Clothes Shopping, eBay, The Hollowmen & Thursday Thirteen

I hate clothes shopping. Which probably makes me an embarrassment to the rest of my gender…no, I’m an embarrassment to my gender because I also hate shoe shopping. Sorry, forgot about that.

Reasons
-Not much I like
-Things that look okay on the racks may not look good on me
-The really good things are expensive
-Things I like may not come in my size
-If I’m looking for something in particular, I won’t find it

That’s only four reasons, but believe me – they make all the difference. But I ended up buying some jeans, and two tops. $170 all up. Still didn’t find a jumper that’s not itchy and looks all right on me. Also didn’t end up buying a jacket. And my everyday shoes have a hole, so I’ll probably have to replace them at some stage. When money abounds. If money abounds.

Oh, eBay Australia is having no insertion fees from July 12-21, if your opening bid is 99c. I list all mine at 95c, so this is good news.

About halfway through The Hollowmen, I started reading in front of the TV. Usually Working Dog’s programmes suit me, but this doesn’t. Might be too intelligent for me. But at the time I thought it didn’t entertain me, and it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know. Yes, I know awareness campaigns are a bunch of faff. I know how political parties try to look like something’s happening when in reality feck-all is. Thus the show had nothing new to add to my brain.

Thursday Thirteen
TBR Pile as of Thursday 10th July 2008 (Edition #4)
1. Tanya Huff’s Blood Lines
2. Chris Howard’s Seaborn
3. Vicki Pettersson’s The Scent of Shadows
4. Yasmine Galenorn’s Darkling
5. Judy Blume’s Wifey
6. Jeanne C. Stein’s The Becoming
7. Jackie Kessler’s The Road to Hell
8. Jeanne C. Stein’s Blood Drive
9. Jeanne C. Stein’s The Watcher
10. Mark Del Franco’s Unshapely Things
11. Mark Del Franco’s Unquiet Dreams
12. Charlaine Harris’s Dead As a Doornail
13. Eve Kenin’s Driven

And here’s the rest of the unread books on my shelf. Yep, 63 in total, but more are always welcome, and the order may and probably will change at any time.

14. M. J. Rose’s Lying in Bed
15. Liz Maverick’s Wired
16. Jenna Black’s The Devil Inside
17. Liz Maverick’s The Shadow Runners
18. Tanya Huff’s Blood Pact
19. Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy
20. Faith Hunter’s Bloodring
21. Caitlin Kittredge’s Night Life
22. Marjorie M. Liu’s The Last Twilight
23. Anthology: On the Prowl
24. Kat Richardson’s Greywalker
25. Kay Austin’s Time Transit
26. Laura Anne Gilman’s Staying Dead
27. Lisa Shearin’s Magic Lost, Trouble Found
28. Kristine Smith’s Code of Conduct
29. Mario Acevedo’s The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
30. Mario Acevedo’s X-Rated Bloodsuckers
31. Faith Hunter’s Seraphs
32. Jeaniene Frost’s Halfway to the Grave
33. Jeaniene Frost’s One Foot in the Grave
34. Jeff Somers’s The Digital Plague
35. Gena Showalter’s Awaken Me Darkly
36. Gena Showalter’s Enslave Me Sweetly
37. Kristopher Reisz’s Tripping to Somewhere
38. Gena Showalter’s Savor Me Slowly
39. Keri Arthur’s Embraced by Darkness
40. Keri Arthur’s The Darkest Kiss
41. Megan Hart’s Broken
42. Rachel Vincent’s Rogue
43. Marie Brennan’s Doppelganger
44. Lilith Saintcrow’s Working for the Devil
45. Lilith Saintcrow’s Dead Man Rising
46. Lilith Saintcrow’s The Devil’s Right Hand
47. Lilith Saintcrow’s Saint City Sinners
48. Lilith Saintcrow’s To Hell and Back
49. Adrian Phoenix’s A Rush of Wings
50. M. J. Rose’s The Venus Fix
51. Megan Hart’s Tempted
52. Marie Brennan’s Warrior and Witch
53. Vicki Pettersson’s The Taste of Night
54. Jodi Picoult’s Change of Heart
55. Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight
56. Jodi Picoult’s The Pact
57. Kelley Armstrong’s Exit Strategy
58. Richelle Mead’s Succubus Blues
59. Richelle Mead’s Succubus on Top
60. Kim Harrison’s Every Which Way But Dead
61. Kim Harrison’s A Fistful of Charms
62. Anthology: Holidays Are Hell
63. Kim Harrison’s For a Few Demons More