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I have too many brown shoes and not enough black shoes, it turns out.
Now that I've resolved to go biking this weekend to some places I want to go, the weather has dropped from 73F earlier this week to 34F right now and a low of 16F tomorrow. This is not the climate change I was promised by all those buds and blossoms! (I mean, maybe it is. It is. But still, it was nice while it lasted ( Read more... ) -
It is a nice day out, and I should go outside into its niceness.
At first, I was annoyed for a hot minute that my lunch date canceled last-minute today, but it would have involved an hour on the train each way, and now suddenly my whole day has opened up sufficiently for me to actually clean my kitchen and make real Cincinnati chili for
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Fun fact: I only saw Inception once and I still hate it. But Edith Piaf stays independently good.
I'm on Day 2 of aggressive loafing, after about ten 14-hour days in a row, and it's great. My apartment finally feels like it's coming together (after more than two years!), I'm getting junk off the floor, I'm feeling energized and ready to get some work done. This feels super good! This especially feels good after an evening out with
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One other plus: got my favorite cookie from Panera at lunch.
I successfully survived jury duty selection day! I also narrowly avoided being seated on a jury that could have listened to a case for an extremely brief amount of time, given one verdict, or a much, much longer time, given the other. I told the lawyers that I was too financially insecure to lose up to a month of income, so... many apologies, civic ( Read more... ) -
Something something Lila Downs
Like, I'll be honest, I have completely absolved myself of doing real work for the past two days and it's been a huge relief. Every day I'm not working retail (and even those days too), I berate myself for not finishing relatively straightforward freelance projects that I picked up at the end of November. It's been a combination of overwhelm, bad ( Read more... ) -
Temptations
Okay, things I want:- This IKEA shelf-thing, which is $20 off, ending today. Just do it, Esther!
- A bunch of stuff from Freddies of Pinewood, not least because I simply have no functioning jeans right now -- the skinny jeans StitchFix sent me lost their elasticity within a washing or two, which means they look sort of like weirdzo military parade ( Read more... )
- This IKEA shelf-thing, which is $20 off, ending today. Just do it, Esther!
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This moment to arise; or: Future Esther depends on you
Getting rid of things: JUST THE BEST. This not only includes the old year, last of its name, but a bunch of junk I had cluttering my apartment and my life in general: old t-shirts I was never going to wear again and chintzy Judaica I was never going to use and small notebooks that I needed to let go of, not to mention just... pieces of paper and ( Read more... ) -
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The good news is that I feel better than I did coming into the weekend; the bad news is omg, why is money. I got my first StitchFix package on Saturday, and I wasn't expecting to love it, and... I love it. It's a service where you take a quick quiz about your style preferences, budget and measurements, and on a schedule that you determine, a ( Read more... ) -
It's been a while since a straight-up grabbyhands post, hasn't it.
When I checked my bank account this morning, I had a little more than $105 in checking. HAPPY AUGUST!! I cannot wait to start getting paid, especially for the damn work I've already done, but also not least because there's a bunch of stuff I just want.- For instance, Doc Martens likes to torment me, like with these black-and-white brogue Mary Janes. ( Read more... )
