Online Shopping Addiction

Another shipment came in today. An awesome Parisian restaurant guide, Pudlo Paris. Apparently it's what the Parisians use, and this is the first edition to be translated into English. And some gifts for the Christmas party I'm hosting for my sorority on Saturday. Lately I have been a buying something online at least once a week. I'm a little addicted. My favorite websites for online shopping....etsy and Amazon. Etsy is this absolutely amazing website with handmade goods from vendors all over the world. I was buying the cutest baby stuff there for a while, literally weekly. So many people I know are having babies or have babies, I couldn't help it. It got to a point that Michael opened a box and said, "are you trying to tell me something?" Well, I wasn't. I just love baby stuff.
Pictured below is a blanket I bought for Pebbles. She is sleeping on it right now. It's a baby blanket. They sell more than baby stuff - stationary, jewelry, housewares, hats. (I'm obsessed with hats right now, but I'll save that obsession for my next blog entry.

Then there is Amazon. The fact that I can buy a book for $1 is awesome. In the past three weeks, at least five books have come in...guidebooks to Paris and London and this is embarrassing to admit....the Twilight series. I know, I know...cheesy vampire romance book. I, as a rule, do not read romance novels. Ever since reading a Nicholas Sparks book in high school that made me want to gag, I said never again. But then Twilight came out. And suddenly everywhere I turned someone was talking about it. The secretaries at my office, the people in the elevator, the parents at my friend's daughter's birthday party. It was ridiculous the fanaticism. So I saw the movie...it sucked. I couldn't stop laughing it was so bad. But since everyone kept telling me the books were great I thought I needed to give it a chance. So I read Twilight on the plane to New Orleans and I found myself unable to put it down. I think there is some sort of subliminal messaging in the text. Although the writing is subpar and the characters totally unbelieveable, I couldn't help it. It's like a cheesy romantic Korean soap opera, so bad that its good. Anyway, I'm reading the rest of the series so I can be a well informed critic. The rest of the books come in next Tuesday.