Successful Shopping

I enjoy shopping, but hardly ever have things to buy any more. It’s one of the downsides to having lived somewhere for a while – I already have everything I need.

Yesterday, I had three things to buy. Three!

I needed cloth napkins for an upcoming Life Skills lesson. Bed, Bath, and Beyond had Christmas napkins on clearance. Woo hoo!

They’re so cheap!

I also wanted to find a frame. The sword I got came with a certificate of authenticity. On the back of the certificate is the map from The Hobbit. I decided I would frame it and hang it next to the sword. That way, I will always know where the certificate is. I wanted the frame to match the plaque the sword hangs on. The frame also had to be a weird size: 8.5 by 11. It took some looking, but I found one:

I just noticed that the mark on the bottom of the plaque is the mark Gandalf scratched into Bilbo’s door.

The last thing on my list was new shrimp for my aquarium. I had plenty of day left, so I took some time looking at all the tanks in the aquarium store. I was excited to see some Indian glass fish. Many stores have them, but they’ve been painted. The fish are removed from water and actually painted with paint. I would never buy those because they’re stressed and likely to get sick. The ones I saw yesterday were unpainted. Awesome! I got eight of them. I also got my shrimp.

Fish are hard to take a picture of.