Confessions of a shopaholic

This morning I get an email from J.Crew. They're adding an extra 20% off to their sale. I LOVE it when they do this. Sometimes it's 30%. I seriously go hard for these emails. The catch...it's FINAL sale. No returns, no exchanges.

Then, on a whim, I go to Forever 21, assuming that as usual they won't have anything good. But they do. This little black dress, that if it fits the way I expect it to, will knock out all of my other conservative little black dresses, off to Beacon's they'll go making some much needed room in my closet. I HAVE to have it.

I check out Charlotte Rousse and find a dress that I think will be perfect for Giovanni's birthday party at the end of the month, in it goes. I buy two tops, and the dress. Total, $79.

I go back to J.Crew. A dress I wanted, but had sold out, is available again, must have. Then a cocktail ring that I'll give to my daughter, it's so fantastic. Total with discount, $80. I check out, but right after I do, realise that I've forgotten to check their knitwear section. Find an amazing jacket, have to have it. Total with discount, $37. Then, it's off to Forever 21 for that dress. I realize that I can use a credit card I've been paying off to buy the dress. It's just a measly 23 bucks, I mean nothing, right? I decide to check jewelry to see if they have anything I can't live without, I throw in a necklace I like, but don't love for $6. Total with shipping, $42.

I am sated, and wish there was a way to block my visiting certain websites.

The clam chowder is better than I expected it to be today.

Wednesday

"No. That chick definitely does not have a slut face. I really thought this concept would be intuitive to anyone. It's all in the bone structure. The face is thrust forward, areodynamic. Dan knows. Right, Dan?"
"Right"
"Okay, does SHE have a slut face?" Dan and I together, simultaneously, "No!" I go on to explain, "All right Shane, it's like, have you ever seen a girl and thought that she would be a dirty whore in bed, but in a good way?"
"Yeah."
"Well, SHE probably had a slut face. Look, you've got your Asian slut faces, your White Trash slut faces, your Eastern Bloc slut faces..."
"Oh. Yeah. There are some slutty looking Russian girls who are damn hot."
"Exactly."
Beth sits next to me, nodding her head in approval. Then she says, "And it's like they're skinny, but in a gross sort of way."
"Yeah, like they were raised on cheetos and diet soda.", I say. Shane seems to have either finally understood, or can't stand looking at the Rachel Zoe project in the background any longer and leaves.

Tuesday night

See, I like tropical skittles better than original because the only flavor I like in the original is red.

C'mon, if there was a bag of all red skittles then you wouldn't be able to appreciate them.

Like, if we were never sad then we wouldn't know what it was to be happy?

Exactly!

*** later that night ***

They all have the same color hair!

Well, they're identical twins.

Oh, they are?

Oh Man, it's going to be a jungle out there

It's almost five, I haven't been able to leave work early...I'm facing rush hour. Pray for me.

Controversy

Has anyone heard of the new-ish film coming out called, "Towel Head?"

Apparently it's about a young woman who is a member of an ethnic minority living with her father in TX, dealing with racial prejudice from the locals -- oh, and there's more.

This young girl also happens to be struggling with her sexuality due to the fact that her parents take a laissez-faire approach to dealing with the birds and the bees.

This morning I caught a quote from Mario Bello, who plays the girl's mother in the film, regarding its content: "Do I think there is anything wrong with a young woman fantasizing about an older man, or an older man fantasizing about a girl? No. Do I think there is something wrong with acting on it, yeah, I do."

Statutory rape is set at one age, while southern states have legal marrying ages much younger. A female teacher gets thrown in prison for having relations with her young male student, but keeps the love alive and when she gets out marries him and lives happily ever after. I just wanted to throw it out there, where are the lines drawn with sexuality in the realm of consent?

I think it's clear that due to America's puritanical roots it (sexuality) has been grossly over-simplified. Not only in gender, and age, but in every other aspect as well. I am by no means condoning sexual abuse, by the way.

I heard once about an article I never read that had to do with the negative results of the sexual revolution of the '70s. We're obsessed as a result, we think it (sex) too important. And there is another question. Why do we care so damn much whether a thought is right or wrong, good or bad? Of course because we think our thoughts naturally lead to compulsive behavior, bad thoughts = bad deeds. But where does THAT assumption come from?

In yet another article, which I started, but never finished, the author brings up a great point. There is an incredibly fine line b/n our sexual adulation of teenagers, our widely accepted sexual ideal (Lindsay Lohan circa mean girls, the Olsen Twins, Britney from '99) and what we consider the most demonistic of thoughts to stem from; Pedohpilia.

Hill Clinton

Question: Do you think that Hillary would have had a better chance to get the nomination if she had divorced Bill over the Monica thing?

I think: Absofuckingloutely

I think it would have garnered more sympathy for her, as someone who was victimized, but then had the strength not to put up with it. And I think because it would have been a strong move on her part she wouldn't have had to work so hard at downplaying her case of ovarian possession (being a chick) to prove she could hack it. She wouldn't have had to give so many mixed messages in the campaign, first acting like a dude and then crying like a little bitch...

What's funny is that she probably stayed with Bill because of her political ambitions...and in the end it could have done her in. Also, Bill, I don't think, would have bounced back in popularity like he did if Hillary had left him. Instead, his wife was willing to sweep it under the rug and thusly so was every one else.

I despise Hillary Clinton, not because she's a woman, or too strong, or too femme; Not because she stayed with her husband after he cheated on her, but simply b/c she's a snake.

Tomato, Tomaato

http://www.ttgconsultants.com/articles/freetrade.html One says Yaaay

http://www.isometry.com/trade.html the other says nayyy

Which rabbit hole to descend into?

The two links above go to articles arguing for and against free trade.

My take: Numbers don't lie, but propaganda does and it exists on both sides. One group wants to tell you what WILL happen, while the other tends to extract data from what has already happened.

One argument I cannot get behind is the idea that big business destroys cultural solidarity and unity, to me that sounds like a homogenizing and therefore insulting blanket statement. What culture has ever existed in which every member WANTED to stay within their cultural norms? People create their own culture regardless of their circumtances, it evolves and changes over time, some leave and return, some don't. To rail against the changing of ones circumstances and use the excuse of cultural change (brought on by economic evolution) as a bad thing in order to justify it is nothing if not narrow-minded -- in my opinion.