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[whispercricket]

I need a holiday to recover from my holiday. Parents at hotel, taking cab to airport tomorrow morning. Me here, so sleepy.

Much shopping. The fashion people have decreed that all shall dress in sherbert this year, and hippie lingerie. Sherbert is evil. I should have stocked up on velvet when I had a chance (yes, arawen, you told me to do it then and I was lazy). Have minor amounts of new, free clothing from clearance racks, very nice although not at all what I actually needed (thus need more but am currently traumatized by visions of pink and turquoise and mint green and *paisley* - Northshore Mall, part of Liberty Tree Mall, TJ Maxx, and part of Burlington Mall and all I could find was a skirt [wool, $10, and dark grey!], a nice sweater-shirt [black!], two plain t-shirts [one heather grey-green - the only thing I saw in that color all day] and a sweatshirt [cobalt blue - I almost cried when I saw it on the clearance rack]).

Sleep schedule is still screwed up - it's a nice early 2:30+ in the morning. I need to go to bed.

Food went well - Antico Forno in the North End (it is actually very easy to get to the North End now that I know how to get into the parking lot at Wellington Station), Sabur for brunch, Tu y Yo for dinner, Lanna Thai diner for lunch, Za for dinner. I like taking my parents for food they can't easily get back home, as long as my mother doesn't hate it. Watched a Cary Grant movie called Father Goose, which was very funny. Went to Trader Joes. Went to Target. Went to Downtown Crossing (after the North End) and left almost immediately (should have stayed in the North End). Sent my dad with arawen to buy a finish nailer at the big hardware store in Billerica. Bought a CD. Went to Busa Farm (which will start giving us greens next Saturday!) and resisted buying plants of many types in fear that I wouldn't actually plant them in time and they would die. Started researching mutual funds. Failed to clean off the table. Demonstrated DDR to my appropriately appreciative parents (who didn't want to try it themselves). Need to visit East Arlington when the shops are actually open, and maybe catch a cheapish movie ($6.50 isn't bad). Need to organize or do or something many many things.

There's a dead squirrel in the tall grass (well, all the grass is tall - it's been raining every day for a week) under the crabapple tree. I don't blame one of the neighborhood cats for catching the squirrel, as that's what cats try to do (and I guess did), but it could have dragged it away afterwards. Or maybe our lawn is where it dragged it. We'll need to deal with that tomorrow (or probably arawen will deal with it and I'll be very very grateful).

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[kiya]

Speaking of shopping mojo, I was wondering if you had suggestions for where one might go to get things like stirrup pants (or similarly stretchy things) and suchlike.

Also, uh, thingy. I think there was something else, but I haven't slept well for four days so I'm even more thingythingythingy than usual.

[whispercricket]

I didn't see stirrup pants that I remember (although they could have been in orange paisley or something - I'm serious - so I may have blocked them from my memory). If they're not considered fashionable, that makes it a little more difficult to find them, but I've got a possible option poking at the back of brain that hopefully will become clearer sometime today, which I will share with you at that point. :)

I remember getting a pair of black leggings at the same place that arawen got his bright green sweatpants. They're not stirrup pants, but they are stretchy - I'll check with him to see if he remembers what store it was (it might have been Ames, which would be sad).

Yeah, my vocabulary's getting reduced to thingy also at the moment.

[kiya]

Leggings/stretchypants are also in the realm of what I'm looking for. And leotardy things or whatever the hell the word is for that type of top.

Need skin-tight stuff preferably before Midsummer.


(Also, thingy.)

[whispercricket]

(I know I said this earlier anyway, but oh well, why not)
You should be able to get leggings at pretty much any department store or sporting goods store or even places like Target, I think (not sure, I wasn't looking for them while I was out). Yoga has become trendy, so
they have fairly nice stuff for that everywhere, and while some of it is not skin-tight, a good dea of it is. Marshalls / TJ Maxx also had a lot of exercise stuff when I was there this weekend. You might want to find a mall that has both one of those stores and a sports store of some type and just go and look at what they have (The Woburn Mall, for example, has a TJ Maxx and a Sports Authority). If I manage to drag myself back out to look at clothes within the next couple of weeks, I'll try and remember to report back.

(Stirrup pants, however, do not seem to be very common. While they're bringing back the 1950s - 1970s without any thought to what they're doing, they haven't yet tried the 80s.)

[mindways]

The fashion people have decreed that all shall dress in sherbert this year

Perhaps that's why I couldn't find sherbert at the grocery store.

It's all been commandeered for clothing.

What a terrible, terrible waste.

[thastygliax.livejournal.com]

I need a holiday to recover from my holiday.

meranthi and I always feel this way after any visit involving her parents (whether here or there). It's exhausting just *thinking* about the amount of stuff they regularly pack into their schedules, even on (or should that be "especially on"?) vacation.

[laurion]

Oh wow. The thought of your parents doing DDR... is it ok if I laughed out loud?

[whispercricket]

Oh, yes. :)

[doozer4200.livejournal.com]

ewww! sherbert!!!! ewww!!!!! :-)

the other shopping sounded fun though.