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verbminxI did indeed go out today...
Went to the maul in Orlando, the Florida Mall is what it's called. I've always found it fantastically presumptuous... that Orlando decided it would call its biggest mall by the name of the entire state, insinuating that it's the premiere shopping venue therein.
Anyway, I got 3 pair of funny retro-looking "conversational print" capri pajama pants at Old Navy: a print with pineapples and flamingos, a pair with little straw hats and sunglasses and handbags, and a pair with many blue flowers. Also a pair of regular capris in a deep, dusty hawaiian pineapply-floral, and a matching headband. Then some underwear from Victoria's Secret, all cotton, and a couple of burgundy-red hair-extension ponytail holders from some random place.
Cheated on my diet to eat chocolate covered rasp/blue-berry tart, and chocolate covered strawberry. Decadence. $5 for the strawberry alone. Cosmopolite and enemy of the revolution, that's me.
Went over to Borders. Mostly sat around listening to this very strange all-a-capella boy group - percussion etc done by two of the members. Not bad for that kind of music. Skimmed through The Bombshell Manual of Style, which I found very narrow-minded, with the implication that in order to be "A Bombshell" one must be wilfully stupid and shallow, impractical, and either monied or kept. A better book would have been written with a little less strictness. It doesn't make being a bombshell sound like being much fun.
I ended up coming home with Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, FINALLY Murakami's Underground, a discount book on astronomy, and the newest issue of Interweave Knits... I like that magazine because they seem to have a lot of short, simple projects in with the sweaters (some of their sweater patterns are OK, some are ugly).
& then got in the car & drove home & recently spent a good 20 minutes using Spot Shot to remove chocolate stains from the car seat. Um... ooops!
Went to the maul in Orlando, the Florida Mall is what it's called. I've always found it fantastically presumptuous... that Orlando decided it would call its biggest mall by the name of the entire state, insinuating that it's the premiere shopping venue therein.
Anyway, I got 3 pair of funny retro-looking "conversational print" capri pajama pants at Old Navy: a print with pineapples and flamingos, a pair with little straw hats and sunglasses and handbags, and a pair with many blue flowers. Also a pair of regular capris in a deep, dusty hawaiian pineapply-floral, and a matching headband. Then some underwear from Victoria's Secret, all cotton, and a couple of burgundy-red hair-extension ponytail holders from some random place.
Cheated on my diet to eat chocolate covered rasp/blue-berry tart, and chocolate covered strawberry. Decadence. $5 for the strawberry alone. Cosmopolite and enemy of the revolution, that's me.
Went over to Borders. Mostly sat around listening to this very strange all-a-capella boy group - percussion etc done by two of the members. Not bad for that kind of music. Skimmed through The Bombshell Manual of Style, which I found very narrow-minded, with the implication that in order to be "A Bombshell" one must be wilfully stupid and shallow, impractical, and either monied or kept. A better book would have been written with a little less strictness. It doesn't make being a bombshell sound like being much fun.
I ended up coming home with Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, FINALLY Murakami's Underground, a discount book on astronomy, and the newest issue of Interweave Knits... I like that magazine because they seem to have a lot of short, simple projects in with the sweaters (some of their sweater patterns are OK, some are ugly).
& then got in the car & drove home & recently spent a good 20 minutes using Spot Shot to remove chocolate stains from the car seat. Um... ooops!
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Bombshell Manual of Style
Date: 2001-05-19 11:40 am (UTC)One thing the book probably doesn't mention is that every "Bombshell" I have known has had head problems. Admittedly, I don't have a statistically significant sample (I don't date much and don't really enjoy it) but it seems to be a pattern.
But still, the book is right in that the intersection of the sets of "Interesting, quality people" and "sexy people" is smaller than would be soley attributable to chance.