so many ways to pass the time when i can't work or use my phone. . .

i'm in a super weird state right now. i feel to wiped out (& perhaps a bit unmotivated knowing many people's semester just ended) to work, but not quite sick enough to sleep all day long. and my voice isn't really well enough to waste time by talking to people on the phone, so i've had to find other ways of passing the time.

apparently one way to pass the time has been to go on mini shopping trips. one for all of my allergy medicine prescriptions (soooo happy spring is here, by the way). one through my closet to figure out what to wear this weekend (don't worry, i'm totally covered now), and one to the mall. . .i forget why, but it resulted in a pair of shorts and a new bottle of nail polish. woot, woot.

sadly, there's more, but before i continue, i need to have a brief tangent. while i was at target, i found a dress on the clearance rack that was marked for $6. it was nothing super special, just a blue wrap, but it would be good for work, conferences, etc. i actually wasn't going to go for it until i noticed that the other identical dresses were marked for $18. so here's my question: was it ethical for me to purchase the apparently mispriced dress? like, should i have been going up to a target employee saying, "i think this dress is mismarked. . . but i don't really want it if you're going to charge me $18." i don't know. i feel kind of bad. . . though much of that badness is taken away by having a new dress that cost me $6.

okay, my other trips were to lowe's, where i got all of the items that i said that i would get once spring was here, like:

food for my hummingbird feeder

the rest of the herbs for the herb stand that mom and dad brought me last year. now we have basil, chives (seriously, those things never die) and some mint blooming from the plant that i was convinced was dead. that was a nice surprise.

p.s., i know that i'm supposed to pull blooms off of a basil plant. are we supposed to be pulling them off of the chives, too?

and two more plants that are supposed to help purify the air in our apartment. one is the philodendron that you see here next to the peace lily that i repotted. nice work, eh? the philodendron came in a red pot that matches our kitchen, making that it's obvious home. the peace lily has a nice little stand, but just hasn't made it back up to my bedroom yet.

the other is a croton, which apparently means "bush on fire." it's appropriate because the plant is fiery red in a lot places although you can't see it well in that picture. i love it, because it's a great, great name. however, i more selected it because it was a "bush on sale."

so, there were a lot of things that i could have been doing today, but these were the winners.

it will be interesting to see how i spend my time tomorrow, don't you think?