It being Christmas, and me making the command decision not to work so darn much for a bit, I’ve entered total (mostly online) shopping mode, and it is getting pretty ugly. I’ve been rationalizing it by telling myself that I should buy lots of presents for people this year, because I can this year, and I probably can’t this year. That part is mostly fine; I like buying presents for people.
But once I start doing that, I start buying other stuff, and once I cave in on one thing, I end up caving in on kind of a lot of things that it turns out I need to wear that first thing. Today, I bought a belt. Specifically, a belt that will be worn over a shirt. I know. But I have these super-soft long-sleeved t-shirts that I got for like ten dollars in San Luis Obispo, and I can’t really wear them because when I wear them over jeans, there is that weird thing where the jeans button is. You know, the thing where the corner above the botton hole sort of doesn’t lie flat, so if you’re wearing something thin, it pokes out a little. I guess this probably doesn’t happen if you are really skinny, your jeans probably don’t do that thing, but mine do, and I need a belt to go over that area. I suspect this is how the whole belth-over-shirt thing started. Damn jeans.
Way back in the late summer, I had tried on this skirt at JCrew, which is not there anymore, but it was wool, herringbone, and ADORABLE. I patiently waited for many months til it went on sale then bought it in both brown and gray. But then, that meant it was time, finally time, to get new knee-high black boots. I always have to get extended-calf boots, like half the Internet does from what I can tell, which is fine. But really, I only need a tiny bit more extension, like half an inch. But extended-calf boots give you at least an extra inch, so then the boots are a little too big. Even when you can order a specific calf size, since those go in full inches. But whatever, it’s fine, they look ok, and they zip up, which is really all I care about. To my credit, I did not then go also buy a pair of knee-high brown boots, and will endeavor to just get my sort of crappy ones repaired.
But then I bought some casual brown boots for tromping around in on weekends. I know.
This of course makes me sounds like a crazy person with 45 pairs of shoes and crap she doesn’t wear. I don’t have a lot of shoes, and I have been wearing all the new things I bought. I do, indeed, need to get rid of lots of old stuff that I hate. But really, I mostly wear jeans (mostly from the Gap) and t-shirts (mostly from Old Navy) and sweaters (mostly from both), so I guess I don’t feel too bad and buying more stuff. A little bad, but not too bad.
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