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Shopping recap for the weekend

10.75 spent on a pink martini glass lamp for the bar

79.57 total spent on shoes
 (4 pairs, average 19.89 per)

26.30 total spent on accessories
 (5 items, average 5.26 per)

317.36 total spent on clothing
 (23 items, average 13.79 per)
    1 dress
    5 jammies
    1 pr shorts, 3 pr pants, 4 skirts
    9 shirts

And that’s what I did with my weekend. Not including a trip to the grocery store, a stop at the liquor store and 2 meals out.  But you get the picture. After a whole month of not shopping, I suppose I was due for a splurge. Granted, of the above, most of it was on store charge accounts (nice to have for the few times a year I go and refit my wardrobe, lol).

Most of the clothes are work clothes (obviously not the jammies, those are for recuperating from surgery and so forth) that will get me through quite a while. The shoes were an attempt to find comfy sandals/casuals with mid-height heels for walking around in at DragonCon and I think I finally managed to cover those bases (I can’t do 3 days in flats or tennis shoes without serious tendinitis pain and my current heeled options aren’t con-floor friendly).

And speaking of jammies! Even though I was specifically looking for nightgowns and sleep shirts I saw this one tank-and-short set that I _had_ to have: it’s got martini-swilling monkeys on it, hello?!?

Tags: clothesshopping, monkeys, jammies, martinis, dragon con preparedness

Pretty much took the majority of Friday evening and Saturday off from everything and it felt good. Sunday, of course, brought the demands of reality crashing back (along with 231 twitter messages on my phone). My body has decided to call off the war or whatever the problem was and I’m feeling mostly human again. And that’s never a bad thing.

Saturday, Spectrum and I celebrated National Daiquiri Day with banana daiquiris that maybe could have used a smidgen more ice, but were pretty good nonetheless. Finally had a reason to open the bottle of Appleton Special I bought a while back.

The spending-freeze for the month has actually not been too horrible. Spec and I have gone out to eat a couple of times, but I don’t consider that much of a stray since I’ve still not picked up take-out on random nights out of laziness or swung by Starbucks in the mornings. 11 days to go and I think I should have a few hundred left from the month to put onto one of the credit cards. That will feel extra nice. Avoiding the bookstore hasn’t been as difficult as I thought it would be, though I do think I’ll be doing a bit of clothes shopping at the beginning of August, but not too much.