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Nov. 24th, 2001 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxI redeemed 20 days of credit that I had coming so now my account doesn't expire until 12/12. Yay.
Tired, talking to Nathalie (whose webcam is frozen; it's interesting to watch the cam of someone you're talking to, because you can see the faces they're making), have newly painted nails with my much-beloved yet thickening quick-ickily Shu Uemura #C347 polish, which is a color that looks like coffee with a ton of cream in it, and which I can't find on the Sephora site. It's so beautiful still but it doesn't go on as smoothly as it did when it was new over a year ago. My French manicure from Scary Manicure Day was starting to look a little manky around the edges, so off it came. I feel ever so sophisticated when my hands look nice.
It was Buy Nothing Day, and I didn't, but more because I didn't leave the house due to lethargy and god-awful cramping. I don't see any problem with buying from a small independent business on BND, or something like an art-supply store or non-bestsellers from a bookstore or indie music from its own record label's site or services like a massage; I just think that it *is* a good thing to occasionally boycott things like fast food, electronics conglomerates, mall clothing chains, John Grisham, etc, for a day... or longer. If sales of Playstation games had dipped today I think Sony would have more than made up for it through the rest of the holiday season. I'm writing this partially cos the Bookfoole mentioned how it pisses him off (as the owner of a small independent secondhand bookstore). & I do agree that philosophies about these things can get a little too extremist & hurt small businesses much more than they hurt, say, Federated Department Stores Inc. or something. which is Not Right. how can we DIY if we use our politics to inadvertently hurt other people who are trying to live through DIY as well?
Tired, talking to Nathalie (whose webcam is frozen; it's interesting to watch the cam of someone you're talking to, because you can see the faces they're making), have newly painted nails with my much-beloved yet thickening quick-ickily Shu Uemura #C347 polish, which is a color that looks like coffee with a ton of cream in it, and which I can't find on the Sephora site. It's so beautiful still but it doesn't go on as smoothly as it did when it was new over a year ago. My French manicure from Scary Manicure Day was starting to look a little manky around the edges, so off it came. I feel ever so sophisticated when my hands look nice.
It was Buy Nothing Day, and I didn't, but more because I didn't leave the house due to lethargy and god-awful cramping. I don't see any problem with buying from a small independent business on BND, or something like an art-supply store or non-bestsellers from a bookstore or indie music from its own record label's site or services like a massage; I just think that it *is* a good thing to occasionally boycott things like fast food, electronics conglomerates, mall clothing chains, John Grisham, etc, for a day... or longer. If sales of Playstation games had dipped today I think Sony would have more than made up for it through the rest of the holiday season. I'm writing this partially cos the Bookfoole mentioned how it pisses him off (as the owner of a small independent secondhand bookstore). & I do agree that philosophies about these things can get a little too extremist & hurt small businesses much more than they hurt, say, Federated Department Stores Inc. or something. which is Not Right. how can we DIY if we use our politics to inadvertently hurt other people who are trying to live through DIY as well?
