i planted my brussels sprouts seeds today! woo! in the next couple weeks i’ll start my tomatoes, which will hopefully do something this year.
it’s friday, and i really got nothin’ for ya. tomorrow i will have something – baked alaska progress.
that said, i’m out.
ok, so probably not arthritic, but something funky is going on with my hands and feet. i’m not sure if it’s gout or what at this point. my right-hand ring finger is so swollen that i was barely able to my ring off whereas a couple months ago it was getting to the point where it was almost too big for the finger. it also gets really stiff, and i can barely bring in the fingers to make a fist.
not sure what’s going on, but i think i have a doc appointment upcoming, so i’ll ask when that rolls around. it would be pretty sad that i would be getting arthritis already. 🙁
i have been on a shoe mission for about a month. i have a pair of red strappy heels that i can wear to fancy places, like wine and roses and weddings, but that’s the extent of my red accessories. meaning, if i wanted to add any other sort of color into a fancy outfit, i really have nothing.
i wear black dresses, so that’s not a big deal, but if i want to add a necklace or earrings with color in it, my current options generally fall into the pink color spectrum. and in the words of liz wallace when asked if i could wear my pink necklace with my red shoes, ” uhhh…no.”
alas. so began a mission to find a fancy pink shoe. unfortunately, we have gone from awesome-color fancy shoes to the year of nude/gold. (and silver – but silver is always a thing.)
i went to dsw in roch. i went to dsw in the MOA. i went to famous footwear. i went to penney’s. i went to torrid. i went to payless. i went to maurices. i went to deb (which apparently always has what i’m looking for – it’s my last resort store). i even went to macy’s, which had pink shoes but with a $600 pricetag. yes, that’s 6-0-0. (i’m not willing to even pay 6-0.)
obvs i’m not finding much in person. finally tonight, i went to ask the internets, aka amazon, to see what they have for me.
BEHOLD:
EXACTLY what i was looking for.
Katherine’s Bridal Boutique
– bridesmaid shoes. should’ve guessed. it’s a 4″ heel, but my red shoes have a 4″ heel so i’m not too concerned. plus they run a 1/2″ too small, which means i could get my ideal size 10-1/2 shoe. so much time wasted trying on shoes when i could have just gone to amazon in the first place.
(wait, who am i kidding? i LOVE trying on shoes!!!!)
a thing for april to do for my blog. like take a picture of every meal. or work through a cookbook. if my dad ever finds his martha cookie book, i’ll give that a go, but what do you want to see here? anything in particular? haiku a day? cookie a day? picture of my foot every day? progressive photos of my grey hairs? cat a day?
let me know! i’m needing some ideas to tide me over til garden season.
haiku for you
veronica mars
early saturday showing
who: pizz or logan?
tomorrow is my 10-year blogging anniversary. i need to do something spectacular, but i don’t know what.
since nate is unemployed, i’m picking up some odd jobs on the side. i just did my grandma’s taxes (they were uber easy) and i’m also going to do some webwork for my old supervisor at merrill (the nice one). taxes are done, and the webwork one should be fun. easy way to bring in money to pay for my fancy clothes for wine and roses.
i’m still figuring out my new computer stuff. i have to get my fonts off my old mac, and i still haven’t figured out optimal monitor settings for the new one. slowly but surely, i guess!
i’ve been on a baking spree, and as soon as my dad finds his martha stewart cookie cookbook, i’m going to try to do a month of cookies (maybe not every day, but at least twice a week!).
i got awesome canadian candy in the mail today! my pal dave from canada sent some candy down here, including kinder eggs, which apparently makes me a felon. so far my favorite is the coffee crisp, which is kind of like a coffee flavored (mild) kit kat. yummy!
i didn’t marry nate for his money.
i know there are some ladies out there (NOT MY READER BASE) who only marry dudes with money. that has never been a priority for my mate choices.
that said, nate quit his job at walmart last night. he was miserable; i was miserable; life was unhappy around here. we had talked about it before he went in. when he was laid off in 2009, we lived off less money than i’m making currently, and that was with a bigger house payment, so i knew we could do it if we needed to. plus there’s some money in savings and stocks we can sell, and if worse comes to worse, we’ll sell nate’s car.
he went in last night, looked at the schedule, saw he was working four departments while other people were working two to an aisle, handed his badge over to the supervisor, said “i can’t do this anymore”, and walked out.
so! we’ll see how things go around here. i’m told i won’t have to do dishes. that’s exciting in and of itself.
so i took a look at the 10-day forecast, and nestled in there was this little gem:
*song and dance time*
*run outside time?*
ash wednesday is in a couple days, and if you’re catholic (or former catholic), you know the season of abstinence will be upon us.
i know i’ve questioned the no meat on fridays thing at least a couple times, in that i don’t understand how going to a huge fish fry or meatless spaghetti feed on a friday is supposed to promote abstinence in any way just by the absence of meat, but i have been rebutted and told that the community aspect is key. so: gorge on.
today my mom asked me what i was giving up for lent. she knows i’m no practicing catholic and that i have agnostic leanings. still, the idea of “giving up” something for lent is appealing – not in the sense of OMG i’m doing this for god and so i know what jesus went through and the starving children in africa, but more of a self-control sense. (i might add that since the holidays, my self control when it comes to food has gone really haywire.)
on top of that, does it necessarily need to be food? why can’t we add something back in? for instance, i think something i will be trying to do over the lenten season is to run at least 4 days a week for at least a half an hour each day. as it is, i run 3 days a week, anywhere from 20-40 mins a day. self-control, abstinence, and sacrifice can come in difference avenues than the very thing that sustains us. besides, shouldn’t we be eating in moderation in the first place?
i know giving something up has its perks: think of the sweet reward at the end of lent when you can add that bad thing you shouldn’t be eating anyway back into your diet. instead, how about trying to eat healthier? eat more fruits, vegetables, proteins, etc. maybe cut back on caffeine, and at the end of lent, how about just not adding it back in?
now, i could never give up chocolate forever. (chocolate was the classic childhood give up thing.) on the OTHER hand, i HAVE given up devil’s syrup forever. (i tried to tell my mom i was giving up corn syrup for lent – it didn’t fly.) maybe instead of deciding the give up a “bad” food for 6 weeks, how about making a lifestyle change and eating a little healthier or doing a little more moving? volunteering at a food shelf or giving $10/month to a charity? setting aside meditation time each day to focus on the present? it doesn’t quite have the allure of “omg i gave up chocolate for 6 weeks and now i can stuff my face with ALL THE CHOCOLATE” but i think by not villifying our vices, it might be a little healthier and easier*.
*or is it not supposed to be easy?
it’s frustrating to listen to nate hate his job so much. equally frustrating is him not really doing anything to change his situation, even when i offer to help. if i bring it up too much, i feel like i’m nagging. also frustrating is that along with all this, i barely see the guy and we rarely do anything together. >:(
got my federal tax return back today! that only took about a week and a half, which i think is the quickest i’ve ever gotten a federal return back. unfortunately, a chunk if it is gone to paying some bills, but what can you do. i should have enough to get a new mac at least.
in a couple weeks i’m going to start some of my garden plants indoors. has anyone done this before? i tried three years ago, and while they popped up, they didn’t do much else. any tips or tricks? i think this time around i’m going to put a heating pad underneath the plants, so hopefully that’ll help a little.
in celebration of my tax return, i stopped at a&w for supper tonight. that stuff is delicious, especially their onion rings. yum yum.
wow, this was a pretty mundane post. here’s some linkage for you. one of my fave etsy shops is open for business again: somnambulant