Craptastic
Ok, so I'm just going to cut my losses and call this a crap week, OK? But, having never been one to take that sort of thing lying down I went into the bustling metropolis of Torrington CT. today. (For those of you that don't know, Polyhymnia and I are in Connecticut this week, at the home of Poly's Dad the maverick cellist D. Darling.) The main reason for the trip was so I could go to the pharmacy and buy my 118.00 dollar athsma inhaler, (Shitty BU insurance stopped covering my inhaler. Insert long anti-corporate insurance rant here.) This expense only adds to my mood of general funkiness, however next door to the pharmacy is the Happy Dollar store. And this is one of the few dollar stores that really means it. Everything in this place is exactly, really and truly one dollar. So I forgot all my troubles and went to the happy dollar and bought some random stuff. Most of these items are gifts and more than one of them are gifts for people who may even be reading this, but anyway here is what I bought:
One: gigantic flyswatter, and by gigantic I mean three feet long. Interestingly it has meshes on its swatting end that look big enough to let the flies actually get through, so that leaves one to speculate as to what such a large swatter could be used to swat.
Two: Leopard print pocket notebook
Three: small mood ring. I put this on and it turned from sparkly grey to sparkly purple so maybe three is hope for my mood.
Four: Bottle of thirty ibuprofen (only a dollar, and I had an incipient headache, which is now gone)
Five: Four sided cheese grater. For some reason the Darling demesne only has this one small crappy plastic grater so I have remedied this lack.
Six: Exfoliating shower mit. I prefer the exfoliating gloves, but always for get and leave them at home. Once you start to exfoliate you can never go back to dull old wash cloths.
Seven: 'Jenny coloring and activity book' My five year old niece Erin is going through a major coloring book phase. I've never seen anything like it, she fills about one coloring book per day. Interestingly she never seems to pay any attention to the pictures she is supposed to color in. Each page looks like a total abstract expressionist explosion of waxy crayola id completely ignoring the lines. Strangely, she is much less inclined to draw on ordinary blank paper and seems to prefer a line drawing of some sort to deface.
Eight: Shower mirror for shaving. Same story as the exfoliating mit, I always for get to bring mine from home.
Nine: A kooshball headed rainbow ribbon wrapped ball point pen with goggle eyes and a foam-rubber duck bill.
OK, I'm going to go shave, exfoliate and grate some cheese.
One: gigantic flyswatter, and by gigantic I mean three feet long. Interestingly it has meshes on its swatting end that look big enough to let the flies actually get through, so that leaves one to speculate as to what such a large swatter could be used to swat.
Two: Leopard print pocket notebook
Three: small mood ring. I put this on and it turned from sparkly grey to sparkly purple so maybe three is hope for my mood.
Four: Bottle of thirty ibuprofen (only a dollar, and I had an incipient headache, which is now gone)
Five: Four sided cheese grater. For some reason the Darling demesne only has this one small crappy plastic grater so I have remedied this lack.
Six: Exfoliating shower mit. I prefer the exfoliating gloves, but always for get and leave them at home. Once you start to exfoliate you can never go back to dull old wash cloths.
Seven: 'Jenny coloring and activity book' My five year old niece Erin is going through a major coloring book phase. I've never seen anything like it, she fills about one coloring book per day. Interestingly she never seems to pay any attention to the pictures she is supposed to color in. Each page looks like a total abstract expressionist explosion of waxy crayola id completely ignoring the lines. Strangely, she is much less inclined to draw on ordinary blank paper and seems to prefer a line drawing of some sort to deface.
Eight: Shower mirror for shaving. Same story as the exfoliating mit, I always for get to bring mine from home.
Nine: A kooshball headed rainbow ribbon wrapped ball point pen with goggle eyes and a foam-rubber duck bill.
OK, I'm going to go shave, exfoliate and grate some cheese.