16 posts tagged “shopping”
What a fabulous afternoon!
We went to the museum and I headed straight for the Chihuly exhibit. It was a decent size exhibit, all stuff from the museum's own collection, but most of which I hadn't seen on display before. He really is great with color and form. There were some gorgeous pieces, many of which had me wondering how they were made.
As we were leaving the exhibit, we walked past the hot shop and saw there'd be a demo in fifteen minutes. I've seen a couple demos there before but I still really wanted to see another. :) We went into the cafe to have a quick bit of refreshment, and just before the demo was supposed to start, I noticed the studio was near full. Glass walls, you see. (Pun intended.) We chugged what was left of our orange juice and snuck into a couple of seats in the back row of the studio.
It was a great demo, a one woman show, which is kind of unusual. She did a great job though, managing all of the pipes and punties all by herself while explaining a ton about glass and the blowing process. It ran almost an hour, and in that time she demonstrated some basic techniques as well as optic molds and thermal shocking for that crackled effect. By the end of the demo, she'd made a gorgeous 10" diameter amber, footed glass bowl with a scalloped edge. She'd used a special glass that gets an irredescant finish when it's flame-treated at the end of the process. I have some of that glass, but I haven't yet figured out how to work it in my torch flame to bring the metals to the surface. Craig very patiently waited while I hung around after the demo to ask a few questions, and I got dibs on the bowl she made! Assuming it survives the annealing kiln, it's reserved for me, and they only charge $50-60 for the bowls made during demos! (Procedes to benefit the museum, of course.) That's 1/3 to 1/6 what you'd pay for a similar piece sold by the artist! I can't wait to go pick it up! It'll be ready Tuesday.
After the glass pavillion, we went back to the main building. We took a quick look through the gift shop, which is a fabulous gallery filled with beautiful, original art pieces, lots of which is glass work! Then we attempted to check out the LitGraphic exhibit, but I was too wound up with too much glass on the brain. I couldn't focus on the graphic art at all, so I asked Craig if we could bail and come back to this exhibit another day when I could give it my full attention.
So we were only at the museum for a couple of hours, but it was an absolutely fabulous couple of hours, and it left me totally recharged, wound up, and filled with inspiration.
We did a little shopping while we were out, getting some rain pants to pack for Ireland so we won't get soaked if it starts to rain while we're out tromping through bogs and looking at ruins. :) We each got a few lightweight shirts to pack for the trip too, so we're pretty much ready to go now! ...This is going to be a long week. :D
*And* on top of the awesome time at the museum and the great shopping-fu, we also had a late lunch at Panera. They've brought back their mac&cheese!!! I had a small cup of that sinful yum with one of their fuji apple salads, which are so delicious.
It was a great day out, but it wore me out completely. I'm going to spend the rest of the day just chilling and waiting for bedtime, I think.
I could totally kill for a cup of hot chocolate right now. I took some Excedrine for my stupid head just a bit ago though, so no additional caffeine (or sugar) for me tonight. I'll probably be up half the night as it is. :p
Had a good day today, despite this ...cold or allergies or plague or whatever the hell it is that's kicking my ass, or sinuses rather. I finally got the thresholds for the kitchen doors painted, so Craig will probably put those in tomorrow. Next on my never-ending project list is staining my china shelf, I think. Depending on how I feel, I might do that tomorrow. Or I might paint the back door, or paint the mudroom ceiling, ...or maybe none of the above; maybe I'll just sit on my ass and read. I definitely want to get my Halloween decor up, and bake a sour cream apple pie at least.
We also did a little shopping today. I got a nice allergen-barrier/mattress pad combo for the antique brass bed Craig set up in the extra room. Found it on clearance, and had a 20% off coupon too so, good shopping! Next I get to shop for a quilt/comforter, which is far more interesting than a mattress pad. That'll have to wait for my next paycheck though. After that, I'll need a bed skirt, sheets and pillows, lots of pillows for that one. It's going to be a far more comfortable guest bed than the tiny futon upstairs. It'll be a lovely place I can lounge under a blanket and read too. :)
I helped Craig shop for some new jeans tonight, and we found some that he can totally rock. They're a smaller size than the last time he bought jeans, so yay for him! ...And me! *wink-wink* ;) I bought new jeans for myself today too, and a cute, purple jacket, but Craig doesn't know that, so shhh! *L* I had a 40% off coupon that was good for online shopping only, so I'm hoping they fit well and I don't have to return them and continue shopping.
