Totally Frivolous
Nothing major. Nothing new. Just so happy that it is warm outside. I feel like I just woke up from a long, cold, gray sleep. This past winter seemed interminable. But here we are - we made it. And to prove it to myself that I am still alive and hearty and that the sun still shines brightly (sometimes), I went on a little shopping spree last night. Because...
I offered to volunteer for a theatre company's fundraiser next week that requires "cocktail" attire that I do not own. I got their email to buy tickets for the event and did my usual "Golly gee, I wonder what that would be like..." and contemplated plunking down the cash for a ticket - just to see. But then it occurred to me to email them - since I am a former student, thus am on their mailing list - and see if they needed help. Turns out they do, so... I get to go for free.
Granted, it is as the "help"... but that doesn't mean I have to dress like "help"... so I got me some fancy clothes last night. Things I have never worn the likes of before. Like a short emerald green strapless dress. As a young man once remarked years ago, I have a "decent rack for a short chick" and have always worried about strapless. But fuck that. Drink it in, silent auctioneers. You will wish this was up for bidding...
Also - in one of those moments that's reinforces your instinctual hope that there truly is a god - I was the lucky member of the Daffy's shopping community whose foot fit the last pair of a gold designer platform stiletto pumps marked down to a ridiculous $26.
Last night - victory was mine. And I feel ready to stand there and smile benignly at New York up-and-coming theatre folks-of-note. Of course, I'd much rather be there as a "peer"... but this will be fun, for now. At the very least my hot new dress will have blasted through the permafrost of my wardrobe and shake things up a bit. And what girl doesn't love that?
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