i've been on a rampage lately for summer dresses so naturally my curious eye spies all these cute dresses on other girls and i think oh now if only i had that...

so yesterday i am walking down broadway towards my house and i see this girl wearing a cute tunic dress with a brown print. i am thinking oh how pretty i wish i had something like that too....until 2 minutes later i turn onto houston and i lo and behold - the same dress, but on a bus-stop poster ad for TARGET- tarjay!! and as i walk by the next bus stop, the same tunic dress! i cannot decide if it is worse to be spotted in the same thing as someone on the street or to be spotted in the same thing as an advertisement. not so bad i guess if the ad is say gucci, but TARJAY... even me, self-proclaimed budget queen would get a little red in the face if i saw my reflection in a busstop ad for a discount retailer.

i make Target runs in chicago. not because i need to buy anything to use in chicago, but because i get to expense my cab ride there and back, and because i don't have to lug my purchases from the subway back to my apt since i will just stuff everything into my roller bag, carry it on board the flight, take it off the plane and bring it to the car that takes me to my doorstep. MUCH MUCH MUCH easier than getting on the NR train to atlantic ave. targets in new york suck anyway- far too small, messy, dirty and you know, just lacking that sprawling suburban mall feel i so love about big box retailers.