[Prudence]

Went to the 'rents this afternoon to give my dad his father's day present. My brother showed up, too. Each of us, as instructed, bought my dad the exact same sort of jeans. Two gold stars for the Zobrist children today.

Then I got to try on clothes. My mom goes shopping for me on her lunch break. She works in downtown Seattle in the Westlake Tower building, so she's got easy access to the department stores. (Whereas I work in the U-District and have easy access to....head shops.) We're trying to find me cruise clothes. Specifically for formal night. I've got some nice work clothes and decent business casual clothes, but nothing "formal." And I've got entirely the wrong body shape, so it's a challenge.

But so far we have a great gathered black blouse with rhinestone buttons, a set with amazing black silk pants (I'll need to have the front rise shortened 2 inches at least, but that's standard. Curse of the big butt.) and a really distressing "floaty top" (my mom's term) that she loves and I think makes me look like a cafeteria lady. And a dress that actually works off the rack, something I haven't had in so long that I can't even remember my last dress. Seriously. Like at least 5 years.

But my mom likes to stay downstairs while I change upstairs. So it's upstairs, downstairs, upstairs, downstairs. "Can I see that top again with the black pants.?" "Okay, can I see that with the green sweater again?" I feel like I'm in that commercial for the online car shopping. "Can I see it again in red?"

Finished my reading for Monday and Tuesday and started on Thursday. Watched my poor kitty to see how he's doing after having three teeth extracted. Felt generally inadequate.

Oh, and I'm trying to grow something from seed and so far there are 4 whole sprouts. Every plant I've ever tried to take care of died, so we'll see if anything survives.