Kain's Domain

Well, seeing as I have a new job coming up, I needed new clothing. Now, I'm a tough person when it comes to picking out clothing. I don't follow trends or styles, especially when it comes to fashion. I simply do what I want to do, wear what I want to wear. And for me, that tends to be two different types of outfit. When I'm lounging around the house, it's a T-Shirt and sweatpants. When I go out in public, I wear a button-down dress shirt, and black dress pants.

I do not like jeans, I never have. Denim looks too sloppy and grimy to me. Which makes sense really, when you think about it. Back during the gold rush, Levi Strauss invented jeans for all the miners to wear as they went off to work in the caves digging for gold. I'm sure after a hard day working in the mines, nobody really cares that your clothing is all faded, ripped and tight. But that's not how I would want to look.

Anyways, yesterday after filling out my blog, I headed off to the store to pick up some clothing with my mom. When I was a child and teenager, I hated going clothing shopping. Nothing bores me as much as standing around looking at clothing. Maybe if the clothing was going to stand up by itself and do a little song and dance for me, okay, I might find that entertaining. But just looking around at clothing? I can find something much more entertaining to look at. (The preceding statement does not include women's lingerie; I would always be willing to go lingerie shopping with my girlfriend/wife.)

Now that I'm an adult, well, I wouldn't exactly say I enjoyed it, as much as I didn't hate it as much. It still bored me, of course, but I knew I needed clothing for work, so I made the best of it. Anyway, the first stop was the pants. As I stated, I like wearing dress pants. The material is soft, and thin, and simply looks very sleek. My mom insists that I cannot wear just black dress pants everyday.

"You need to pick a different color and different type of pants, you can't wear the same looking pants everyday, people will think you're wearing the same clothing over and over everyday," she says.
"What, like it's unheard of to have five copies of the same outfit?" I reply.
"No, you need something different. Pick out some khakis, you'll wear them, they're not jeans," she says.
"Yeah, but they're not as soft and neat as dress pants," I insist.
"You can't just wear dress pants, those are the type of things you'd wear on a date, you need something casual. You do want to attract girls, right?" she replies.

Well, I guess I can't argue with that... Next up was some shirts. Normally, I go with solid color dress shirts, but my mom insisted that I try something besides dress shirts. She kept picking out shirts that I just wouldn't want to be caught dead in.

"This would look good," she says.
"It's got stripes," I reply, "Stripes make you look heavy."
"These are vertical stripes," she says, "only horizontal stripes do that."
"Yeah, but it still doesn't look very nice," I insist.

So then we go over to the Magnum PI shirts. You know, those Hawaiian shirts with the different colors, and wacky patterns. And she says how this blue one would look good. It's kind of a light blue with palm trees on it. Now, I would normally never wear something like this, but I figured I should try something different for a change. After all, if it gets a nice girl to hit on me, I think it's definitely worth it. And girls seemed to like Magnum PI, so I can give it a shot. She also convinced me to try a polo shirt and another Magnum PI shirt (a green one with leaves all over it.)

After all that shopping, it was around 11 when I got home. We stopped by Subway on the way, and I get another yummy sub. Allow me to take you into the world of my tasty sub:

First, we have the normal bread. I liked it better when they used to cut the bread concave-style. I mean, sure, they both tasted the same, but things were less likely to slide out the side when they would cut it the original way.

Then, it's made like an Italian Mix. We've got Ham, Pepperoni, and Salami. Except, instead of vinegar salad dressing, I use mayonnaise. I prefer Miracle Whip to mayonnaise, but Subway doesn't use it, unfortunately.

Next, we've got the ever popular Lettuce, Tomato, and Cheese. Can't have a sub without these three. Then comes pickles, cucumbers, sweet peppers, and hot peppers. Finally, it's topped off with a load of black olives. Yum!

So this morning, I woke up probably at around 12 noon, which really sucks. I had my alarm set for 7, and it actually went off. But I had stayed up so late the night before, I just couldn't stay awake. Eventually, when I woke up, I went out shopping again for more clothing.

Between yesterday and today, I ended up with one pair of black dress pants, two pairs of khakis (tan and blue,) two polo shirts (navy and gray,) and three Magnum PI shirts (Red, Green, and Blue.)