I made a countdown clock on my Google homepage so I know when I can shop again. Until then, I’ve been staring lustily at etsy shops.
I am on a huge ring kick right now. Well, I mean, I would be. I don’t wear a lot of jewelry, but when I do I like them to make a statement. So, please, for the love of Sunkist, support homemade and local items and buy something cute.
You take a small town girl…
I stayed at the Hotel Rivington, which is simply badass. As Ferris would say, it is so choice.
Hello, floor to ceiling windows!
Oh, and remember how I’m on this no-shopping kick? Um, WHAT WAS I THINKING.
I found this amazing western shirt in the boys department of a vintage store for seven. freaking. dollars.
“But, aren’t you, like, on shopping sabbatical?” Bryan asked.
“Well, yeah, but…I mean…I’m in New York,” I whined.
He then asked how much cash I had in my pockets ($4).
“Well, can I borrow four dollars?”
He didn’t have to say any more. I shoved the shirt and the bills in his hand and made him buy the shirt for me right then and there. See, I only loaned him four dollars. And he just happened to use the four dollars to pay for most of the shirt. It was a gift, see? Nothing in the rulebook about refusing gifts!
There was also this box of broken, old stuff that had my favorite word in the world on it: FREE. Well, that’s my second favorite, because my all-time favorite word is “rotgut.”
Anyway, I found something that I have actually been trying to find for ages – a straw fedora!
The only thing better than a straw fedora is a free straw fedora.
So, yeah. You throw in some eating, some walking, some partying, some more eating, and you have my trip. I’ll leave you with a picture that best expresses how I feel about the city:
It makes us smile so big we need assistance to show it.
