Confessions of a shopaholic

I had to get my licence renewed today so that meant I couldn't stay home all day in my pyjamas. I bet you anything my new licence photo is gonna look as bad as all my other ID pics... oh well, if I had to be cursed with something I guess that's not so bad.

Of course since I was already out I decided to do a little bit of shopping... I mean the driver licence issuing place was right beside the Corelle factory store anyways. Don't ask me how but I walked out with $40 in new plates and I had already sworn not to buy anything more for my apartment (and didn't I tell myself to curb my spending yesterday?) Oh well.

Then somehow I ended up at Staples and then I drove to Chapters for a coffee frappucino from Starbucks because the sunny weather called for it... and of course since I was already there I thought it wouldn't hurt to just look at the books... and then quite innocently I found one of books I've been meaning to buy for a couple of weeks now: Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini. This book is a riot - it answers the questions we always ask ourselves:

• What causes an ice cream headache?


• Is it bad to crack your knuckles?


• Can you lose a contact lense in the back of your head?


• What are eye boogers?


• What are those little half moons in your nails?


• Why do I have to go to the bathroom immediately after a cup of coffee?


• Why does asparagus make my pee smell?


• Is there really a medication that acts as a truth serum?


• Are canker sores contagious?
(Ha! I answered this!)

...and most importantly,

• Why are you hungry an hour after eating Chinese food?

Of course there's also a section on "All you (n)ever wanted to know about sex" but in my effort to keep this blog G rated and everything (my little sister reads this!) I'll leave it up to you to guess what questions were answered in that section. I thought about being nice and posting some of the answers to the questions above but I think everyone should have to go through what I had to go through - it's really embarassing when the cashier gives you a funny look with oh, so you're one of those people smothered all over it for purchasing a book on men's nipples.

After milling around Chapters for an hour I decided to visit Pier 1 Imports and HMV after that... let's just say the whole day was like a chapter straight out of Confessions of a Shopaholic. I'm so bad! But in my defence I didn't spend any money on clothes.

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Yesterday my TV watching also extended into the evening (I know, I'm becoming quite pathetic, being a couch potato and posting on my blog everyday!) Much to my surprise a bunch of scantily clad girls came on the Teen Choice Awards singing some awful song that goes like this: "Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? Don't you wish your girlfriend was freak like me?" Like seriously how did this song ever get recorded? I mean don't get me wrong, I'm always the first to say that when two people don't belong together they shouldn't be together, but that song is just straight out home-wrecker stylez. It just doesn't make any sense to me but I bet you anything in some kind of sick twisted irony I'll end up liking this song... such is life.

Today's most highly recommended medical book (besides the Men with Nipples one): I recently purchased the Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia although most medical students don't buy this book until clerkship. I think it's silly that a lot of us are told to wait until clerkship to purchase such books because they're so useful.. and if I can get four years out of a book instead of two that makes me feel so much better for shelling out the big bucks for them. Anyways, this book is awesome- you can look up any drug imaginable and everything is well organized - most clerks swear by this book.