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i'm salty, like a pirate, arrrrrr!
I am strange tonight, very strange.
I should be asleep, but I'm not. I'm riding a clean, cold edge of insomnia. I want to go do productive things with it, but mostly I've been goggling at weird Dior t-shirts on ebay (look up "dior coke" and "dior rainbow" to see what I mean). Now I am afraid to do anything other than going to bed and perhaps reading, because I don't want to be up much later. Even though I'm not really tired.
I'm freezing.
And apparently in a preachy mood, given the quality of my correspondance this evening. (What, I didn't leave you any comments? Thank your lucky stars. My crankiness is approaching Dr.HST levels. I could be a blue muppet with a huge nose. Fear me.)
But mostly just freezing and jittery.
Also, there is the matter of some turkey soup from the gourmet store. This is rather expensive and stew-like; those of you who have access to a Dean & Deluca know the kind of store and the kind of expensive soup I mean, though the store I go to is not part of a chain. They make a batch of soup from scratch each day, and then whatever isn't sold is frozen and put in a cooler to be purchased at will. I bought a $6 pint of this frozen soup on Monday. I had a bowl of this soup on Tuesday, and was underwhelmed... there was just something wrong with it, blandness set off by weird drippy leaves. Fixed the remainder tonight with the judicious addition of Bell's Poultry Seasoning, and some salt and pepper, and it was much more savory and approached edibility. But it pisses me off that I spent *that much* on a pint of "homemade" soup and still had to doctor the hell out of it to make it edible, and with extremely common spices at that. I never thought the day would come when I would complain that a dish didn't have enough salt!
I cannot stop bouncing my knee, and it is almost 5AM.
This hippie/peasant/cowgirl thing has GOT TO GO, by the way... I was out earlier tonight, looking in places like Bebe and Arden B and Charlotte Russe, because I happened to pass them, and it was really depressing. I want my retro glamour back.
I should be asleep, but I'm not. I'm riding a clean, cold edge of insomnia. I want to go do productive things with it, but mostly I've been goggling at weird Dior t-shirts on ebay (look up "dior coke" and "dior rainbow" to see what I mean). Now I am afraid to do anything other than going to bed and perhaps reading, because I don't want to be up much later. Even though I'm not really tired.
I'm freezing.
And apparently in a preachy mood, given the quality of my correspondance this evening. (What, I didn't leave you any comments? Thank your lucky stars. My crankiness is approaching Dr.HST levels. I could be a blue muppet with a huge nose. Fear me.)
But mostly just freezing and jittery.
Also, there is the matter of some turkey soup from the gourmet store. This is rather expensive and stew-like; those of you who have access to a Dean & Deluca know the kind of store and the kind of expensive soup I mean, though the store I go to is not part of a chain. They make a batch of soup from scratch each day, and then whatever isn't sold is frozen and put in a cooler to be purchased at will. I bought a $6 pint of this frozen soup on Monday. I had a bowl of this soup on Tuesday, and was underwhelmed... there was just something wrong with it, blandness set off by weird drippy leaves. Fixed the remainder tonight with the judicious addition of Bell's Poultry Seasoning, and some salt and pepper, and it was much more savory and approached edibility. But it pisses me off that I spent *that much* on a pint of "homemade" soup and still had to doctor the hell out of it to make it edible, and with extremely common spices at that. I never thought the day would come when I would complain that a dish didn't have enough salt!
I cannot stop bouncing my knee, and it is almost 5AM.
This hippie/peasant/cowgirl thing has GOT TO GO, by the way... I was out earlier tonight, looking in places like Bebe and Arden B and Charlotte Russe, because I happened to pass them, and it was really depressing. I want my retro glamour back.
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"This hippie/peasant/cowgirl thing has GOT TO GO, by the way... I was out earlier tonight, looking in places like Bebe and Arden B and Charlotte Russe, because I happened to pass them, and it was really depressing. I want my retro glamour back."
Amen, sister. Get that shit out of the stores...Please! I was reading that Nordstrom's fall line is out and still filled with the prairie look (not that I have the cash or inclination for Nordstrom's) and I was just bummed by that. I'm digging the look of http://www.stilacosmetics.com - bring back decent looks, if you're not willing to make it all the way back to "retro glamour".
Retro glamour sounds really nice, though.
babble - bad clothes & good makeup
i was looking at a couple of department store websites last night, while not sleeping... neiman-marcus, nordstrom, and saks... and actually i didn't see a *ton* of prairie stuff; there were a lot of clean lines available along with the ripped-up brown froufrou. it's the cheapier, trendier stores that are absolutely overtaken with it. express has some decent things right now (that manage to look like a parisian take on the frou), and jcrew always has clean lines, but bebe and charlotte russe and the other really trend-driven places are just awful right now. hopefully by winter everyone will be sick of this... clothes are almost always uglier in the summer, aren't they?
as far as stila... i love stila and i love the stila girls! such insouciant little line-drawings, they are. apparently there are people who collect the "paint cans" from stila department store displays - i found that out on ebay a couple of weeks ago. they have limited edition "stila girl" art. i wear their eyeshadow and blush (also as liner and brow powder), and i have two of the small 4-pan cardboard palettes full of the stuff. they each have a different picture on them. i love it because i can carry all of my makeup in a really small space; i really just need one palette, some brushes, my mac foundation compact, tube of concealer, and mascara and lipstick, and that will take me all over the world and then some. I got my mom hooked on them too, so now she has her own palette! did you know that jeannine lobell, who created the line, is married to anthony edwards who played dr greene on ER? :)
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...well, I like the book anyway ;p