Gimme A Break

I confess, I’ve been trawling the malls. There’s just too many mid-year sales tempting me… and you know what, about every fifth woman I bump into at the mall seems to be wearing a tube…

… so I’m guessing (just a wild guess ) that tubes must be in this season. This is a really classic tube dress that I found at iThreads where they offer free shipping on designer brands so you can save some money there.

Go check them out if you have some event coming up or even if you just want to deck your spring closet with a few trendy in-season pieces. I love the shimmery grape color of this dress, don’t you?

• great timing for a watch
• save additional 10% off already discounted printer supplies
• brown
• last in, first out
• fancy dress contest

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We found a great way to cool off last weekend. Seeing there’s been no let-up in the hot sunny temperatures, we’re trying to head to the malls whenever we can. Like I mentioned before, we didn’t air-condition our entire house so unless we want to hide in our bedrooms all day, we’re off to the mall.

Guess what, last weekend the annual fashion shows were on. What a treat! We got to sit in air-conditioned comfort with nary a drop of perspiration dripping down our brows and first-class seating on wooden benches to watch anorexic model after anorexi model strut down the runway . Now this IS the life!

• back to basics?
• much ado about movies
• crazy ’bout lions
• dummied out
• sauna au naturale

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I just bought a black handbag. All my handbags are black. It’s a color coordination thing I developed from the time I was working in Corporate Tower.

All my handbags and shoes were black. I would not buy any other color because I didn’t want to crack my head trying to match my handbag to my shoes everyday.

Black goes with everything, right? So I could wear a different pair of black shoes with the same handbag and vice versa and I’d still be right.

• the eccentric in me
• shoes vanished!
• the search is over
• my handy travel tips
• good-for-nothing sandals

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I walked past the bead shop yesterday and was reminded of this short-lived beading hobby of mine. I was so crazy about it at the time that I went hunting all over town for the tools and supplies.

Night after night, I would struggle to stay awake just to finish up one more accessory. Eventually I made so many earrings and necklaces I started giving them away to my friends.

Soon I started getting orders from them. Not big orders, just a few here and there, enough to make me happy that there was a demand for my creations.

But this little small business opportunity didn’t last long. Pretty soon, some ladies were asking for small favors. They asked me to modify the designs after they got bored with one design after a few wears. Others came to me with broken jewelry to be repaired and redesigned.

Soon I got stuck redoing and repairing stuff for free late into the night. When I couldn’t deliver on time for some event they wanted to wear the jewelry to, these witches (I would swap the “w” with a capital ‘B’ but I’ll be nice this time) gave me hell and set me deadlines!!

Hey, I was just doing them a favor. And for free, darn it!!! What ungracious creatures!! Finally it became such a pain I just gave up beading altogether.

• contemporary gold
• stretch your creativity with Aqua Dots
• trying to keep awake all night
• bedtime
• staying up late

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My cousin tells me that maternity clothes aren’t what they used to be any more. The days of the tents are over, it seems. Yes, and I remember how I used to dread wearing them. They made me look like a sack of potatoes.

These days, preggies are proud to show off their growing tummies and choose maternity wear that expose the midriff. I’ve seen pictures of celebs wearing these modern maternity styles. But I find them quite gross actually.

Much as I hate tents, as many women do too, I’m sure, I don’t know about strutting around town with a barrel protruding out for all to see . What do you think?

• parachute or potato
• gotta have those camo cargo shorts
• jewelry to match
• camos and cardigans I don’t understand
• stuffed

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I can be such a dodo bird sometimes. You know, I’ve come across many shops selling pearls, yes, only pearls, in places like Hong Kong but I never gave them so much as a second look.

Why? Because I’m not a really, really big fan of pearls, reason being that I always think of them all as being white, bland and boring. After all, life in a clammy old oyster can’t be all that exciting, can it now ?

Silly me, where have I been? I didn’t know cultured and freshwater pearls come in such vibrant colors and that they don’t necessarily have to be white and lifeless. Maybe it’s time I came out of my oyster shell.

• digital kitchen scales
• fly away, little bird
• Caesars Palace
• finally a holiday we can afford
• Disney on water

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My son left his eyeglasses on the back seat of my car when I picked him up from college the other day, and someone accidentally flung a bag of stuff on it. The glasses broke into two.

I wish he would be a little more careful with his glasses. He’s broken them more times than I’d care to count and each time, we’ve either had to replace the lens or the frame.

His next pair is going to be cheap eyeglasses, that’s for sure. It’s getting too expensive maintaining his glasses, so that next pair is going to come out of his allowance. Hopefully he’ll learn to treat them better.

• oops, I did it again!
• keep right on dancing
• good-for-nothing sandals
• golfing in the rain
• stuff sitter

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I’m looking for a new watch. Again? Between me and my two daughters, we’ve got so many watches in the house and yet we always seem to be adding to our collection. You reckon it’s because watches have become more than a means of telling time these days? I mean, I’ve been wearing them as accessories for as far back as I can remember.

Of course, having many watches means I can’t afford to be buying a Chopard every other shopping trip. In fact, many of the ones I have are what I call ‘throwaway’ watches that probably aren’t mean to last. But they’re very trendy and I guess they’re not meant to become heirlooms or anything like that.

• the watch master
• buying in bulk
• the search is over
• how to reduce back-to-school stress (1)
• i love wedges

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I’ve been looking for a handbag since Christmas but haven’t found anything I like. I think I must’ve looked at dozens of bags but there was never one that I liked totally. Either I liked the design but they didn’t have the color I wanted, or I liked the color but it was too big or the price wasn’t justified.

Today I was at the mall for lunch with the kids and I actually went to buy a clothes rack but guess what? I ended up buying a handbag. The search is over. It was just the right size in very trendy silver and it was on offer at 70% off. Happy days :grin: !

• tubes are in!
• it’s black or nothing
• a leg up
• the eccentric in me
• the more watches, the merrier

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The other day, I went to the mall and just as I stepped inside, my shoe broke. If ever there was a super-good excuse to buy a new pair of shoes right there, this was it.

Happily I “limped” my way to the nearest shoe store and picked out a pair of thong sandals, you know, the tropical-themed ones. Not what I would wear normally but the store didn’t seem to have much of a selection.

It was only when I went to pay for it that I realized how incredibly expensive thong sandals had become. I’ve only ever had one pair of these sandals when I was a teenager. In those days, they were plain, much less fancy and cost a fraction of the price now.

At any rate, I was desperate. So I paid for it and went on my merry way to lunch with  my daughters.

I think that between me and my girls, we must’ve only worn the sandals a total of like 5 times when it finally snapped. OMG, can you believe I paid a small fortune for that miserable thing and it broke in less than a week??!!! :shock:

• i love wedges
• strangers for daughters
• tlc for his glasses
• my handy travel tips
• yucky meals

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