Amusing myself and others
So, as planned, and mentioned by Theo and Padraigia, Theo and I went shopping on Tuesday night. She and I are very different shopper types. She goes in with a goal, and is done once she finds the solution to her problem. Me? As attested to earlier, I like to make sure I haven't missed anything in the store. While I can do the occasional surgical strike missions, I don't necessarily need a goal to go shopping.
So I met up with her at one store, helped Theo with the fit of their new jeans, and managed to escape there with only a black t-shirt and some new bras for moi.
Then we boogied on over to DSW for some shoes to go with her bridesmaid dress. Given the proper parameters, and a phone check on the degree within the parameters, we were off hunting for the right shoes. Found a couple of options, pulled boxes and sizes, and finally set her down to try on stuff. While she was trying on shoes, I browsed her size in the sale area and brought out a few other options (one of which was the ultimate winner!) and some truly scary options just for the reaction. (I don't know where they got the idea that it was a pair of red patent leather mary janes, it was a pair of silver platforms with a high clear lucite heel by Steven Madden.) I also found one more almost perfect pair of shoes which made it a toss up on which to buy, and she landed on the previously chosen pair, a silver pair of pointy toed low wedge heels from Nine West. But it was nice to know there were alternates.
Theo then looks at me and asks if I've found anything for myself. My response was, "No, we've been shopping for you." The funny thing is that I can be like a trained bomb-sniffing dog if I'm shopping for someone else's benefit, and find the right deals or point them in the right direction easily to avoid fruitless searching elsewhere. At Pennsics past, I've been like the Mall Directory for friends looking for certain items. Alas, this year was a bust since I got so little shopping time in I had no clue what was available.
But since we had a little time left, I browsed the sale area and came up with a pile of 6 pairs of shoes I liked. Theo did taunt me with a few pair of really ugly shoes while I browsed, and some I tried on just for amusements sake. I finally put three back and only took home a pair of pink and brown Kangaroo trainers, a simple black soft-leather pair of pointy toe Mia flats and a gorgeous pewter pair of pointy toe Reaction by Kenneth Cole flats. I did veer by the handbags, but nothing sung to me like my recent online purchase of a wine patent leather Melie Bianco shoulder bag. As soon as Theo headed to check-out, I got side-tracked by the wallets and clutch section, and then the other 30% off bags section. Only the pitiful hungry whines broke me out of shiny ferret shock to buy my three pair of shoes and escape to dinner. Dinner was great fun with the post-practice crew, and we had some lovely chat time with friends before heading home to crash.Ah, another successful night of retail therapy. I think for Theo it was like the torture of physical therapy, my amusing antics aside. But for me, it was like chocolate and peanut butter therapy.
Wednesday was taken up with some errands at CVS, the dry cleaners, the chiropractor, and the grocery store before coming home to put stuff away and start on the laundry. Sadly I got a later start on the laundry and also wasted time trying to paint my toes (that I really need to remove and start all over on) so I didn't finish the laundry and still got to bed very late. (I swear, I'm a pretty good girly girl until it comes to the areas of make-up and nail polish, and then I might as well just give up, because I end up looking like I had a turret's attack during the application.)
So, last night I finally finished up the laundry, and did a little beading/jewelry making. One of my sweet faculty members brought back a beautiful lozenge shaped tiger's eye pendant for me from his recent trip to Taiwan. It is so lovely, but it has been sitting around in its plastic baggy waiting for something to be done with it. Inspired by a recent LJ chat with Courtney and by looking at Isobel's lovely jewelry at MOD, I decided it was time to get this done. I had a peach colored strand of jasper beads which would do, but not directly against the pendant itself, so I needed some other stuff to make it work. So, Monday I had swung by a JoAnn's to get some basic supplies (wire, tools, clasps, additional glass beads in the right tone, etc.) and I spent that night organizing the materials a bit. Last night I sat down in my comfy chair with the supplies and laid the pattern out and went to town. Once I finished the necklace, with glass pearl spacers between the pendant and jasper beads, I started noodling around the idea of a matching bracelet. I had enough beads to make two interesting and coordinating bracelets (with no clasps, b/c bracelet clasps are from the debil) and finished up the entire set before midnight while watching Tim Gunn's Guide to Style. (I love this new show on Bravo btw.) I thought about wearing my new necklace and bracelets set today, but it's causal Friday, so I will end up debuting it for the wedding tomorrow.