We also went to my favorite restaurant for Lebanese food tonight. It was a late dinner and our eyes were much bigger than our stomaches. It seemed like we ordered one of almost everything on the menu. heh. Of course, we brought most of it home. We'll probably get another dinner and a lunch out of what's in the fridge yet. :D YUM!
There's so much I want to do tomorrow, but it's going to be a nice, low-key day at home, regardless of the long to-do list. Maybe I'll get enough sleep tonight that I'll be up to doing at least half of what I have tentatively planned. Sleep would be very good.
So I've finally, in my almost 40 years, caught on to the importance of having nice clothes. It's not about looking better than anyone. It's about confidence and taking good care of yourself and about being able to put something nice on at a moment's notice if the opportunity to do something comes up rather than trying on everything in your closet and crying because it all still looks as bad as it did the last time you tried it all on.
And of course I know it's a good thing to be slimming down and getting healthier, even if it means I'm shrinking out of my clothes before I've worn them out, or in some cases, before I've worn them at all. It's still worth it to me to have a wardrobe full of nice things on stand-by, just so I don't have to feel like a schlump whenever I leave the house.
I'm trying to remember these lessons this afternoon because I bought this *really cute* dress this spring. I had no occasion to wear it when I bought it, I just bought it because I needed at least one dress at the ready and it was really cute! Did I mention it was really cute? It fit perfectly when I bought it, and for the first time in over ten years, I wished we'd have an event to go to where I could wear this dress, like a wedding or a fancy party of some sort.
Well, an event finally came up. It's more of a casual event, but I could still rock this dress there. I just tried on my lovely dress, and I'm swimming in it. The tags are still in it. *sigh* I even went to the website I ordered it from to see if I could order it a couple sizes down, and they don't have it any more, or any dresses I like even half as much.
It's kind of sad that I can't wear this wonderful dress now, but still I'm happy as all get-out that I'm slimming down! And I'm glad that I do have a closet filed with other acceptable options, things I'll still feel good wearing. I might try to take the dress in, or rather, I might take it to a seamstress; it's a lot of flowing georgette that's kind of difficult to work with. ...Or I might start the hunt for another cute dress.
This is me reminding myself that the money I spent on that dress was *not* wasted, and that it's really a good thing that it's too big on me now.
Sunday I cut some lilacs to bring them in, just in case we got the frost they were predicting and it meant the end of lilac season. I've learned that I'm am *REALLY* allergic to lilacs. After feeling really horrid yesterday, I finally noticed the pattern that the closer I was to the lilacs, the worse I felt. I didn't have the heart to just toss them in the compost pile, they're so very pretty and Craig enjoys having them in the house, so I just moved them to a part of the house that I don't spend much time in, and I'm feeling loads better!
And those panic attack like episodes I was having are definitely related to caffeine. I was facing the choice of napping after already sleeping in until after 9am, or having some coffee, so I cautiously went with the coffee. I had a scant 6 ounces or thereabouts, and it really set me off. I was feeling good before I was half through my cup, energized, awake, ready to get some stuff done. Then about an hour after finishing it off, I got the jitters and the shakes, a bit of vertigo, tingling in my hands and face, and the strong impulse to just keep moving ...a lot! I know caffeine is cumulative in your system, so I'm obviously at my max tolerance. I'm not sure how long it'll take to "detox", but I'll tell you what, it's still really nice to not be asleep right now. I'm definitely going to have to be very conservative and careful with my intake from now on though.
Last week I figured out my reading problem, which was finding the time. I realized it's not too tough to read while riding our exercise bike, and it also makes that time pass far more swiftly. It's been far more enjoyable to spend that 30 minute minimum on that strange torture device that goes nowhere, when it also gives me the excuse to lose myself in some tasty fiction. So, I'm pleased to report that that has become a daily activity.
In an effort to get even more physical activity into our days, we're scheduling some fun things for the after-work but before-dinner hours. Yesterday we went to Oak Openings and hiked a quick three mile trail before dinner. I love the Ferns & Lakes trail, but it's very marshy, and unless you have DEET running through your veins, you do NOT want to hike it in the summer! Already yesterday we had a near constant mosquito cloud following us in the damper parts of the trail. We also were up to our ankles in mud a few times. Good times. heh. It's a gorgeous trail in the spring though, with a carpet of huge, lush ferns and clear running water and the smell of the pine canopy from the surrounding area. There were tons of wildflowers too. I had a bunch of pictures I wanted to upload but flickr is being a bitch today. Tonight we're taking a quick bike ride before dinner. Future activities will include more of the local parks, biking for sure, and making good use of the basketball and tennis courts just a few blocks away.
