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Consumerism strikes....
...but not badly. When I babbled about the Land's End catalog, someone mentioned some of their stuff is now at Sears, so I've meant to go there. They had the cable knit sweaters I was ambivalent about and, by the way, they look hideous when actually worn unless zipped all the way up. And at least on me, when zipped all the way up, the zipper jabs me in the throat. :P
Turtlenecks were fine. I got three, but not Land's End - they had another kind on sale for half that, and they were plenty sturdy. Looked at some blouses but the ones that looked good on me were already fraying in the store. Oooookay then, those can stay.
That's actually all I got. I wandered the mall up to Meier and Frank, where I discovered the perfume ladies have gotten so aggressive they'll shove a sample toward you while trying to tell you to try it. That wasn't me, that was the lady in front of me, and it gave me enough warning to dodge them more widely than I'd have otherwise bothered with. *shudders* I can walk past the perfume department without misery, but a close encounter is more than I want with most perfumes.
The bookstore had a bunch of books I didn't know were out, so I jotted notes. Time to hit the library web site again.... Nina Kiriki Hoffman has A Stir of Bones, a prequel to A Red Heart of Memories and Past the Size of Dreaming. Kurtz has a new Deryni book about an older time, In the King's Service. Those were the two biggies; there's a new Eddings and a new Lackey that are on my list to check out as well, but I'm not half so "oooo!" about them.
I spent under $30, and just over two hours counting driving time. I had fun. I have nice turtlenecks. I have books to look into.
And I couldn't wait to get out of the mall by the time I did. That was about all the shopping I could take.
Turtlenecks were fine. I got three, but not Land's End - they had another kind on sale for half that, and they were plenty sturdy. Looked at some blouses but the ones that looked good on me were already fraying in the store. Oooookay then, those can stay.
That's actually all I got. I wandered the mall up to Meier and Frank, where I discovered the perfume ladies have gotten so aggressive they'll shove a sample toward you while trying to tell you to try it. That wasn't me, that was the lady in front of me, and it gave me enough warning to dodge them more widely than I'd have otherwise bothered with. *shudders* I can walk past the perfume department without misery, but a close encounter is more than I want with most perfumes.
The bookstore had a bunch of books I didn't know were out, so I jotted notes. Time to hit the library web site again.... Nina Kiriki Hoffman has A Stir of Bones, a prequel to A Red Heart of Memories and Past the Size of Dreaming. Kurtz has a new Deryni book about an older time, In the King's Service. Those were the two biggies; there's a new Eddings and a new Lackey that are on my list to check out as well, but I'm not half so "oooo!" about them.
I spent under $30, and just over two hours counting driving time. I had fun. I have nice turtlenecks. I have books to look into.
And I couldn't wait to get out of the mall by the time I did. That was about all the shopping I could take.