Holidailies

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What is something you did / experienced for the very first time this year?

Does the complete lack of Christmas shopping spirit count? I may be shopping on Christmas Eve at this rate. I was in Kohl's today and got completely nauseous from anxiety. Ugh.

OK then

I just got repeatedly flipped off by a LOL who was annoyed because I didn't allow her to cut me off in traffic. She then ended up whizzing past me in the parking lot of the store, and then we walked inside, quite literally, right next to each other...because she race-walked to pass me on her way to the carts.

She looked like a relatively nice woman, too, once she stopped making those Flipping Off Faces. I was pretty proud of myself for not saying anything to her, just smiling a little whenever we crossed paths in the pet section. No, I wasn't stalking her: I was looking for bedding for Ruka.

Take my word: do not mess with "Zetta" and her Volvo.

New Shoes

Mama's got a brand-new stash!

Gladiator sandals. How awesome are these!? I fell in love instantly with them. Shiny! And just imagine the really weird tan that will be possible when these are worn!

Denim shoes. I've never owned denim shoes. I showed them to Beast and said that very thing whereupon he gave me the typical Boy Look: WHY do you need denim shoes? Because I've never had any before, silly. Boys. So clueless.

I get tired of wearing sneakers when I'm walking or working outside. These are a cute compromise. I expect to wear them the whole time I'm in Colorado this summer. They are super-comfortable--they even have Dr. Scholl's Gel in the heel, so yes, I'm Gellin'--and somehow manage to make my feet look less gargantuan.

Update

Scrimmage in the rain last night, felt like October. Ridiculous. I will be shopping for long underwear and more appropriate sitting-in-the-stands-freezing clothes.

I failed to meet a deadline for the church newsletter, so there will be nothing about youth group in it. Oh well. Y'know, I don't even feel that guilty. I'm having major struggles caring, which I hope will be alleviated once the 'school-year' schedule starts up and I get back involved with some soul-feeding things. Right now, if it weren't for the high school kids, I'd so be out the door!

Today we're hosting a youth group picnic at our house. It'll be fun, but we have much prep to do before anyone arrives: the house needs tidying and I have to hit the grocery store; those are the two big things. I hope the weather improves over yesterday!

Work this week was bizarre. I feel very Red Balloon-like, connected only barely to what's going on, yet being asked dozens of questions about random things and knowing the answers (most of the time). It's a very weird feeling. Like anaesthesia while chopping up veggies with a sharp knife.

Time to get dressed and do the grocery store thing. Maybe when I get back the house will be less cranky.

List

1. All the laundry is done for the week, including the semi-regular bathmat-washing extravaganza, and FIL's stuff, which was forgotten in the washer earlier this week and had to be redone.
2. The main floor of the house has been Roomba'd and then wet-mopped. Roomba is clean and ready for the next cleaning project.
3. Dishes needing hand-washing have been washed.
4. Christmas shopping has commenced and we have our calendars for the house.
5. Saw the optometrist at Pearle today who agreed that my left distance vision was not measured correctly last month (off by a full point: 8.75 vs. 7.75!) and rewrote it. Because my glasses are less than a week old, Pearle is making a new lens for free.
6. I have a grocery list made ready for shopping tomorrow.
7. Also, I'm going back to my old glasses tomorrow and will stick with them until the new lens arrives. These make me seasick. Eating Advil is really not so healthy.
8. A & K are having a baby boy. Woo-hoo!
9. MIL's wedding dress is slowing coming back from The Wrinkle Zone. Trud is working on it, alternating vaguely warm iron with gravity to pull out the wrinkles. I told Beast to beat BIL around the head and shoulders this weekend if he's the one who shoved the dress in a shopping bag.
10. We have our plane tickets for Denver in November.
11. Sparky received his school bus information today. He snorted. I smiled. It will be posted on the fridge, just in case.
12. Preseason NFL games have begun. Yippee!
13. I believe it's bath time after I post this.

But first, two things:

1. Today's optometrist arrived while I was filling out paperwork today and I noticed as she walked past me (the doctors' pictures are posted). She has very bandy legs, and the skirt she was wearing really emphasized them, as did her very flat, sort of worn-down-looking shoes. I noted later that they aren't worn down, but her feet are large and very wide. Once I sat down for my exam, I rather suddenly realized that the reason she looked unusual was that (I strongly suspect) that she's a transgendered person. Which is fine, but unexpected in this area. She was perfectly helpful, a little odd in her 'bedside manner' (our whole consultation took place with her back turned or with my eyes behind the big frog-face thingy), but otherwise fine.
2. We drove through Arby's for dinner (hey, I'm an awesome mom, yo!). Sparky ordered a combo and wanted bacon on in, so I said, "A #6 combo, please, with bacon and a Sprite to drink." The machine quacked back at me, "OK, a #6 combo with fries and a Sprite. You want the bacon on the sandwich, right?"
   Uh? Doy? As opposed to bacon on the Sprite?

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