So I am ramping up my efforts to get in shape now, with Burning Man serving as my carrot on a string, but I have been slowly working away at it all year long, albeit in fits and starts. I've noticed that I have to hike up my favorite jeans all the time these days and I'm thinking it's time to belt them. Today I realized I could totally get in and out of them without un-buttoning/zipping them at all. That's a very happy thing, but also quite a bit annoying. In the past I was always reluctant to buy new clothes because I wanted to lose weight and the investment in clothes I'd hopefully soon be too small to wear seemed like a waste. Recently though, I realized that that had never happened, and I got to thinking that if spending some money would help me improve my body image and not feel so shlumpy, it might just give me that extra boost I needed to take better care of myself. Well, that apparently worked 100% for me, and that's really cool. Except now I'm a little peeved that I have all these great clothes that I spent months(!) hunting down and I absolutely adore, but which I'm not likely to fit into for very much longer. Clothes shopping is hard work when you're not an industry standard shape and size, and I HATE shopping! Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy to be slimming down, for both vanity and health reasons, but... all my new clothes!!! I'm going to try a hot water wash or four to see if I can shrink some of this stuff and get a little more wear out of it. Yay for getting fitter!!! Seriously! Really. But now I'm back to feeling shlumpy in my baggy clothes, and I really hate-HATE-***HATE*** shopping!
I've been managing to stay off allergy meds so far this season, though the mornings are brutal. My symptoms seem to mellow out by lunch time though, so I'm still not wanting to take my meds and endure the craptastic side-effects.
It's been a rough week or so though. Allergies, hormonal issues, sleeping problems ...all likely related. There have been a few terrifying health crises in the family. There was a yelling match with my dad. (Well, really, he pushed the buttons and I did all the yelling.) My brain has been quite scrambled which makes every minute of work a constant uphill battle. I've had my moments of losing my cool (yelling at Dad, blowing up in my blog, pouting, etc.), but for the most part I've been pretty good about riding out everything going on. What can you do? Life has these cycles. I believe you can choose how you feel about things. I may react in the heat of it all, but when my senses return I choose to believe that everything will work out in the end, and the bigger picture is still sunny and full of opportunities and blessings.
Life has had it's rough spots the past several days, but there's still a lot of good going on.
I spent some time online shopping for warmer weather clothes, and my purchases have started arriving. I have a fun trench coat that I need to exchange for a smaller size, but the dress I fell in love with when I saw it online fits like it was tailor-made for me, *and* the materials and construction are of excellent quality! I *LOVE* my new dress! I don't know if we'll be dressing up for easter visiting, but you'd better bet I'm finding as many reasons as possible to wear my new dress in the coming months!
My interchangeable knitting needles came in the mail today! Just in the nick of time too. The project I'm working on has just about outgrown the circulars I have it on. I love these needles! This was a very good investment! I have to get out my label maker today and label and arrange the storage case. (Organizational lust!) I'm also at a point where I need to make a new set of stitch markers for this project. ...Which brings me to:
BEADS! It's torching weather again! I've got a little cleaning and organizing to do in the mudroom today, and then I'm setting up my torch!!! *SQUEE!* I will be ordering an exhaust fan before next week is over too (FINALLY!) so I can get my kiln fired up here soon! I'm so excited to get back to hot glass though! I've been daydreaming about making ribbon cane and hollow beads for weeks. :)
Craig and I only have two weeks left of art class, and we've been talking about what comes next. We'd discussed taking a break from classes and just practicing what we've learned so far, mostly for the financial reasons, but then the new course catalog came in the mail! heh. I'm 99.99% sure we're signing up for beginning welding! It's not terribly expensive and it's one of the few crafts that neither of us has any experience in. There's an initial five week course, with a continuing second five weeks you can register separately for. It's looking like we're going to sign up for the first five and just try it to see if we want to continue with the second five. ...I can almost guarantee we would though, what with the way we collect hobbies. :)
It's almost noon and my nose has finally stopped running! YAY!!!!!! Now, I've got some work to do if I'm going to set up my torch today. I love weekends!!!!!!!!!!
