Anything that happens, happens.

January 10, 2010

These are a few of my favorite things

Filed under: Life In A Nutshell — suziannie @ 11:47 pm
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Beauty products anyways.  

I covered up my highlights because I was tired of the damage and I didn’t want to waste a Saturday afternoon getting them anymore.  The last time I was there, it actually took close to 7 hours.  Which is ok, it was a school and they did a great job, but students are slow.  Full highlights, toner, haircut and products for under $120?  Not too shabby.  But with school weekends are terribly precious.

Anyways…when picking up my new color at Sally’s I found this:

The cashier reccomended it saying to add a little to the color.  I did that and have been adding a bit when I blow dry my hair. It’s wonderful.  My hair is shiny, manageable and friz and flyaway free.  Very nice product.  It’s a little bottle but I bought it before Thanksgiving and I’m barely done with half.  AND I’ve been using it daily. I’m actually blow drying every time I shampoo-something I only do every other day anyways.  But for me to fix my hair is kinda rare.


Kirstie Alley tweeted a while back about a scrub she makes at home. It sounded yummy but I’m not the sort of person who would make her own body scrub.  Then I found this on at Target and I happened to have a $20 gift card so I thought I’d try it out.  This is “crushed” brown sugar, lime, almond oil and some sort of grains-the package says macadamia and I’m sure it’s not lying but there are black bits in it.  Whatever.  It’s fabulous.  The smell is amazing!!  Just rough enough to exfloiate without damaging. And it’s oily enough to moiturize but not leave me feeling coated.  A word of advice about body scrubs.  It’s easier to apply with the shower turned off.  When your finished with it, turn the jar over and tip out the water that gathers on top of the scrub-that will stop it from going runny.  Sounds basic but I’ve ruined a few scrubs by not doing that.  
And by keeping the water running not only did more water get into the container but it just makes a big sloppy mess and I didn’t get a good scrub.


I love Lush.  At first I wasn’t sure of this, it seemed a bit strong.  But once I got in the shower with it.  OMG!  I typically stick with either soap scents (Zest or Lever 2000) or vanilla type scents so for me this is very different.  LOVE it!! It’s mostly Honey and Jasmine, but there are other underlying scents there.  Also it’s vegan.  Anyways, it lathers up big and rich and the scent hangs in the air for hours afterwards.  It also lasts on the skin a long time too.  

I got out of the habit of applying cocoa butter all over a while back.  Maybe in the oppressive summer heat.  Anyways, with the cold I’ve been in serious need of lotion everywhere.  I used to LOVE The Body Shop’s Body Butters, in Mango and Nut but hate going to the mall.  When I picked up the scrub I got this too. The labels a little tricky to make out but it’s Amazon Forest Brazil Nut and Vanilla Body Butter by Boots) The package size is similar to The Body Shop’s and since it’s technically a British product I’m sure that’s not by accident (Both Boots and The Body Shop are Britsh based companies I believe).  The price wasn’t too bad, I want to say about $10.  Anyways…it’s thick but that makes it easy to control the amount you put on I think.  It can be a little greasy of you over do it, but mostly it’s lovely.  The scent lasts quite a long time too. 

So that’s what I’m into these days.  Or rather what’s on me in the shower.  That sounded kinda ickier than expected.
I got a presciption for Latisse, you know the grow bigger eye lashes stuff.  The problem is, it’s freaking $115.  Now I’m really really tempted…but I let it slip to Officer (the price) and I KNOW he’d mock me if I bought it.  We keep most of the finances seperate so it’s totally up to me how I spend my money once bills are done.  But I KNOW he’d mock me both for being so vain and for spending that sort of money on something so frivolous.  Not in a mean abusive way.  But still mocking is mocking.  Anyways…so between the potential mocking and the fact that I can’t bring myself to spend over $100 on my lashes it’s not going to happen even though I saw PROOF it works.  So I thought I might give the L’Oreal version a shot.  I don’t know.   There are probably a few other things I need more, and things that I actually NEED instead of longer fuller lashes.  OH!  At my new dentist…they were running a special-custom home whitening trays for FREE first two tubes of gel free.  Not too shabby.  Re-fill gell is $18 and I get a 20% discount in an in office booster should  decide the gel and trays aren’t enough.  Yay for good deals!!  I was actually thinking about Zoom whitening or getting Go-Smile or something.  Mostly for the wedding next year.  Mostly because my teeth are very nice loking-but they’re not white.  See, more first world problems!

