Where were you during the great stock market meltdown of ’08? If you’re anything like me you conveniently lost your account login information and stayed away from financial websites and news.

I read somewhere recently that we as human beings need four things in life; a stable job, a stable house, a stable relationship and a stable stock market. And if something goes wrong with one, the rest will follow suit. Of course the author tacked on the fourth to make a point, but I’m still waiting for the rest of my life to crumble.

We had another beautiful day in the city, everyone seems nicer – I even got a hello from the eccentric old man who has never spoken to me in the two years that we’ve been passing each other on the street.

I went into Birks today to look at watches. I want a chronograph; I stand there for almost an hour while Betty tries to sell me an eight thousand dollar 18KT gold automatic ‘time piece’. The last time I was down this road I ended up with an expensive Cartier watch which I end up telling people is fake.

I don’t know what it is with me and these places; last week I went into the Perfume Shoppe, the very charming and attentive Nazrin and I spoke at length like long lost friends, she told me she too was born in Africa and I came away with Cashmere by Sussane Lang because it supposedly suits my personality.

It’s like a little attention and a cup of tea in some instances and I’m buying things I don’t need with money I don’t have

I was tempted to go into Chanel this afternoon – just for a looksy but I was afraid of what I’d end up coming out with; also, I tend to have these instant buyers remorse that sends me into despair.

You really can’t take me anywhere.

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