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Not going back to work 'til Thursday, August 26. Leaving Wednesday for Gencon. Happy happy happy.
Must go shopping for clothes. The thing is, when I go shopping for clothes, I always get these neat new shirts. I do not get pants. I don't like skirts or dresses generally so I try not to buy them; I like pants. But I usually get plain pants and patterned shirts, and finding pants that fit me right (or even fake it decently) is a pain and a half. So I tend to have plenty of shirts and not enough pants.
However, it's gotten ridiculous again. I have 7 pairs of pants I can wear. Two are jeans (which by definition I do not wear to work, although I could; I just don't). Another is a pair of tan slacks that has scuff-marks at the knee (ironically, from fussing about at work, I think). I really need new pants, preferably before I'm down to less than a week and have to wear the skirts.
So sometime in the next three days, likely either Saturday or Monday, I go clothes shopping. Woo. I cannot contain my excitement. Mostly because I can't find it. But, after I've done that, I can put the tan-scuffs in the discard pile and maybe have enough pants for a while. If I find anything that fits. Realistically, I'd better. Either that or learn to like skirts more than I generally do, one of the two....
My dice have gone missing again. I haven't really looked yet, though, just noted that I can't casually lay my hands on them. I suspect - I hope - they won't take long to find. I'm kinda going to want them at the con.
Might go up to Saturday Market. I'm trying to figure out how to organize my weekend, and it's driving me nuts. I want to go to Saturday Market and the Bite of Oregon. I was thinking, well, Saturday (don't laugh, Saturday Market's open on Sunday too). But if I do that, will I still have enough time at my favorite second-hand clothes shop (which is an hour or more from downtown Portland) to make it worth going there? I could fit in the Gardens no problem - go there before I headed into downtown - but then what? Come home? Or go on to clothes shopping? (I use the second-hand clothes store in part for price, but mostly because I actually have much better luck finding things that fit there - just because of the wider variety, I guess. But it's in McMinnville, which is to say, nowhere nearby. Argh.) But I also want to stop at the library and pick up my holds. This is where it starts to get grim. If I go to the Portland stuff, I'll likely get out around 11 or 12 at the earliest. If I go straight to the clothes shop, I'd get there at 1 or 2 - that would give me several hours to shop, which is plenty - but the library's open from 10-5:30. I might make it back in time, I might not. Especially if I decided I wanted to do other things and had to pick. But the library isn't open Sunday. On the other hand, I could stop at the library after Portland (because Portland will start before the library is open), and before the clothes shop. I'd still have several hours at the clothes shop. It just rubs me the wrong way because I'd have to come all the way back down to Wilsonville, when is not between Portland and McMinnville - and according to Dad, the Wilsonville Road will be hosting bicyclists tomorrow. I am curious what the event is, but not so curious I want to drive that way. (You are on a very twisty road, filled with bicyclists, all alike....) So I'd have to go back up to at least Tualatin before cutting across again.
I'll figure it out. It's not like it would kill me either way, I'm just trying to think through it because I want to get the clothes shopping out of the way, and I certainly can't do that at this hour. But two fo the library holds are magazines and they may be seven-day checkouts, so I'd rather get them tomorrow than get them Monday. Oh, well.
Must go shopping for clothes. The thing is, when I go shopping for clothes, I always get these neat new shirts. I do not get pants. I don't like skirts or dresses generally so I try not to buy them; I like pants. But I usually get plain pants and patterned shirts, and finding pants that fit me right (or even fake it decently) is a pain and a half. So I tend to have plenty of shirts and not enough pants.
However, it's gotten ridiculous again. I have 7 pairs of pants I can wear. Two are jeans (which by definition I do not wear to work, although I could; I just don't). Another is a pair of tan slacks that has scuff-marks at the knee (ironically, from fussing about at work, I think). I really need new pants, preferably before I'm down to less than a week and have to wear the skirts.
So sometime in the next three days, likely either Saturday or Monday, I go clothes shopping. Woo. I cannot contain my excitement. Mostly because I can't find it. But, after I've done that, I can put the tan-scuffs in the discard pile and maybe have enough pants for a while. If I find anything that fits. Realistically, I'd better. Either that or learn to like skirts more than I generally do, one of the two....
My dice have gone missing again. I haven't really looked yet, though, just noted that I can't casually lay my hands on them. I suspect - I hope - they won't take long to find. I'm kinda going to want them at the con.
Might go up to Saturday Market. I'm trying to figure out how to organize my weekend, and it's driving me nuts. I want to go to Saturday Market and the Bite of Oregon. I was thinking, well, Saturday (don't laugh, Saturday Market's open on Sunday too). But if I do that, will I still have enough time at my favorite second-hand clothes shop (which is an hour or more from downtown Portland) to make it worth going there? I could fit in the Gardens no problem - go there before I headed into downtown - but then what? Come home? Or go on to clothes shopping? (I use the second-hand clothes store in part for price, but mostly because I actually have much better luck finding things that fit there - just because of the wider variety, I guess. But it's in McMinnville, which is to say, nowhere nearby. Argh.) But I also want to stop at the library and pick up my holds. This is where it starts to get grim. If I go to the Portland stuff, I'll likely get out around 11 or 12 at the earliest. If I go straight to the clothes shop, I'd get there at 1 or 2 - that would give me several hours to shop, which is plenty - but the library's open from 10-5:30. I might make it back in time, I might not. Especially if I decided I wanted to do other things and had to pick. But the library isn't open Sunday. On the other hand, I could stop at the library after Portland (because Portland will start before the library is open), and before the clothes shop. I'd still have several hours at the clothes shop. It just rubs me the wrong way because I'd have to come all the way back down to Wilsonville, when is not between Portland and McMinnville - and according to Dad, the Wilsonville Road will be hosting bicyclists tomorrow. I am curious what the event is, but not so curious I want to drive that way. (You are on a very twisty road, filled with bicyclists, all alike....) So I'd have to go back up to at least Tualatin before cutting across again.
I'll figure it out. It's not like it would kill me either way, I'm just trying to think through it because I want to get the clothes shopping out of the way, and I certainly can't do that at this hour. But two fo the library holds are magazines and they may be seven-day checkouts, so I'd rather get them tomorrow than get them Monday. Oh, well.
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I'll have to go to the clothes stores to look for new stuff - three is not as much as I was hoping and one is a pair of jeans. But not today. I've had all the clothes-shopping I can tolerate, today.