My cold has come back with a vengeance and I decided today that it’s time to suck it up and make some proper soup of some sort, so off to the market I went.
I’ve often felt that if you’re feeling poorly, taking a few minutes to spruce up will make you feel better. However today my mood was, “OK, so I’m gonna look like a scary 70s housefrau, the world can deal with it.”
If nothing else, I think my look probably cemented the idea that the market is NOT a good place to pick up chicks with the local male community. Come on, if this isn’t a come hither look, I don’t know what is: Sweatpants, MCM shirt, Tevas and hair doing god knows what, cause I just pulled it back into a clip without looking in a mirror and off I went.
I also discovered that in the same vein of “don’t go to the market when you’re hungry”, that I shouldn’t go to the market when I have a cold. For whatever reason, EVERYTHING looked good. I guess it has something to do with the fact that when I do have a cold, I will eat pretty much anything within reach. (There was an incident at Red Lobster many years ago on my brother’s birthday. I had quite the head cold, and I lost count of how many cheese biscuits I devoured, and how many times I asked family members, “Are you going to finish that? Can I have a bite?”)
And I must say, the Starbucks next to the local market is VERY convenient. And if Starbucks can’t fix me, nothing can.
January 16th, 2008 - 9:45 pm
“Come on, if this isn’t a come hither look, I don’t know what is: Sweatpants, MCM shirt, Tevas and hair doing god knows what, cause I just pulled it back into a clip without looking in a mirror and off I went.”
That just screams: EASY!
No, not that way. More like easy going, easy to please, Very non-high maintenance. If you were on the cereal aisle or around frozen dinners, then you would have been getting some looks.
January 16th, 2008 - 10:01 pm
You are too kind. :)
Unfortunately I managed to skip the cereal and frozen aisles… Damn!