Shopping

I had all sorts of plans to get to an exercise class, to return to the office, to get the house ready to live in. Instead I went shopping. I must have grown alot older this year, because I did not find anything I liked at Ann Taylor. I actually went to an old lady's store and bought some basic black and white. How boring. Either I am just aging rapidly, or the extra pounds are too daunting; I am giving up and buying larger pants and bigger tops and dressing to hide my ever expanding bottom. Very depressing. Even my feet are bigger; I did have a blast at Marshall's, where I bought outrageous shoes to jazz up my boring old ladies' clothes.

I liked shopping, spent insane amounts of money I do not have (American Express!) and feel more ready for work. Eric lost a suitcase that contained mostly working clothes. I had packe two suitcases and gave them to his parents when they left Quito. One of the suitcases was emptied in St. Pete but the contents never made it to Baltimore. Eric has no idea what happened. I am not sure where his brain is and how it is possible that he loses so much. When we moved into this house, he threw our Oriental carpets in the garbage. I was astonished that they disappeared and he did not know what happened to them until he wandered into the office that oversaw our renovation (five years later) and found the rugs all over the floors. The staff there said they found the carpets in the garbage!!!

So he may have thrown the suitcase contents away. I am not sure how to react. I am usually furious with him when he does these sorts of things, but I don't have the energy. Instead I am shopping!

Maya spent her morning at dance class (which worked out well for her) and her afternoon with Belina, and it was fun to see Daphne and Julien and Marius. I tried to go into the storage space in the garage at their house but ran into hundreds of cave crickets and couldn't deal with them so I ran away and will wait for Eric to handle them.