Sunday afternnoon

The howling wind swept the ozone away and brought clouds, hail, blue skies, rain, sun, and snow squalls past the windows--all in the course of an hour.

E-Grrrl, eager for some sort of celebration, hosted a family party to welcome spring. She used a three-ring binder to organize her ideas and make shopping and "to do" lists. Yesterday she helped me pull out all the pastel ceramic dishes and bowls I have featuring bunnies and flowers and everything bright and cheerful. (Go Fitz and Floyd!) She filled them with Fruitella candies and Belgian taffy, cut fruit, and home baked muffins. She hung streamers and set up craft centers where we all colored paper doilies, signed cards for Grandma, sketched spring scenes, wrote books, and made stick puppets. As they used to write on the society page of the local newspaper in Oklahoma, "A good time was had by all." (And anyone who did not have a good time does NOT get to be quoted, thank you very much.) 

After the party, the boys headed off to the woods and I visited the computer to check my mail, read a few blogs, and debate whether or not I should order the charming but expensive Hanna Andersson PJs I'm longing for with every fiber of my sleep-loving, cotton-craving, cozy-Grrrl self. Sure they cost way more than I've ever paid for sleepwear, but I keep telling myself that they're worth it because I spend more time in PJs than any other item of clothing (shhh, don't tell anyone). Besides, my all-time favorites were purchased from Eddie Bauer almost ten years ago, so if I pro-rate the cost of the Hanna Andersson ones over that same time frame, they don't seem expensive at all! Bliss for only $7.40 a year! How could you go wrong! That fun floral print is so unabashedly cheerful that it's bound to deliver sweet dreams.

Damn, I'm so good at economics, psychology, and rationalizations, I ought to run for President. But that would mean changing out of the PJs and wearing a suit all day, and you know, I'm just not up for that...

March 18, 2007

Copyright 2007 Veronica McCabe Deschambault and V-Grrrl in the Middle. All rights reserved.

Comments

[Nance]

That E-grrrl is what we'd call "worky" 'round here. There's a bit of the event planner in that one.

You're considering spending $74 on pajamas!? Good heavens! I would have to bite my lip to spend that on shoes. But if that's what it takes to banish the doldrums, then we must needs make do. Right now, I'm considering taking a 6-hour bath, complete with pitcher of pink Cosmos, iPod loaded with a shameless mix of 80s tunes, and perhaps enough sighing to make even myself care. Not a happy day at The Dept.

March is wearing thin. If it were warm enough, I might go spend that $74 on shoes!

[Shirley in NZ]

Be a devil! Get those PJs!

[V-Grrrl]

Oh Nance, you stir memories of my one true love, the one I pine for every night as darkness falls and the stars emerge--yes, I'm talking about my beloved Jacuzzi. It's home alone in Virginia with a tenant who doesn't even take baths. What a waste! It even has its own heater, so the water doesn't cool off as it circulates through the jets.

Here in Belgium, I have big tubs but not enough hot water to fill them or heat to keep me warm. No wonder I'm considering expensive pajamas.

As for you, after the bath, I recommend some shoe porn. Uh-huh, I'm talking about zappos.com.

A Grrrl's gotta do what a Grrrl's gotta do.

[V-Grrrl]

Shirley,

When a textile artist tells you to buy the pajamas, you hafta buy the pajamas, right?

[Mary-LUE]

I love great pajamas but I haven't splurged in forever. It isn't like I need extra warm, comfy jammies in So-So Cal. The power of suggestion is strong though...

[Tonya]

I have an awesome pair of flannel PJs that I spent waaaay too much money on - but they are my "trailer trash" pj's with trailers, chicks drinking wine, and flamingoes!! and they have lasted forever. So, I say go for it. That $65 seemed like a lot in 2004, but they are still good as new now. (I got them big, so I could wear them the whole time I was pregnant, too - if I didn't button the top.)
Oh - and I was thinking about the laundry thing. I had crunchy laundry when I first got here, but them I switched to local detergent. I guess it is formulated for the water. It worked. Now my laundry is fine, unless I let it get rained on out on the line. ;)

[t]

Oh, by all means, get the Hanna Anderzon pjs. Absolutely. They will bring you pleasure every day for years. If comfort can be bought at such a price you must go for it. Think of how much you've spent on things that don't bring you, or anyone, the joy that these will. Enjoy your cozy warm self.
By the way, your household sounds just wonderful. Love what E-grrrl is all about. There's one who will create her joy out of what is already here for us all. Neat.

[RD]

When I look in the closet at all the clothes I DON'T wear, I can always talk myself into a new pair of flannel or fleece pjs. There's nothing! better at the end of the day than favorite and nearly worn out pajamas.

[Shirl Grrrl]

Go for it! Your Ugg slippers need some new jammies to hang with.

I need some of E-Grrrl's energy and organization skills.

[Shirley]

Ah, this quote seems appropriate: Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Translation: Buy the PJs and savor every moment you spend in them.

E-grrrl's party sounds lovely. Makes me want to run home and get out all my Easter stuff out (the reference to chicks and bunnys
had me visualizing all my stuff alone those lines). E-grrl is right ... those things just make a girl happy.