I don't celebrate April Fools' Day, not from the orchestrating pranks end anyhow. I'm more often on the victim side of the equation when it comes to pranks. I even fell for that whole, "Did you hear they took the word 'gullible' out of the dictionary?" thing... *in college*. I seriously did. I was disappointed my picture wouldn't be in the dictionary any more. Every year this day rolls closer and I think, "Ooo! I should plan something! ... or not. Best not invite retaliation." So my plans for April 1st are generally to lay low and to constantly remind myself not to believe anything I hear or see, even though I will very likely forget and fall for something before the day is over. *shrug* I'd rather be trusting and occasionally the butt of a good joke than cynical and generally unpleasant to be around. ;) Like Rob always said, "If you can't laugh at yourself, you should let your friends do it." :)
I have so much going on in my head these days, some of it significant, some not. I've been wanting to blog for days about bits and pieces of it all, but it's been impossible to organize the noise. I need to get some of it out though, so I'm just going to do it. ...I should probably start writing morning pages again for a while until the thoughts quiet a little, now that I think about it. Hmm. But, since I'm here already...
I made the mistake of investing in really nice clothes for the first time in my life this winter. For the first time ever, I bought things for myself that are very good quality *and* look good on me, rather than just making do with the cheap/affordable/on-sale stuff that looks nice on the hanger. I spent *A LOT* of time shopping for just the right things, and it ruined me. I found that nice clothes really can make me feel good. The bad news is that it's time to put my new favorite winter clothes away, and now I'm looking at my old warm-weather clothes and HATING THEM ALL. I still *HATE* shopping for good clothes, but I do love having them so very, very much. I hate spending the money to! ...But good clothes! argh. I wish shopping was easier ...and cheaper. At least I've also learned to shop smart.
Life's felt really chaotic lately, just like my thoughts. There's a direct relationship there, I know. I keep having fantasies about moving away to some remote (remoter?) little town *far* away from anything, getting a tiny two room apartment, and basically just living an amazingly simple life. I'm definitely feeling like I have too much stuff again. I look at my stuff and think, "I still need this and this and this, and I love this and will always keep it, and this too...", but then I also keep returning to that fantasy of a tiny, bare apartment filled with nothing but some second-hand furniture, a handful of books (like five or six), some paints and paper, and one potted plant. Oh, and definitely my husband! That should go without saying, but I want to say it anyhow just in case anyone was wondering if there was something more to that run-away fantasy. There is not. I really just need to get rid of most of my stuff. It sounds so simple, but it's ***SO*** hard to do! These days though, my happy place is definitely an ugly, small apartment in a desolate location, filled with nothing more than what I could stuff into one duffel bag and one medium sized box. Decadent sparseness and simplicity! Want.
I had a few other odds and ends I wanted to jot down, but I think right now I just want to make a cup of tea and spend some time fantasizing about that tiny apartment. I'll probably be back later. I'm sure as soon as I step away from my keyboard, I'll think of half a dozen more things I wanted to write about. Definitely need to get back to morning pages for a while though.
Ok, so Saturday morning I got up insanely early and went to the museum to glue glitter on stuff. I want to mention that not only did my husband get out of bed with me at that stupid hour, but he made me breakfast and warmed up the car for me. And before you ask if he's for real, I'm pretty sure he's an alien. ;)
After the workshop, I came back home and did a few little things while Craig finished up his work in the garage, then we went into town for the dreaded shopping.
I've needed new clothes for ten years or more. I HATE clothes shopping. I'm not at all fashionable; clothing has always been a practical matter to me and not a matter of style. My closet is filled with "this will do" kinds of clothing and very little that I really love or feel good wearing. I've had a few reasons to dress up a little recently, and I've been frustrated by my lack of nice clothes, so I've spent (literally) weeks surfing the internet looking for some new threads. This past week I'd picked out some stores I wanted to check out, and even noted some particular things from their websites that I wanted to try on. To my complete surprise, the first store I stopped at had all sorts of cute, well-made things in my size, and I was armed with a 25% off coupon I'd found on their website, so I had the best clothes shopping day I've ever had. YAY! ...I think I have a problem though, because now I want to replace everything in my closet with nicer stuff.
