I am very happy today. After a ton of fun visiting and rehearsing with my friend for her audition, I headed downtown for my hair appointment. My goodness, I knew I needed to have my hair cut, but wow....I look SO much better, I should have paid closer attention and had it cut about 10 days ago! Gotta pay more attention to such things!!
I stopped in at The Bay afterward with the intention of finding the "almost what I want" winter dress coat I saw in there the other day...in every size but mine. My sister-in-law suggested I go back there, copy down the tag numbers and then try to find it online. When I got back there today I searched all around, but could not find the remaining few coats I saw previously. Sigh..... Then, around a massive corner post I found a whole new section devoted to winter coats. Now I am happy the Anne Klein coat was unavailable in my size a few days ago. I found a very cute ready-to-wear Calvin Klein that is even closer in style to what I have been looking for. Unfortunately there wasn't one in black, but I fell very much in like with the grey one and settled on purchasing the coat in a deep navy after deciding the grey was too light and would show every bit of dirt and dark lint even more than the darker colour. The coat is at least knee length and, although what I really want is a much more expensive ankle length coat, this one will suffice. The price was very good so that certainly added to the attraction. The coat is 60% wool with cotton and a bit of polyester and is well lined so it should be warm. It is roomy enough to wear a suit jacket or heavy sweater under, as evidenced by the fact that I was wearing a heavy suit jacket when I tried the coat on. There is a large, heavy duty angled zipper the full length of the coat as well as a huge snap both top and bottom to prevent pull on the zipper. It has a belt that I am ambivalent about. Generally I do not like wearing belts on coats as they make a short person like me appear to be cut in half. However, the belt loops are just cotton/nylon thread and can be easily removed if I decide the belt is not what I want. This coat is definitely second choice for style, but it is stylish, long enough to keep my knees warm and nicely affordable. Even after having to pay our new 11% total tax, the coat was reasonable for cost.
I am happy!
The walk home was quite wonderful. It was cool this morning when I left home and the bright yellow suit jacket was definitely a wasp magnet, so I ended up catching the bus part way downtown....and the stupid wasps followed me right onto the bus. Fortunately for me, as well as for the other passengers, the attraction of buzzing themselves into a frenzy against the closed bus windows was bigger than the attraction to my jacket or other passengers. Walking home the wind was much stronger and I didn't see more than one wasp the entire way. I stuck to the main business streets, away from all the beautiful old trees on the residential streets, so I think that helped as well.
This weekend's laundry will see the last washing up of all my summer clothes and they will be packed away until next spring. It will be nice to get the tubs filled and out of my bedroom, back into storage down in the basement. I wore the last of my late summer outfits today. The "feeling" and "appearance" of the outside air has definitely changed from summer to fall and I think today was the last sandal wearing day as well.
"One more sleep" before our dinner out and evening of comedy tomorrow.
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