a bachelorette evening

today was a hellish one. i was given a 9-4 shift at the restaurant, which means working thru both the insane morning & lunch rush, and the ensuing dead-of-the-afternoon clean-up. BLECH! while i hate getting up while it's still dark out to open the restaurant at 5.30 am, i prefer it to the endless mid-day shifts.

anyhow, after a long day i lazed around at home -- well, sort of home -- i'm dogsitting for the two cutest labs EVAR. i feasted on a bachelorette (boyfriend's home sick with the flu :( ) dinner of crackers & deli ham (sounds kinda gross, wasn't that bad) and a huge, perfectly ripe peach, and watching the Drug Years on VH1 (anybody seen it? FASCINATING. i want to read this one commentator's Martin Torgoff's "Can't Find My Way Home," it seems like an excellent overview of America's drug history.).

annnnnnnnnyway, amidst this slothful haze, i managed to find an adorable vintage sailor dress online and snatch it up for a pittance -- $15! -- from her etsy shop. Check her stuff out, she's got some really interesting designs: DanielleDIY.etsy.com. If you don't know already (the horror!) the WONDERS of etsy, please do yourself a favor and your debit card a punishment by moseying over to etsy.com. it's a cornucopia of handmade and craft goods, anything from housewares to art to clothes to jewelry (half the jewelry i own is from this site).

the dress i bought today:

other items i've bought from etsy in the past:

a lovely silver swallow necklace for a mere $8, before urban outfitters started selling them for like $28

a long yellow tee splashed with black umbrellas and a couple plodding thru the rain:

computer key earrings for just THREE DOLLA!

incroyable.

i'm also working on starting my ebay account auctioning off vintage clothing, which should be up within a week or so...stay tuned!

til then, turn on, tune in, drop out. (fun Drug Years fact: did you know that when LSD was first invented and was being used on a minimal level, undercover government officials used to drop LSD tablets in unassuming bar customers' drinks and take them to a hotel to observe them for hours on end while the innocent souls tripped out, presumably for the first time while cops took notes behind a one-way mirror?)