OT: Garment Shop-Peg's reply

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No: HPFGUIDX 2138

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:

 > And ahem, yes, Amanda, I suppose you could say I was a fool to 
spend 
so much
> money on it.  Couldn't make it myself--don't have a sewing machine 
or to the
> time.  And, yeah, I could have hired a seamstress, but I didn't.  I 
chose to
> do it and I'm not sorry.  Once in a while, I firmly believe, you 
have to be
> a fool with your own money.  Not often, just occasionally.  I have 
to be
> responsible in so many areas of my life (Mom, chief breadwinner, 
full-time
> extremely mundane job), that sometimes, I just have to do something
> absolutely crazy once in a while.  Like buy an expensive cloak.  Or 
rob
> hours from my own sleep, writing essays about the seven deadly sins 
and the
> HP books.  Or write fantasy novels.
> 
> Sometimes, I really get tired of being a responsible muggle.  So I 
pretend
> I'm something else.
> 
> Peg

Three cheers, Peg. I'm with you on that one. Brava. 
Helena