Category Archives: retail therapy

new webcam!

07 Saturday Oct 2006

Posted by in miscellany, photos, retail therapy

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webcam.jpgWe bought a webcam today!

And it’s exactly the one in the pic, so I think we should be able to use it on both the PC and the laptop (if we ever see the ol’ laptop again… 😕 ). It also came with an earpiece microphone thingy – the type that dangles down from one ear and which apparently works just fine as I checked it out with Mudhooks this afternoon.

Anyhow, have never had a webcam before. Mostly because I quite enjoy being able to sit in front of the computer communicating with people without having to be properly dressed or worry about what my hair! looks like.

But the other day we were chatting with zoomer and he had his webcam going to show us his new condo and it was rather cool. We were just chatting on IM and it was nice to see him laugh when he received my messages (he has the most beautiful smile). And so Nog and I thought we’d get one too.

When I tested it out with Mudhooks on Skype today we had both visual and audio going and it was quite neat (she has a lovely smile too!). But I don’t think I’ll ever be going visual first thing in the morning, if you know what I mean . . .

I realise we are probably way behind the times as everyone seems to have webcams these days. I’m not sure why I never got one before – I think I always thought they were more expensive than they actually are. This one only cost 20€ (well, with the headset it was an extra 10€). A reasonable price for a new computer toy.

So does everyone else out there have a webcam? Do you use it a lot? Apparently I can send photos and videos to people with this one and I’m thinking it might be nice to send a video message to friends and family members, like at Christmas or on their birthdays, stuff like that. f_smiley.gif

eye glasses

31 Thursday Aug 2006

Posted by in life stuff, miscellany, retail therapy

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eyeglasses.jpg Why do glasses cost so bloody much?

This morning I discovered that my prescription sunglasses had gone missing. Perhaps I’d left them at Modesto last night … and it is a serious truth that I cannot go outside in bright sunlight without my sunglasses because, well, it really HURTS my eyes.

So stopped by my usual opticians to see if I could find something I liked and I found a great pair of glasses that, unfortunately, wouldn’t work well as sunglasses as the inner bright green rim would be lost with a dark lens, which was the reason I liked them in the first place. Just as well as those ended up being Prada glasses and costing 200 euros.

Then I saw these really cool dark purple ones … tried them on. They were AMAZING. Fit my face perfectly (not an easy thing to do, given the SIZE of my face) looked cool and also sturdy enough to last a few years. Also liked the silver doohicky on the side. Turned out these ones were Bulgari and cost 300 euros! Like, WTF?

Why???

Why do these glasses cost so much? And why are the only glass frames that I ever like and suit me end up being these outrageously expensive ones? Because I couldn’t give a fiddler’s fart about designer brand names. Yet it always ends up the same. Though my tastes seem to be going rather ‘up market’ without my permission.

Last glasses I bought eight years ago were cute Benetton red wire frames for every day and some Armani clones by a company called Vogue for my prescription sunglasses. And they weren’t cheap either, just not quite as expensive as Armani’s would have been.

I’m honestly not interested at all in buying a designer brand name. In fact, it would be kinda embarrassing to wear glasses saying Bulgari on the side because people will snigger and think – what a dork for paying way too much for a pair of purple sunglasses.

Except there aren’t any other possible sunglasses. That fit. Are comfortable. Look nice.

Basically something that I’d want to put on my face.

And there is no way I can afford them anyhow, except Manolo is offering me a deal to pay them off over six months with no interest …

azahar summer sale

04 Friday Aug 2006

Posted by in clothing, retail therapy

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It’s our first summer sale! f_wow.gif

Everything in the shop is 25% off from August 1- 31 2006.

Yeah I know, shameless self-promotion but what the hell.

I also sent out an email thingy this afternoon – apologies to anyone who got duplicates as I was really having problems getting my biz email to work properly with a list.

You can visit the shop by clicking on the logo below. . .

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M & S

21 Wednesday Jun 2006

Posted by in retail therapy, sevilla

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🙂 Yay! This was such good news to read this morning in the ol’ Grauniad – apparently Marks & Spencer is planning to open 150 new stores overseas. Oh please please please let one of them be in Sevilla!

Here’s the article I read: Marks & Spencer

Since they closed the M&S in Sevilla back in 2001 I’ve had no decent place to buy underwear, socks, tights, cotton t-shirts, natural fibre sweaters, mince pies at Christmas time and . . . oh just all sorts of simple basic things, you know?

There is an M&S in Gibraltar, about a 2 1/2 hour drive from here, and I almost got there once My Almost Trip To Gibraltar . But since I didn’t I then had to get my friend Karl in England to send me M&S knickers by post – I was a desperate woman. And now it looks like those dark desperate days may finally be drawing to a close . . .