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April 30, 2005
save the whales
i am watching "gadgets field trip something or other" and he is visiting the florida keys. they showed a dolphin flopping around and i remembered this one time in 3rd grade when we had some kind of penny drive or whatever to raise money to "save the whales". so i got a button that said "save the whales" and wore it on my back pack. then one day while walking home some guy was all "hey! you dropped this!" and it was my button . he gave it back to me and i was embarrassed that he knew i wanted to save the whales. sheesh.
yesterday after work i went to brents and then we went to marysville and everett thrift stores. it was nice because going there is always better than settling for the crap around here.
we went to everett first. the first store we went to was the salvation army, i think, which we don't usually go to. i found a pair of havaianas flip-flops. they were marked $1.99. good deal. i went up to pay for them and asked if i could use my credit card and the lady says "not for these!" and i was all like "whuuu?" and then she says " fifty four cents please." even better deal. the last flip flops i got were locals which were also less than a dollar. i have been looking for another pair but they are hard to find. so these new ones should hold me over..
after that we went to shop and save and i got some corduroy fabrics and a cardigan and a wild brown flower-y swirly shirt. while we were there a church bus came and all this church kids ran in and went straight for the plaid pajama pant section. one girl said "we're doing a 30 hour famine and we only get $2 to spend on the clothes we wear tonight!!" then the clerk said "oh! that is really nice."
oh, okay? what do you need to spend $2 on clothes for? you are already wearing clothes. and i'm sure you have seven pairs of plaid jammie pants at home. why not donate that money to third world people? instead of spending it on crotch stained clothes? and while you're at it, why don't you just cut out the pizza party that you're going to have at the end of your hunger strike and use that money to send to starving babies in africa. shit, people.
okay, so after all that, we went to m-ville and picked up erin. then we ate at la hacienda. it was barf. marysville has only mexican restaurants it seemes. ahhh, marysville... next stop was H.O.M.E. and guess what? THEY'RE CLOSING! appartenly whoever owns the building won't renew their lease because they want to get somebody else in there. somebody that's gonna pay more money for that shit hole. i'm sorry, but nobody is going to want that place. it has sat empty many other times and i bet that H.O.M.E gets more business than the salvation army did when it was there. sheesh. anyway, so they were having everything 75% off and all of it was shit. we left and went to the goodwill. i found 4 velvety blazers in about 2 seconds. i bought two and brent bought one. one of mine is a brown color with puffed sleeves! PUFFED SLEEVES!!
i will leave it at that. PUFFED SLEEVES!
Posted by alison at April 30, 2005 09:54 AM
Comments
uh, we went to saint vincent de paul first. also: you forgot to mention that i got a medievally-dancy jacket for less than a dollar which was supposed to be a part of a whole jacket-skirt ensemble. I'm thinking of having a bunch of my friends dress in dance costumes and go to a bar for my birthday. but i don't think that it will totally happen because a lot of my friends would not feel comfortable with that. what if i buy everyone tights?
Posted by: brent at May 4, 2005 06:51 PM
um. i knew i forgot something. or else gave the wrong information. shit. i need an editor.
someone just called and asked for someone else. i said "hold on a minute" and they said "aight"
that really bugs me.
Posted by: alison at May 5, 2005 02:23 PM