A few weeks ago, I wandered through Target to use the bathroom and got sucked in to the women's clothing department. See, this is what happens when my husband is not with me to curb my shopping ways. I just wanted to look, since the stuff always looks cute in passing, but I like to save up the time I subject Sam to my browsing for more important shopping ventures. So anyway, I stopped, and some some cute skirts and reasonably priced button down tops, as well as a few tank tops that are good for layering. The skirts fit horrendously, but the tops look cute, so I decide to get them. I am in need to button down tops and those ruffly things that seem to be all the rage are not for me.

In hindsight, I know now that I should not have inspected the loose thread. When I pulled on the loose thread sticking out from my middle button, I did not think about the consequences, namely that said button may fall off. Which it did. And it is now in my pocket. Instead of doing its job keeping my shirt shut so that my midriff isn't on display for my office. Did I mention this is the first time I'm wearing the shirt? And so the age old cliche you get what you pay for is proven once again.

In an unrelated note, my mom asked me on the phone last night "So what size storm is this?" According to the NY Times, 7.46 inches fell in Central Park yesterday. According to the New York State Stormwater Management Design Manual, that would put yesterday's storm just around the 100-year storm level. So I guess that makes all the fuss right on target for once. Not that I would know. The extent of my contact with the outdoors yesterday was emptying a bowl collecting the leaks around the door to our deck.

Posted by dahl at April 16, 2007 1:09 PM

The true lesson to be learned here? Keep one of those tiny sewing kits in your desk drawer! It's a girl's best friend.