They Say It’s My Birthday, Part Deux

I’m one year old today. More accurately, my blog is. Happy birthday me! What? No presents for this one? Damn.

My life is built on a strong foundation of routine and looking back on my first post from last yearI’m noticing that my affection for yearly customs remains intact, specifically, my customary post-holiday shopping. Today I found myself mucking about the mall exchanging some very lovely and expensive kitchenware that Sean presented me with for our anniversary. I know that getting pots and pans for your anniversary doesn’t seem particularly romantic, but the man bought me the king of cookware and nothing says ‘I love you’ to me quite like several hundred dollars worth of stainless steel. However, though they were shiny and heavy and perfect in every way, we needed a slightly different configuration to suite our needs. And so these particular pans went back. Although Macy’s seemed to be woefully understocked in the All-Clad department, I managed to get the money back so I could travel a few more towns over to a little store named William Sonoma that never fails to fulfill my every desire. Only, I didn’t make it there. Instead I sauntered over to JCrew.

Now, none of this is particularly noteworthy save the apparent awesomeness of shopping on December 29th, a magical day when everything I try on looks awesome and is deeply discounted. I ended up with two pairs of corduroys from JCrew that make me look so thin, I can’t stop touching my own butt. Now that’s powerful sexy. Then I decided I needed some new boots to go with my newly discovered ass. Now, there’s been some online shoe shopping that I’ve been wanting to try out for a while but for one reason or another (usually a shortage of cash brought on by Hooper’s need to bleed our bank account dry) I’ve not had the chance to do it. And so today, I picked up this little number courtesy of the fine selection of Bandalinos over at Endless.com:

Again, not particularly noteworthy until I tell you, that after working the website’s 110% guarantee, I purchased these normally $90 boots for $16. And did I mention they have free overnight shipping? And did I also mention that their normally free overnight shipping was having a -$5 promotion where they take $5 off your order for no good reason except that this online store is actually owned and operated by a chorus of angels? Ahh… the sweet feeling of looking fabulous for less. I have to give the credit for working the online shopping system to WantNot.net which is written by one of my favorite bloggers. I’m banking on her site to teach this old dog how to stop hemorrhaging money every time I think about buying an item, something I’m looking forward to stopping in ‘08, because, you know, hemorrhaging isn’t pleasent under any circumstance.

And so it is that I spent this blogging anniversary filling my closets with fabulous finds while managing to keep a few pennies in the coffers. A fine way to sum up a year of blogging if you ask me.