retail therapy

When the going gets tough and the tough have errands to run, the tough spend a lot of money.

- Coffee
- Haircut
- Prescription
- Crepe (breakfast)
- Three kinds of experimental chocolate (dark with bubbles, milk with caramel mousse, dark with almonds and cherries)
- Three and a half yards each of three different cotton batiks
- Parsley, dried chives, stick cinnamon, smoked paprika, powdered ginger, kala jeera and ajwain
- Half slab of ribs (dinner tonight and one meal tomorrow, possibly breakfast)

So now I have three incipient new shirts, my craving for ribs has shut up, I'm no longer out of parsley, my hair looked quite nice for about half an hour (it's HUMID today), I didn't die of heat exhaustion tearing around greater Boston in jeans, and it's still Saturday.

In short, I feel quite a bit better.