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minervasoloI went out to buy: pen, comic, possibly a bday present for Gene
I came back with: pen, pencil, comic, SW book, Phys revision book, top, pastry.
The pastry was unintentional. Actually, most of it was, but the pastry espeically. The top was cheap, the book I've wanted for a while, the pencil seduced me with it's swedish designer name and the pastry... Well, the weather changed somewhat abruptly.
Todays outfit: skirt, strappy flat sandals, sleeveless top. I set out to go shopping, it was sunny. So sunny I almost didn't bother with a jacket, content with just the sleeveless top. Luckily I did take my v thin blue hooded sweater (it's not a hoody, really). I ended up putting it on at the busstop; not a good omen.
By the time i had decided to quit shopping and come home I got nabbed by a 'support our charity' guy. As I was talking it began to spit with rain. 'oh well,' I thought, 'I ought to be able to make it to the bus before it really starts raining. I'll stop at the comic shop on the way'. About five steps later I abandoned the comicshop idea and actually took shelter under the ultra-thin hood of the ultra-thin sweater as I stumbled down the alarmingly steep road. About halfway down, the rain drops started to bounce. ohshit. Oh well, at least my feet weren't getting quite so wet, and it didn't hurt. Mabye half a mintue later the hail was coming down in sheets. Every time I put my foot down hail rolled into my sandals between my foot and the sole.
So I ducked into the pastry shop, and was there so long I felt obliged to buy said pastry. That and I was getting hungry. It took about two minutes for the black road to turn white under the sheer volume of hail. Stood there with pastry until the hail turned into rain. Contemplated staying until rain died down, then remembered that I was wearing sandles and I was at the bottom of a steep hill, and realised that the road was beginning to look like one of those mountain springs: all bubbling, gushing ice. So i made a run for it, wishing that I'd at least had the presence of mind to bring my umbrella. But that would have been far too sensible, wouldn't it?
I. Got. Soaked.
And i loved it! Okay, maybe not the potential pneumonia bit, but the thunderstorm was wicked! Loud and melodramatic. That's how I like my weather! Like it more when i'm not in it, but good fun nevertheless.
Basically, today combined two of my favourite weathers: sun and thunderstorm, and reminded me why I shouldn't go shopping alone. I am queen of impulse buys, and now, as a result, broke. But happy. New book, new comic, new top... Oh! And Terry Pratchett is going to be signing copies of his new book in Waterstone's on Thursday the fifteenth! Need to gather people to go worship him, methinks.
ttfn
(I love the smell after rain! So living!)
I came back with: pen, pencil, comic, SW book, Phys revision book, top, pastry.
The pastry was unintentional. Actually, most of it was, but the pastry espeically. The top was cheap, the book I've wanted for a while, the pencil seduced me with it's swedish designer name and the pastry... Well, the weather changed somewhat abruptly.
Todays outfit: skirt, strappy flat sandals, sleeveless top. I set out to go shopping, it was sunny. So sunny I almost didn't bother with a jacket, content with just the sleeveless top. Luckily I did take my v thin blue hooded sweater (it's not a hoody, really). I ended up putting it on at the busstop; not a good omen.
By the time i had decided to quit shopping and come home I got nabbed by a 'support our charity' guy. As I was talking it began to spit with rain. 'oh well,' I thought, 'I ought to be able to make it to the bus before it really starts raining. I'll stop at the comic shop on the way'. About five steps later I abandoned the comicshop idea and actually took shelter under the ultra-thin hood of the ultra-thin sweater as I stumbled down the alarmingly steep road. About halfway down, the rain drops started to bounce. ohshit. Oh well, at least my feet weren't getting quite so wet, and it didn't hurt. Mabye half a mintue later the hail was coming down in sheets. Every time I put my foot down hail rolled into my sandals between my foot and the sole.
So I ducked into the pastry shop, and was there so long I felt obliged to buy said pastry. That and I was getting hungry. It took about two minutes for the black road to turn white under the sheer volume of hail. Stood there with pastry until the hail turned into rain. Contemplated staying until rain died down, then remembered that I was wearing sandles and I was at the bottom of a steep hill, and realised that the road was beginning to look like one of those mountain springs: all bubbling, gushing ice. So i made a run for it, wishing that I'd at least had the presence of mind to bring my umbrella. But that would have been far too sensible, wouldn't it?
I. Got. Soaked.
And i loved it! Okay, maybe not the potential pneumonia bit, but the thunderstorm was wicked! Loud and melodramatic. That's how I like my weather! Like it more when i'm not in it, but good fun nevertheless.
Basically, today combined two of my favourite weathers: sun and thunderstorm, and reminded me why I shouldn't go shopping alone. I am queen of impulse buys, and now, as a result, broke. But happy. New book, new comic, new top... Oh! And Terry Pratchett is going to be signing copies of his new book in Waterstone's on Thursday the fifteenth! Need to gather people to go worship him, methinks.
ttfn
(I love the smell after rain! So living!)
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