Posts Tagged ‘art’
Ikea time
I really like Ikea. Smart designs with space and money on the mind. I had their $1.99 breakfast today (they have a .99 breakfast too!). It was a little gross, mostly the eggs, but for 1.99, I could eat it.
Ikea’s been having a sale for the past month and today I was looking for mattress covers. Mine is kind of old…and has some…err…blood stains that just didn’t wash out. Their covers are so cheap anyway, mine was $2.99 and it held up through washings for the past 4 years. So I went and they had a sale on the collection of bed covers that is one up from the cheapo collection I have. For 2 bucks more, I get 80 more thread count and a finer cotton. Score! They didn’t have the light pink I used to have…just a maroon color but that’s okay. Adds drama to my room right?
I also saw these cuuuute alligators! Alligator? Crocodile? Eh, I look it up and identify it, and then I always end up forgetting later on. Meh, I’m sure they don’t care what you call them as long as you won’t skin them. I like long stuffed animals for some reason. I feel like I can drag it around with me like Linus from peanuts. I also like it when animals drag stuff around with them, like dogs that get attached to their toy and carry it with them where-ever they go? Too cute.
Reminds me, my friend has a cute jack-russell terrier named Stitch and recently they got him a stuffed pizza to play with. He loves it so much he feels like he must go to sleep with it at night! Once I took the pizza away from him and hid it behind my back. When he rushed over to my back I kept hiding it on the opposite side of me. At one point, he looked at me with frantic eyes and whined at me! A weird sound for a good 5 seconds…like the kind a seal makes as if he was saying “hey you! I don’t want to joke around anymore! Where is it?!?” The skin above his eyes were all furrowed. Oh…how can torture be so cute?
I’ve been eyeing this canvas poster for a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery long time. It says it’s on sale…but that’s the same price I’ve always remembered it to be. It’s $79.99…a bit pricey for art on my small, bare walls. So instead, I took a picture and I am going to edit it for my purposes > <. It’s not like this artist drew it anyway…probably chopped it from the production poster. My results in the following post about it.
My secret to not buying things you want but don’t need
My secret is…take a picture of it! These shoes were very cute, and mostly ones that I would not really reasonably wear, but as I’ve said before, fashion is like art to me so I just take a picture and move along. It’s almost like having it since I wouldn’t wear them often anyway right? So if I ever want to reminisce about the time I wore hooker shoes, I can find the pictures.
But before that, a quick story. Macy’s (or is it Macy*s?) was having a shoe sale. 40% off retail price with an additional 30% off at the register. So these women…oh..I would say they are in their 30s to 40s were shopping around, and they said “oh yeah, and these are 70 percent off!” Being the eavesdropping fiend I am, I snickered. I suppose it’s a common mistake to add up the percentages, but that’s not how you shop.
40 percent off of $100 is $60. 30 percent off of $60 is $42! $42 is clearly not 70 percent off of $100…that would be $30. $42 is still a little more than $30. Anyway, I hope they weren’t counting too closely or they would be in for a surprise at the register. I’m definitely ingraining this into my students’ heads.
Betsey Johnsons. Her style is so kooky, I love it. I’m usually not a fan of wooden clogs, especially if they are weirdly shapen, but these are cute.
I believe these are Guess. Check out that heel! How much for the hour? *wink wink*
Betsey Johnson again. The platform is angled at the heel. These were actually kind of comfortable.
Guess. Walking around in these makes you feel like you could kick everyone’s butts. Or stick a heel in your forehead. I’ve seen that in a movie right?
I suppose this thread is for the foot fetish people out there.
Jawbone
The new Jawbones are pretty hot. They also have some neato noice cancelling system too. Droolz.
Apparently, if you get a ticket for using your cell-phone with your hands (which is against the law now starting July 1, 2008), then you can get $20 off a new Jawbone purchase. What’s this? Reward for breaking the law? How about the people that haven’t broken the law and want to buy one? Fun promotion but pretty backwards to me. Someone have a ticket they want to share with me?
A rare beach visit
I live close to the beach. But I don’t go very often. I don’t particularly like sand. When I say this, my friends and I become nerds and bring up the horrible quote from Star Wars Episode Two.
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.
Worst line in the movie ever! I saw it when I was…what…middle school? And I thought it was corniest cheeziest line ever…not to mention horribly acted! It came out totally stiff. Anyway, when I bring up my hate for sand, this quote must ensue.
But I go for my friends and I tolerate it. Just not often. I wish I could go back to this state of….something.
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Look at all the seaweed!
The sun is so bright, but it was not hot. Very breezy.
This picture is a whole lot cooler sideways!
I noticed that taking pictures with the horizon in the back makes for weird crooked horizons?! Then again…maybe the person taking it was holding it weird.
Whoa this shirt makes me look big.
Happier times.
Gee, Brain, what are we going to do tonight?
Same thing we do every night, Pinky, try and take over the world!
Giving back to the ocean.