Sunday, October 15, 2006
Stopped in at PDD's (housesitting)—all is well. Exchanged a shirt I bought yesterday at H and M. I must say the manufacturing quality of H and M clothing is much shoddier than The Gap. I have to do a lot more work when I get the H and M clothes home. Loose threads are hanging out all over, in several cases colored thread has been pulled through the fabric where it isn't supposed to be, and there are many places where erroneous thread loops exist—do I cut them off for better aesthetics or will the garment fall apart if I do? (I cut them and take my chances.) Still, the clothes fit me, which is more than I can say for Gap Kids (or Gap, for that matter, who, last I checked, no longer stocked extra small [XS] sizes in their physical stores so I stopped shopping there). Just to give you an idea of how crazy the sizings are, at H and M I wear a youth 11-12 for polo shirts, youth 12-13 for sweaters, youth 13-14 for dress shirts, and youth 13-14 for jackets. All the items I ended up with fit pretty much perfectly, and lines in the kids department aren't nearly as long as those for men and women. The item I had to return was a polo shirt. I hadn't noticed when I tried it on in the store, but when I got it home I found that one of the sleeves was noticeably bigger than the other. I removed the shirt and lined it up with the other sleeve and when laid flat one sleeve was 1 full inch wider than the other—oops! I got a jacket, a sweater, a dress shirt, and two polo shirts for just under $100. It's my favorite new store. Stopped at the eyeglasses shop to see if my lenses needed to be updated (no). Was going to the car wash, but it was starting to sprinkle so I didn't. Went to the Tower Records going out of business sale—didn't buy anything. Bought a birthday card. Lunch with Patrick at La Med on his lunch break. Home. Washed the car. Weight training: push up, modified barbell curl, front raise. Cut my hair. Showered. Dinner at home by myself: yogurt, salad and pizza from yesterday. Archived documents. Ordered photos. Set up (but did not begin work on) the America's Top Model project. (I'm inserting the faces of my friends over a photo of an ad for America's Top Model. Search my Flickr photos for America's Top Model if you want to participate.) Prepared the new laser printer box for garage storage. Worked on Corinna's website. Late meal: leftover pizza.