This Week's Adventures in Spending Money
Monday
Day off.
A Route 2 day. Cute GBX shoes at DSW that are cheaper than the other GBX shoes I have and I won't mind wearing them in the snow. (Though I probably will still get LL Bean duck shoes.)
Three, or is it four? used CDs for the price of two, or is it three? at Strawberries. ABBA The Definitive Collection. The B-52's. Jason Mraz. And "Little Voice."
Tuesday
Napped after the standard overnight.
Trundled out for iced tea, met the other new guy, went out for dinner, the friend joined us for dessert, we bar-hopped for shots and drinks for the other new guy's 21st birthday, and so on.
Wednesday
Pseudo-weekend.
Silver City Galleria, Taunton, for H&M. Ooooo! A casual blazer for fifty bucks.
Meeting the other new guy and the new guy a little late. A pot of red tea at Tealuxe. A dinner of appetizers at Cafe Paragon.
Thursday
Pseudo-weekend.
Wrentham Premium Outlets. Versace Company Store's underwear starts at $24. Apiece. Maybe next year.
Sale items at Adidas, including my first footie soccer jersey. A few more points on my Jockey Club card.
Scramble back for reading the paper on live radio. Psyched!
Friday
Early, short day.
Warwick Mall for Panda Express's Mandarin Bowl that swiftly turned into a full two-item meal: Firecracker Chicken (which was almost typed CHILDREN),
Very tall, very cute college boy with a hoop thru his ear and average clothing (not serious couture, thank God, but not Wal-Mart, maybe just Tar-jay) seen in CVS talking to fag hag loudly about how K-Y is so overrated and she should get something else. It took everything I had to keep a straight face as I scrambled down an aisle -- and once I was out of eyeline I grinned to bust a gut and nearly doubled over with silent gales of laughter.
A "Eureka!" moment: Today I forgot to wear my watch and rings. Then I saw, for seemingly the first time ever, a BLACK-colored "cord watch" for $3.50 at Old Navy. It's only a timepiece! Nothing else! Brilliant! Where the hell was it when I wanted such a decent, cheap thing! A little stylish too for being a bracelet! If I could find other colors I could string them together to make a choker. Funky. We'll see if it actually works.
Also a piggy bank that is actually an elephant at ON.
Then of course there are the Gap bois who are too flaming, too skinny, seemingly too prone to pirouettes that they can't be anything BUT gay.
STILL TO COME: A hundredweight of cheap black socks from Ocean State Job Lot, or an equally cheap discount retailer, because I am finally interested in doing something about my rampant white socks so often worn with black and dark shoes. Nothing like peer pressure to effect serious personal change.
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