Harry Potter and shoppin'

Yes, I DID go see Harry Potter last night :)

( snipped for space. Short version: I liked it )

Yesterday I was mostly useless. For some reason getting up with the alarm + no coffee set me on "tired" mode all day - I napped before the movie and was still a bit lethargic during dinner afterwards. I crashed about 11:30 last night when the words in my book started to garble together.

This morning sleeping in + coffee put me in a more alert state of mind, so I did a bit of shopping.

Last weekend I went out to one of the local funky shopping areas with shemhazai. Until last week it had been several years since I'd been out there and I'd forgotten what a fun neighborhood it is - sometimes it takes someone who doesn't live here to drag me out of my routine and remind me of these things :P We'd gone mostly because Shem wanted to see The House of Musical Traditions, but there is so much more there!

Last week I kept my $ in my pocket in an attempt to behave myself, though there were many shiny things to be seen. This week, I decided that I DID want that bag, so I went back to this little shop and found one I liked even better.

I also remembered a red-brown vintage 1940's suit jacket with a velvet collar in a vintage shop across the street that was just beautiful. Given that I was parked right there I decided that if it was still there and fit, it was meant to be. It was, and did, and was only $42 and in excellent shape :)

Gawked at the cute houses on the way home (so CUTE! Small and cottage-like with front porches with rocking chairs. One day, one day...) and did some sewing: D. designed a kind of wallet/cuff to velcro around his upper arm for his walks, and as he so seldom asks for me to make anything for him I thought this might take precedence over my pirate coat which is almost finished... almost..

Also some reading and writing to do tonight. A fair weekend :)

linkages

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1834, searchable with original documents. D. looked up various family names and found that one of his ancestors was robbed of his tobacco crop, the thief smuggling away the booty in his codpiece :P Good stuff :)

A lengthy, verbose review of "Underworld" by ginmar. I don't think she necessarily liked the movie, but she says so eloquently: " I can easily believe that the Lycans are bachelors; they live in crappy squatter-type ruins where everything is dirty and moldy. It looks like somebody bit a whole frat and then turned over housekeeping to them."