Maru's Mun Journal

My birthday was this past Monday and I did mean to post then but I accidentally had a very bad night's sleep. I bought these really good London Fog ice cream bars and hadn't realized they had the actual black tea in them, so eating one late at night was a bad idea. I did manage to not be late to work throughout the whole week but I did oversleep and miss my haircut on Friday morning. Thankfully they were able to take me this morning and I now have much less hair and it feels so nice.

In terms of my birthday weekend, I didn't end up doing a huge amount as it was hot and I've been bad about reaching out to people. So I spent Saturday at the local mall where I unexpectedly won a raffle for a free outfit at Loft. It was so much fun to go back to the store and try on lots of clothing without worrying about cost. The way the prize works out, its about a hundred dollars each for a top, bottom and an accessory, but the kicker is it has to be in store. I ended up finding a second top, I'd already bought one with a birthday coupon.

Sadly I didn't find anything else, I went back today and no luck especially for bottoms, which I kind of knew. Last weekend there was a dress that almost worked but the way it fit my shoulders didn't look great. I have I think two weeks from getting it to find an outfit so I'm going to go back on Friday as its a holiday and see what I can negotiate. Like could I trade it in for gift cards or order something online to get sent there to try on and buy. I feel like they won't be stupid enough to not give me something for at least part of it. Its not the biggest store and I think at this point, I've tried out everything that might work and in terms of the accessories, there's nothing great. One unexpectedly nice aspect of this is when various pieces of clothing didn't fit, the bad body thoughts weren't that loud. It was more annoyance that they didn't carry a few more sizes.

Then I walked around Newton Centre and had fun getting myself little treats at the various bakeries. Also this weekend, a new Asian grocery store opened up and even partly stocked, its so good. It was wonderful how this store was clearly the place to be this weekend, it was busy. I don't have to deal with Brookline or Allston or elsewhere traffic to get Chinese sausage. I didn't even get all the things that caught my eye as it was nice to go, its not going to disappear.

One great part of this week and honestly lately has been Campaign 4 but this latest episode combined with seeing Maybe Happy Ending at the end of last month has given me all the theater feelings. It also made me happy when I said I miss theater in the Beacon chat, all the Critters went, yes, go do it. My writing is still feeling kind of slow, but my creativity hasn't left just gone dormant. It was a hard winter, thawing sometimes takes a while. But I'm working on finding ways to feel colorful and just not let myself be smaller.

Work has actually been doing things that I and others asked for which is nice, opening doors though I'm still looking for jobs closer to my parents, but I don't feel as trapped. I don't fully trust this admin team's priorities, but my manager is definitely doing what she can. On that note, any local authors or authors willing to come to the Boston area in October, my library runs an Author's Festival and I volunteered to find someone. I'm going to be looking for mainly Romance authors at this point, but I'm also on the hunt for SFF authors for author talks.