Moons and Stars...with SOCK MONKEYS!
Dec. 5th, 2008 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanFriends of NQP might want to know that Target has toddler flannel PJs with moons, stars, and, yep, just like the subject line claimed, sock monkeys!
The microfleece robe is out of stock, and he's long outgrown the sock monkey rock band pjs, but those moon & stars sock monkey PJs? Cute!
Friends of GFS will be happy to hear that she resisted the buying temptation herself. 'Twasn't easy, but doing so was important and I'm glad I managed to walk out of the store without them. I also resisted the grown-up flannel PJs with Santa's helper sock monkeys. If they'd had grown up moon & stars sock monkeys, I would have been lost. Totally lost.
Damn! There are some things I should Just Not Google.
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guppiecat, I'm going with the 24-hour rule at the very least. I may end up using Christmas $$$ from Daddy to get these, but I'm not doing so tonight. Many thanks for suggesting a 24-hour hold rule for unplanned online purchases.
I'm also starting an impulse list, just to keep track of them. That served me particularly well during the run up to Boskone this past February, and from the looks of it, I think it will serve me well through the holidays to write down impulses as I have them and note the outcome (as in, what I do in response to the impulse).
I count eight impulses in the last five days. Ah, yup. 'Tis the season, all right. So far, I believe I have acted appropriately on all of them -- I pounced on two unexpected opportunities to do things of vital importance to me that wouldn't have otherwise been achieved/accomplished. (And, yes, apologies for being obscure and all, but I do believe I have "vital" correctly calibrated in these two cases -- one went the core of my being able to deliver on client projects and thereby continue generating income, the other -- a much smaller matter, involving a few very pleasant hours and about $6 in gas -- went to the core of what it means to be a friend.)
I acted on another impulse that seemed to be and still looks like a reasonable solution to a dilemma. Of the remaining five impulses, I scaled one back from beyond my capabilities to something I could manage the day after I had it, and passed on the other four.
Most of these impulses were in response to situations that actually built up over a number of days, weeks, and months -- it was just this week when solutions started presenting themselves. Then again, the swing on a star sock monkey PJs are pure, unadulterated impulse in either case (gift for Nico, gift for me). Those are more important to resist...or at least stop and think through, preferably with the object of the impulse out of eyesight. And so it will be.
Onward.
Edited to add cut tag.
The microfleece robe is out of stock, and he's long outgrown the sock monkey rock band pjs, but those moon & stars sock monkey PJs? Cute!
Friends of GFS will be happy to hear that she resisted the buying temptation herself. 'Twasn't easy, but doing so was important and I'm glad I managed to walk out of the store without them. I also resisted the grown-up flannel PJs with Santa's helper sock monkeys. If they'd had grown up moon & stars sock monkeys, I would have been lost. Totally lost.
Damn! There are some things I should Just Not Google.
Okay,
guppiecat, I'm going with the 24-hour rule at the very least. I may end up using Christmas $$$ from Daddy to get these, but I'm not doing so tonight. Many thanks for suggesting a 24-hour hold rule for unplanned online purchases.I'm also starting an impulse list, just to keep track of them. That served me particularly well during the run up to Boskone this past February, and from the looks of it, I think it will serve me well through the holidays to write down impulses as I have them and note the outcome (as in, what I do in response to the impulse).
I count eight impulses in the last five days. Ah, yup. 'Tis the season, all right. So far, I believe I have acted appropriately on all of them -- I pounced on two unexpected opportunities to do things of vital importance to me that wouldn't have otherwise been achieved/accomplished. (And, yes, apologies for being obscure and all, but I do believe I have "vital" correctly calibrated in these two cases -- one went the core of my being able to deliver on client projects and thereby continue generating income, the other -- a much smaller matter, involving a few very pleasant hours and about $6 in gas -- went to the core of what it means to be a friend.)
I acted on another impulse that seemed to be and still looks like a reasonable solution to a dilemma. Of the remaining five impulses, I scaled one back from beyond my capabilities to something I could manage the day after I had it, and passed on the other four.
Most of these impulses were in response to situations that actually built up over a number of days, weeks, and months -- it was just this week when solutions started presenting themselves. Then again, the swing on a star sock monkey PJs are pure, unadulterated impulse in either case (gift for Nico, gift for me). Those are more important to resist...or at least stop and think through, preferably with the object of the impulse out of eyesight. And so it will be.
Onward.
Edited to add cut tag.
