so here she is, demonstrating my excellent abilities as a lightsaber.
CathErine stole my camera and took a bunch of bizarre photos. I posting this because she asked me to.
PicklesOfDoom: And I cut out a TON
Sea of Infinity: NOT MY ICE CREAM ONE, I HOPE!
After searching in 7 stores, we found one, lonely, red lightsaber, lost on a shelf. I could not, however, purchase it, as I am Obe Wan Kenobi, and therefore need a blue one. Touching the red lightsaber caused me to go over to the Sith, thus I felt the need to attack Diana's bountiful bossom.
I have really missed being silly, as it is something I haven't done much at all in the past nine months. My new friends at college are so much more consistently serious, whereas my friends here are able to balance deep, soulful discussions with running amok in toy stores. At Brandeis, there is no loud singing in the car or anything particularly out of the ordinary. Getting my college friends to dress up for Halloween was a challenge, where as the geeky girls will gladly don costumes to wear in public places on a regular basis (which is the original reason we were out and about). While I don't like my college friends less than those from home, I do feel stifled by the lack of spontaneity and craziness in my life there. Being able to express myself without receiving snide comments about what I wear or scornful looks because of how I act has been so liberating, and perhaps the social restrictions I feel are why my academics suffered and I don't want to return. I may lose my freedom of speech in my household, but I am willing to trade that for a freedom of life that I have yet to have experienced back East.
Man, I didn't even realize how much I had missed you guys until today.