Saturday Shopperday

#95: My Kind of Saturday

Today is a good day. There are Lazy Saturdays, Errand Saturdays, Pampering/Maintenance Saturdays, and then, there are Shopping Saturdays. Today is a good Shopping Saturday.

I just wanted contacts because I was tired of pushing my glasses up my little nose during meetings. Thing is, they told me that while my eyesight worsened, it's not bad enough to merit contacts. You have to have 100/100 AT LEAST. (So, I was just being a drama queen about not being able to read streetsigns and plate numbers anymore? Heck, I thought I was AT LEAST 150/150.) After getting my lenses upgraded, I thought I was done for the day and would just happily coast along while Elna and Cathy did their shopping. Thing is, I'm not wired to just "coast along" blindly while good cheap stuff called out my name.

I ended up buying so much more than Cathy or Elna did but I'm happy to be so bargain-savvy.



Highlights:

> Two pairs of really cool shoes for the price of one. (Even less, I think.) One is a flat shoe (okay, relatively flat. It had 0.5" dopey heels which don't really count at all.) which had a gold rose, gold body plus pink and white accents. (I know it sounds horrible but believe me, it looks like one of those pairs you get at PrettyFit.) The other one is a casual shoe with a creamy beige ribbon and 4" heels. (Cathy begged me to please not wear them when I'm with her because she'd hate to peel me off from the floor if ever.) Both of them were the last pair. And they were my size. Ah, destiny.

> 5 tops for the price of one. (Really!) 3 of them would go well with my ruffly cream coat. 2 would go well with the accessories I bought.

> Yes, I bought accessories. The place was just overflowing with really cheap trinkets! I mean, next time a foreign girl-friend visits the Philippines, I'm taking her straight to Greenhills. One necklace, one pair of earrings and one ultra-cool bracelet. I had a Php100 discount on one, Php50 discount on another, and no discount and no question at all on the other. I got all three for the price of 1.5 earrings from Be Happy. Of course, I'd look like some alien if I wore all of them together but the theme binding them seemed to have been more on the native Filipino stuff you source from our beautiful seas. Lovely. Now all I need is a trip to the beach. A trip or three.

> I also got jeans for half the price of an already cheap one. (Man, it was a steal. I was probably grinning like a nut as I took the shopping bag from the cashier. And I had to quickly disappear after, lest they call me back and make me hand over an amount commensurate to my satisfaction.)

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We capped the shopping portion by plopping down on one of the booths of Mexicali. (I did it particularly well by slamming my spine on the wooden back of our seats. Yeesh.) Soft taco with grilled pork and a bowl of Sopa de Lima. Good stuff. I could've ended the day right there but the cushy seats of the new cinemas at the Promenade still beckoned. (And my spine just dragged me there.) The movie was Fantastic Four. It wasn't overly fantastic but at least it was a safe distance from the toilet level where you find X-Men and Batman Forever. It was actually acceptable.

What's more than acceptable however, is how this Saturday turned out. I can't wait to get to my room to try all the stuff out. Yes, all at the same time. Including the accessories that don't match.