"What a long strange trip it's been..."
Feb. 25th, 2008 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zana16It's been the most bizarre day off. First off, I woke up at 7 AM and could not get back to sleep. Finally I got up, took some herbal calming stuff, and wrote out a list of all the things I've got hanging over my head that need doing. I read till eight, did three of the ones I could do today, and managed to get some more sleep. One of the things I needed to do is buy a dress for Daniel's wedding (where I will know no one, omg), so I actually went clothes shopping today. For the first time in about two years. It wasn't horrible, either. It wasn't fun, but it wasn't horrible. Except when it comes to finding decent plus-size dresses... I mean, really, fat chicks have one thing going for them: ample breasts. So why is it that every single dress out there seems designed to show off the tummy roll I don't want noticed and to totally cover up my chest??. Seriously, folks. I am not a sexless blob. Basic capitalism: give me some decent-looking clothes and I will spend money on them. The demand is there, now where's the supply??
I found a decent top to go with a skirt I already have, for the wedding dinner, and for the wedding itself I tentatively have a dress, pending Heather's verdict. My dad will hate whatever I wear, so maybe I just need to get over that.
Shopping, though, is a seriously bizarre experience for me, and it made me sufficiently off-kilter that when a random guy came up to me and asked for my phone number, I didn't even think about it until after he'd walked away with it, and then I was in this headspace of what the fuck just happened? Seriously weird. Also I bought a pair of jeans since all the ones I own have holes in embarrassing places, and once the weather doesn't call for long underwear anymore I'm not going to be able to get away with that.
Also went to the Bethesda Coop today, just to check out the competition, and it was pretty cool. It's more traditional-coop than Silver Spring Coop, with the healthfood store smell that I remember from the coops we went to when I was a kid. Much more laid-back than my workplace... that's another story.
I found a decent top to go with a skirt I already have, for the wedding dinner, and for the wedding itself I tentatively have a dress, pending Heather's verdict. My dad will hate whatever I wear, so maybe I just need to get over that.
Shopping, though, is a seriously bizarre experience for me, and it made me sufficiently off-kilter that when a random guy came up to me and asked for my phone number, I didn't even think about it until after he'd walked away with it, and then I was in this headspace of what the fuck just happened? Seriously weird. Also I bought a pair of jeans since all the ones I own have holes in embarrassing places, and once the weather doesn't call for long underwear anymore I'm not going to be able to get away with that.
Also went to the Bethesda Coop today, just to check out the competition, and it was pretty cool. It's more traditional-coop than Silver Spring Coop, with the healthfood store smell that I remember from the coops we went to when I was a kid. Much more laid-back than my workplace... that's another story.