littlestar

i got a lot of things done today. i put an apartment on hold in san jose. the place is literally across the street from campus. things didn't go as easily as i wanted--as the one bedroom that i wanted was already taken by someone else. right now, i have a hold on a studio. once a one bedroom opens up, i'll move to that.

then i went dress shopping. i bought THREE. one was a pretty generic flower print dress. the other two are interesting. one is intensely pink strapless with a '50s style of puffiness and the other was a navy strapless dress. both come a little below my knees.

don't worry, i have ways of de-girlifying the pink dress. don't i always?

so here's the hilarious part:

guys.... NEVER try to buy a girl a dress. it doesn't matter if you know her size.

never mind that each dress fits different on a woman's body, to flatter or to.... well... not flatter.

these three dresses i bought were sizes 3, 7, and *9*. and yeah, the 7 and the 9 were a little big, but not noticeably so (they were the smallest sizes of the dresses they had). and i know that i'm usually a 3 or 4, so it's not like my ego is damaged for having size 7 or 9 dresses...

but do you have how up the creek you would be if you bought a dress that was like 3 or 5 sizes too big??? i mean... what would you implying, right?

so don't buy dresses for them. unless they've already tried it on, loved it and had to leave it because of monetary reasons (ie. you're already married/engaged).

and while we're on the topic of gifts. seriously, girls are so not going to be impressed by random, expensive, impersonal gifts. i think that's why my friend alisha hates flowers. never mind that they have already been saccharinized (if you don't know already, i make words fit my needs) to DEATH, but you could pretty much give flowers to anybody. it is very rare for people to put thought into flowers. granted, if you've put thought into it, flowers are fine.

but none of that generic "red roses are romantic so every girl must like them" crap, yeah?