Me Day

Today was the first "Me Day" I've had in more than a year. My classes are over, my boss is out of town, and it's not raining. I walked around with neither jacket nor umbrella for the first time since October 2010. I woke up at my leisure around 8am (my normal schedule was adjusted upwards because of my internship), walk/jogged a couple of miles to Body of Proof, and had actually had time to blow-dry my hair afterwards! Save for a somewhat ineffectual meeting to tie up loose ends in a group project, my morning was sublime...though it was after the meeting that the real fun started.

See, I've been saving up Karma Points all semester. I worked hard, was nice to my classmates, sent helpful supplemental material to my professors, and have washed the dishes regularly. My floor is clean, my boyfriend is well fed, and the local library has pretty graphs to look at. But like my credit card rewards points and the loose change in my Christmas-tree-shaped jar, I avoided cashing in my Karma Points for as long as possible. They've been quietly accruing interest in the Bodhisattva Vault until today, when I took it all out and bet the lot on one horse.

That horse: Kohls department store. A few days ago they sent me a promotional postcard for $10 off anything in-store, including sale items. There is one piece I have been looking for since my freshman year of college, the need for which has recently increased ten-fold: a professional-looking black blazer. Not just any blazer, but a petite one with sleeves that end at my wrists. One that I can machine wash. And one that will force conference attendees, potential employers, and clients to take me somewhat seriously.

In the entire department store, I found only two women's blazers tucked on a mish-mash rack in the back.


One was a size 4p, and the other a 6p. And the 6p fit.


How much did I pay for this one-piece wonder? Well, I was disappointed when I saw the price tag at first....


Egads. It was on a rack with some other suitings priced 30% off, but $54 was higher than any of the "Was $X...Now $Y" listings on the card. I took it with me anyway on another trip 'round the store, but the only other jackets available were in the Juniors department, and the sleeves ended at my fingertips. I contemplated. I ran over the list: Do the sleeves end where they're supposed to? Check. Is it machine washable? Check check. Does it make me look like a grown-up? Check check check.

I took the plunge.


$27.00 biatches! 50% off! And with my $10-off postcard, I paid a grand total of $18.19. Mwahaha. My accumulated karma, in combination with Kohl's bad karma from treating my mother like a felon when she tried to return some items and set off the theft alarm, gave me a victory not unlike Sabrina the Teenage Witch's magical bikini purchase in 1996.



God she was young. The last time I saw this movie, high school was, like, "adult." And it was normal to pay with cash.

After Kohls I also stopped by Kroger for some necessities. And one not-necessarily-a-necessity.


Lynn Chen says she uses this brand of scrubs to keep her skin movie-star clear. Don't get the wrong idea; I'm not the sort of person who will rush out and buy a product just because a movie star says she uses it. That's obviously a lie. I bought this in the hopes that tomorrow I will wake up four inches taller with long starlet-legs and a sunny apartment in Hollywood.

When's the last time you had a "Me Day"?