December 7, 2009

Lunch!

Filed under: 365, Food! — suziannie @ 8:29 pm
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So I picked it up this weekend at Wal-Mart in the section with the Asian type foods. It was around $2-not too much more and I don’t think it was under $2. It doesn’t need refrigeration or freezing so I thought it might be nice to stash in the pantry or my desk instead of canned soups and ramen-both HUGE sources of sodium and I don’t eat a lot of pre-packaged foods so they rarely suit me when I do try them, and the times they do (I’m looking at you Healthy Choice steamer things) they cause huge water retention and heart burn issues.

Anyways…so in the box is some rice, which you ’steam’ in the microwave, some Nori and some soy sauce, it’s up to you to add the filling. I figured I go even go alone-or that I always have at least a cucumber or thing of Surimi in the house-my willingness to actually make a lunch using those items it where I’m lacking.

I don’t know why this one came out all blue. I promise you everything was normal coloured.

Today I brought some surimi and some marinated tofu I had in there too (bought at the Asian market) to go inside and I have to say that apart from the tediousness of rolling tiny bite sized pieced of sushi-it was nicely done. I cooked the rice until the bowl was hot but not scorched…heated up the tofu and then used a forkful of rice with a little protein (tofu or surimi) sprinkled some soy on there to moisten and rolled it up. They looked a little misshapen and lopsided but they tasted pretty good. The rice is short grain, very sticky, very moist-but does lack the true sushi rice flavor. The packet of soy was very generous. Sure wasabi and ginger would have been great inside-but I think that might make people who aren’t familiar with sushi not like sushi you know? Used wrong, they can be nasty tasting. There are only 10 tiny sheets of nori and I only used a forkful of rice-using more would have meant either no wrapping or no filling-but there was more than half the rice left. The package says it serves 2, and it sort of filled me up without eating the rest of the rice. But it’s that sort of full where in 30 min I’d be looking for more, so I know after I write this I’m having more rice and surimi and tofu.

One more thing-the package says it serves two-one serving is 170 calories and 460mg of salt-not too bad-but be mindful if you eat the whole thing like I’m about to. That’s still quite a bit of sodium-and it’s the sneaky sort that you can’t taste.

Brainstorm-I just realized that they might be including the entire contents of the soy packet-of which I used less than 1/3…but who can really say as the package doesn’t isolate the different things.

Bottom line-I’ll probably buy quite a few of these the next time I see them.

November 9, 2009

Filed under: Life In A Nutshell, Looking Back — suziannie @ 11:37 pm
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I decided to take a page from one of my favorite blogs…The Young and the Relentless, in which the author has begun copying her diary entries into her blog, along with witty comments.

 Honestly I couldn’t think of something to write about, and thought this might be a neat window into my formative years.  However looking at my old journal I realized that not much has changed in regards to the frequency in which I write. 

 Here’s a picture of it:

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 I’ll be honest, to this day I’ve yet to find another journal that fit so well into my hands,was a nice size to write in and was so pretty.  The front and back were fabric, the design was stched in, and the leather on the sides nicly embossed. On the spint was the gold writting “Diary”.  Inside I’ve got a ton of old comics, Fortunes from Fortune cookies, even notes from people taped in it.  I’ll save those for another entry though.  Also, I kind of enjoyed re-reading it-and even though many of my entries are a little too um, focused on carnal items than a Catholic girl should be, if you get my drift I think I’ll post a lot of them at times like this.  And by that I mean, when I can’t think of anything better to write about.

Today I’ve chosen to post an entry written from 1990, I looked for one in the nearly 4 years that my journal spans and this was the closest one to today’s date that I could find.  I have changed, and will continue to change names as I have recently gotten back into contact with a few people from high school…and I’ve added comments in parentheses.

