The female of the species acquires consumer goods for bonding purposes

Bit of a shopping spree today. I try to remind myself that this is because I won't be buying much of anything until the NEXT time I'm in civilization. :P

I picked up the last of the fabric for my Garnet costume. It's not QUITE the right weight, but it was what I could afford and I shall find a way of managing. Also, everything was 50% off today, which is always a bonus. The girl who cut it for me sat there trying to figure out where she knew me from until I said something about it being for a costume. SHe was at ANimaritime last year, so we talked about cosplay plans for this year's convention. :p

Then it was off to Chapters because I had a $50 gift card. Which is mostly used up now, since I bought Tempest, Wintersmith and The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch. I wandered through the oddly organized youth section looking for Wintesmith since it's a Tiffay Aching book. Turns out I should have turned around after picking up Darwin's Watch, because there was more Pratchettness on the next shelf. :P

Then we went to the madhouse that is the mall on Boxing-Day-for-sale-purposes. My search for Sims 2: University turned into a bit of a quest, as a lot of the stores only had the later expansions that my computer can't handle. My sister eventually suggested TOys R Us, which, much to my surprise, actually had it. THat made me happy, because the only option after that was trying EB Games, and they were making people line up to get in the store. I don't much care for queuing up just to get IN to a store. :p I also eventually found a Christmas present for Ryan. And I bought the RotJ DVD, because they had the good version with the Ewok song. :p