Grand Opening!

because i have no creativity tonight whatsoever, i am going to basically do my own version of the rev's most recent post....

so yay! go support his store, chock full of awesome merchandise that i helped design in some small way. he's not making any money off of this, it's just a strictly for-fun enterprise, so he's basically a non-profit foundation now. and who doesn't support non-profits? i know i do. as one satisfied customer said: "Wow! I just got my Your Neighborhood Reverend hoodie in the mail and - oh boy does it keep me warm! And let me tell all you guys out there - I have never had a larger number of attractive ladies approach me for casual sex than when I first wore my Your Neighborhood Reverend hoodie! Get one for yourself and one for a friend!" also just go read him, since he's talented and interesting and also hot. not that i'm biased.

Um, Oops?

i just belatedly, blearily realized i did not blog last night. but here's the thing - the real housewives of orange county started their new season last night. and then i had to fulfill a chai tea latte craving at like 9 pm (and i did not get a nonfat, gasp!)...so as you can see i was pretty busy doing important things. i'll post something more interesting tonight.

Lazing

this whole having days without work thing is really not working for me. i waste half the day in bed and then "waking up slowly" (something i always viewed as a crap excuse by my parents but now completely enjoy doing), then i have to shower and do my hair, then i generally go out and spend money. this is not a good pattern. i suppose it's alright if i'm spending the money on other people, but it is inevitable that, as happened at the mall yesterday, spending money on others often turns into hey i like that i'll just get it while i'm here how convenient! who wants to offer me a job that doesn't require me much but keeps me out of the malls on my days off?

in rereading this post i realize that i come off pretty vapid. um, i have no real excuse for that as i love shopping, but tis the season and i have a valid excuse for living in stores. plus now that i work in retail it's fun to see what other stores carry our products. ok lame ass excuse i know, but that's all i can come up with...it's not like i'm out saving third world babies on my days off, i'm shopping. ok i'll look into doing something more beneficial to mankind instead. non ministrari sed ministrare and all that, ok ok ok.

On the Hunt

i realize that i missed a post in there somewhere. but maybe i didn't? maybe you just lost it. way to go.

i like this new tactic of just blaming my 3 readers for my not posting. makes me feel better, at least.

in my preliminary casing-the-joint hunt for christmas presents, i wound up at our local mall yesterday. and when i say local i mean it is way the hell down the highway from here - i don't really know where malls are down here and i like the comfort of a mall i can navigate with my eyes closed. i spent a good amount of time in stores i rarely enter, trying to dredge up ideas for what to get my family, my roommates, and my pete. i have a list from none of them. but as i said previously, i am a gifted gift giver (ooh alliteration) and i can surmount any gift giving challenge.

now ask me what i left the mall with. a new pair of pants for me and a nonfat chai tea latte. something fell through the cracks here.

The Giving Syndrome

for some reason i am addicted to giving gifts. i take much smaller notice of the cost of something if it is not for me, and i love getting pretty packaging for gifts, or greeting cards, or what have you. ask my boyfriend - he's been getting a gift or a card in the mail pretty much weekly from me, for no good reason. just because i see things out and about that i think he would enjoy, so i send them. i'm already done getting christmas/hanukkah gifts for my friends (all bought at the store where i work, which makes it much easier to spend money sometimes), and now i'm trying to drum up ideas for my family. i consider myself a pretty talented gift giver; i tend to find the gift that people don't know they want or need but LOVE when they get it. or the dumb gift that people just wouldn't spend the money on themselves, like the time i bought my friend ben the biggest possible box of his favorite kind of plain old bic pen - he was ecstatic. but i'm having some small amount of trouble coming up with gift ideas for my 4 and 5 month old nephews, who literally need for nothing. i'm leaning towards something educational, as i consider myself their cultural and educational advisor from now til forever, but i'm just not excited over much. what are your opinions on the following art cards for babies, made by a company called wee gallery that we carry in our store? i think they're pretty cool (frameable even, for the chic nursery), and a possible idea for the boys, though who knows if they'd ever get used...thoughts?

Curled

fall always feels like this time to me where i kind of curl in on myself. leaves curl up and die, people retreat indoors as the weather gets cooler, and everything just seems quieter. i get, if possible, even more introverted during the fall, just wanting to enter into a hibernatory phase to prepare for winter. fall is my quiet time. to compound this, i am happier now than i can ever remember being. everything is falling into place for me, and i just feel a warm glow all the time that i just try to bank and hold steady. i am finally truly celebrating my mantra of drishta dharma sukha viharin - dwelling happily in things as they are.

Blame Scrabulous

i will not be posting anything very extensive tonight as i am in a heated scrabble tournament that is about to wrap up but is nonetheless taking over my night. talk to you all latahz.