Purse goodness.

[same_sky]

My parents called me just before eleven this morning to ask if I wanted to go Christmas shopping with them. It occured to me that indeed I did, so off we went. We had an extremely nice day, with nummy food and an excessive amount of time spent at Lazarus. (Macy's equivalent.) Normally, it's too expensive to even breathe in there, but there were some good sales, and my dad opened a credit account to get extra savings ($25+15%) and there was a 15% off on everything in the store already. Anyway, I ended up buying six purses, ranging in price from $5.41 to $6.29. They're small but cute. One of them is a Fossil, one is a Liz Claiborne, one is an Aignor. Hey, I'll post a picture so you can see my good deal.


I don't know, I was just really excited by it. My mom and I had loads of fun sorting through these purses. We made a lifelong friend while we were at it... random shoppers were unusually friendly today. I bet you're wondering what I'm going to do with so very many little purses, eh? Very little girls, mainly. ;) Cheap presents that still have $29 on the tag are my kind of deals. Although I actually am going to keep at least one of them. (The one with the swirly design.) I might keep another one, although I'm not sure I can justify it. My mom bought still another one for me for Christmas. :) In any case, I've run out of little girls for Christmas anyway, so I'll have a bit of time until next year or a random birthday or something to decide.

I can't believe I just wrote two whole paragraphs about purses. I'll try to stop being boring now before I start writing about what I had for breakfast or the tree on New Circle that looks just like Bart Simpson. I should probably tell a funny story to counteract the boredom of the previous shopping-related paragraphs. Hmm. I can't think of much funny at the moment. I'm wearing shorts and a sweater, that's a little funny. Of course, that really just means that I look funny, not that I am funny. I reminded my mom today about how my brother complained bitterly about his wife buying him square pants, but that's only funny if you were there. Oh, I could write about the time that I fell off a boat... but on retrospect, that wasn't fucking funny at all.

Fuck. That's what I could write about. I try to avoid using the word too often because I know it offends some people and my mother, for one, absolutely hates it. However, I think it's one of the best words in the English language and I struggle to not use it much in my journal entries. I had an excellent English teacher my junior year (actually, every single one of my English teachers were excellent, but then, I think that the honors students tend to get the best teachers) who mentioned once (without saying the word, of course) that we all knew what the king of all curse words was. I was sitting there thinking "no, really, what is it?" I inferred from the rumblings in the class that it was the mighty fuck that so outraged people.. I guess this is just another example of my lack of familiarity with popular culture or something. I'd never really considered it particularly vile. I actually think shit is a much uglier word, although I do use it sometimes. In any case, someone sent a mail about how the FCC is going to allow all uses of the "f-word" on national television and radio to a mailing list that I'm on. They were completely outraged and urging us all to take action. I found it annoying but only mildly so, but then someone else responded to it in anger and actually USED the word in question, and man, did it all hit the fan then. There was some true venom coming out of the blue there. I really could not believe that they were getting so worked up about it.

That was also not as interesting as I envisioned so I'll just stop before I go into it any further. Whee, people got pissed off on a mailing list--imagine that! I think I just wanted an excuse to write about fucking. I mean, I'm already the number one hit on Google for "commie heathen" so why not try to boost my statistics even further? ;) I'm really on a roll here tonight, folks, but unfortunately, it's all downhill. Of course, it makes sense that the roll is downhill because of like, gravity and stuff, but still. I'm feeling extremely random, but at least I'm happy and not sick, so yay! :) Shopping therapy must agree with me. M and I usually don't do much browsing. We look at very specific things and then get the heck out, so this is fun occasionally. I should stop rambling, though, and go switch some laundry over so I can wear my warm loungy pants tomorrow. Also, I'm almost very sleepy so might have to drag husband off to bed soon. He's very into that Star Wars game so he would stay up all night if I let him, I think. :)

Comments

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Nice bags! The colourful one looks cool! Very good purchase.

And I'm glad you're okay with the word fuck, considering how much I use it ;)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

The colorful one is the only one that I bought specifically for one person (well, except the one that I'm keeping.) I don't know why, but it reminded me of my cousin Krista. I kept looking at it and thinking "oh, that's cool!" but then I'd look away and return to it and think "this is really ugly if you just look at the colors" but they all went together well somehow, so I'm glad you also approve.

