My Sephora Addiction, Shopping Snobbery and Greece
Salesperson: "Can I help you find anything?"
Jeremy (to me): "This is a makeup store. Like any girl would walk in here and say, 'Oh no! I'm lost!'"
That quote came to mind because I'm almost out of makeup so that means I need to make both a trip to Sephora.com (we don't have one in Utah, it's a shame, it really is a fantastic place) and Macy's because I happened to run out of pretty much everything at once. All I have left is my Chanel mascara and my makeup brushes. Sometimes I wish that I was one of those "drugstore girls," but then I look at the complexions of most "drugstore girls" and realize why I'm a makeup snob. I have highly sensitive skin--even wind freaks my entire body out--so I have to use Clarins, Lancome and Givenchy. Givenchy is my favorite, but when I can get by with a bottle of Clarins foundation for $30 less than a bottle of Givenchy foundation and everything turns out alright in the end, I'll do it. I won't give up my Givenchy powder, though. Thank goodness I have a husband who is just fine with my anti-cheap attitude.
I am also a clothes snob. Anthropologie is one of the only places I really shop. Because of this I actually buy stuff much less frequently than I would if I had another favorite store. But it's really a money pit. My mom jokingly calls it "Philanthropy" because all of our money goes there. We share this store as a favorite store which makes for fantastic over-the-phone shopping dates--her in Minneapolis and me in Salt Lake. We went there for her birthday. She got a cookbook and some salt and pepper shakers, I contemplated a shirt but realized that I needed nice, non-plastic cereal bowls more and ended up getting those. I'm happy with that purchase because the bowls really do make me happy, especially filled with frozen strawberries for a snack. Yum.
These are reasons why I'm glad I got lucky enough to marry a man who wants to be an orthodontist.
My brother-in-law Colby just got his LDS mission call to Athens, Greece. I'm very excited for him, especially since that is the one place in the world that I want to go most (my major emphasis here at BYU is Greek art and history--which it is very difficult to do anything with after graduation, which is why I've decided to be a vet tech--more on that later). So yay for Colby. I told him that Jeremy and I would be happy to come pick him up when he's done. I was planning on taking Jeremy somewhere for his graduation present (my parents are taking us to NYC for mine in April/May) and we were thinking Paris because hey, I can speak the language and it'd be a really great time, but maybe we'll switch it to Athens. I'd rather go there even though I can't speak the language.
Addition:
I was looking at shoes today at Anthropologie and ran across these:
All currently out of my price range, but I'm lusting.
posted by Sara @ 2:36 PM
