the offWhites

Ahh…shopping!  After work today, we went into Keelung to hand over my scooter registration (they’d accidentally put the wrong color down, and it needs to be fixed in case I ever get pulled over) to the Piper, the girl who helped us get the scooters.  We had mentioned to Evelyn, one of the secretaries at work, that we were going, and that we might go shopping afterwards.  She seemed interested, so we told her to call us when she got off if she was interested in meeting up.  She called about a half-hour after we’d arrived, right about when we were getting tired of wandering around not entirely sure where we wanted to go to try to find clothes - perfect timing!  So, we ended up going to a few stores - Hang Ten (!), Giordano, and Nippon Blue, a Japanese import store.  Seth and I both found things we’ve been needing at Hang Ten and Giordano, and marveled over the ridiculous prices at Nippon Blue, where we didn’t bother looking very hard at all.

Then we had dumplings at the night market ( yummy ones, too - usually when I’ve had dumplings before, the vegetable-y taste overwhelmed the pork-y taste, but not so with these), and then went to Working House (an overpriced home goods and gadgets store, where I almost never buy anything but find that I am inextricably drawn to whenever I pass one - I can just look at the stuff for a long time - sort of like Pier One or those organization porn stores, like The Container Store) and a bookstore where Seth bought a gaming magazine he won’t be able to read, since it’s printed in Japanese.

Then, Evelyn headed home, and we stopped off at Baleno, where I found a heavy jacket/light coat for not too much money that’ll keep me warm on the scooter.  I’m amazed at how cold it gets when you go 50kmh on an open-air vehicle such as a scooter - the wind is chilly!

Anyway, we’re home now, and I feel really good.  I think spending some money on ourselves was a very good thing indeed, as we’ve been needing stuff and hadn’t really had the means or confidence to go get it.  So, even if we spent a little more that I’d entirely planned to (although, really, we didn’t spend more than about half of what we took, so I guess I had sort of planned to spend that much), you’ll find no shopper’s remorse here!