mom and i have concluded that we are not the best shopping buddies for each other. we love spending time together, you must understand, but we are amazingly accomplished at talking ourselves out of buying things. couple that with our unfittable bodies (my shape is beautiful and unique, therefore, no one makes clothes that fit me), and you have clothes shopping disaster.
we do find success, though, in buying purses and jewelry, which is what we resorted to tonight to console ourselves after spending several hours failing to find dresses suitable for our needs. they had some good sales, and we found beautiful accessories for less! i believe my earrings and necklace will make one of my dresses the perfect outfit for one of these wedding events.
in other news, i feel generally useless right now. it's amazing that no matter how unpleasant work may be, the fact that you bring in an income makes your sense of worth much higher. maybe that's just my problem, though. i think doing work that is frustrating and unfulfilling has a different effect on self-worth. but maybe self-worth is overrated like self-esteem. maybe it's just a construct of my culture, and i should do what i have to do when i have to and forget the self- stuff. hm.
4 comments:
its not just the income that makes your sense of self-worth higher, it's the fact that your output is helping those people that you work with and for. having the responsibility of a job is a blessing and a curse ... it increases your sense of self-worth to know that people depend on you, but it also increases your stress.
also, it is very difficult to get mom to make a cash outlay in excess of $.50.
who needs clothing when you can have accessories?! :-) that's my new motto - it might even replace danger+survival=fun.
p.s. even if your cyber social life is dwindling, i'll still read your blog, because you see, i'm co-dependent on you ;-) hehe. Now, does that boast your self-esteem or lower it? that is the question....ummm
Juliet
Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man buy for a remuneration?
Store owner
What is a remuneration?
Juliet
Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing.
Store owner
Why, then, three-farthing worth of silk.
Perhaps your mother and you could try this method of bragaining?
Adopted from Love's Labor's Lost, Act 3 scene 1
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