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[prismakaos]

So, my shopping rant. I promised one, so here it is. In my trying on of over 40 pairs of jeans (no exaggeration), I found one that fit properly. One. Most of my shopping was done at the gap, so there are 6 different styles (Classic, Essential, Flare, Bootcut, Long and Lean, and Curvy), in which I need to try on at least two sizes, and all the rinses (average of about 3 per style) are a different cut within the same style. So 6x2x3 = 36 PLUS whatever additional sales jeans I found, jeans at J.Crew, and jeans at Macy's. Not to mention the trying on the pairs which fit several times to make sure that they fit better than the others. By the time I got to Express, I looked at the jeans and ran screaming.

Also, shoes this season are really ugly. I can't deal with peep toed flats or ankle high lace up bootie things. And everything's really shiny - like, actually shiny and plastic, instead of Firefly shiny, which would be good. Though, I did covet a pair of red shiny opentoed pumps and also some Puma shoes, but decided that these were cooler.

In other news, I'm likely buying a digital piano keyboard. It's admittedly not that impressive as a keyboard, but onetruedavid, the resident keyboard snob, tried the same model at Guitar Center yesterday and it didn't burn him. One of my coworkers is offering it for a small discount, so I'd probably buy it from him, since it has the benefit of 1) being cheaper; 2) coming with a stand; and 3) coming with a little bench.

Oh, and the big, news-related thing... http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/07/apple-introduces-ilife-08/ And I'm totally drinking champagne right now.

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[semer.livejournal.com]

Um, okay, so I'd like to point out that I have tried on more pairs of jeans than that and found NONE that fit well and gone home crying because I JUST WANTED A FUCKING PAIR OF JEANS OKAY, FUCK YOU MALL AND OTHER CLOTHING STORES NOT IN THE MALL

So yeah, shhhh

[prismakaos.livejournal.com]

I've done that too. I was actually happy to find ONE PAIR OF JEANS.

[prismakaos.livejournal.com]

Also, based on the fact that the guys I've talked to about shopping say stuff like, "You walk into a store, you try on some clothes, you buy them.", I had to dumb it down for their consumption.

[spamchang.livejournal.com]

><;; sorry to hear of jean woes... what was the style of the one that *did* fit?

shiny and plastic? guess the designers this season picked up a case of vinyl fetish. the racing shoes are t3h w1n, though i don't know about that price.

keyboard! hmm, ever find that music at your house? :p

so, i guess according to Apple, life is all about photos, movies, dvd-making, website-making, and recording music in your garage. ha, typical apple.

porque champagne? though it's generally never a bad time for it...

[prismakaos.livejournal.com]

failed to find your music - remind me to buy you new copies...

and champagne because of the AdSense integration into Apple's iWeb product.

[spamchang.livejournal.com]

ooh congrats on the integration :) did you do a lot of work for the deal? (still, not many times where champagne isn't good :p)

i'll poke around for a copy of the music. are you going to be practicing with the new keyboard now? :)

[chancel.livejournal.com]

i hate shopping for exactly this reason. no clothes are made to proportions that fit me. i bet you have the long arm issue too. ugh!

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

I think jeans manufacturers actively recruit sadists.