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Why don't you get out of that puffy coat and into a dry martini?

For all those of you who are following the saga... the long, iron-fisted reign of the Puffy Coat is over. It has been vainquished by the new Brightly-Colored Coat which took over in a terribly bloody siege at TJ Maxx today*.

The Brightly-Colored Coat is not really like a lot of the other stuff I wear. It makes me feel a bit like I am screaming "HEY! LOOK AT ME! LOOK OVER HERE! I AM WEARING A BRIGHTLY-COLORED COAT, SO LOOK AT ME NOW!", but I am hoping that it will also use its powers of brightness to ward off Seasonal Affective Disorder when the horrible, depressing, will-to-live-losing, grey doldrums of winter arrive.

Eventually I will go and get a Nice Coat too, but we must make the Brightly-Colored Coat comfortable in its home first, or it will believe that we don't think it's nice and will take revenge in terrible, unspeakable ways - like refusing to unzip and trapping us within its fiendish embrace. Must appease this powerful new garment. Niiiiiiiiiiice coat.

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* There was no blood, except imaginary coat-blood. And the Puffy Coat wasn't even along on the expedition, so I'm not sure how it would have attacked the other anyway. But my point is, there should be more bloody sieges at TJ Maxx. Don't you agree?

srah - Tuesday, 14 October 2003 - 6:14 PM
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Comments (12)

gravatar katie - October 14, 2003 - 8:11 PM - ℓ

This post makes me want to:

a) burst into songs from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat

b) want to see a picture of the new coat very, very badly

c) want to see carnage and mayhem at TJ Maxx

d) smack myself for not going into TJ Maxx tonight, even though I was right THERE

gravatar srah - October 14, 2003 - 8:45 PM - ℓ

I tried to find a picture online, but it's not a current model (hence TJ Maxx). So you'll have to wait until one gets taken. Which will be eight years.

gravatar Spike - October 15, 2003 - 5:55 AM - ℓ

Is there a Coat Affective Disorder? I think I'd be horribly depressed by something all bright and shiny (coat-wise, I mean, not, for example, by a big pile of bright, shiny money, although having said that I'd probably look rather silly *wearing* a pile of bright, shiny money. But I digress).

Photo! Photo! (And wear shades so you look like an oh-I'm-so-cool-snowboarder! :)

gravatar katie - October 15, 2003 - 8:23 AM - ℓ

Srah, you could at least tell us what color(s) the coat is.

gravatar srah - October 15, 2003 - 10:24 AM - ℓ

Yeller and bright blue. But mostly yeller. But the top part is blue, which is important because too much yeller near the face would be oogly.

gravatar Erica - October 15, 2003 - 6:03 PM - ℓ

You look handsome. You look smart. You are a walking work of art.

gravatar Daniella - October 15, 2003 - 11:19 PM - ℓ

I'm envisaging a swedish-flag design coat, but I'm sure it looks infinitely more smashing. Hooray for bright coats!

gravatar Cheryl - October 16, 2003 - 10:41 AM - ℓ

I LOOOOOVEEE bright colored coats! We'll be twins, as mine is also bright yellow!

PS You made me listen to Fiddle last night. I've always hated Wonder of Wonder Miracles of Miracles, God took a Daniel by the hand....

gravatar juice - October 16, 2003 - 10:47 AM - ℓ

i also suffer from SAD-ness in the winter. i wish a brightly-colored coat could assuage my suffering. but alas, my own personal sense of style (and johnny cash-inspired man-in-black-iness) prevent me from indulging in such frivolity.

gravatar srah - October 16, 2003 - 12:49 PM - ℓ

I love that song. I love Motel.

I don't have any diagnosed SAD, but winter greyness pisses me off.

gravatar Jez posting from Internet Caf and leaving Paris tomorrow - October 16, 2003 - 4:20 PM - ℓ

Yay. Photo please. It isn't one of those da-glow (sp?) skiing jackets, is it? I do hope it's a funky bohemian thang, as would doubtless suit you better.

I am frantically trying to read all my favourite blogs in a one-hour time frame. I would buy more time, but I'm exhausted from cleaning my flat to make it presentable to the landlord.

TTFN

gravatar srah - October 16, 2003 - 5:10 PM - ℓ

It's not day-glo, but it is a parka-ish sort of thing. Not very bohemian at all. Sorry to disappoint.

Have a good trip!!!!

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