today someone told me that i'm very handsome and asked if anything was new about my look because she has seen me before which implies i was less handsome then but that's negative thinking so i'll focus on the very handsome today thing. my response was "mental health and a new shirt. ben sherman, half price." which brings me to this awful joke i've told about 8 times in the last 3 days, ever since this massive heatwave hit seattle. we are not used to 90s. at all.
so commiserating with someone about the heat and how uncomfortable it is, i'll say "and i should be better in the heat. after all, i wandered the desert for forty years." now that's not the whole joke yet, but if i sense they don't know what i'm talking about so far, i'll say "i mean my people wandered the desert for forty years." and they'll say "oh yeah, let my people go..." and i'll say "yeah." or if that sidebar is unnecessary and they are in the know on the whole jewish escaped slaves wandering in the desert thing, i'll just go right into the punchline which is "it would have been less but we we were waiting for a good deal on a hotel". awful, right?
especially since i'm not actually cheap. i have been tight with money but it hasn't been out of cheapness exactly, more so self-denial, which i'm weaning myself from slowly. asceticism is great when someone is trying to buy your love and you are rejecting them, but if i have a few bucks and want an inhabit duvet cover from designpublic.com, dammit i'm going to get one, and a coordinating pillow double dammit. now i just have to buy a duvet and massively high thread count white sheets. eventually. i think.
i'm not going to go all insatiable for material goods because people and puppies are much more important than things, but anything related to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's going to be styling and mine. no regrets. just bills. i should mention my overall aesthetic is restrained minimalist modern cozy sleek accessible. whatever is the look that involves as few pieces of furniture and accessories as possible in the name of negative space and positive pocketbook. i'm following brini's guidance and being myself designwise and otherwise. now what accessories go best with 2000 square miles of sand?
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