[19JUL24] my day out ^-^

thoughts go brrrrrr okay so today i went out and caught up with some friends! we met up for lunch at a restaurant. every time we go to this restaurant in particular we have a tradition of gossiping about people (yes, sadly i am not above such things U_U), but honestly we haven't really spent a lot of time around other people to complain about them recently. thankfully we still had enough to talk about to pad out our time before we realised we needed to get a move on, since our next plans were to go op shopping!

we actually also spent a lot of time gambling on some claw machines. i didn't win anything myself despite having had a bit of luck with them recently, but one person in our group won a few items throughout the day, and even gave me one of the winnings. so now i have a white angry bird plush to add to my collection of little plushies! and actually before we hit any of the op shops still, we had a wander in a small book store, but i didn't see much there that interested me. it did remind me though, that i want to get into subscribing to some magazines?? but idek where to start with to go about doing that, i'm not entirely sure what magazines i'm even looking for?? but anyway that's another story.

so we went on our way to our first op shop. we didn't really spend long there and i wish i'd taken some more time to look at the clothes because we got told pretty soon that they were actually closing up. so everyone took what they had grabbed straight to the counter to pay so we could leave them to shut for the day.

we knew the next op shop we wanted to go to would also be closing soon so we went there next. i actually picked out a few things here! i've always needed new pants and for once i actually committed to buying some even if they didn't necessarily 'jump out at me' as i usually wait for things to do before i buy them. i even got a little bit of variety by buying a pair of pants that weren't jeans! i also grabbed a new shirt even if i maybe didn't need it but anyway. i haven't tried any of it on yet so i'm hoping it all fits comfy (i'm still learning my sizes, not that they're always very helpful, and i don't like using changing rooms). i also scored a mostly full pack of 50 dvd-r's for $5, so i'm hoping that'll give me the confidence to start burning some things without worrying that i'll mess them up and waste them. actually as we got to the counter they had already shut off the card payment thing so we were all scrambling around trying to find cash for one another. my purse which was very heavy at the start of the day from change i hadn't dumped into my money box yet, is now very empty, so it's quite lucky i didn't empty it earlier!

then the last shop we went to was a cafe to get hot chocolates since it has been rainy, windy and cold all day and we had been walking everywhere. also because there was another claw machine. i got a chocolate milkshake instead though since i'm not a fan of hot chocolates (or warm drinks in general now that i think about it), but i did have some hot chips my friend had bought for the group to share. by the time all our orders got made it was getting late and the weather was getting worse so we sat i'm my friend's car for a while until we were ready to go home for the day and that's basically where i'm at now!

okie, i think that's all for today?? might steal this entry for my site's blog as well because i still cant decide how to split my blogs between here and there :P

thank you for reading!!!