Don't you just love the first Saturday after payday? The endless possibilities? The things you've been putting off buying that are suddenly within your grasp? Love it! I'm not talking about desperately exciting stuff even, I just needed to spend some time browsing denim and stationary for my classes, I'm very easily amused.
This morning I had an appointment to get my hair cut, and buy hair styling product. Straight after that we drove off the mountain in search of jeans and other necessary things.
Doc particularly likes American Eagle jeans, and there is one in Hickory so we went there. He quickly found a stack of stuff to try on, but I don't find AE jeans very flattering on me so it took me a while. Once I did make it into the changing room things didn't really improve much. Call me crazy, but I don't like ultra low rise that seem to be so very fashionable. For one thing, I have a long body, so finding tops that are long enough to meet normal jeans is challenging enough thank you! Plus there is the small matter of there not being enough waist-to-hip ratio difference to keep the stupid jeans up, so you have to spend the whole day tugging at the waist band as it creeps down your hips. Annoying. Anyway, all of the AE jeans seemed to be distressed in various unconvincing ways that I'm not convinced do anything at all for a girl's thighs; so I didn't buy any there.
I did try on a short grey-and-pink tartan pleated skirt, which I liked, but I think my days of getting away with pleated tartan mini-skirts are behind me. It looked quite good on (The Doc said so!), it's just, well, where the hell would I wear something like that? To work? Ha! Clearly I am becoming more sensible, because that strikes me as vastly inappropriate for the office. So I didn't buy that either. In fact all I did buy was a pair of grey cable knit tights, which looked nice and warm. Sensible.
So we went to Old Navy, where I was confident I could find something that would work. I bought a new pair of painter jeans, and another pair of the flirt jeans I've been living in for the last two months. It's time to move on and accept that belted in size sixteens just look silly on me now. I also bought a skull-and-crossbones water bottle, and some more knitted tights, it is going to be a toasty winter if I have anything to do with it!
The main problem with this shopping trip was the mall we went to, which was the hellish polar opposite of the swish one we visited after my biometrics appointment. Perhaps it was that all of the shops seemed to be blaring out really bland rock music, or that each place seemed to use a different overpowering air-freshner, but I pretty soon had a headache and the desire to make it all stop.
We drove back up the mountain (well, Doc did, I slept the whole way), stopped off to buy chemist stuff, house stuff and school stuff, then called it a day.
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