Quicken Earth February: Okay Fine

You know, the simple act of naming this monthly exercise Quicken Earth automatically predisposes me to avoid it. Just goes to show, a rose by any other name smells a lot better than Quicken. (My second Shakespeare cliché in a week. Maybe it's all the historical fiction. Should cut back on the Philippa Gregory.)

SINS
I am pure as the driven snow.


ADMISSIBLE NECESSITIES



(PREVIOUSLY OWNED) FRIVOLITIES
Marc by Marc Jacobs dress, which turned out quite well, thank you.
Marc by Marc Jacobs wool shawl top, very chic and only $35!
Velvet brand shrug sweater, pleasantly boob-framing and only $15!
Ruby red Pashima shawl purchased yesterday on second trip to Cris in a week. A rip-off at $69, but I needed a fix. Must monitor this behavior carefully.


TECHNICALITIES
I ran out of lipstick and foundation, and used an old Sephora gift certificate to replace them. So between the fact that makeup is clearly a necessity, and cash for said items was technically exchanged last year, I say I'm off the hook.

My aunt felt sorry for me and gave me a watch. A used watch.

And I lost my sunglasses while I was in the OC, so my friend Pat, who works at Oakley, gave me a replacement pair. I call that evening my score with the universe.


ABSTENTIONS

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to replace my



because it's been moody all week, refusing to ring, freezing screens and erasing text messages. Also, I'm starting to feel like I did back in fifth grade, when I was the only girl in school who didn't have a Cabbage Patch Kid.

A


to replace my



because it skips whole albums and froze my iTunes yesterday, so that I had to restore it to its factory settings. It would be so much more exciting to load up an iPod that's not so terribly gauche.


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to replace my



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Carrie is beyond the cougar phase; she's a saber tooth tiger in a leopard world.

I feel like I'm in Mercury Retrograde: Extreme Electronic Edition. HCB reckons that my personal charge has shifted, causing aforementioned devices to falter. But this is all starting to sound a little too New Age, even for me.