holidays
Well the holiday season is here. What to buy what to buy!??! I need this, no that, and some of these, oh and this too. There are some things I need I suppose but getting other gifts is far more pleasing I think. So with that in mind lets look at a few online stores i'm checkin out.
I saw ads in chicago awhile back for RedEnvelope, interesting site. Hmmm maybe get a personalized ginger bread house. Oh ya. And then theres Elsewares, got that link from Newstoday the other day. I like the socks. Elsewares is a TAD more affordable me thinks. Then earlier today I took a sneek peek at DeanDeluca. I keep getting mailings from there. Hmm maybe some chocolate or steak perhaps?
Sometimes I wonder why I have all of these odd ball magazine subscriptions. Real Simple, Budget Living, Dwell, I mean I occasionally find a nice thing or two in them but why really.. why.. Well I just pulled out a nice piece on retail shopping patterns from Real Simple, lol, never thought I'd see a bit like that in that mag of all places. Its freshing though. Its like get a gut vibe to follow these mags and then moments like this confirm the gut. Listen to yer gut.
I'm especially hard on Real Simple. Its a huge magazine and 89% of its content seems directly aimed at women. Being the lonesome man reading this magazine I blow past all the ads and perfume swatches and dig out the little bits that interest me: the good cheap deals on gift ideas, a nice article on motivation, the retail shopping patterns piece, a nice guide on stretching, a receipe on spicy holiday nuts, a comparison chart on caffinee - i love their comparison pages and... woah... syncronicty just arrives.
Last sunday while visitng my folks I was asked to come over for dinner this thursday.. well thursday has arrived, on sunday when my mother asked me what I wanted for dinner I thought about it a sec and said ooooo beef stroganoff. I love that dish. Well thursday is here and while flipping thru the Real Simple, guess what appears on the very last page, typically their thicker paper hand out that has all these little bits of helpful info and quotes.. well down in the bottom left hand corner - a receipe for beef stroganoff. Huh. Maybe I was channeling thursday from the future back last sunday. Who knows. Kinda cool. Anyway ya slice it.
Let's flip thru dwell..
Reading dwell makes me wanna buy a new sofa and some art prints. And for some reason I'm curious just how cool my faucets look.
Hmmm maybe I need jawbone.. I dont think the sidekick supports it.
Xanderblue, cool
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Whatever ya do be sure to tune into xmas via SomaFM's xmas radio.
I hope we get snow. Today we got rained on big time. Its ghastly out.