help!!!!

i don't know what to do about tonight. i have 2 options that i can't decide between:

1. the love dogs, a band i adore, are playing at swing city. i haven't seen them live in about 2 years. they're always fun to dance to... however, a lot of the "regulars" (my friends) aren't crazy about them and may decide to make other plans for the night. so i might have no-one to hang with.

2. there's a special west coast swing dance (what i've been doing lately) at another place, and the proceeds benefit a new dance team that's trying to raise money to compete nationally.

i'm torn... both'd be fun, but in different ways. both would involve dancing (good), but different types of music. and one would be fun for me selfishly 'cause i'd like to see the band... the other would be support for other dancers. BUT one place could have no-one i know... the other would have people i know, but the same crowd i see every week.

::sigh::

wrong first impressions

so, i'm in the pharmacy to get my tummy meds. as i'm leaving, there's a young woman looking a bit distressed at one of the registers. she's young and indian, in a beautiful sari... and she's standing with her shopping cart. in the cart are a bunch of bagged items, and a very young child. she's upset because the clerk is telling her she can't take the cart to her car, she has to leave it in the store... and as i half-overhear the conversation, i can gather from her strongly accented english that she won't be able to carry everything (small child and a cartload of bags) to the car by herself. the look on her face as i walk out the door seems so panicked... so, my heart breaking for this young mother in a foreign country shopping by herself with her little one, i go back in the store and around to her register and offer to help. "hi," i say, smiling... "here, i'm walking out to the lot now. i'll help you." she gives me a funny look... and points to the tall male clerk walking over to help her. ah. so i wish her a good day and go out to my car. but after i get situated and go to back out, i see them all coming out of the store: the little girl walking along with no problems, the mother with nothing in her hands but her keys... and the clerk, looking confused, carrying maybe 5 bags, which are filled with toilet paper. that's it. so this woman didn't need to carry her child and a bunch of heavy bags... she could have easily carried her light stuff to her car while her little one walked alongside her. what the hell...

now, i owe the manager of the boston swarovski store an online apology. this is the guy i ranted about the other day, who told me that an item i wanted was sold out without even checking. well, i got a voicemail from him today... he did check around for me, and left me the phone number and manager name of the chicago store, which still had a few left. so i was able to call up and get them shipped to me, and i'll have them sooner than the ones from philly (which i am not cancelling... i'll have a head-start on my xmas gifts). so he took longer to get the info, but he got me a more direct line. so there we have it, i was wrong.

what i have learned today.

do not apply under-eye concealer after chopping jalapeños.