girly day!

I'm not normally a shopper, and let all my needs pile up until I have to do it all in one go, so today I got:

1) A new small saucepan (For cooking my breakfast oatmeal, because I burned both of my old ones so badly that they had convex bottoms and danced around on the electric stove. I have since managed to whack one back into some sort of shape with a hammer, but the other didn't respond to that treatment as well, and has had a loose handle for years.) This new one not only has a good heavy bottom, but is so cute! Also, I talked them down on the price because it was missing it's lid. :)

2) Underwear (panties, t-shirts and a bra)

3) A pocket day calendar. (Because the one Hawk gave me for the midwinter holiday was cool, and a two year calendar, but also is of the design which has in the past leapt from my pocket into the toilet. This one is tiny, and classy in plain navy blue. :))

4) A Dali wall calendar. (They had so many good calendars at Borders this year, I stood there for like fifteen minutes trying to decide!)

And now I'll top it off by being truly girly and going to get my hair cut, after which I might go try to find a new tiny purse to carry my cards and cash in.

more girlyness. :)

The haircut is good, and I went up to Mexacali Blues and got not only a small change-purse (which is what I like to stuff all my cards and money in - and this one is maybe a teensy bit tight for ALL the cards, so I'm still going to keep my eyes open for one of those accordion card holders), but I also got a slightly bigger zippered bag for other stuff (I do want some organization in my life) and a new shoulder-bag! It is a lot more Mexacali Blues style (hippyish) than I normally want to carry, but it's positively subdued compared to most of the stuff in that store (all their messenger bags had tiny pieces of mirror sewn on the front) - my new bag is a tie-dye brown, just about the size I was looking for, and has a zipper. That was really my only problem with the old bag, no positive closure (the buckle strap is just a little off and difficult to get open) and I'm just not handy enough to put a zipper on, myself, so it's now in the bag to go to charity. Unless anyone wants it? It's really not a bad little bag if you're not the type of person, like me, who throws things around and drops them.

I've done my concentrating for the day...

I sat down and wrote my Mom an email, so in lieu of actually writing something different to post I think I'll just mostly repost that, with a few edits. But hey, at least I produced a few paragraphs of writing. Considering what Eor recently read about how the Internet rewires our brains so that we can't concentrate I'm thinking this is a minor victory in perhaps reclaiming my brain.

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It was -1F here, today (-18C!) when we walked up the street to see if the breakfast place, Isabella's, was open. It was closed - in fact, closed until March. I think they've all migrated south. It's hard to develop a habit of going to a place when they're so unpredictable - even when they're 'here' they seem to open whenever they feel like it.

So we went down to Becky's Diner in Portland and had a lovely breakfast, and they even have gluten free muffins down there, so it was all good. :) Then we proceeded on to Portsmouth, because Eor wanted to check out a record store down there, although on the way back we stopped at the record store in Portland, and were very impressed with how much more clean and well-organized it is than either of the places we went to in Portsmouth. He doesn't think he'll bother to make a pilgrimage down there just for records again.

We did have fun wandering around through a few other stores while we were in Portsmouth, though. Hawk had asked me to look into the price of a thing he'd seen a few months ago, a kind of gauzy curtain which hangs from a ring so that you can suspend it from the ceiling over a chair. I couldn't understand what the point of it was when he described it to me, but now that I've seen it I understand, and I know I'll want one if I ever have a porch of my own: it's a mosquito netting. Indian, of course, very pretty. I guess it could be hung from a tree limb, too, though I suspect you wouldn't want to leave it outside. In order to be effective it kind of has to drape onto the ground, and it would rot. At the same place, though, I did get a little wall-sconce candle holder with a metal cut-out lizard. I'm a little nervous about getting soot on my white wall, but Eor mounted it for me next to my desk and I want to light it now that it's dark. :)

I suppose I should go finish off the last of my muffin I've been hauling around all day, with a little rooibus tea, as I'm developing a tremendous headache and should probably get away from the computer screen.

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Yup, headache, not sure what that's all about, I had enough caffeine, today. Almost done with "'Tention" (GM Fenn)! Good lord this story is slow. Also, Copperbadge posted Chapter 8 of Trace and I think there's only going to be nine chapters and a prologue... I'm trying to convince myself I should not read CH 8 until I have the rest of it in the Nook. :)