scrawls.

scrawls

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5.1.08

this is me purging

i have too many coats.

i know this.

and so, yes, i bought another one, yes. (Well, it was thirty percent off. So.) The others were all either not warm enough or ... um ... mostly not warm, and i'm not wearing a bright bright ski parka every day around the city; one looks like some crazy flamingo. And the wind here ignores leather completely. so. This new one. With real down (so M is allergic to my feathery coat, and i am allergic to his wool one - what a pair) and real (detatchable - buttoned) fur on the (detatchable - zippered) hood. Just enough fur that i look like a native, here, without feeling weird: fur is always playing dress-up, somehow. It's not natural. (um, right.) but all the viennese, all the ones in black-sausage down coats especially, there's always fur around the hood. I look like the killer in the urban legend movie. Movies? Anyway. so there are two coats now to be donated: one parka, gray, with Thinsulate, and one with fake down and fake fur, orangey, and from G. The coat from G is going to be weird to get rid of: M has his fleecey warm thing and a few other shirts, even if they are all a little bit too big, but i didn't take anything else. i need to remember: i can donate this, and it can keep somebody else a little bit warmer, and the coat is not G. I am not somehow disrespecting his memory by giving it away. besides, AS IF one might need a coat to remember anybody by: and if anyone's unforgettable, it's G. Was. Is. Um, whatever. But the G-coat is not as warm as it looks, being fake down, and the new coat is just as water-resistant, plus being known to be machine washable (i've never quite understood how something can be water-resistant AND machine washable, but i'll take it all the same). And the Thinsulate coat is not all that warm, really, and i can babywear just as well in the green ski parka i'm keeping. Besides probably by next winter she won't be in a front carry anyway, so it'd only be one season. And the down coat compresses enough, i think, that the babywearing (or, the way she's standing up, toddlerwearing, by then) can go on over top of it. Fluffy.

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scrawled @ 13:45