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can't cross anything off the to-do list today--last night i didn't get very much done. i got out of work a little late, and then headed over to drop off the rent. then i went to the target shopping center, with the idea that i could look at some shoes at the payless and also hopefully hit the dollar store and the bilo and possibly the target, but i didn't make it past payless. they had sandals on sale, buy a pair get another pair half off. so i got two pairs. the first is a pair of strappy black slip-on sandals. they don't have a heel strap, and would probably leave blisters if i needed to walk a lot in them, but i'm not planning on going hiking in them or anything, just down the hall to the ladies' room and back again. they also had this style in other colors (white, dark brown, and carmel) but i figured i'd get the black ones for now and see how they work, and maybe get a second pair if i like these a lot.
the second pair are some very, very sensible white sandals. they look like something lauren would wear. if you know lauren, you know why it makes me cringe to have bought something lauren would wear. not that i think she doesn't dress well or something--she dresses very well and always looks nice. but the things she wears look nice *on her*. her favorite stores include gap, old navy, american eagle, lerner, and the limited. her wardrobe is business casual, and she looks natural and comfortable in it. i might occasionally pick up an item from one of the stores she likes, but only because i desperately need it and this is the only one that fits (ex, my old navy denim skirt), or *i think* it is particularly cute (ie, lauren would not think it was cute). lauren can pick out clothes for me with ease, but would never actually wear them herself; we have similar opinions of each other's styles. but yeah, these white sandals are totally something lauren would wear. something a preppy mother of 2 who drives a minivan would wear. it skeeves me, seriously. but they were the only white sandals that were comfortable (and i have *the worst* problems with white sandals), and they were half off anyway, so i just got them. i'm wearing them for work, anyway, so it's not like it matters that much.
there was another pair of shoes that i tried on that i really wanted, but i didn't get them. they were $14.99, and i wasn't going to pay that when i was already paying $20 for two other pairs of sandals. but these were some seriously cute brown ones. i was thinking i should get them anyway because i deserved some cute sandals after being a good girl and buying those white ones. but i decided to go home and think about it, and i realized that the brown sandals wouldn't go with a lot of my stuff--none of my brown-based flowered dresses, for example. the shoes would really only go with solid colors--i could wear them with my long brown skirt, and with khakis, but not really with much else (making them shoes entirely for work and not for anything else). and if i'm going to pay full price for shoes, i want them to match everything and be versatile and stuff. besides which, they did pinch a little in the toes. so, no brown sandals for me (although jorn did offer to buy them for me as an early birthday present). oh well.
after the shoe extravaganza, i met up with jorn at the health club. i went to the "step and power pump" aerobics class, and lasted a whole 45 minutes (longer than i lasted at the hip hop class last week!). i was wiped out after that, though, and didn't lift weights at all--just did some yoga in the ladies' dressing room while i was waiting for jorn to finish up his stuff. (he's really working hard at this fitness thing, and i am proud of him.) after we got home, we mostly just sat around all night. i had told rhett that i would call her and maybe we would hang out, but by the time jorn and i had both showered away our ickiness and had some dinner, it was too late to actually do something. sigh. maybe tonight, though.
my plan for after work today: head back to the target shopping center. go to the dollar store (for whatever they have that we might need) and the target (for a new set of sheets and maybe some cds for my dad) and the bilo (for some bread for jorn, and some other stuff) (and here's where i'd go to payless for those shoes if i was going back for them, but i'm not). then, if i have enough time, i'm going to walk down tate street to get that freud action figure for samantha from the corner store. i need to do that, so i can send out that package to my parents. then i'm going to call sarah, and maybe janel, and hopefully rhett. and i will also eat a healthy meal.
the second pair are some very, very sensible white sandals. they look like something lauren would wear. if you know lauren, you know why it makes me cringe to have bought something lauren would wear. not that i think she doesn't dress well or something--she dresses very well and always looks nice. but the things she wears look nice *on her*. her favorite stores include gap, old navy, american eagle, lerner, and the limited. her wardrobe is business casual, and she looks natural and comfortable in it. i might occasionally pick up an item from one of the stores she likes, but only because i desperately need it and this is the only one that fits (ex, my old navy denim skirt), or *i think* it is particularly cute (ie, lauren would not think it was cute). lauren can pick out clothes for me with ease, but would never actually wear them herself; we have similar opinions of each other's styles. but yeah, these white sandals are totally something lauren would wear. something a preppy mother of 2 who drives a minivan would wear. it skeeves me, seriously. but they were the only white sandals that were comfortable (and i have *the worst* problems with white sandals), and they were half off anyway, so i just got them. i'm wearing them for work, anyway, so it's not like it matters that much.
there was another pair of shoes that i tried on that i really wanted, but i didn't get them. they were $14.99, and i wasn't going to pay that when i was already paying $20 for two other pairs of sandals. but these were some seriously cute brown ones. i was thinking i should get them anyway because i deserved some cute sandals after being a good girl and buying those white ones. but i decided to go home and think about it, and i realized that the brown sandals wouldn't go with a lot of my stuff--none of my brown-based flowered dresses, for example. the shoes would really only go with solid colors--i could wear them with my long brown skirt, and with khakis, but not really with much else (making them shoes entirely for work and not for anything else). and if i'm going to pay full price for shoes, i want them to match everything and be versatile and stuff. besides which, they did pinch a little in the toes. so, no brown sandals for me (although jorn did offer to buy them for me as an early birthday present). oh well.
after the shoe extravaganza, i met up with jorn at the health club. i went to the "step and power pump" aerobics class, and lasted a whole 45 minutes (longer than i lasted at the hip hop class last week!). i was wiped out after that, though, and didn't lift weights at all--just did some yoga in the ladies' dressing room while i was waiting for jorn to finish up his stuff. (he's really working hard at this fitness thing, and i am proud of him.) after we got home, we mostly just sat around all night. i had told rhett that i would call her and maybe we would hang out, but by the time jorn and i had both showered away our ickiness and had some dinner, it was too late to actually do something. sigh. maybe tonight, though.
my plan for after work today: head back to the target shopping center. go to the dollar store (for whatever they have that we might need) and the target (for a new set of sheets and maybe some cds for my dad) and the bilo (for some bread for jorn, and some other stuff) (and here's where i'd go to payless for those shoes if i was going back for them, but i'm not). then, if i have enough time, i'm going to walk down tate street to get that freud action figure for samantha from the corner store. i need to do that, so i can send out that package to my parents. then i'm going to call sarah, and maybe janel, and hopefully rhett. and i will also eat a healthy meal.
