i may just end up buying myself...

• the harry potter paperback box set because there is a coupon, i have $7.48 on a giftcard, and i want my own copies to mark up and love love love and drop into my bags and carry with me everywhere (and one day when i move out... i will need my own copies)
• equality ring

and nothing else. i don't need shoes. i don't need tights. i'll go to disneyland next year when i do a day of volunteer work (and after i get a job and balance that out, i want to start volunteering again). i don't need more tights. maybe i'll go to disneyland when i have a boyfriend (because that's the cutest date in the world). and glasses? even if they're bothersome, i mean, i'm not in a harry potter kind of situation here. (and at least i have glasses). and i don't need a coin purse because i've been carrying around change in my car / haphazardly in my purse / in a plastic lunch baggie anyway.

i don't need chapstick (i just lost my other tube otherwise i have the put-it-on-your-finger-and-spread kind). i don't need more scarves (i have more than i wear anyway and just got 2). i don't need the (500) days of summer dvd or soundtrack--i don't. i don't need a new bag it doesn't rain catastrophically by so cal standards/doesn't rain all that often enough i can carry everything i need by hand (or just commit a fashion faux pas and not match that is perfectly okay though not ideal nor preferred). i don't need a blazer or a leather jacket because blazers are for prim and always put together people and i am neither of those things and i feel like leather wears me more than i wear it (and if i really felt it one day i could borrow my sister's).

i don't need layerable basics because i do have clothes i can remix and revive and recycle and looking at the sartorialist and other fashion sites i can reinspire old pieces and wear them all over again. itunes (red) giftcards would be nice but i have more than enough music to satiate me now (i am still not sick of a fine frenzy in the slightest) aaaaaaaaaaand i have my sister. i don't need new headphones--while mine are a little worse for wear they work perfectly and plus i feel like those would also wear me more than i would wear them unless i was on an airplane, trying to avoid talking to anyone, and/or sitting by myself or trying to concentrate. they would not be quite so wearable while i am strolling through aldrich park. i don't need any more jewelry of any kind because i don't wear much. i don't need a helmet because i don't bike as often as i would like (because i'm lazy and my bike is hanging upside down in the garage atm) and usually i don't wear one (because my current ones are too uncool... but just because of that doesn't mean i need a helmet, i have a helmet).

i don't need a coat because it doesn't get that cold in california and i need to learn how to layer anyway.

SO THERE. the sartorialist, the harry potter box set (should i go through with it), and the equality ring are my indulgences.... i mean next to the netbook. but you know.

YET DESPITE MY TALKING TO MYSELF--i bought $50 plain off white oxfords that are ridiculously adorable........ but should i return them in favor of these which i've yet to try on but in theory would actually look okay??!!!!!