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Mar. 14th, 2006 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI went to the WalMart today to buy wrapping paper for the SKP. It's a baby shower present so I was gunning for baby-shower gifting accessories. Unfortunately, everything that the WalMart had available was inappropriate. I'm sorry, but I just can't buy fucking pastel wrapping paper. I can't. It makes me ill. I feel actual, physical pain at the very thought. The cards were worse. I finally opted for plain, solid-colored tissue paper in non-pastel colors and as minimalist a card as I could locate.
I feel certain that they'll be along shortly to ban me from the gender for the remainder of my sorry life. What the hell is wrong with me that I actually blew twenty minutes of my life in the gift-wrapping aisle of the fucking WalMart debating the gender politics of wrapping paper for baby showers? Is this a result of the liberal arts education? I know they promised me the joy of an examined life and it's quite possible that I sometimes overdo that a bit. Probably this is one of the times... but damn it, everything they had for baby showers was in pastels. Everything. There were no pastel-free items available.
It was worse than Easter. (Way too much of Easter happens in pastel tones. I personally think there should be more purple. Purple is a good color for Easter, though not pastel purple. More of a grape or Barney purple. Possibly also white with gold trim would be okay. On an outside shot, I could also go for a nice solid green which could bleed right over into Irish Day which is more-or-less at the same time of the year as Easter. We are not going to discuss the fact that my feelings about appropriate Easter colors appear to come right out of the liturgical calendar's colors leading up to and including Easter. That's pure coincidence, that is.)
I feel certain that they'll be along shortly to ban me from the gender for the remainder of my sorry life. What the hell is wrong with me that I actually blew twenty minutes of my life in the gift-wrapping aisle of the fucking WalMart debating the gender politics of wrapping paper for baby showers? Is this a result of the liberal arts education? I know they promised me the joy of an examined life and it's quite possible that I sometimes overdo that a bit. Probably this is one of the times... but damn it, everything they had for baby showers was in pastels. Everything. There were no pastel-free items available.
It was worse than Easter. (Way too much of Easter happens in pastel tones. I personally think there should be more purple. Purple is a good color for Easter, though not pastel purple. More of a grape or Barney purple. Possibly also white with gold trim would be okay. On an outside shot, I could also go for a nice solid green which could bleed right over into Irish Day which is more-or-less at the same time of the year as Easter. We are not going to discuss the fact that my feelings about appropriate Easter colors appear to come right out of the liturgical calendar's colors leading up to and including Easter. That's pure coincidence, that is.)
