September 5 2008: Retail Therapy: Photo Evidence
As mentioned yesterday, a post detailing everything I bought. A word of warning - this is going to take awhile. Before you start, I suggest you first go to the toilet, make yourself a cup of tea, grab yourself a couple of biscuits, and get yourself comfortable. Prepare yourself!
The first purchase of the day - a black satin dressing gown by Crystelle. I bought it for $15AUD. It has the most darling elasticised/lacey cuffs, so you get a kind of puffy sleeve effect. Plus, it hides whatever naughtiness I might be wearing underneath. Not that I would be wearing any. Cause, you know, I’m an innocent little girl.
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September 4 2008: Retail Therapy Is Not An Incorrect Term
Thank you for your comments yesterday. Honestly, thank you. It means a lot to me - while I know that everything that’s happening now is just a temporary bleakness in my life, that knowledge doesn’t necessarily make it any easier to handle so your encouragement is much appreciated.
On a brighter note, I did get the chance to spend much of today with Alex. Sure, I made an ironing run early in the morning beforehand, and just came back from another ironing run at 10pm at night, but! A good eight/nine hours of girliness with Alex! Nothing takes my mind off things more than shopping!
Our local shopping mall is having a month of freebies to celebrate spring. We took advantage of the free Toblerones (mmm…), of a free manicure each, and of course, of some shopping. But, as shopping at the biggest mall in Melbourne apparently wasn’t enough, we decided to hightail to Ikea on the other side of town and browse through mass-produced homewares (I bought microwavable food containers!), and then hit up a couple of warehouse clothing sales.
All in all, we went from 10am in the morning to 6.30pm in the evening, and by my calculations, gave around $400AUD to the retail industry between us. Thankfully, we got goods in return for the dosh…goods that shall be described in further detail, with photos, in tomorrow’s entry. LOTS OF GOODS, LOTS OF CLOTHES! Mmm, clothes.
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September 3 2008: General Veil Of Darkness
I realise that I’ve been rather circumspect when blogging in the past month or so. Personal entries have been few and far between - rather, I’ve been writing lengthy entries on broader issues, “how to” guides to everything from saving money to eBaying, and basically anything that avoids speaking too much about me and my life has been fair game.
There are two main reasons for this reticence. The first, my current lack of writing at length in English (my university classes this semester are primarily all in the Chinese language, so no essays in English) has meant that I need to get my rambling-at-length fix from somewhere. The second, I’ve not been particularly happy the past couple of weeks. For a while earlier this year, everything was peachy, but recently, things are dark, and I don’t do dark blogging. I find it hard to post rants about how bad everything is going, and how I hate the world, and general misery. That would be expressing feelings that I’m not comfortable sharing. Escaping the realities of unhappiness with impersonal entries about broader issues is a better option.
With this said, I do realise that I need to face and address the situation I’m in, for my own mental wellbeing if nothing else. So here I go, setting it all down in print.
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