shopping penguin

Maybe I've been watching too much Boardwalk Empire, but I'm obsessed with this hat. I tried it in an Anthro store yesterday, and fell in love. Of course, I didn't actually buy it because I needed a second opinion, and when I showed iPhone photos of myself in the mirror wearing it to the hubs, he said he "wasn't sure." I looked at the photos and became even MORE sure I need to own it. Feel free to take this as a hint, those of you who are looking for Christmas ideas. (I also need/want a black pashmina-type scarf. This may turn into a year like the winter I spent in Ann Arbor where all my wish-list items were warmth-related: long underwear, new coat, fleecy slippers, space heater. It was a sad time in my life.)

Speaking of shopping, the hubs and I recently bought a new TV. For the three and a half years or so that we've lived together, we shared one TV. In general, it works out fine--we watch a lot of sports and a lot of HGTV, and we are both generally happy about both of those things.

However, he wants to watch hockey. And I mean, I like hockey fine, and will watch a game here or there, but do you know how much those guys play? It's a LOT. And for a LONG TIME. It's like an 18 month season of 1,000 games or something. I swear, the Blackhawks just won the Cup yesterday, and they're already 3 months into this season. ANYWAY, since my lovely husband wanted to get the Center Ice Package and watch roughly 15 hockey games every week, and I wanted to stay married to him while not subjecting myself to approximately 50 hours a week of games that often end in scores like 2-0, we bought another TV.

So while he's watching hockey in one room, I have a new and strange luxury: I can watch really whatever I want. Not that I couldn't watch sort of whatever I wanted before, but when there's another person in the equation, I at least am likely to choose to watch things they probably won't hate. It's actually a little terrifying what I will watch when left to my own devices. Now, if you'll excuse me, there are so many episodes of Real Housewives of Somewhere or Other that I really need to catch up on.

(In trying to find a video or something to make this post about shopping something other than painfully boring and self-absorbed, I ran across this:




Now, I hate/fear birds. However, I have always said penguins are the best of the birds [I think because they're flightless and therefore can't attack me from the air, plus even I can admit their babies are almost cute.] and now, I'm totally convinced. I mean, really.)