Monday, January 27

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Decent sleep, and for me choosing not to berate myself for "getting up late". It would be helpful if I could get up earlier on Monday so that I could get to pottery earlier, but you know, it is what it is. Being angry with myself isn't useful.

I tried not to feel like there was "something I should do" about Aunt E and Uncle M. It's out of my control.

I did normal chores and animal care, and went to town for pottery.

I forgot my tools, but was able to borrow some from A, another woman I've known a long time now.

I talked with her for a while, and it was a little sad. I don't think her husband is doing very well, and I'm not entirely sure if I responded with enough empathy.

I was able to throw the separate pieces for another tea pot, so that was good. I had to push, and it was hard to clean up quickly since I had to be all done before the evening class started. I've been cutting it close, but it's hard when I can only get to the studio so late in the day.

Anyhow, it was good to be there, if only for a short time.

Then I went to Winner's, and today it was like EVERYTHING was speaking to me. I did find some wide leg jeans that looked great, which was a surprise to me, and they were very reasonable. They feel summery to me.

Then I got groceries, and as always I am very grateful to have access to safe food, to have the means to buy groceries, and the physical ability to do so.

Then I came home, moved Dandy back (and it makes me so happy that this little pony who used to be terrified of being caught now comes over to me willingly, full of trust, to be taken back to his other pen).

Then I brought in the groceries and put them away. My Sweetie was not home yet; there was a special class at his climbing gym with a physiotherapist, and he didn't get home until fairly late.

So, I ate, and when he came home we chatted a bit, but he pretty much had to go straight to bed.

Comments

[ratunderpaper]

I'd like to have a premium Winners night like that. They come by every now and then.

[gottawonder]

I found several things that would have really worked, but you have to be moderate!

[ratunderpaper]

Before Christmas, I saw a big bottle of Delina (Parfums de Marly) and a Mason-Pearson hairbrush. I bought neither; they were out of my price range. But...I'd like to see stuff like that again.

[gottawonder]

I have found some truly nice things through Winner's over the years, things I would not have been able/willing to buy at full price.

I have built up quite a perfume closet, mostly through Winner's. Some are pretty ordinary perfumes, though it takes time to learn that even "nice" perfumes can repeat a theme and you don't need to buy those that are very similar, but some are very different.

I am being more picky with the perfumes now, and I look ALL of them up on Fragantica for reviews and the perfume notes before I buy, since you can hardly ever try it on first.

Even if you don't buy them, it's nice to still see the odd truly high quality item go through there, because I'm starting to feel like a lot of the things in there are not REALLY designer anymore, but stuff made by fake designers or even from real designers but made for mass market.

[ratunderpaper]

I went to one Winners before Christmas, and it seemed that just aobut everything I was looking for was there - some great prices, some not so much. I bought things for other people, and left the stuff that appealed to me. Mistake! It was gone when I went back.

I notice they've got consistently good prices on yak sticks. Mungo loves them.

[gottawonder]

I'm to the point where I buy most of my clothes and bedding and so on there, because it's generally decent prices for nice things.

Unless we go to the city, our shopping choices are oddly a bunch of more boutique type clothing stores that are pricey, or Wal-mart/Superstore.

[ratunderpaper]

I went to one of the local Winners today! They had Byredo perfume (Rose of No Man's Land) and I would have fainted if it had been Blanche.

[gottawonder]

The perfume at the local Winner's has been pretty ho hum the last few visits. There are only a few nicer ones they keep locked up now, which I understand if there's been theft.

I don't know that I've ever seen anything by Byredo at our store. Hermes once or twice though, and very nice indeed.

I've taken a liking to Burberry, even the men's colognes, which are a bit unisex. London is wonderful on me.

[ratunderpaper]

Today I saw Rose of No Man's Land, and some others by Replica, Juliette Has a Gun, and Coach.

A sister ballerina gave me two Hermès samples, but they smelled too masculine for me. I gave them to the denizens.

I was hoping to find a Mason-Pearson brush, but no go. They did have LeJaby underthings.

[gottawonder]

It sounds like overall, your perfume options are nicer than what I've typically seen in the Winner's around here lately, for about a year now it seems like the ones near me are getting more inexpensive scents, and fewer high end ones.

I wonder if they're just thinking we are a different market?