Shopping karma and other Saturday things
Jul. 21st, 2007 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyI headed out this morning to the Ross up in El Cerrito, which has a tendency not to be completely trashed by 11 AM on a Saturday.
Armed with a tape measure, I hoped to find a suitcase that's bigger than the one I have but does not exceed United's baggage requirements of a total maximum linear size of 62" (length + width + height).
I quickly discovered that the bags that were bigger than mine are all in excess of that size, so I am not going take one humungous suitcase and pay $25 more to the airline when I can check two bags if I really need to take a second.
However, I really think I was meant to go into that Ross.
One pair size 9 black Born clogs: $20. This allows me to take my old black Naturalizers to Pennsic and abuse them as necessary on bad weather days or when my feet have hit the limit on walking around in turnshoes.
One black cast iron tetsubin (Japanese tea kettle) with a Three Friends of Winter motif (pine, plum and bamboo): $24.95. (I have seen the dinky ones run $50. This one probably retails for close to $100.)
One cool, medieval looking metal box: $9.
Cotton shorts: $7.99.
So of course, I went next door to the Barnes and Noble to see if they had a copy of Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots so I don't have to read that series out of order. They did. They also had Lindsay Davis' See Delphi and Die, which I have been trying to find for two years and had begun to believe that the appearance of that title in other Davis' books was merely a cruel joke by the publisher to jerk my chain.
And then I went into the music and DVD area to discover that there was a 10% off promo on Criterion Collection DVD's. The guy behind the counter started geeking Japanese film with me as I pounced upon a spanking new release of Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff.
I wasn't planning on this binge, not before Pennsic. On the other hand, as my sister likes to say, "You snooze, you lose." If the shopping kami drop a good find into my path, who am I to argue?
Decided after some half assed piddling around with a stencil blank and Xacto knife NOT to use a stencil for the flowers and leaves on the Tosenin kosode. Did some free hand work on the collar today, then met up withvsct_caius to catch the new HP movie. The adult cast is full of the sort of rock solid actors upon whom one can always depend to turn in a decent performance and Imelda Staunton is outstanding as Umbridge. Her cozy(?) pink sanctum sanctorum was making me twitch and shudder and realize why I loathe Red Zinger tea. Alan Rickman actually gets to do something this time around besides slap kids upside the head and look disdainful. But how are we ever going to find the Lost Ark now those rotten kids have trashed the Department of Mysteries?
After the movie, we went to Fuddruckers and had a very nice visit. Gaius ordered some very messy looking burger thing. Their Caesar salad with sliced ribeye steak was quite satisfying and generously seasoned with black pepper. I'd order it again.
I quickly discovered that the bags that were bigger than mine are all in excess of that size, so I am not going take one humungous suitcase and pay $25 more to the airline when I can check two bags if I really need to take a second.
However, I really think I was meant to go into that Ross.
One pair size 9 black Born clogs: $20. This allows me to take my old black Naturalizers to Pennsic and abuse them as necessary on bad weather days or when my feet have hit the limit on walking around in turnshoes.
One black cast iron tetsubin (Japanese tea kettle) with a Three Friends of Winter motif (pine, plum and bamboo): $24.95. (I have seen the dinky ones run $50. This one probably retails for close to $100.)
One cool, medieval looking metal box: $9.
Cotton shorts: $7.99.
So of course, I went next door to the Barnes and Noble to see if they had a copy of Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots so I don't have to read that series out of order. They did. They also had Lindsay Davis' See Delphi and Die, which I have been trying to find for two years and had begun to believe that the appearance of that title in other Davis' books was merely a cruel joke by the publisher to jerk my chain.
And then I went into the music and DVD area to discover that there was a 10% off promo on Criterion Collection DVD's. The guy behind the counter started geeking Japanese film with me as I pounced upon a spanking new release of Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff.
I wasn't planning on this binge, not before Pennsic. On the other hand, as my sister likes to say, "You snooze, you lose." If the shopping kami drop a good find into my path, who am I to argue?
Decided after some half assed piddling around with a stencil blank and Xacto knife NOT to use a stencil for the flowers and leaves on the Tosenin kosode. Did some free hand work on the collar today, then met up with
vsct_caius to catch the new HP movie. The adult cast is full of the sort of rock solid actors upon whom one can always depend to turn in a decent performance and Imelda Staunton is outstanding as Umbridge. Her cozy(?) pink sanctum sanctorum was making me twitch and shudder and realize why I loathe Red Zinger tea. Alan Rickman actually gets to do something this time around besides slap kids upside the head and look disdainful. But how are we ever going to find the Lost Ark now those rotten kids have trashed the Department of Mysteries? After the movie, we went to Fuddruckers and had a very nice visit. Gaius ordered some very messy looking burger thing. Their Caesar salad with sliced ribeye steak was quite satisfying and generously seasoned with black pepper. I'd order it again.