Fuck is funny because you kind of need to keep track of who doesn't like it in your head. I know one of my LJ/mud friends doesn't like it, so it's a struggle to keep it in in front of her though I do try. It's always nice when you have someone you can curse at, though. Err, with. Right. With, not at. ;)

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

You can curse AT me if you ever feel the need ;)

I gave up keeping track of who doesn't like it a while ago and just end up with friends who can copy :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I'll keep that in mind. Not only can I be totally honest and tactless with you, I can also CURSE at you. It's always nice to have a friend like that. :)

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Copy = cope

I'm losing my marbles. Will you and M look after me when I'm old and insane? Thanks :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Sure. I had noticed that about your disappearing marbles, but I'm too polite to say so.

I thought copy sounded a little weird, but you often use phrases that take me a minute to digest, so I figured it was strange slang of some sort. ;)

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

y'all back off now, like, okay!

[tallefjant.livejournal.com]

So what did you have for your fucking breakfast?

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Good answer. ;)

I actually don't eat breakfast, but there really is a tree that looks just like Bart Simpson. I should have taken a picture of it while the leaves were still on it..

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

that was an excellent ramble. I loved it! No wait, I FUCKING loved it! One of my favorite lines, where you cracked me up (again): I'm really on a roll here tonight, folks, but unfortunately, it's all downhill.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

*grin* Thank you muchly. :) I think it's pretty amusing that I'm funny mainly when I talk about how dull I am, but at least it seems to work for me sometimes. *giggle*

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

I used to hate that word but now I use it on a daily basis. I usually say "fuck a duck" when I'm knitting. Mike prefers "fuck-a-doodle-doo". I do find it odd that you didn't know fuck was the king of the curse words. When I was teaching you would hear shit, damn, hell ect in the classroom all the time. I'd make the kids write 10 words they could replace it with and we'd go on with little smirks on our faces (I tried to look serious). But if a kid ever let fuck slip they knew they'd had it. They'd turn ten shades of pale and start apologizing and beg me not to send them to the office. I only sent one kid to the office for that, but that's because he called me a fucking whore because I woke him up. Anyway, this is getting very long and essentially pointless.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I think it's due to two things, really. My family is strongly anti-dirty-words in general, so I kind of had the opinion that most all of them were fairly equally bad--except for one particular one that was expressly and utterly forbidden. (You know, the "though shalt not take God's name in vain" one.) I actually got in big trouble once when my brother's best friend told my parents that I said that, which I didn't. So when I learned that fuck is the king of curses, I was a little surprised. However, I really didn't curse in high school much I don't think (I swear, you would have liked having me as a student, if that was chronologically possible. I was all sorts of boring and responsible.)

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

I once wrote a comment about the use of the word fuck. Which is one of my favourite words, though sadly losing potency because of overuse. What I wrote then was:

I really hate people who can't go through a whole sentence without saying fuck.

"Fuck, man. I went to the fuckin' store and I was fuckin' thirsty as a motherfucker. I looked in the fuckin' cooler and I was like, 'fuck!' Those fuckers didn't even have one fuckin' coke. How the fuck can you run a fucking convenience store and not even fuckin' have any fuckin' coke?! Fuck! I was fuckin' pissed! I told the cashier, 'Fuck you!' but he fuckin' looked at me like he didn't even fuckin care."

Look. Don't get me wrong. I adore the word fuck. That word and I have shared many good times. The problem that I have with people using fuck all of the time, is that they are gradually sapping away its bite. I don't want fuck to turn into the next drat or golly. I want fuck to be able to piss off the squares. I want fuck to keep its edge. Sure. Use it when you need it, but the way they're using it, it's not going to carry any more emphatic value than lamp or car.

People that say fuck all day long should have to pay reparation to writers for contributing to the weakening of a great word. Oh well... At least we still have cunt.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I remember that one. It made me laugh. Our glorious neighbors are like that. "Fuck you, you fucking fucker!" is something that we still say routinely in this household for emphasis after one of the drunken fight episode. I hope no one ever overhears that, because it's really an embarrassing thing to be caught saying, actually.

The problem with cunt is that it's not a very good adjective. ;)

[stewlis.livejournal.com]

Just to let ya know, you don't come up at all when you search Google for "commie heathen." They must have fixed it. Still odd though.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Cool. :) I told LJ not to let search engines index my journal anymore, so it's nice to see that it worked. Also, I made that entry (Oct 10, i think.. Toby Keith) friends-only, so that might have been it, too. I was getting loads of random bitchy responses from idiots.. hehe. :)