I really need to spend some quality time with my laptop and the camera to get some pictures of my new jewelry and our new organization furniture up onto my Flickr site. This is just pitiful.
So I met up with her at one store, helped Theo with the fit of their new jeans, and managed to escape there with only a black t-shirt and some new bras for moi.
Then we boogied on over to DSW for some shoes to go with her bridesmaid dress. Given the proper parameters, and a phone check on the degree within the parameters, we were off hunting for the right shoes. Found a couple of options, pulled boxes and sizes, and finally set her down to try on stuff. While she was trying on shoes, I browsed her size in the sale area and brought out a few other options (one of which was the ultimate winner!) and some truly scary options just for the reaction. (I don't know where they got the idea that it was a pair of red patent leather mary janes, it was a pair of silver platforms with a high clear lucite heel by Steven Madden.) I also found one more almost perfect pair of shoes which made it a toss up on which to buy, and she landed on the previously chosen pair, a silver pair of pointy toed low wedge heels from Nine West. But it was nice to know there were alternates.
Theo then looks at me and asks if I've found anything for myself. My response was, "No, we've been shopping for you." The funny thing is that I can be like a trained bomb-sniffing dog if I'm shopping for someone else's benefit, and find the right deals or point them in the right direction easily to avoid fruitless searching elsewhere. At Pennsics past, I've been like the Mall Directory for friends looking for certain items. Alas, this year was a bust since I got so little shopping time in I had no clue what was available.
But since we had a little time left, I browsed the sale area and came up with a pile of 6 pairs of shoes I liked. Theo did taunt me with a few pair of really ugly shoes while I browsed, and some I tried on just for amusements sake. I finally put three back and only took home a pair of pink and brown Kangaroo trainers, a simple black soft-leather pair of pointy toe Mia flats and a gorgeous pewter pair of pointy toe Reaction by Kenneth Cole flats. I did veer by the handbags, but nothing sung to me like my recent online purchase of a wine patent leather Melie Bianco shoulder bag. As soon as Theo headed to check-out, I got side-tracked by the wallets and clutch section, and then the other 30% off bags section. Only the pitiful hungry whines broke me out of shiny ferret shock to buy my three pair of shoes and escape to dinner. Dinner was great fun with the post-practice crew, and we had some lovely chat time with friends before heading home to crash.Ah, another successful night of retail therapy. I think for Theo it was like the torture of physical therapy, my amusing antics aside. But for me, it was like chocolate and peanut butter therapy.
Wednesday was taken up with some errands at CVS, the dry cleaners, the chiropractor, and the grocery store before coming home to put stuff away and start on the laundry. Sadly I got a later start on the laundry and also wasted time trying to paint my toes (that I really need to remove and start all over on) so I didn't finish the laundry and still got to bed very late. (I swear, I'm a pretty good girly girl until it comes to the areas of make-up and nail polish, and then I might as well just give up, because I end up looking like I had a turret's attack during the application.)
So, last night I finally finished up the laundry, and did a little beading/jewelry making. One of my sweet faculty members brought back a beautiful lozenge shaped tiger's eye pendant for me from his recent trip to Taiwan. It is so lovely, but it has been sitting around in its plastic baggy waiting for something to be done with it. Inspired by a recent LJ chat with Courtney and by looking at Isobel's lovely jewelry at MOD, I decided it was time to get this done. I had a peach colored strand of jasper beads which would do, but not directly against the pendant itself, so I needed some other stuff to make it work. So, Monday I had swung by a JoAnn's to get some basic supplies (wire, tools, clasps, additional glass beads in the right tone, etc.) and I spent that night organizing the materials a bit. Last night I sat down in my comfy chair with the supplies and laid the pattern out and went to town. Once I finished the necklace, with glass pearl spacers between the pendant and jasper beads, I started noodling around the idea of a matching bracelet. I had enough beads to make two interesting and coordinating bracelets (with no clasps, b/c bracelet clasps are from the debil) and finished up the entire set before midnight while watching Tim Gunn's Guide to Style. (I love this new show on Bravo btw.) I thought about wearing my new necklace and bracelets set today, but it's causal Friday, so I will end up debuting it for the wedding tomorrow.
I really need to spend some quality time with my laptop and the camera to get some pictures of my new jewelry and our new organization furniture up onto my Flickr site. This is just pitiful.