 November 16, 1990

            This week was so bonus (seriously, I talked like that.  Well probably only in my journal, but I have a pretty good feeling I did it elsewhere too) Reynaldo (not his real name) still doesn’t like me, but he does think I’m nice.

He said that he’d give me a picture of him. (If he doesn’t like me why would he give me a picture of him?) He said that he didn’t have a school picture to give me so he’d give me a picture of him at home, most likely by the pool!!!! (Not embellishing the exclamation points there, and I still have that picture-and he did bring it the next day-which begs the question to why he would do that if he didn’t like me.)

Yesterday was the last day we could wear shorts (I went to a school where we had to wear uniforms, kilts or grey pants (which were a very recent addition) for the girls, and grey pants for the boys.  We all wore the same white button up shirts-had the option to wear a cardigan or a pullover and in the summer we could wear grey shorts.  To this day I attribute these choices to my dislike in clothes shopping.) Of course that’s what I wore today so I spent homeroom and half of first period in the vice-principal’s office to get a note. 

 

 

At the end of the entry there is a note from Reynaldo that says:                                                                          

            “Hey Sioux (yes I called myself that, everyone did in fact), you’re really funny.  Sort dumb, but nice too.  I mean that in a good way.  Try not to talk so much, and maybe stop watching so many movies and I’m sure you’ll be fine.”

            I wish I could remember exactly why he wrote me that, why I thought highly enough to keep liking him and why I saved it. 

             There was also a notation that I taped the note from the vice principal’s office but that it was removed on May 16th, 1994 to be placed in my high school memory book.

November 6, 2009

Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens….

Filed under: Boring, Life In A Nutshell — suziannie @ 2:12 am
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These are a few of my favorite things:

 and

 Need I say more?

 The greatest comfort food.

April Fresh!
 Mmmmmm sushi.
Vosage’s Mo’s Bacon Bar.  Don’t mock, if you’ve ever dipped your bacon or sausage into your maple syrup at IHOP or Denny’s, or even at home, you’d love this as much as I do.

 Wellington Park in Simcoe Ontario Canada.  That windmill is on one half of the park, you can drive right past that, a tiny bridge, tiny aterfall, a tiny (litterally) church and many  many Canadian Geese and mallards ducks.  Also swans.  LOVELY park.  To this day I still bug who ever is driving to drive through the park at least once. If not more.
Preferred Shade: Paramour
 Ferrous
 Oliver
And finally…
 Ben.  Especially when he’s enjoying my cooking.

November 4, 2009

Where I Spend My Free Time

Filed under: Life In A Nutshell — suziannie @ 7:33 pm
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Alternate Titles: “Suziannie’s Blog Roll; But She Didn’t Title It That As Many Of These Aren’t Blogs”…and…”How To Keep Up With Your Commitment To Blog Every Day For 31 Days When Your Life Is Too Boring To Have Anything Fresh To Talk About Daily”

Also it should be noted that since I’m away from my laptop and don’t have access to all of the sites-I don’t have links, but I think you’ll be able to find anything via a Yahoo search that isn’t posted as a website.

