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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:25 AM
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Ahhh - retail therapy makes everything so good.
Today started in a million bad ways - despite it being the most gorgeous day imagineable - but now I'm in the office I decided to remedy my mood with a little bit of shopping.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000042HV/ref=wl_it_dp/202-2767508-2459841?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I3NHXFFGL0QK29&v=glance&colid=2YCPBP08WLF2O

Oh how life becomes so much better when one does some shopping. :bounce: :bounce:
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 06:10 AM
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1. Shopping always works.
Why is that? :P

Good choice, by the way.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 07:42 AM
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3. I'm not entirely sure - but it certainly does work.
Perhaps a good thing that I'm in work today, so I'm limited to on-line shopping. :eyes:
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 02:48 PM
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5. Online shopping isn't quite as fun.
There's something about walking around in a store and actually touching merchandise that is very therapeutic. :P
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:18 PM
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8. That's true
but walking around shops when one has to be sitting at a desk presents a few problems associated with bi-locating.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:25 PM
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12. That is what lunch breaks are for.
:D
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 03:46 AM
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22. Strangely..so does NOT shopping ..
I gave up "shopping"`and have never felt better.. It's nice to see cash piling up in the bank account:) I still enjoy shopping for other people though :)
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 06:17 AM
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2. I'm running out of room for retail therapy.

x(
I need a new form of therapy. :evilgrin:
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 07:43 AM
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4. Then take the ultimate in retail therapy and buy a bigger house.
:P

Not really - that's such a stressful thing that any theraputic value would quickly be used up.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 02:50 PM
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6. When you can barely spare the cash to buy a new shirt...
retail therapy (even the dude version...wherein you just buy a new shirt) cannot work. :(
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:17 PM
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7. For my it's nearly always music or books
Even being gay, I've never really done the buying a shirt thing.

But then I have to admit that I get much more out of a box-set of 6 Shostakovich C.D.s than a shirt.

I suppose that even with an Amazon wish-list it wouldn't work, as folk wouldn't always know when one needs to have something bought for one.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:19 PM
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9. Yeah, but I can nowhere near afford CDs.
A $12 shirt is about the limit of my spending ability. :(
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:23 PM
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10. If I could send you a case of booze
then I certainly would.

I mentioned music, because I'd typically spend less on a C.D. than on a shirt - which I suppose says lots about me anyway.

How are things today?
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:42 PM
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16. A bit better, I suppose.
I have to cart the box with her purse in it down to the post office later today or tomorrow morning. Not looking forward to that. I'll probably have to do it tomorrow because I have to piss all over Eros in this paper of mine. :shrug:
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:46 PM
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18. You're doing well.
It's going to take a while - but, as you say, it's already getting better. You're doing well - if there's anything I can do to you know how to find me. :hug:
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:24 PM
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11. He's just a big girl!
Why does no one understand this?


Shopping, indeed!


However, TJ, if you decide to do Oxford Street (and use your credit card) give me a call.



Khash.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:30 PM
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13. Oxford Street's not what it was my dear.
This was just a little dash of Shostakovich to calm the pain in my heart.

They had sold out of milk - can you believe it. They had this odd off-white liquid called "semi-skimmed milk" and an even more off-white one called "skimmed milk" - but no actual real milk. Wouldn't anybody need Shostakovich in circumstances like that?
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:34 PM
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14. I feel terribe for you!
No real milk????

Shostakovich usually works. Although Shostakoviich and gin works better.

Khash.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:40 PM
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15. Add gin to just about anything and it gets better.
It's a most basic rule of life.

Afterall, the gin and tonic only came about because a bunch of British colonial adminstrators in India started adding a slug of gin to their anti-malarial tonic.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 05:49 PM
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19. I should know you knew that!
Yep, tonic water is quinine water and is for protecting yourself from malaria.


Which I guess is one disease I won't die from..... :)

But it would be fun to write a thesis about Alcohol And Imperialism :)


Khash.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 03:45 PM
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17. I couldn't agree more.
I had some therapy this morning and walked away with a new handbag and some new jammies!!
I like new jammies!
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-02-06 05:51 PM
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20. So, what did you buy us?
And when should we expect our packages in the mail? :P
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 03:35 AM
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21. Well, I ordered the Shostakovich String Quartets
If you like them, just let me know.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 07:18 AM
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23. I'm not familiar with them.
If you can send over a sample MP3 I'd love to check them out. I'm a bit of a music addict, and my collection usually grows when people introduce me to good music.
:)
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