Archive for January, 2007

Mission Accomplished

There were three things I decided I needed to do today; browse the shelves of Barnes & Noble to find the ISBN for a Bible a customer requested, buy a digital camera for the trip and check out Chicos and JJill’s for clothes I need for the trip.

B&N is in what we call west Little Rock, a shopping/driving madhouse, so I headed out around 9:30 a.m. On Sunday morning there’s very little traffic anywhere but my particular desire was little traffic there. I got my wish, zoomed through the store to religion, found what I needed (there are too many Bibles) and drove on to Best Buy just down the road. It opens at 11 on Sundays, so I drove back to midtown where the new open air shopping center is that has Chicos and JJill. Nothing opens there until noon.

Back home I got online and bought a camera from Amazon. If I’m going to shop online my first choice is Amazon.  Why? If you go here  and scroll down to support Toasted Cheese and click on Amazon our writing community will make a penny or two from your purchase.

That purchase meant I no longer had to drive out west again today. At noon I drove the half-mile to Chicos and Whoopee it is Sale time. I bought everything I need for the various events in California for $148. All are wrinkle free Traveler clothes. So I now have; one black skirt, black slacks, and in the color they call asphalt (why asphalt I’ll never know, it’s a lovely blue that makes my eyes sparkle) a jacket, tank top and slacks. Oh and a multi-color blouse/jacket that goes with all.

I’m relieved. Major shopping headache is over.

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There’s still time

The best thing I do is procrastinate.  I’m driving to California next month to enjoy Tamar’s, my granddaughter, Bat Mitzvah.  What have I done to prepare?  Made an appointment with the neighborhood car guys to thoroughly examine Matilda the Mazda for road worthiness, planned my route to CA … I’m leaving the trip home open to where the unknown roads take me… and nothing else. Other than begin this blog.

I need clothes; for the Sabbath dinner, the Bat Mizvah ceremony and the evening Celebration.  I don’t like to shop for clothes, I buy clothes on a whim and what I buy is appropriate for work at the bookstore, or casual outings,  but not for these events.

Today was supposed to be my day to shop, so I bought gas at my friend Buddy’s Go Green Biofuels station,  and told him about my mission. He suggested a consignment shop I  wasn’t familiar with (we’re all about recycling).  So I went there.

Gasp, everything I considered looked like something my mother would wear. AARGH.

 I drove home and read my friend Sallie’s novel in progess.

Maybe next Monday, my next day off, I’ll shop for the right outfits.

I still have time.

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Hello world!

Welcome to my world, as I travel roads unknown.

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