Pants!

If I can blog about socks, I can blog about pants.

This morning, I had a spate of good bus karma. Caught my bus at a redlight, and since the machine was down, it was a free ride! Got to my temp gig, where my own efficiency killed me. What for your average trained monkey should have taken 2 full days basically took me one long one. Then again alphabetizing and filing taps into a special OCD part of me. (I once alphabetized 2 shelves in the video store, ostensibly because it was raining, mostly because once you start, you can't stop. Ask the Cheese Fiend.)

So I was done with everything by 11. Which afforded me some time to spend in the Loop. I decided to take the advantage to shop for new work pants. And now is the time! Killer sales as every store is desperate to think spring thoughts. (Funny the day before it promises to go from unseasonably chilly to appropriately damn cold.) I was like a kid in a candy store as I squeezed down the aisles packed with people and pants. Made a couple trips to the dressing room. Owned up to my size, which is both odder and bigger than I expected. But as I got into queue I discovered that I had every gift card EXCEPT my Old Navy one. Damn. Bussed home to collect it, ended up at a different Old Navy. Where they not only had pants but my favorite fleece shirt! I did my best attempt at self-restraint, leaving the store with only 5 pairs of pants, the fleece, and a hat to go with Dork Coat. Paying, on average, $6/pair!!! In case new clothes weren't exciting enough, make it alot, and then make it 80% off!

on the tube: "Screwed" - a Lewis Black special. Get that man some valium - he's twitching.