{"id":54,"date":"2003-04-09T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2003-04-10T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2003-04-09T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2003-04-10T05:16:12","slug":"weekenders-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Weekenders Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

I left my burgundy-red AE leather jacket at work!\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t as cold as I thought it would be so I didn’t even think anything of it.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope it’s still there tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Just kidding!<\/p>\n

I’m sure it will still be there.\u00c2\u00a0 There aren’t any kleptos at work — it just that lately there’s been things disappearing from my drawer (food), desk (activity schedule) and bookshelf (my Nerve Full Frontal Fiction<\/font><\/a> book).\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever.<\/p>\n

I don’t really care.\u00c2\u00a0 They are merely material things.<\/p>\n

They can take away my stuff but they cannot steal my mojo!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m going to wear something neutral tomorrow so I can wear my red leather jacket home without looking terribly retarded.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured I would wear my white tweed linen pants which I bought at my mother-in-law’s Weekenders<\/font><\/a> party and one of my black button-front blouses from Express<\/font><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I hadn’t worn the pants yet because Brian told me I looked like a thirty-year-old woman when I tried them on (they’re not the most flattering).<\/p>\n

Why in the world would I buy such unflattering clothing, you’re probably wondering.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, my mother-in-law invited me to her party (it’s kind of like a Tupperware<\/font><\/a> party but only for old-lady-type knit clothing) and I really had no business going because I’ve been broke for the last few months now (I may never recover from this state).\u00c2\u00a0 Brian insisted that I go to lend moral support to his mom, so I did.<\/p>\n

I was hoping that lots of people would show up and that I wouldn’t have to buy anything but, as luck would have it, only two other people showed up so it was kind of hard to blend in.\u00c2\u00a0 I felt really sorry for my mother-in-law because of the poor turn-out that I felt I just had to buy something.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, I didn’t even have a credit card with me (because I didn’t think I was going to buy anything) so I ended up using “invisible” money from my checking account.<\/p>\n

Those things aren’t cheap either!\u00c2\u00a0 I ended up spending $100 on a drape-neck tank top and a pair of pants that make me look like I’m ten years older than I really am.\u00c2\u00a0 Fucking beautiful!<\/p>\n

I could have spent the same amount of money at Old Navy<\/font><\/a> and ended up with a closet full of clothes.\u00c2\u00a0 What’s worse is that I had to spend “invisible” money that I had set aside because I had been saving money (little by little each paycheck; I only have a few more paychecks to go before his birthday and I don’t think I’m going to have enough saved for his birthday gift; life without the ability to use your credit cards is really hard) so I can get Brian a PDA for his birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 He can kiss that goodbye!\u00c2\u00a0 If he gets one, I’d have to charge it — and I’m really against charging stuff right now.\u00c2\u00a0 Although after my mini shopping spree over the weekend I can feel my disease (as Brian puts it) returning.<\/p>\n

So we got there at around 7:30 pm.\u00c2\u00a0 Brian and his dad decided to watch Dreamcatcher<\/font><\/a> while us girls were doing our thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Since there were only five of us (including the clothing distributor), the whole thing was over before their movie even began.\u00c2\u00a0 I told Brian later on that I thought I got the raw end of the deal.\u00c2\u00a0 I would have much rather spent $10 on a movie than $100 on ill-fitting clothing.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s just easier being a guy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I left my burgundy-red AE leather jacket at work!\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t as cold as I thought it would be so I didn’t even think anything of it.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope it’s still there tomorrow. Just kidding! I’m sure it will still be there.\u00c2\u00a0 There aren’t any kleptos at work — it just that lately there’s been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}