Come meet Kokang...

It's my new habit now, to wake up on Saturday morning, think about exercising, and then head straight for my laptop to shop online. Browse Banana Republic sale page, Neiman Marcus sale page, buy one thing for me, one more new t-shirt for Nils, and I'm ready to start my day. Thank you God, for those free shipping online coupons, or else I'd be wasting all those dollars that could be spent on another pants.

I have ambitious plans for today. Go to the post office to mail in my midterm, get my usual nutella and banana crepes for breakfast, exercise at home, and then wait for the mailman. The rest of the weekend, I'm just going to be myself (read: lazy) and chill. Maybe I'll watch my Netflix movies that just came in. I moved Nils's movies further down the queue and moved up my Ashton Kutcher movies + another goofy movie that I'm sure Nils is praying he doesn't have to watch. I promise I'll be nice and let Nils have his movies when I return these. Urgh, those horror, scary movies. They're almost as stressful as work.

Oh, so yesterday I started wearing my new Harley motorcross light jacket (bought courtesy of Uncle Hilton's casino). I bought it only a few weeks ago, and already I'm wearing it. That is unusual for me. In general, new clothes that I buy tend to sit in the closet for quite a while. I don't even take the tag and price off, they just sit there. And then when they are ermmm not new anymore (even though technically they are, because they still have the tag) they'll get pulled into my normal clothes circulation.

Last year I bought, oh ok, Nils bought me a black rain coat. I probably only wore it once or twice last year, and only so Nils doesn't feel bad or think I don't like it. See I LOVE the jacket. Those sailor-like clasps are so gorgeous! When I first tried the jacket on, I couldn't take it off. Nils will gladly agree with me there. I persuaded (yeah, I think that's the right word. "Badger" is much too strong, not to mention irrelevant to the situation) him to buy it for me, since the price was a little bit out of my reach. But anyway, it pretty much sat in my closet for a whole year. And then this year, I wore it almost every day during the rainy season. Everyone loved it. I got compliments left and right. (I told you it's a nice jacket.) Anyway, my point is, I don't know why I do that. I just don't like wearing new new shirt, jacket, or shoes, I guess. I have to break them in first. Even if only in my mind. The whites on my new shoes used to drive me crazy. So clean and bright and obviously new. So blinding! But I've since solved that problem. I've stopped buying shoes with whites on them a long time ago. Creative solution, no?

Idiosyncracies aside, I'm starting to shop for clothes again. I was on a hiatus, what with being a tad overweight and all. But that is now over. No, I haven't lost the pounds, but I've decided that I should still shop while losing weight, and then when I can't fit into my fat-kokang clothes anymore, I'll just donate them. That is a more healthy strategy, don't you think?

Ok people, my stomach is growling. I'm gonna hit the shower and embark on my ambitious Saturday journey. You have a good weekend, ok?!