softs goods and inspiration

A combination of spending A LOT of time in front of a computer, and Thanksgiving's approach, have rendered my preoccupations other than online media decidedly low-tech: cooking and shopping and listening while I do said activities.
I walk past Backspace each day on my way to and from Ashtanga Yoga San Francisco and when I saw this green coat, I thought 'mine.' It's not horribly pricey but because I've other budgeted items before a new coat, already bought the red patent leather shoes last week, and am not doing cards, I put it on layaway yesterday, an option I found delightfully archaic. I felt like I was eight years old, when I 'saved up' for things I wanted...
In the kitchen it's all about winter squash, specifically pumpkins and kabocha squash (Japanese pumpkin). Sweeter than a butternut, denser than Western pumpkins and easy to bake. So a lot of soup and curry happening...
In my ears, a comparing musical tastes conversation yesterday found me raving about the greatness of Alejandro Escovedo (his Great American show a couple months back provided serious inspiration) so I've been revisiting his stuff. Also listened to John Mayer's new tune "Say." Whatever you may think of his mainstreamness, I tend to think he hits the mark pretty well, pretty often, though Alejandro does the same and cuts deeper ....