Arguing with the intarwebz

(Yes, it's big. But from my scanning of LJ for the past few weeks, most of your friends lists are probably pretty empty anyway, so - la! I am fixing that for you.)



(Now go order this on a poster or something.)

my addiction, let me show you it

So I joke about being a squirrel and it's mostly about how fast I talk (..and maybe it's about how self-conscious I am about my body shape), but the thing that's not readily obvious is that I do cache things.

It can be as simple as caching sugars and plastic utensils in a hospital room just in case the person I'm visiting needs those things later. (yes, this has happened) (no she didn't actually need anything I had considerately hidden in her bedside stand tray thingala) (no I wasn't trying to be funny, I was helping, dammit)

But usually it's about..um..soap and conditioner. The former because when I find a soap with a scent I enjoy - and anyone who's spent much time shopping with me knows I have a vaguely insane need to sniff varied soaps and detergents and air fresheners, always hoping they won't be horrible and nearly always being very very disappointed instead - and especially if it's on clearance, I'll buy a few of them.

You may be surprised to learn that it doesn't take very many of these kinds of purchases before you realize you don't need to buy any more soap for the next 3 to 5 years.

Add in the compulsion so many of us have to bring home trial sized soaps from hotel rooms and you may never need to buy soap again. Ever.

So I mostly succeed in not buying soap, no matter how tempting it is. And I've jettisoned nearly all of the hotel soap, because the descriptions on the packages make them sound a LOT more fun than they actually are. That or maybe I really just have no idea what bergamot should smell like. (Don't judge me.) (No, actually, you should absolutely judge me for being seduced by the beguiling scent of bergamot.) (But if YOU would like to buy me soap, let me know. I have a small list of soaps I am coveting.)

My biggest problem, though, is with hair conditioners. My hair is a fickle beast and it tends to want/need a lot of conditioning. And I've had a..shall we say uneven work history since moving to this accursed side of Pennsylvania. And I obsess about things like oh crap what if I'm unemployed and I can't afford hair conditioner?

(I should also add that a bottle of shampoo will last me 3x as long - or more - as a bottle of conditioner. So the fear of running out of shampoo is pretty much non-existent.)

I also generally shop in the clearance bins or the discount stores, so in general I don't buy the same type of shampoo and conditioner. Although to be fair, I've been mostly using Lush shampoos, and their conditioners don't thrill me (though hope springs eternal), so I sorta have to mix and match as I go.

Anyway. I had enough conditioner for one more hair washing and it was bothering me. A lot. So I decided I'd go to Big Lots and allow myself ONE BOTTLE OF CONDITIONER. That's all I needed. Just one.

...Came home with three separate types of conditioner.

*facepalm*

Ok, so I spent under $8 for all three - because I *rock* at this game - but that's not the point.

The point is that I need a damned adult. And a therapist who can convince me that this is not, in fact, the era of the Great Depression; there are about a dozen drug stores within 2 miles of my home and they ALL carry conditioner; and conditioner is not in fact a precious commodity that might become completely unavailable tomorrow.

Next time, dammit. Next time I'll only buy one bottle.