In no particular order:
1. Linda, of sundrymorning.com specifically her updates on Twitter. That woman is hilarious. EVERY tweet from her is LOL worthy. Especially the ones about running and pooping. And those usually aren’t separate tweets either!
2. Fullofsnark.com is Kristabella’s blog. WONDERFUL young single in the city (Chicago). She actually knows Jen Lancaster and loves bacon as much as I do. You can also follow her on Twitter.
3. Kdiddy.org. I learned of how awesome Kdiddy is thanks to another site I’ll mention in a moment. She does/did the recaps of Big Love with enough detail that I didn’t have to order HBO to watch the show. Also having watched the show before I know that her recaps were often much more entertaining than the actual show was. She’s on Twitter too.
4. Mamapop.com. Where I learned of KDiddy. It’s a great gossip blog, that’s very active. All of the writers there are snarky and sarcastic and usually write things that I think about. The best part-they do recaps of some of my favorite shows-Big Love, Mad Men, Glee, Lost and most recently V in such detail that you don’t feel quite so bad if you miss an episode-or like me can’t be bothered to add it to your DVR schedule because their recaps save some serious time. And…some of them can be hilarious point. Example… from the recap of last night’s premiere episode of “V”-the author was referring to the character played by the blonde lady (Juliet is the character name, but I don’t know the actress and apparently neither did the article writer) on Lost. She’s playing a single parent who is also some sort of FBI agent Jak Bauer wanna be or similar-I only caught the tail end of the show. Anyways…the author referred to her as “Blonde Lady from Lost”, or as “some kind of single parent anti-terrorism expert” because really that’s about all the show gave us about her character (the character on V, not Lost. You still with me?). It feeds my love for Neil Patrick Harris, Edward Cullen and all things pink, sparkly or unicorn related. They are also on Twitter.
5. Charles Trippy and his fiancé Ali Speed. Charles has a You Tube Channel where he’s posted dozens and dozens of videos featuring himself, his adorable fiancée and their two dogs. He also started doing a daily V-Log and captured the moment when he proposed to Ali. Such a funny and neat couple! Both are on Twitter too.
6. Kirstie Alley. Only on Twitter, but she’s funny. And opinionated.
7. Opendiary. The first site I went to when I learned about blogging and started my own. Been to BlogSpot, and BlogHer WordPress etc…but Opendiary is a little more personal feeling to me. Also love the random feature! I have many favorites whom I love dearly! Keep posting!!
8. Jen Lancaster. On Twitter and her website Jennsylvania.com. Seriously the funniest author ever. LOVE her. If you have the chance, go to one of her book signings. She’s a doll in person too!
9. Mr. Dave’s Food Pantry. He’s changed the title/name of his website and I can’t remember the new name-but that should get you there. He also has a strong love of bacon and cooks pretty neat non-bacon related stuff!
10. Thisiswhyyourefat.com. Food porn. Nuff said.
11. Cupcake Project. A blog and you can follow on Twitter. She also followed me back after catching that I posted links and mentioned her after I feel in love with her website when I discovered the self dunking Oreo cupcake. Most recently she posted about a Pomegranate Mojito Cupcake that makes me want to leave work early and bake a big batch!
12. FU Penguin, I can’t type the real name but if you like LOL Cats or I Can Haz Hotdog you’ll love this site.
13. Cakewrecks.com in which the author puts together entries based on pictures of really really really bad mistakes that professional bakers have made. Hilarity ensues!
14. Slynnro Not sure what the website is…but she’s in Dallas and is pretty fabulous. She posts near daily outfit pictures and I’m drooling over her wardrobe and choice in accessories on most occasions. She is the fashionista that I’ll never be.
15. PostSecret. You all should be going there every Sunday. Wonderful stuff. One of my most favorite was from a vet who said “When you put your pets down, we always give you the option to stay with them or to leave. Please stay, they always look for you when you leave.” And I tell you what, that instantly brought up an image of my Oliver, in his last minutes looking for me…oh the heartache. So I will never leave my dog or any other animal alone in that situation.

November 3, 2009

What’s in Suziannie’s Purse!

Filed under: Boring, Life In A Nutshell — suziannie @ 9:44 pm

Brought to you by: “Can’t think of what to write, don’t want to skip a day since I committed to blogging everyday for a month.”

Inside my bright yellow Target purse:
· My wallet, which is flat and black. I love the shape of it and that its firm enough to use as a writing pad if the need be.
· A pink Coach coin purse.
· Rosary holder, with rosaries
· The most AWESOME nail file I’ve ever used. It’s from the Diamond Mine in Arkansas and when I’m there I’m going to buy a bunch more for Christmas gifts. It’s rough enough to handle a serious tear or broken nail and fine enough to not need to go over it with a finer grit file to smooth it out. Considering that Officer doesn’t like fake nails I find myself filing my sad pathetic weak nails a lot.
· Gummy Burger and Gummy Hotdog for Officer, a true candy fan
· Keys
· Work ID badge
· Stack of business cards
· Anti-Inflamatories
· Single battery
· iPod headphones, I typically use my stereo Bluetooth so I keep these just in case the battery dies.
· Flash drive with lots of homework (printer died so I’m printing at work during my lunches), and other things-also a keep a PDF’d copy of my Divorce and Annulment papers with me.
· Stack of store discount and club cards. Everything from Aveda to Ulta, and more than a few points between.
· Coach phone loop lanyard thingy with neat rhinestone star at the end (it’s the pink loop sticking out on the far left). I keep it handy for the days that I’m using a handset (I change cell phones weekly if not more often) that I have a lot of extra’s floating around as I can easily identify mine and not do something silly like mistake it for a broken one and ship it to San Diego for further testing. Not that I would do that though.

