Impulse buying and stupid Christmas cards
Dec. 22nd, 2009 06:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muck_a_luckHonestly, I hate doing Christmas cards. I mean, it's nice to get them and all, but I would totally give them up, and save on trees and carbon emissions, if I never had to DO another one again.
That said, Husband seems to think the are some sort of social obligation. Yesterday, he made AG33 prepare them, but they didn't put the addresses on. Apparently, I am the only person capable of doing that. I think it is clearly a passive aggressive move by Husband to involve me in an even that I have very clearly told him for three years in a row now that I HATE and I DO NOT WANT TO DO.
I would just ignore them and leave them there in a pile, but listening to the whining and complaining and nagging would be EVEN MORE ANNOYING than just putting the fucking addresses on them and getting them the fuck out of my house.
Wow. That did not make me feel better.
Moving on, I bought a couple of things from Dude Girl for myself because I like the look of their clothes and they were having a fantastic sale. I thought, now's the time to find out if their clothes are worth it.
The answer is probably no.
Because all three items, which I bought to be workout clothes, apparently require hand wash drip dry.
What the fuck?
But I think I can swing machine wash drip dry. ANd eventually one of htem will accidentally go in the drier, then I can find out if they can really take the drier and then they may all go through the drier. Must ask Mom if there's a good place to get information on how fabrics will actually behave if they go through the drier.
After buying the clothes, I had a spaz, becuse I thought maybe I had managed to buy two pairs of pants for yoga that were not really goign to be OK for yoga. But they came and I'm pretty sure they are going to be fine, though practice will tell. They are *ridiculously* long, though. That is the second big strike against them. I didn't really pay attention to the inseam information, though it is clearly provided. These are either intended for women about 3 inches taller than I am, or they are intended to be worn with about 3 inch heels. Or to be worn only when barefoot. If I wear these with shoes, I will be walking off the hem in no time. But I don't think they are intended for very tall women, because I was finding them kind of short in the crotch. A tall woman would be driven crazy by them, I think.
Unless, of course, she was 3 inches taller than me and maybe 20 pounds *lighter* than me. Perhaps these are clothes for extremely thin women.
Which may be the case, because the River Pant does NOT look like a yoga pant on that model. It looks like a pair of nicely fitting slacks. That means she must have no hip and no ass. And I don't say that in a mean way.
Anyway, as long as the length does not make them irritating to practice in, and as long as the fabric care doesn't drive me completely bonkers, they will be perfectly good for the purpose of yoga practice, but I'm glad I didn't pay any more for them than I did.
Yoga tank (also requiring special fabric care OMG) I think just proves to me that I should not bother with anything that has a "shelf bra" built in. My boobs are just too big. I will try it out for a few practices. Maybe I will even decide I really like it after all. One problem I know I will have, though (from my experience with the only other sports tank I own), is that after yoga, when I'm all jelly arms, it's nearly impossible to struggle out of one of these things. I could barely get it off with normal arms. Cross that bridge when I come to it, I guess.
Man. That was one cranky post. Hopefully my mood will improve as the day goes on.
UPDATE: I should comment that Dude Girl customer service is FANTASTIC. They are fast and they dealt with my address screw up very handily. On the other hand, when I corrected the address error I made, they just decided to send the package to the billing address instead of the shipping address, which turned out fine in my case, but was NOT what I told them to do. So hmmmm. Maybe mixed grade for their customer service. It seems bad to grade the down when I was also being an idiot, but then again, it is their job to deal with idiot customers, so...
That said, Husband seems to think the are some sort of social obligation. Yesterday, he made AG33 prepare them, but they didn't put the addresses on. Apparently, I am the only person capable of doing that. I think it is clearly a passive aggressive move by Husband to involve me in an even that I have very clearly told him for three years in a row now that I HATE and I DO NOT WANT TO DO.
I would just ignore them and leave them there in a pile, but listening to the whining and complaining and nagging would be EVEN MORE ANNOYING than just putting the fucking addresses on them and getting them the fuck out of my house.
Wow. That did not make me feel better.
Moving on, I bought a couple of things from Dude Girl for myself because I like the look of their clothes and they were having a fantastic sale. I thought, now's the time to find out if their clothes are worth it.
The answer is probably no.
Because all three items, which I bought to be workout clothes, apparently require hand wash drip dry.
What the fuck?
But I think I can swing machine wash drip dry. ANd eventually one of htem will accidentally go in the drier, then I can find out if they can really take the drier and then they may all go through the drier. Must ask Mom if there's a good place to get information on how fabrics will actually behave if they go through the drier.
After buying the clothes, I had a spaz, becuse I thought maybe I had managed to buy two pairs of pants for yoga that were not really goign to be OK for yoga. But they came and I'm pretty sure they are going to be fine, though practice will tell. They are *ridiculously* long, though. That is the second big strike against them. I didn't really pay attention to the inseam information, though it is clearly provided. These are either intended for women about 3 inches taller than I am, or they are intended to be worn with about 3 inch heels. Or to be worn only when barefoot. If I wear these with shoes, I will be walking off the hem in no time. But I don't think they are intended for very tall women, because I was finding them kind of short in the crotch. A tall woman would be driven crazy by them, I think.
Unless, of course, she was 3 inches taller than me and maybe 20 pounds *lighter* than me. Perhaps these are clothes for extremely thin women.
Which may be the case, because the River Pant does NOT look like a yoga pant on that model. It looks like a pair of nicely fitting slacks. That means she must have no hip and no ass. And I don't say that in a mean way.
Anyway, as long as the length does not make them irritating to practice in, and as long as the fabric care doesn't drive me completely bonkers, they will be perfectly good for the purpose of yoga practice, but I'm glad I didn't pay any more for them than I did.
Yoga tank (also requiring special fabric care OMG) I think just proves to me that I should not bother with anything that has a "shelf bra" built in. My boobs are just too big. I will try it out for a few practices. Maybe I will even decide I really like it after all. One problem I know I will have, though (from my experience with the only other sports tank I own), is that after yoga, when I'm all jelly arms, it's nearly impossible to struggle out of one of these things. I could barely get it off with normal arms. Cross that bridge when I come to it, I guess.
Man. That was one cranky post. Hopefully my mood will improve as the day goes on.
UPDATE: I should comment that Dude Girl customer service is FANTASTIC. They are fast and they dealt with my address screw up very handily. On the other hand, when I corrected the address error I made, they just decided to send the package to the billing address instead of the shipping address, which turned out fine in my case, but was NOT what I told them to do. So hmmmm. Maybe mixed grade for their customer service. It seems bad to grade the down when I was also being an idiot, but then again, it is their job to deal with idiot customers, so...
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