Retail Therapy

I'm a slackass. I was productive around the house last night, but I totally skipped my last long run so I could sleep in and then socialize. Didn't run at all today. Probably not gonna get 12 miles in tomorrow. I could maybe on Wednesday before I fly out to Seattle, but that's getting close to race day when I'm supposed to be tapering.

After last week's mad rush to finish up some things at work, I'm not really looking forward to doing it again, as more things are due up in the very near future. But things have to get done. I purposely took next Tuesday off, even though I get back on Monday, but part of me thinks I should be doing some work on Tuesday....

I've now blown through the rest of my gift card. The Eddie Bauer outlet sent me a lovely postcard informing me that things are currently up to 70% off. So I trucked my ass all the way across the Twin Cities metro to go to the nearest outlet, and then stopped at TJ Maxx on the way back.

I got a new bag, a pair of pants, and yet another striped wrinkle-free shirt at EB. I can never have too many of those. And then I got a couple pairs of pants, a long sleeve tech shirt (I'm taking that back), and a jacket at TJM.

Whenever I shop (and quite often when I get dressed in the morning), I ask myself either what would Fly Girl wear or what would my sister wear. They'd probably both tell you that it frequently looks like I chose to ignore the answer.

Anyway, they are what inspired me to buy this jacket, although it's getting a little cold to wear it now. It's cordury, three-button, casual but not lumpy "functional" outerwear, and not black like the five other jackets I have. It's cute. And it makes me look like I'm 30. I looked at myself in the mirror, and I was seeing myself through the eyes of my teenage self who would look at someone in their 30s and not really have any concept of how old that is. But that's okay. Maybe when I wear it people will stop thinking I'm 22.

I heard some queeny fashion designer on the radio the other day talking about fashion dos and don'ts. He was talking about how pear-shaped people always make the mistake of wearing khaki pants with dark tops. Because you should wear dark colors where you want to de-emphasize and light colors where you want to emphasize.

I'll never buy a pair of khaki pants again.

FG already, rightly, made me get rid of a couple pairs. Okay, I bought one new pair of khaki pants, but I checked them out thoroughly. They have strategically located back pockets. The other two pairs are black. Those are safe, but also with back pockets, just to be sure.

Back pockets are my friend.