I just burned my finger. It hurts real bad. I dont think I can type because my finger needs an ice covered keyboard and I don’t have one. Damn coffee-maker. I went to move the coffee-maker and I hit my finger off of the warmer thingy and it was HOT!
Two days off has been nice. And it’s only Friday! Yesterday I went thrift-store hopping. I guess it wasn’t really hopping because I only went to one. I went to the GoodWill on the South Side because I haven’t been there in quite some time. It was a bad day to go hunting because I was feeling really impatient and I just didn’t have the will to go through endless aisles of tightly packed clothing. I don’t know why I like thrift-stores so much. Maybe I have inherited my dad’s yard-sale gene, I just think they are so much fun. And there are so many in this city, so I shall never tire. I always go with a mission though, if not I will buy way too much junk. Junk is great though. Yesterday’s mission was a new blanket-cover type thing to replace the ratty afghan on my couch (it came with the apartment … it is kind of yucky). I tried to take the afghan off the couch once, but the couch just looked very naked. The couch really doesn’t need covered, but it looks more comfortable in here with a comfy looking cover. So I found a really cute pink and white throw with hearts on it. I was really excited about finding that. I also got a very pretty pair of dressy checkered gray pants. The checkers are really light, kind of just lines, but they are quite cool looking. Not checkered enough to look vintage-80’s, but checkered enough to look classy. They don’t exactly fit me because of the pouch I’ve grown since becoming sedentary, but that will change once I get my groove going with Cindy Crawford again. I also got a pretty blue blazer and another pair of black-pants with gold pinstripes. I found my favorite pants a few weeks ago. They are navy blue with light blue pin-stripes and they make me happy because I can wear them with both of my blue blazers. One is sky-blue, and the one I just bought is like medium-blue. And I have a navy-blue one too. Wow, I just love blue don’t I. I need to stop buying clothes, but I get so tired of wearing the same things. And I’m addicted to thrift-stores. They are like a treasure-hunt. If there was a sale at the mall, and all clothing items were $1, I still probably wouldn’t go. I hate department stores and I hate the mall. In fact, I think I am going to buy everyones Christmas presents at the Good Will. Just don’t tell my grandma, because she shuddered the last time she called me and I told her I would call her when I got home because I was in the middle of shopping. “Ooh, where are you shopping at?” asks grandma. I say “I’m at the Salvation Army”. Grandma says “the what?”. “The salvation army, grandma”. Grandma says, “Dear lord, what are you doing there?” She cracks me up. My grandma is like my brother, always has to have new things that are really expensive and new. New expensive things are no fun.
Todd and I went to this place called “Tony’s got It” last week. It is in the building of an old Ames department store and it is supposed to be this big liquidation sale place. It was more like a flea-market. If you have ever been to East Liberty, or somewhere else um … well anyways you always see black guys with tables of crap like CD’s, jewelry, sunglasses. This is what this place reminded me of. Most of the things were definitely African American stuff. Like big gold jewelry, I even saw gold dollar sign necklaces! This one guy had a table and he was selling “Gucci” purses for $35. Now, I love purses … and these purses were definitely really really cute, but I seriously doubt that they were really “Gucci”. A Gucci purse runs and average of $300-$400. This place was like pirated crap city, except it was in an actual establishment. They had some cheap designer perfume there too, but nothing that really fancied me. And of course they had Oakleys, but I wouldn’t know the real thing if I saw it. Oakleys are supposed to be fake … that is what they are so famous for, isn’t it?
Ughh, I got up so early this morning and now I already did almost everything I had to do today and its not even 2:00. I hope I do something fun tonight. I probably won’t though. I don’t really hang out with friends anymore, and unless Todd isn’t busy doing something it’ll just be me and the TV. I don’t mind, but I just feel like I’m going to get bored and antsy when 5:00 rolls around. Maybe I will go buy a jigsaw puzzle. I’ve been fancying a puzzle lately. I don’t know where to buy one though. Today I went to Vento’s and got my paycheck, a whopping $35, but then I spent $34 at Giant Eagle, so … it bought my groceries. I bought some items to concoct the ultimate veggie pita. It better turn out good. My ideas of what would be tasty usually don’t turn out that tasty in the end. I’m disastrous when I try to be inventive.
This was way too long and boring and I didn’t even rant about anything that I wanted to. I may get bored later on, so we’ll save it for later.
Bye!