Tuesday, May 3, 2011

turn into a pumpkin

there are a couple of downsides to international travel. the first is getting sick.. especially because free, clean bathrooms are nowhere near as plentiful abroad as they are in the US. but the second is that extremely cheap shoes and clothes in asia spoil you silly and make you realize that everything in america is overpriced for no good reason. the quality isn't quite as good, but i don't mind if i need to wear a slip with a dress if i bought it for $10.
i bought those black jellies at NET in taiwan for 300NT which is about 10 dollars. they're waterproof, pretty comfy, and made of nothing but plastic.
so when i saw copycat shoes by steve madden in the shoe cabinet at yoga, i was excited when i found them at DSW. but they were $25. it's just sad paying regular shoe price for something you know is worth $10. but lucky me, maj bought herself a pair in gray and she bought me a pair in clear, so they were free! thank you, good majjy!

there are some deals to be had here too though. this dress was on sale for $40 at the limited, and thanks to a return + discount, i bought it for $15. they had lots of cute dresses on sale.

3 comments:

  1. I haven't had much luck with The Limited lately bu that dress is adorable!

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  2. Can you explain majjy? What language? Cute dress! And shoes of course.:)

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  3. the majjy story is kind of long, but basically.. my family was watching austin powers goldmember i think in 2003 or 4.. and he constantly says 'faja'. so we started calling my dad faja. that lasted probably a year before it shortened to faj. then my mom became maj. a few years after that, they became majjy and fajjy.

    our current fav is minkie and finkie because when my youngest brother, matt, was a toddler, we used to call monkeys minkies because of his babytalk.

    :)

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