Take your copies and shove 'em

Attack of the Clones
isn't it annoying how everything is a copy of a copy of a copy*?

just now i clicked through to the free people website via shop-it-to-me and i wondered, "hmm, anthropologie? is that where i am? looks weird." and sure enough, it wasn't anthropologie at all. just a copy of a copy of a copy. thank you free people! or anthropologie or whoever decided to be unoriginal first and copy someone else's design.

(like my old employer, restoration hardware: they fired all the designers last year, then picked up a copy of pottery barn and set forth to copy furniture out of it, mark the price up double and give it a new name. a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. yawn.)

and so you may start to get an idea of Farmacy's Mission Statement: nothing the same anymore. everything as different as possible. happiness through self-expression. bright eyes brought on by art. no more copies of copies of copies of copies.

Unemployed Inspiration
i'm sitting at my kitchen counter thinking i better get out of the house today. unemployment is starting to drag on me after a healthy two weeks of staying at home. it's hard being alone so much. it's hard to stay motivated. i hope i can have an office someday and someone to make talk to me over coffee for too long in the mornings. and maybe someone to force to go to lunch with me. i'll the nicest boss ever, but still...the boss.

where should i go out to today? i have $3.25 in my checking account. i guess that means i can get a coffee. maybe marin roasters. my favorite. too crowded maybe for a mouse. a mouse i would need to make a picture. should probably work on collateral now anyway. better not forget about Art in the Redwoods and the 2nd painting. need to call aunt ann. need to call a lot of people. write a letter to united about my voucher...i would pay someone right now to make these calls for me if i had the money. oh please, let me have the money someday.

which is i guess why i'm starting this clothing line. NO. actually, that isn't it. i'm starting this clothing line because i'm tired of being laid off. i'm tired of dragging my husband down. i'm so tired of working SO HARD all the time and getting NOWHERE with it!

this last time, the 7th lay-off in 5 years? the last.



*credit to chuck palahniuk for this perfect line about insomnia from Fight Club.