November 2, 2009

Currents

Filed under: Life In A Nutshell — suziannie @ 7:46 pm
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Books:
I’m cooking at east two of the recipes from a Gordon Ramsay cookbook (I’m doing this on iPod and I’m not sure how the photos or links will work. I’m hoping they’re at the bottom) week. ALL have been awesome, even the one I messed up by misjudging and therefore over seasoning the soup when I took “Bunch” to mean the entire bunch of parsley. And cilantro. Still was edible though.

Jane Boylen, The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford. Photo is hopefully below. Saw it for $7.99 this weekend and couldn’t resist. Although I don’t know when I’ll have time to read more than 2 pages a night. I imagine I’ll be reading it for some time.

Jewellery:
I love it, and by it I mean the Dove and heart pendant hopefully posted below. Officer’s gift to me for our first anniversary. Although a good portion of my time is still spent staring at my engagement ring, pictured (I hope) below.

Hangout: Ben and I are head over heels for Legacy Books. AWESOME. Comfy chairs, neat contemporary decor. Super friendly and knowledgeable staff. Plus since it’s not B&N it was nearly empty on a Saturday evening. Methinks I’ll start buying some ‘real’ books and give the Kindle App on my iPod a bit of a break. They also have a large number of book signings there AND have a huge shelf full of autographed copies of the books for sale. Nice touch if you (like me) couldn’t make the signing you wanted to go to recently.

Stress factor: Yesterday I started stressing about the wedding. Specifically how on earth we’re going to pay for it without going into debt. Officer reeled me back in, reminding me our tiny yet elegant wedding will MAYBE cost $2000. Also…it’s still over a year out…and that perhaps I should stop watching WE on Sunday’s. So no more WE. Well…I’ll still watch Bridezilla’s. That show doesn’t make me ache for giant designer style wedding receptions quite like My Fair Wedding does.

Looking forward to: Four things…1) School is winding down, or rather up in anticipation of the final exam in Math and the final paper in English. By my calculation I’ve got an “A” in English and a 97 in Math. Not sure if they use letter or number grades. Can’t believe I’ve made it one semester already! Only 2432524 more to go!! LOL! 2) Officer and I start Pre-Cana classes next Tuesday! 3) We’re going to Handel’s Messiah again, I think that’s in the next two weeks or so…I’ll have to check because that also seems early. 4) I’m pretty sure (going on a conversation from July) that we’re also going to see Nutcracker. LOVE Nutcracker. Not sure if that actually played out into reality and if so when.

September 16, 2009

Wednesday Playlist

Filed under: Uncategorized — suziannie @ 5:57 pm

Well technically this is Tuesday’s playlist. Actually, if you want to get truly technically, it’s not even really a playlist as I let it go on All Songs, and skip the ones I’ve heard too often (seriously iPod while Shuffling 5 gigs, do you really need to play the same song in a 3 hour time span?). Here’s some of the songs that either had me dancing in my seat, turning it up or smiling over some memory…

1. Girlfriend, Matthew Sweet. Makes me think of the goodness that was Sassy magazine before they moved to the west coast and got all weird.
2. Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash
3. Doctorin’ The Tardis (12” Mix), The KLF and/or The Timelords. Oddly both were listed as the artist and I don’t care enough to do the research.
4. War On Drugs (iTunes Original version), Barenaked Ladies. LOVE this song. VERY moving, yet very dark.
5. Kings of Leon, Sex on Fire
6. Mexican Standoff, Leaders of the Free World
7. Conventioneers, Barenaked Ladies
8. Making Love Out of Nothing At All, Air Supply. LOTS of memories, emotions with this one. It makes me giggle because of the singing hamburgers in the Burger King commercial. Also, it makes me sad because I put it on my iPod back in the dark days of the summer of 2007, when my marriage was at a low point and I first started giving serious thought to leaving.
9. Setting Sun, Chemical Brothers.
10. A Day in the Life, The Beatles.
11. Too Little To Late, Barenaked Ladies
12. Left to My Own Devices, The Pet Shop Boys.
13. Particle Man, They Might Be Giants
14. Leave Me Alone, Michael Jackson. I love that it’s socially acceptable to listen to him again. I hate that he had to die for that to happen. I hate that he’ll never have a chance to come close to what he used to be. But I love this song.

