Spot the lie in my last post!
Aug. 10th, 2006 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalannaI confess: I really don't have that owl purse. Yet.
But I've been trying to get it online and offline for almost three weeks now. It was in three of those silly August fashion magazines, and Teenybopper Vogueslut claimed that a Target in Plano, Texas, had the line. Ha!
Rant: WHY is it that every fashion magazine (yes, I've been buying them to see what "regular chicks" wear who don't have to live in black leggings, T-shirt or tank, and occasionally a denim skirt) does this? They will show an item and give a phone number and website. But when you call to try to buy it or you go online, they have no such product or discontinued it ages ago. Okay, this makes no sense.
Yes, the mags are written six months in advance or whatever, but those stores send over the samples that they intend to have in-store, don't they? And that's what would make marketing sense, isn't it? So what happens in between? I have found that JCPenney, The Gap, and Old Navy are the only two who can be counted on to have what has been featured for that month.
Prompting this rant is the owl plaid purse that Target is supposed to have. It's a "Paul and Joe for Go International" item from their new line, but that is not why I want it. I want it because that looks like the Mensa owl, and I thought it would be funny if I got that purse and used it to tote my knitting to the next Mensa Stitch'n'Bitch knitting circle meeting. I have cloisonne owl earrings and a rubber-stamped brooch to match. Shut up, I know it's nerdy. But I thought it'd be funny.
Well, somebody thought that owl crap would not play well in Texas. Because I am here to tell you that despite various magazines showing people claiming to be from Plano TX going into a Target to get this stuff, they are LIARS, because I have confronted the buyers from the three Plano-area SuperTarget stores and they looked at me blankly and said that what they's got, they's got out on the shelves.
This expedition was not a total loss--they had marked down two leather belts to $9 each, size L/XL, and I think I should be able to wear those within a couple of months. Of course, if I ever put *on* a belt, everyone will shriek, "That cuts you in half! It makes your butt look HUGE! We in our family cannot wear belts!" but I will not hear them, la la la.
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I had to laugh out loud on getting this astrological report for the Sunday after I heard back from the agent who's going to call me in a couple of weeks.
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More girly stuff: so the doctor gave me Retin-A cream. I know you use it at night and only apply a thin film. Will it seep into your eyes if you put it on those dang wrinkles from all those years of squinting to see the screen?! Also, I went out and got Olay Total Effects for daytime. So can I put that on in the morning without washing off the Retin-A residue? Or do I need to wash my face (with some kind of foaming cleanser to get all that sleepsand off) first? I also saw that Neutrogena has an anti-wrinkle thing out, but Olay seems to have the best reviews.
It seems that I can't wear eye makeup. It always stings. And now I have crepey eyelids. That is CREEPY. I never did anything to make my eyelids act this way. Now they grab on to powder and cream shadows and make the Phyllis Diller eyes. Bummer!
Oh, well. Ugly is as ugly thinks.
But I've been trying to get it online and offline for almost three weeks now. It was in three of those silly August fashion magazines, and Teenybopper Vogueslut claimed that a Target in Plano, Texas, had the line. Ha!
Rant: WHY is it that every fashion magazine (yes, I've been buying them to see what "regular chicks" wear who don't have to live in black leggings, T-shirt or tank, and occasionally a denim skirt) does this? They will show an item and give a phone number and website. But when you call to try to buy it or you go online, they have no such product or discontinued it ages ago. Okay, this makes no sense.
Yes, the mags are written six months in advance or whatever, but those stores send over the samples that they intend to have in-store, don't they? And that's what would make marketing sense, isn't it? So what happens in between? I have found that JCPenney, The Gap, and Old Navy are the only two who can be counted on to have what has been featured for that month.
Prompting this rant is the owl plaid purse that Target is supposed to have. It's a "Paul and Joe for Go International" item from their new line, but that is not why I want it. I want it because that looks like the Mensa owl, and I thought it would be funny if I got that purse and used it to tote my knitting to the next Mensa Stitch'n'Bitch knitting circle meeting. I have cloisonne owl earrings and a rubber-stamped brooch to match. Shut up, I know it's nerdy. But I thought it'd be funny.
Well, somebody thought that owl crap would not play well in Texas. Because I am here to tell you that despite various magazines showing people claiming to be from Plano TX going into a Target to get this stuff, they are LIARS, because I have confronted the buyers from the three Plano-area SuperTarget stores and they looked at me blankly and said that what they's got, they's got out on the shelves.
This expedition was not a total loss--they had marked down two leather belts to $9 each, size L/XL, and I think I should be able to wear those within a couple of months. Of course, if I ever put *on* a belt, everyone will shriek, "That cuts you in half! It makes your butt look HUGE! We in our family cannot wear belts!" but I will not hear them, la la la.
I had to laugh out loud on getting this astrological report for the Sunday after I heard back from the agent who's going to call me in a couple of weeks.
Pisces: Clear communication is easier when less is said (snrrrrk). Keeping your communications clear is an easier task if you don't say too much. You might think that saying less is better than saying more, and perhaps it really is.
More girly stuff: so the doctor gave me Retin-A cream. I know you use it at night and only apply a thin film. Will it seep into your eyes if you put it on those dang wrinkles from all those years of squinting to see the screen?! Also, I went out and got Olay Total Effects for daytime. So can I put that on in the morning without washing off the Retin-A residue? Or do I need to wash my face (with some kind of foaming cleanser to get all that sleepsand off) first? I also saw that Neutrogena has an anti-wrinkle thing out, but Olay seems to have the best reviews.
It seems that I can't wear eye makeup. It always stings. And now I have crepey eyelids. That is CREEPY. I never did anything to make my eyelids act this way. Now they grab on to powder and cream shadows and make the Phyllis Diller eyes. Bummer!
Oh, well. Ugly is as ugly thinks.
Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.# # #
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, "You can't say that."
--both quotations from Garrison Keillor
