Shopping

I hate shopping...for clothes. I enjoy grocery shopping, I like Costco shopping and I love shopping for anything for my home or for decorating it. That shopping is the best. Shopping for clothes is the worst; especially after I've just moved back from Europe and brought only the essentials home in my suitcase, but also brought home an extra 5 pounds attached to unfortunate parts of my body. Ugh.
I only have jeans right now, and Bonnie (from Beautiful Bride) said that blue jeans are not something I can wear to work on tomorrow, so Eric took me out today.
We have no money right now, and I just hate the idea of spending money on clothes to wear while I earn money. Today I was in search of some really plain pants, not jeans. I wanted some comfy khaki pants or something, I don't know. Maybe that was my problem (that I didn't really know what I was looking for) because I didn't find it. We searched SuperStore (Joe Fresh) this morning before Eric had to go to school for a couple of hours. That was a shirt success, but unfortunately not a pant success. Then after school we had a couple of hours before everything closed so I decided I wanted to try H&M next, which is unfortunately not at the malls close to our house, but in the north of the city. I really had high hopes for that store though so we ventured out there. Nothing. (I did see that SportChek has a sale on coats though so after work tomorrow I am hopefully going to get my coat that I really want from there. That was a good thing.)
So we left that mall with nothing actually in our hands. We went to a Winners near by, and there was nothing there either. Then we went to this store!

Do not go here. If you're living in Calgary and hoping what I was hoping, that Target decided to grace us with a little bit of their presence here and fill it with some of their delightful and properly priced clothing, you're wrong. Just like I was. There is no way to describe how disappointing this store really is. It's basically something like the style of an even cheaper Stitches or Sirens. Remember those stores? No? I don't blame you. I've blocked them from my memory as well. As I hope to with this one. The clothes were uglier and cheaper and grosser than Wal-Mart or Giant Tiger or any other place you can find cheap clothing. Yuck. It was tragic.
So I was a little discouraged but remembered that I'd seen a pair of pants on sale the other day at Aritzia so we SPED over to Chinook mall (the one right by our house) and looked there and Forever 21 really fast. Nothing at Forever 21, which is fine. That place is usually pretty hit and miss anyway. Then I finally tried on the pair at Aritzia at 8:50pm, when they're closing at 9, and they were okay. Only okay. How anticlimactic this day of shopping was. I ended up with 3 shirts for $15 from Joe, which are just cute and kind of plain, and one pair of pants that I don't love from Aritzia.
I'm going to look real cute wearing that stuff tomorrow.