Apparently the meaning of "sin" or rather the word from the original hebrew in the bible that we translate as "sin" means missing the mark. In that senses, November was again marked by sin. I bought new lightbulbs for the shower and the fridge. I tried it for a while in the dark. Of course I have managed to justify the energy expenditure if not the purchase by persuading myself that I would use more energy without the lights. It clearly takes a lot longer to find things in the fridge without the light but I may be a little on the wimpy side on the shower. Having sinned once, with perfection already shot, why not do it again. The poor cats were so truamatized by their trip to the vet that I bought them each a little toy--a felt mouse for one and a felt carrot for the other. Though if consumable means "nothing left for others to use when you are done" cat toys might count.
Of course so might my sheets count the way they are going. My next task will be to learn to mend sheets as I think we are down to one sheet with no holes. I cut a sheet up earlier this year to use as floor clothes, a bad idea with cotton weave, so can take the rest of that sheet and use it for patches. I think if I just cut the ragged material away, fold under the edges and then sow a piece onto the underside of the sheet it shouldn't be too lumpy and I won't need to hem the piece on the bottom. Any advice from the experienced gratefully recieved.
I walked through the mall a couple of weeks ago on my way to the library and was sucked into a shoe store by a pair of red blundstones. My year is up on April 29th and my current plan is to buy a pair of jeans, a sheet, some socks and the red blundstones and then take a crack at more non-shopping. I think it is getting addictive. Oh and maybe I'll have to get the pink reading glasses with the rhinestones. I have lost a couple of pairs of reading glasses and at this rate may be down to less than a dozen by April.
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I don't know...I think that lightbulbs need to be in a special category. Although, I suppose you could use candles, I think you're justified in buying lightbulbs. (Red blundstones, eh...)
Wait! You have over a dozen pairs of reading glasses? Why so many?
I have so many pairs of reading glasses because I have a pair in every room in the house and a pair in my backpack and a pair in my purse and a pair in my bookbag and a pair on my desk and a pair in my carry bag. I don't think that adds up to a dozen so there are a couple unaccounted for. But the short answer is twofold (a)convenience and (b) buying new ones when I forget to take a pair on a trip. And I suppose if I were honest, at the price I used to always buy pairs because they were cool.
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