NUNS Looking Good
I have been faithful to my vow.
I nearly fell to pieces over a cheap collection of Patsy Kline. And put her back on the rack.
Necessary Needed Shopping has been done (not all of that either) -- that's it.
23 Non-Shopping Days left of Lent and looking smug.
I nearly fell to pieces over a cheap collection of Patsy Kline. And put her back on the rack.
Necessary Needed Shopping has been done (not all of that either) -- that's it.
23 Non-Shopping Days left of Lent and looking smug.
posted by Aisha | 8:10 AM
10 Comments:
I've been faithful as well. I went to WalMart tonight for groceries and other necessities and it was sure hard to pass up the CD's and DVD's. Shoe laces and a squeegy for my glass top patio table don't count, do they?
Oh, no, I am hanging my head in shame. Going to a tropical style dinner/auction on Saturday night and I didn't want to be the only parrothead in old clothes:-(
So I sold out for green silk pants and gold sandals.
Another day in ,um, Purgatory.
No joke,
Carol
Hmmmm...
maybe if it hadn't been silk and gold we could've got away with it, Sister Carol :)
Squeegee, now that is not what I call luxuries though, Sister Laurie...
I did buy a necessary outfit myself, at H&M, very utility when I overstayed on my winter break with too few clothes, but THAT was an emergency and I didn't count it.
All camouflage anorak and basic T-shirt. Nice orange colour, but so what? Cheap and needed.
Polishing Her Halo (need a squeegee)
Aisha
Hmm Aisha, you could have washed instead of buying more clothes, or just jumped into the water with your clothes on (seen you do that about ten minutes after I first met you :)))).
I had to buy gas for the car today, prices going up again. Now that the border to America for Canadian cattle seems closed indefinitely, the least we can do way up here is make use of our natural resources, such as convert methane into an automobile fuel. That would give a whole new meaning to the old Bob Dylan song, Blowing in the Wind — Driving on the Wind.
HWA
Well, not that I'd join the NUNS as it is, but even if I wanted to, try having your birthday during Lent and avoid shopping... Any family that is truly religious and serious about lent should keep that in mind when planning the family... "Dear, we don't want our children to have to worry about sinning on their birthdays, so we had better avoid sex during May and June..." Boy does Lent ever fall at an awkward time for a lot of people, considering May and June might be considered the human rutting season.
OK, I'll go now, I'm getting vulgar...
Guys, guys -- you are both on the vulgar side for a NUN --
Alexy-- clothes would not have dried in time.
Teper-- buying others birthday presents is OK! (isn't it, NUNS?) -- A Norwegian Book of Lists went down very well: Ten worst rock bands, five worst Christmas albums-- not a needed book, but it was for HIM (Heavily Into Manic-list-reading), not me...what is it with men, bansd and lists).
So... are you thinking spending gift tokens on yourself? You seemed to have got plenty of stuff BTW :_0
Problem is, if your birthday's in Lent, you're not allowed to buy YOURSELF a birthday present! Not being a woman, there aren't many times in the year when I can spend money on myself and not feel guilty about it. Happily, I think Lent is for the birds, so I don't feel guilty at all about buying myself an iPod for my birthday ;-)))
But I don't mean any disrespect. You NUNS do what you have to do, by all means...
RT
I agree that it is absolutely okay to buy for others during our lent of shopping abstinence and I'll say a couple of extra Hail Mary's to get Carol out of purgatory (mainly because she is a Parrothead).
Hmmm...I checked -- she drinks margharitas! That is what it means...but why?
Puzzled in Purgatory
And Teper--
you got the iPod right?
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