And with that, I have a request…I’m in need of music, but hey, 5 gigs isn’t enough when you have way more room than that on you iPod, also like someone whom I can’t remember said on Comedy Central the other day, I like to know that I won’t hear the same song twice while jogging, constantly for three weeks in a row. So you see that my taste is varied…please note/comment me with one or two songs you absolutely love and, to borrow a term for years gone by…jam out to like no one’s business!

September 15, 2009

Note To Self

Filed under: Life In A Nutshell — suziannie @ 3:31 pm

Dear Self,
I think it’s time. Stop. Give up. Relent. Spending an extra half hour every morning putting together elaborate salads with homemade dressing and other health boosting snacks like celery sticks, as well as a fluffy egg white omelet complete with chives, turkey bacon and cheese makes no sense when God and the Baby Jesus gave us mod cons like Starbucks’ with drive through and the internet which gives us the ability to order over priced (I’m looking at you Quizno’s) and have them delivered to your door in less time that it would take you to drive there, order, then come back, even if it is just across the street, which technically is walking distance. And your thoughts about spending a half hour chopping up veggies for your salad in the evening? When exactly would you find this half hour? When you need to complete the 243,251 math problems (hey that comma in the 243,251 -I totally learned to put that there in math class!) assigned as homework every class? When you are trying to get a little quality time with your loving boyfriend & your eternally loyal Besties, the 40inch flat screen and the DVR? The 30 minutes could come from the contemplation time, where you sit on the couch for 30 minutes (or more depending) deciding if you should take a shower, blow dry your hair or do it in the morning and have a glass of wine instead. Because honey, the wine? Always wins. So suck it up, join the masses at the drive through in the morning, and make friends with the delivery guy.

Love,
Your Voice Of Reason

P.S.: You are totally having a good mascara day, (second day in a row too)! I think that the L’Oreal Double Extend “Beauty Tubes” Mascara might be a win. Not only because it came with a $1 off coupon and is $15 cheaper than the Benefit one you really wanted but not enough to make an extra trip to Ulta on Sunday for.

September 14, 2009

The Story So Far

Filed under: Life In A Nutshell — suziannie @ 4:07 pm

The story so far…

Today’s Goal-Wake early enough to shower, blow dry and style hair. Make lunch of chopped veggie salad with crab, and prepare egg white omelet for breakfast. Get to work between 7:30 and 7:45-which means that I should leave around 7:10. Have a relaxing lunch, then after work head off to class early enough that I get there calm and rested and not frazzled and pissed about traffic and parking. Return home, have leftovers for dinner and then do homework. Finer points to remember: South Beach is going well…on work days. Would be better if I could figure out how to go to the gym with my new schedule. Wishing Lifetime had a location nearer to my office-maybe I could go at lunch. But then again, I can’t take 2 hour lunches and a 45 min workout would require 1 hour 15min of re-grooming to be office ready again. I should mention that I formed the plan around 7pm last night, and I still intended to stick to it at 12:05am when I threw myself in bed even though I was wide awake.

4:30am Officer’s alarm goes off and I BRIEFLY consider getting out of bed, heading to the gym and then returning to get ready for work…the next thing I know however….

6:00am and my alarm is going off. Damn. Snooze.

6:10am. Shoot, too late to get up shower and blow-dry hair. Pony tail day….so maybe more snooze.

