Friday, June 16, 2006

I am 40% girl.

I’m not kidding. I came to this conclusion a long time ago… so long ago that I don’t really remember when I first started saying it. I’m not sure what it means beyond the simple fact that I am, indeed, 40% girl.

Anyway. Over the last two days, I spent like $500 on Personal Upgrades. Normally, I’m somewhat reticent to shop for anything except for computers, but I’ve been mulling over a moderate clothing overhaul for a while, and a perfect storm of sales and opportunity presented itself.

The dust is settling, and I see:

3 Brooks Brothers shirts. 40% off.
2 pairs Brooks Brothers Gabardine Pants – 40% off.
1 pair plaid Gap summer shorts – 50% off
1 pair olive Gap cargo shorts – 25% off
1 pair flat-front blue Gap shorts – 25% off
1 pink and green Gap shirt – 50% off
1 in-ear Bluetooth headset from Plantronics – 25% off
1 pair Sony in-ear headphones, 0% off – oops.
2 pair suede Pumas, 1 pair bright blue, 1 bright red – Buy 1 pair, get on 50% off

Craziness, right? I can’t think of another time when I bought myself clothes like this. I think maybe I’m upgrading my look as I upgrade my way of doing business.

The only thing is, I bought stuff based on the size I think I’m going to be, when I weight stabilize… and that’s about 10 pounds higher than I am right now. So the shorts I bought are kind of loose. Okay, REALLY loose. Kind of freaky loose. But I’m hoping to gain back some good kind of weight soon, and… it was a sale!

I have officially decided that another $280.00 of spending is in my future. There’s absolutely no chance that I’m not going to buy the Nike+ iPod Nano connector kit, with attendant iPod Nano and Nike+ sneakers. Yeah, I’ll have three iPods. It’s true.

But I want to reward Nike and Apple for targeting me so perfectly: I AM THE AUDIENCE, AND I SHALL PURCHASE.

Love to all. Even you, the guy who prefaces nearly everything he says with “I’m sure you don’t know this, but…”

8 comments:

Callisto said...

Way to shop girl!

(You know I'm joking, right?)

Al said...

OOH! That Nike + ipod kit looks really cool! I've ran in Saucony's for the last ~10 years. But now I might have to see if Nike makes a comparable model. Oh yea, and I gotta start running regularly too...


Please write a review after you pick this thing up and do a few runs.

xianfu said...

interesting blog here...It got me addicted on reading it.. Keep it up.. leave me some comment too at my blog InvernoKL wanna have ur words on it.. :p take care, xian

ps: 40% girl??? we all need that.. lolz

Panthergirl said...

That sneaker/iPod thing is just TOO COOL.

Happy Father's Day, Rich.

shqipo said...

Like callisto said, way to shop, girl! Now I know why you are so pro-gay :P

iPod, pff!

Rich, maybe you should try these: http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/products.html

Rich | Championable said...

You mean that you're 60% joking.

heh.

Shqipo, why the hell would I want those?

shqipo said...

There's nothing better than running barefoot (for some like you, bareback too :)))

"qeshumu"

Ginamonster said...

Ok. I'm out of the loop on the whole Ipod thing. Ipod+Nike? does this mean you can make your shoes play music? cuz, um, that's kinda silly.