Man, I realize that it is Wednesday, and this is about Monday night and the weekend, but bear with me, it is the only fun I've had in a long time--I have done more homework this semester than all of the other semesters COMBINED. REEEE DICULOUS!
Anyhow, I went shopping with my mother on Sunday afternoon. Our shopping trips are always eventful--my mother is always a trip. Sometimes we get along and laugh at how cool we are, sometimes we scream like wild jungle monkeys, and sometimes she makes me cry, but all in all, she is my mom, she is amazing, and I love her with all my little heart.
So. She realizes how much Valentine's Day sucks and that there are definite disadvantages in the single life of her Type A work ethic, Type B personality daughter. So, instead of telling me to find a husband already, she told me that she was proud of me and that we were going to go spring coat shopping. Woohoo! Spring coat shopping! That is like, my favorite article of clothing, and quite honestly, easy to shop for. There is no naked-ness involved, no disappointed looks in the mirror, etc. So we start out and I headed straight fot the Gap, which has this amazing spring coat that I love. It is a light cream coat embroidered with stitched flowers. It is beautiful. So I try it on and my usual Large is well, too large. So I put the Medium on and it fit great! Everywhere but my ass. DAMN YOU ASS! So I look at the price tag. $118.00 YEAH! Can you believe that? The coat is a VERY light coat, a cotton shell with a nylon lining. So, basically, the money wasn't in the actual garment. But it was SO PRETTY. My mom was like, well, let's check out the other stores and see what's up. Anne Taylor? GROSS! Limited? DIDN'T EVEN HAVE SPRING COATS! Banana Republic? VERY CUTE COATS, BUT NOT MY STYLE AND A LITTLE EXPENSIVE! Express? UGLY! So, we return to the Gap and I look longingly at the coat. I try it on, I even try every one of the different coats in the same size to see if there was any size variation (there actually was, but not good enough). So then the sales girls step in and tell me how good it looks, which is not the right thing to say to a vulnerable customer. But I was super-savvy around them and basically told them that it was: 1) over-priced
2) not that well made
3) needing costly tailoring
4) beautiful So, the ladies offered to take off $15...I politely refused...$15 dollars in the world of tailoring does not go very far. So anyway! My mom saw my puppy-expression of sadness intermingled with the single fact...(I can't even get a damn coat!) and on the way out of the mall, bought me my favorite body scrub from Bath and Body Works. On the way home, we discussed the merits of the ill-fated Gap coat of glory and how it was well, ill-fated. THEN! She told me that since I was going to San Francisco for Spring Break, she would give me the price of the Gap coat for shopping there. I am flabbergasted. ****** Project Runway is the most amazing show ever. EVER!!! ***** So Monday night was the UNM v. Utah game. Utah--ranked #13 in the country, our Lobos, who are awesome, not ranked. Roevall and I signed up for the game last September and man, did we pick a great one! We are members of a club that brings complimentary drinks and snacks to the noted guests at the game and we get to sit in the reserved sections in the second row. SCORE! As you may have gathered, UNM totally won and the fans rushed the court, etc, but that isn't the best part. Best parts of the game: 1) The older woman sitting next to Roevall man-handling the president of the university and asking him very loudly to sit down because she couldn't see anything. 2) Michael Jackson (actually Mark, I think) getting booed everytime he had the ball in the game. This guy offended UNM by being a total assclown player in the game and I think his national rank went down after this game, he didn't play very well. 3) Making fun of the bad haired Utah player and shouting declarations of admiration to my favorite Lobo. 4) Me almost biting it going over the chain divider to the president's table while wearing my black boots of death and Roevall hitting his head twice on the rail in front of us. OK--neither one was actually funny when it happened, but it is funny to look back at. ***** Back to homework! |