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More shopping today. But nothing fun happened this time out. no, not this time. no today, we went shopping for jeans and spring coats. Did you know that apparently all the spring fashion and other clothes were sent back to the manufacturers around mid-february? I didn’t. I’m looking for a nice spring weight trench coat and I can’t find one for the life of me. I have two coats, both leather, neither with a removable liner. so they are heavy, both in weight and in warmth. I haven’t had a spring coat since my jean-jacket died an honorable death last year. I found a jacket today that makes me look like I should be pumping gas in the 1950s, and it was on a sale rack. We’ve gotten so desperate for light-weight coats, I’ve almost started trying on women’s coats. If I didn’t have such broad shoulders,(though Laurell often comments that I carry her purse better than she dose because of them…) I’d have seriously tried that.
And we couldn’t find jeans to save our lives. I cleaned out a major department store of the one style of jeans I wear, and I didn’t have enough of them to meet my needs. And Laurell is having similar problems with her section. Oh well. This is why I took the kiddo out to get my comics this afternoon and let Laurell have the two hour bath she’s been craving.
I love comics. I have since I got my first comic lo these many years ago. (Transformers #1 from Marvell for those of you keeping track.) I have sustained a habit that once exceeded my income by orders of magnitude. I’m down to maybe a dozen titles a month, with a regular pull-and-hold file at my local shop. I’ve been going there regularly for about four years now, and I know most of the staff on sight. I try to go in once a week and pick up my file, and talk with them about TV, Movies, Comics or Gaming. Its a nice little shop in one of the many municipalities that make up St. Louis, and they have been around for some time. In fact they have several locations throughout the Metro area and I don’t see them folding any time soon. I like that. It gives me a place to go and talk to people that don’t look at me odd for wearing my Spider-Man 2099 t-shirt, or for knowing the value of my comic collection better than I know my cell phone number. I like the guys that work there, and they have turned me on to several series that I would never have looked at if they hadn’t recommended them. I’ve also had the joy of introducing Trinity to comics, and to collectible card games. Today, she picked up her first comic and cards. I was very pleased. So pleased in fact that I’m springing for card sleeves for her.
Before you applaud my generous nature, know that I have ulterior motives. I have every intention of hooking the kiddo on my other guilty pleasure that you find at gaming stores… Miniature Battles. < VBEG > I can still remember having her ask if she could play against me when I got a table top space battle game. I told her that she would have to be able to read a little better than she could, but when she could read the rules, I’d teach her to play. Now that she is reading better, I’ll see if she is still interested, but I think she will be. I often catch her having imaginary battles between her stuffed toys and her Barbies.
So I’m going to go now and curl up on the couch and read my new comics and watch as my daughter helps the 7th Barbie regiment take hill 123 from the forces of the Furred League.