Did I buy them?
No.
Did I WANT to buy them?
You bet your sweet booties I wanted to.
But let me introduce you to the dearheart who would have smacked me upside the head with a heaping "WHAT were you thinking!?" if I had. To my right is my girl. She spends a lot of time feeding the homeless, bringing clothes and furniture to folks in poverty, recounting details of families she's worked with in third world countries who are existing on one dollar a day. I bought a small MP3 player to go with my ipod and got lectured on how that $35 could have fed a child for a month. The horrors! Thirty-five dollars thrown wrecklessly to the wind!
Once this minimalistic, simple living phase settles down to a dull roar (or she moves out), I'll sneak off and order me some freshadamas.
(come to think of it though...she's gonna spend the summer in New Zealand and Australia. I should suggest she do a little 'pearl jaunt'.)