After the clothes shopping, we went to Hobby Lobby for a few things, and then we went to Sakura for sushi. Now, I'm perfectly aware that I blogged about how sushi wasn't for me after taking my husband there for his birthday a couple weeks ago, but something weird happened. We were playing PS2 one night last week, and out of nowhere, I started salivating for sushi. It was a vicious and very specific craving, and Craig was not at all disappointed when I told him we HAD to go out for sushi. We went. I ate. It was really damn good. I have no idea how I went from "eh" to "WANT!" in that one instant, but there you have it. Perhaps they really do roll crack into that stuff.
So just on this one particular Saturday, I developed glitter, shopping and sushi addictions. That's a pretty productive day. There will be many future interventions required.
Ok. Sunday gets it's own post. I need a break and more coffee, plus I still have some pictures to sort through. ...Told you it was a busy weekend. ...And yeah, I know, I ramble.
It's been a crazy see-saw weekend so far. I'm hoping for a couple of quiet, boring days to wrap it up before back-to-work Wednesday.
Yesterday we ran into town. Craig treated us to icy mochas which I *REALLY* needed as not only was the sun super burninating, but I did not get anywhere near enough sleep the night before. We popped in to WoodCraft so he could get some supplies and sign up for a class, and then we went to Harbor Freight where he bought me a stand for my kiln! *SQUEE!!!* I seriously have to clean out the mudroom... or rather, "my studio" so I can get it all painted and organized now. :D
Our last stop(s) was GameStop(s) where Craig got me one last present: Okami!!! Gods, I love that game!!! I played most of last night and I'm already jonesing to play some more this morning. How awesome is a game based on Japanese mythology where you play a godlike white wolf with a magical watercolor paintbrush?!!! It's a gorgeous game, and I love playing it!
The first GameStop we went to didn't have a game Craig was looking for, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, so we went to another store and picked up a copy, then went home to PLAY!
Not only did we have our newly purchased games, but we bought some WiiWare online to play too. Turns out there's a StrongBad game out. It's delightfully silly. And then I bought Dr. Mario Online. ... That deserves a respectful pause. I L-O-V-E Dr. Mario. It's my favorite game -ever-. I swear I get some sort of major endorphine rush every time I clear a level in that game. When I lived at home, I used to stay up very late playing Dr. Mario, like some cokehead wanting just one more line ...just one more. As tired as I was all day yesterday, I stayed up until after 1am playing Dr. Mario, and then I played most of the night in my dreams. :) I easily could've stayed up MUCH later playing. :D
We did have a bad scare yesterday though. The bunnies were fine when we left to go shopping, but when we got back, Jasmine was having trouble getting around and she had some major Parkinson's like trembling going on. Her breathing sounded really wet and labored too, but I'm still not convinced that wasn't just from panic when I picked her up to check her over. Of course, our bunnies only have health emergencies on Sundays *AND* holiday weekends. I didn't want to take her to emergency care because we had such an awful experience the last time I had to take her there (the damn "vet" picked her up BY HER HIND FEET!) I tried to get some wet veggies into her, but she wasn't interested in eating. I was pretty sure she wasn't going to be with us much longer, but by the evening she was steadier, breathing much better and eating like normal. She seemed even a little better this morning. I wonder if maybe she had a stroke??? Or maybe she just came down with a really bad cold that had her down for half a day??? I don't know, but I'm still going to try to get her into a vet today or tomorrow. That alone is going to stress her the hell out -which can cause health problems. Rabbits are such fragile creatures. Good thoughts for my old girl, please.
So Mom is on her way to Denver for the funeral, I have letters to write to my uncle and cousins today, Jasmine is under the weather in a scary way, but life is otherwise quiet at Chez Szczublewski. We still have two more days to our holiday weekend, and I'm hoping they're enjoyably uneventful.
And I'm DAMN glad it's September. The end of August marks the end of summer in my book, and I'm so glad to see that bitch go. I need to do a little cleaning today and bust out my fall decorations.
Craig and I just put some hooks up in the house and garage that I can string a clothesline on as needed. It's a small savings, not running the dryer for everything, but it's getting more and more to the point where every little bit counts, so it'll help. Better for the planet too, drying with wind and solar energies. Next weekend I want to build a solar oven. ...Though I admit that one has more to do with having homemade cookies in the summer without having to heat up the house. Yeah, free solar energy is better to use than the piped in gas and electricity, ...but COOKIES when it's too hot to turn on the oven! :D Cupcakes too. :D
Craig took the day off Friday, and we started our day by having a nice breakfast (egg and biscuit sammiches) and spending some time walking around the neighborhood checking out the community garage sale. We picked up some goodies; I tried to stick to only buying the immediately useful things, but *shrug*. :) I got a nice stockpot, some really nice pilsner glasses, a couple of heavy vases for my glass rods, a few candles, a CD, a PS2 game, some nice planters and a basket. I wish we would've got the golf clubs too, but... *shrug* Some day. Someone is ALWAYS selling their clubs.
