mission successful!

okay, today was crazy because i had like 14 things to do, and i got them all done! well, mostly. one of them required a pinch-hit from the husband, and one of them fell through but that wasn't my fault. anyway, i mentioned yesterday that i was on the hunt for several things, so here i am to report back.

after the humane society but before my haircut, i ran to target in order to look for the coat, as well as pick up a new laundry basket (i'm pretty sure the one we've been using is one that i got from my mom when i moved out of her house. in 1995.) and a new desk lamp (i've spent too long hating mine. more on that in a moment). i found the coat (hooray!) and tried it on. it's cute, and it's long-ish and dressy, which is great. unfortunately, it didn't fit me well. boo! oh well, at least i tried. and thanks again to vivaciousvegan for bringing it to my attention in the first place!

after my haircut, i went on a crazy vegan shopping spree and bought a ridiculous amount of stuff. mostly junk food. i also got 6 cartons of the condensed soymilk (which i think is the equivalent of maybe 3 or 4 cans of eaglebrand), so i'm incredibly psyched to test that out. unfortunately, it's going to have to wait until next week sometime, because i'm leaving the day after tomorrow for a conference. that's right, for the second year in a row, i'm taking NaBloPoMo on the road! w00t!

so okay, besides the condensed soymilk, i also bought a sweet & sara peanut butter s'more treat, some dry roasted edamame, 12 (yes, 12) mini-peanut butter cups from sjaak's, a giant handful of teriyaki jerky (bleah. for my sister.), a packet of chocolate mousse (supposedly "just add water," but i'm tempted to "just add soymilk" instead... hope i don't ruin it), a jumbo shaker of parma and a small bottle of flavored parma (who knew they had flavors?), something new called krinkle sticks, and something that is basically caramel pudding. these are the things i can remember off the top of my head. basically, i'm set on junk food for quite awhile.

on the way home, i stopped at whole foods to pick up the pumpkin spice silk. DENIED. i got cranky, turned on my heel, and walked out. i drove from there to the little market nearby (it's half-delicious restaurant, half-market), because my husband said that the thought he'd seen some there. DENIED. almost out of options at this point, i headed to the teensy tiny baby co-op sort of close to our home, and they had it!! i was shocked, and i made a big show to the co-op dude about how this was like the 4th or 5th place we'd looked, and hooray they were the only ones to stock it! i think he was part-excited, and part-irritated with me for trying a million other places before coming to his co-op. heh, i suck.

so then i came home and unloaded my enormous amount of vegan gluttony, and headed upstairs to assemble my new lamp. my old desk lamp (i think i bought it when i was in grad school, but i honestly can't remember right now) was one of those long lanky things, with the counter-balance dealie so you can make it taller or shorter, or angle it like you're interrogating someone. it has a wee halogen bulb, which isn't the most friendly light, and it also burns very hot, which can get annoying. so i've been wanting a new desk lamp for like, oh i don't know, three years? and today i decided i would buy one.

things i love about my new lamp: it has a simple silver base and a clean white lampshade. i have a 60 watt reveal bulb in there right now, and it gives off a much more pleasant light than the old one did. it looks pretty on my desk. the mood in the room is completely different. yay!

things that are already bugging the crap out of me about my new lamp: it has a pull chain instead of a flip-switch, and the amount of force needed to pull the chain is such that it almost knocks the entire lamp over. which is patently ridiculous, and you'd think a massive design flaw. so, i'll keep it there for a couple of days and see if i figure out a system. otherwise, back to the store it goes!

tonight i hope to try the pumpkin silk. the amount of build-up i've been giving this whole thing is kind of crazy, hey?

Comments

[d]

I think you'll find the Pumpkin Silk was worth all the adventuring. Cheers!!

[Deb]

Excellent on your vegan finds! And now you know - co-op first! :D

I got a lamp I really like at Ikea a while back. A simple wood base and it came with a simple white lampshade, and the on/off is a switch on the cord itself, which I prefer. If you have an ikea handy, it might be worth checking out their lamps!

I can't wait to hear what you think of the pumpkin spice! :)

[vivaciousvegan]

Aww, too bad about the coat. I was a little concerned that it's too long on me (I'm 5'0") but oh well. I'm looking on the bright side that it will keep more of me warmer. hehehe.

So interested in hearing about your junk food finds. You picked up a lot of yummy sounding treats.

[girl least likely to]

d and deb--i tried it last night, but i'm going to drink it at least once more before weighing in with an official opinion. hee.

deb--in all honesty, we DID go to a co-op first; just not his co-op. we have a "big" co-op here in town, with three locations, and one of them is about 2 minutes from our house. that's where we tried first, but they didn't have it. so the tiny baby co-op was kind of my last resort. i have nothing but love for them, but i just didn't think to try them first because they're sooo little. oh well, that'll teach me! thanks for the tip on the ikea lamp, too. we don't have one here in town but we do get to one occasionally. my husband said that after using my pull-chain a bunch of times, it might ease up a bit, so we'll see.

vv--oh you're a shorty like me! i actually have a couple of inches on you, but i still thought it fit me kind of funny. it looked a little like i was wearing my (hypothetical) big sister's coat. mostly it was a "not filling out the boob darts" problem. heh.

[Sarah]

Dude, you bought a lot of crap! And it's crap that I wished I had myself! Lucky!