so my story begins last weekend, when i went into the limited for no good reason other than absolutely everything in the store was 40% off. i actually like a lot of their stuff, but it's not the cheapest line and i hate paying a lot on clothing. found a nice, interestingly styled wrap shirt and wound up buying it (works awesomely btw). i also found a pretty black dress that intrigued me enough to actually try it on. it was love, i tell you. but at $58 (regularly $98), i didn't love it that much so i passed. i'll be damned if the dress hadn't haunted me since.
this entire week i'd been eying it online, hoping that a better sale/offer would miraculously pop up--no luck. checked last night and it was now up to $68. checked again this morning, and it was magically down to $58 again (apparently their 40% off everything was back on for today only). my receipt from the previous purchase would give me $10 off a $50 purchase if i took a phone survey about that visit. did that, got my code, and off to woodfield i went to buy it.
i'm terrible with dresses. i don't know why i like/want so many of them when i never wear them and don't feel comfortable doing so. i don't really know all of the "etiquette" and rules about wearing dresses, i just pick what i like. even the lady in front of me in the check out line eased my mind by going so far as to say how nice it would look on me and how something like it was really versatile. thank god because like i know what the hell i'm doing.
at the same time, i do want to be pretty and it seems like the times i could actually use a decent dress seem to be popping up more often. like if we go out for new year's eve again--now i'll have something nice i can freeze my ass off in. no boring pants/shiny shirt for me although, then again, even though we went to the w hotel, david and his friends were all wearing jeans... i'm also strongly considering finally going on a caribbean cruise in 2010 and dressing nicely is a requirement in certain restaurants/nights depending on the ship. besides, at least this will give me an excuse to finally wear the stupid purple/black heels i just had to have a couple years ago. XP
wandered aimlessly around part of the mall looking for shoes, but i just wasn't in the mood and there were people everywhere. i don't like people, they give me a headache this time of year in those numbers. so i went over to mitsuwa to get "lunch". did some more aimless wandering after eating, and bought a crab bread because i was there and it was only $1.97. did some more wandering and wound up in the tea/furikake aisle. i had just planned on cutting through when these little buggers caught my eye.
i don't season my rice and usually these have ingredients i wouldn't use anyway. luckily, it's just gomashio so i may actually use the stuff. otherwise i was totally willing to toss the contents just so i could have the container. i figure i can use him for taking salad dressing or other sauces with my lunch. i got the front one although, let me tell you, at only $2.99 a piece, the other two tempted me greatly.
also finally broke down and bought the candy that's had my eye for ages. now don't get me wrong here, the stuff is tasty, but the package totally lies. it's all pretty and shiny in it's metallic wrapper and it looks like there will be these colorful beads of substance poking out--lies. it's even called "miracle puccho"--i still don't know what the miracle is. miracle that people still buy it after all the lies? what it is, though, is little blobs of a fruit flavored gelatin-like substance (orange & grape i guess) embedded in a chewy yogurt flavored candy (think hi-chew). definitely not a pretty piece of candy once unwrapped. but still tasty.
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