We then set off for the Antique Mall in Maumee to dig through even older crap. :D Craig was looking for some old hardware for a new closet door he just bought (trying to match the look of the rest of the house), and I was just looking for treasure. And boy-howdy! Did I find treasure!!! I got a vintage ViewMaster viewer and some lovely green-stemmed wine glasses, but the best find was the baggie filled with watch parts! See, I have this thing for watches. I collect them, not necessarily nice watches, nothing worth displaying (for the most part), but I have this box full o'watches that's my secret little treasure chest. They make me happy. Fair warning too: I'm not above stealing your watch. I've done it before. If you take it off and leave it lying around, I will put it on, and if neither of us notices at the end of the day and it goes home with me, it usually ends up staying with me. I'm just saying. So I found this little baggie with almost 50 (47, I counted) broken watches in it for only $10!!! I squeed with joy and carried it with me the rest of the day. Check out my loot:
I don't know for sure what I'm going to do with them. I'm torn between wanting to bust them open and harvest all their pretty little gears for jewelry and crafting, or just wanting to add their fabulous carcasses to my box o'watches so I can open it up and lord over my treasure every once in a while. I'll probably do a little of both. There's certainly enough there. *squee!*
After antiquing, we stopped for tea and scones which, while enjoyable enough, we both agreed is a far more enjoyable snack in Ireland along the Atlantic. *le sigh* Then we stopped for clothesline supplies and some fresh tanks for my torch, and came home to straighten up for a nice visit with my Dad.
Dad came over for pizza and chat. We gave him his belated Father's Day gift, chowed my favorite pizza, and sat out on the deck talking and watching the sun get lower in the shy. It was a very enjoyable visit.
I spent all of Saturday at my torch making fugly beads and frustrating myself with new-to-me skills. It was still a really good time, despite the fact that none of the beads turned out anything like I was trying for! heh. It's all good. I need the practice for sure. Some day I'll be able to create the most amazing beads, but I have to get my lessons and practice in first.
As soon as I finish my entry and my coffee here, it's back to the torch for a while. Then I'm probably going to do some gardening, take a nice long bath, and who knows what then? Dinner and some tv/movies/Wii most likely.
I do so love the weekends!!!
Craig got a cold for Christmas. We're figuring his step-brother is to blame. I feel so bad for him. What a lousy way to spend your vacation. Even he admits though, that at least it's helping him relax. He's definitely the kind of guy that likes to be doing things, and we both know he works too hard and too much. At least with this cold, he's been resting and relaxing. I'm pretty sure otherwise he would've spent his "down time" building an addition on to the house or constructing a fusion reactor out of our recyclables or something.
Needless to say, we've been holding down the sofa a lot this past week. Lots of movies and PS2. It's been a good week. My dark elf is closing in on level 45 and wielding several awesome weapons. :)
Last night we watched Merlin on SciFi. Besides the fact that Sam Neill is stiff and awkward in the role of Merlin, it was amusing enough as background noise. Today The Mists of Avalon was on, which is a far superior telling of that legend. I need to reread the book. It was one of those books that really struck a chord with me. (Thank you, Rob, for the recommendation.)
My butt is getting tired of the sofa today though, which is just as well. I really should do *something*. I have a few simple chores planned for today, a grocery run (we need supplies!) and then maybe some sewing or knitting ...and maybe some sketching. I also want to finish the two books I'm reading right now. Some of that stuff involves sitting on my butt, I know, but at least it's *doing* something. Yes, having the week off was wonderful and just what I, we, have been needing, but I'm just about ready to start building up some serious momentum. Everything in its time.
I have been shopping end-of-year sales while sitting on the sofa this past week. Gods, bless teh internets! I'm looking forward to some boxen full of crafty books and really cute clothes arriving at my doorstep some day soon! *SQUEE!* The internet and clearance sales, two things that get exponentially better when you add them together! :D
All right. I need some foods and then to do *something* (yet to be determined).
Life is good. I just wish my poor man could rid himself of those miserable germs.
