Bagain Shopper Extraordinaire

For some reason my relatives all like to get me Macy's gift certificates, despite me offering a slew of other things they can get me. The Macy's gift certificate is tricky. The place is huge, so I could definitely find something there, right? However, I get overwhelmed having to spend a couple hundred bucks at one place. I feel the need to make every dollar count, and not spend it on frivolous crap like lotion (which I won't need anyway as I got another gift certificate to a Bath and Body Works. Oh Omaha malls, curses for being the only place my parents can get me gifts!).

When I walked in I was a bit worried. I did a fast scan of all the floors, and didn't see much. No shoes I liked, no bags, not a lot of sweaters...I was nervous. Would my 250 dollars go to waste? Would it be like last year when it took me months to spend my gift certificates to Macy's (I think last year I got FOUR)? Thank god I noticed that the third floor is where all that crap that I like (i.e. expensive crap) is located.

I gravitated to this grey cowlneck sweater at the BCBG section. Unlucky for me, they didn't have my size, they only had the teeny tiny and the mega mega. So I wandered a bit more and found a French Connection sweater that is seriously adorable. As in, I'd wear it every day the rest of my life if I could, adorable. And again, only the teeny tiny and the mega mega. I was bummed, my shopping spirits dampened. I sensed an inevitable repeat of last year. Yet I trudged on, as anyone who rarely has money to spend should.

I wandered around a bit more, and noticed that someone was folding those cowlnecks. As soon as the sales associate left I raced to the table and saw a few more grey ones. They had one in my size! Yay! So I went try it on, and brought one of those "I'll never ever afford but want to try it on anyway" dresses with me. The sweater fit, the dress didn't. As I left the dressing room I noticed another one of the French Connection adorable sweaters, and lo and behold! My size! It was like shopping serendipity. I went to buy them, and holy moses! Huge sale! The BCBG was originally 190 dollars, and I got it for 56! The French Connection was originally 125 and I got it for 60! What the hell!? I was so excited about my deals that I decided to go buy some of that worthless body wash from Philosophy that smells soooo good.

I also got my watch battery replaced, so I can finally tell what time it is without using my cell phone. I love that watch, so it was worth the wait for the battery replacement in Macy's basement.

Riding high on my successes, I came home and tackled the nastiness that is my stove top. I also organized all of my bills, paperwork, manuals, and whatever else has been piling up since I moved in last May. I feel much much more relaxed with that taken care of.

And now I smell a neighbor cooking carmelized onions. Yum.