December 2009
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one meatball
I almost did it. I almost stopped shopping until 2010. Until I went to Indianapolis for the Christmas holiday and was seduced by the siren call of cheap, trendy shopping in Broad Ripple, effectively ending my three month-long spending hiatus. I say good for me. My dad would say, “you get no bread with one meatball.” Oh, well. I got this adorable one-piece dress at Pitaya, a small...
Dec 30th
rocks
Geology is neat when your grandfather is a petroleum geologist like mine. Very Texan, right? It is. (By the way, there is oil in Texas. Or there used to be. I hope they find some more.) He’s also a collector. Of everything. Not only rocks, but cool little trinkets and mementos and they all have stories and even though I don’t “know” my grandfather very well because he is...
Dec 24th
so we can put a man on the moon
This ad is from 1963, but I know many modern women that struggle with this issue. You would think fashion “technology” would have come further by now, wouldn’t you? Maidenform Bra ad, 1963 (image seen first and borrowed from Love Puppy)
Dec 2nd