today’s shopping stream-of-conciousness September 4, 2005
hey i don’t have work today. I should go shopping. I’ve really wanted a velvet blazer ever since I read about them in the wall street journal. maybe my mom with go with me; that would be easier with the kids. okay here we are. jcrew first. don’t back down on the velvet blazer. focus. ooh ooh cute pencil jean skirts, argyle sweaters are back this winter, awesome. focus. velvet blazer. ooh ooh so many colors. my eye went for the green first. go with your instinct. $138? no no too much. but it looks so cute on, and it’s really well made. I would wear it all the time. no. I can’t justify the price, especially with my bargain-hunting mother at my side. yet now I must buy $150 of other clothing that I didn’t come here for in order to make myself feel better about not getting this expensive item (i.e. “Look how many stuffs I got for just a little bit more than that one stuff that I came here to buy.”) must get pencil skirt and two sale t-shirts. actually these will come in handy, maybe even more than the blazer. this was a good move. and I can always see if the blazer goes on sale. no point in buying something I’m going to feel guilty about every time I wear it…
go to gap; buy two sweaters on sale then get in line and annoy everyone behind me by continually stepping out of line to look for something I can impetuously throw into my pile. there. a dark red cordouroy skirt that doesn’t quite fit in the waist. okay, that was a bad idea but I can’t just return it now. that would be admitting defeat. I know. I need a belt. I’ll exchange the skirt for the belt. okay that’s it. time to go home. now clean out the closets and take the old stuff to the donation boxes in the Target parking lot. hey maybe they have velvet blazers at Target. no I should have known better. velvet is too expensive a fabric. but maybe this cordouroy blazer would work. no no snap out of it. it’s not the jcrew velvet blazer that you wanted. okay go look for a purse or something. oh my God it’s my mom. why is she here? it’s that shopping vibe…once you get it you need to just ride it out. just walk out and tell her later that you saw her at Target but were in a hurry. that’s pretty ridiculous, not saying hi to your mom when you see her at Target. but there’s something embarassing about being caught trying to find a velvet blazer at Target after spending three hours and $150 with her at Old Orchard this morning and walking out without that very item. seeing her here reminds me of that line from the producers when bialystock gets bloom to play hooky: if someone sees us, then why aren’t they at work? oh well, I’m already out the door. I’ll just call her later…
Proving once again that even the most otherwise rational of women can become mindless suburban mallophiles if given the proper stimulus.
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