6:20am. Hmmm, did take shower last night before crawling into bed in an attempt to relax and soothe aching back without taking pills so close to bed time. Hair not washed, but already resigned self to pony tail. Snooze just a little bit longer…

6:40am. Struggle with slightly too small pantyhose. That’s what I get for buying fancy kind at Target instead of the dollar brand at Wal-Mart that may not look as sleek and shiny-but always fits and goes on easily.

6:45am. Dressed, pony tailed and not so patiently walking dogs. Pantyhose are so tight at the tops of my thighs that they are rubbing together in a fashion that is also rubbing my skin a bit too much. Not sure if fire is about to start or blisters forming. Also, feeling slightly guilty for not taking the dogs on a proper walk. Decide to fix that with cheese and tiny bowls of last nights chicken and dumplings as a supplement to their breakfasts.

6:55am. Back in house decide that I have plenty of time to make salad. After all how hard is chopping veggies. Can do in mere seconds right?

7:10am. Chopping and chopping and chopping…are going to be late if I don’t hurry. Also panty hose will have to be replaced. Cannot go all day at work then to school with this. Still chopping veggies. Oooo almost forgot about the baby beets I thought I’d try!

7:20am. Damn. Am really really late now.

7:25am. In car. With lunch made, yogurt for breakfast instead of egg. No make up on. However not only do I have a freshly made multi veggie salad to enjoy with crab on it…I MADE my own dressing. MUCH better tasting (and I suspect cheaper too).

7:35am. Back in car after whirlwind trip to CVS. Headed towards tollway while putting on makeup. New pantyhose is in purse. Also there is a Starbucks Frappuccino (Dark Chocolate Mocha) and a Cadbury Dairy Milk bar. Not quite sure how resolve failed so fast today but YUM!!

7:40am. Traffic sucks.

7:55am. Well it’s not too bad. I may not be able to meander out the door at 4:45 today, but that’s ok. I’ll at least get to work and get 8 full hours in. Also, I’ll have a nice leisurely lunch in the break room where I can read a book on my iPod.

8:01am Gas light goes on. Damn. There goes my relaxing lunch plans. Must go out to get gas…while out I may as well get the eye shadow I need at Ulta. Which makes lunch somewhat rushed at my desk either before or after I go out AND…somewhat more expensive as trips to Ulta have never cost less than $60. Pull into space in garage at work. And consider putting on mascara and lipstick. Rush into building, smirking at my one stylish accessory since ruining my leather Coach bag…my Coach umbrella. The fact that it’s been raining for the past 4 days is moot considering I finally got some good use out of my umbrella. I consider could feel even better had I paid retail for it, but $90 for an umbrella is insane. I suppose the same could be said about stalking EBay for two weeks to find one for $30 or less is, but I paid $25 for a $90 umbrella so there.

8:04am. Am first to arrive in my department. Which is nice because I opted to finish my makeup when I got to my desk while my laptop boots up for 30 min. Ok it doesn’t take 30 min. It just seems that way.

10:00am. After deciding that perhaps I jumped the gun on the panty hose issue I walk 4 paces over to the next cubicle to discuss something with fellow staff member. While doing so notice that sleek, shiny and stabby panty hose is slipping off my hips thanks to my sleek and shiny girdle. Waddle back to my desk to grab purse and head off to change.

So today isn’t looking great. In fact…I’m tempted to scrap the whole plan, as apparently what they say about best laid plans is true for today. Tomorrow will go better right?

Update:
So my salad that sort of threw me off totally (as I made it KNOWING I was going to CVS instead of straight to the office) contained: Baby Beets (found them at Super Target in the produce section-steamed and peeled) yellow bell pepper, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, cucumber, radish, green onion, spinach and romaine-dressed with minced garlic, minced parsley, minced cliantro, black pepper, lime juice and olive oil. Topped with a can of Lump Crab claws (canned and found near the canned tuna not in the seafood department so still pricey at $6 a can, but cheaper than the $13 for the ‘good’ stuff). Is AWESOME. Totally worth the extra time spent this morning AND I’m getting a few different, highly colorful and good for me veggie in!

My new plan, eat through lunch and leave at 4:30 to get gas then go to school. On my way home I’ll stop at Ulta and get the eyeshadow I need and NOTHING else.

Nothing.

You know what they say about best laid plans!

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