who what where when why wednesday.

q:

how do you get yourself out of a funk?

a:

{i wish i had a cheaper answer.}

i shop.

i should have a really wholesome answer, like reading some scriptures, saying some prayers, or a visit to the temple. but i do those things... regularly. so, i feel a little entitled to say...

buying something {more often than not... more than one thing!} new makes me happy. along with the days following when i get to use my new things. clothes, shoes, expensive soap {my ultimate unnecessary purchase}.

it's completely expected of me, at this point. last time i was sad, my dad advised i buy myself a new pair of shoes. he knows his daughter well.

i love this - the original sighting of the term "retail therapy" {from a 1986 chicago tribune article}:

"we've become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through retail therapy"

as long as we pay our bills at the end of the day, right?