God bless the internet, man. How would I ever know what's wrong with me if I couldn't Google, for example, "ball of foot pain," and immediately be presented with the list of symptoms of metatarsalgia, some of which perfectly describe how (and why, for that matter) my foot hurts. I imagine the culprit is my ultra-dead running shoes. Seven months is ( Read more... )

So, I bought the dress. The people at the bridal store in California who were selling it got back to me with the exact number I had anticipated after I lowballed them. I did a little research online to see if they were a reputable place and they had lots of awards and positive comments, so I called them to confirm that I wanted it. The woman I ( Read more... )

Spent all afternoon dress shopping. Exhausting business, I tell you. And I think I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the dress I want doesn't exist. We did, however, discover this Maggie Sottero dress, which I believe can be fairly easily altered to be the dress I'm envisioning. But that's a weird thing to commit to, so whatever ( Read more... )

( I've fallen in love with another internet dress. )

I've been working my ass off the past few weeks. Somebody higher up got smart and offered us a bonus to meet their latest deadline. Not a HUGE bonus, but we know we'll have to do the work anyway, so we've been trying. Problem is it's all or nothing. If one of the other functional areas screws it up, we're out the money. Two weeks to go ( Read more... )

( Wedding dress musings. )

Last month I signed up for four super ultimate beginner yoga classes and our first one was tonight. Funny story: my instructor has hyperlordosis AND is hypermobile JUST LIKE ME. "And for you hypermobile people out there, ahem, BEND YOUR KNEES ( Read more... )

( Wedding stuff. )

So, Chris ended up using the Kohl's gift card because they had a sale on the t-shirts and boxers he wears. Whatever. At least it got used. I did tactfully let my mom know that I hate Kohl's so that she won't get me any more gift cards there. In exchange, Chris bought me GROWN UP FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS! Two boxes of them! From Costco! And ( Read more... )

1. Ham on Rye -- Charles Bukowski
2. Life of Pi -- Yann Martel
3. Spying in High Heels -- Gemma Halliday
4. Eat That Frog -- Brian Tracy
5. Killer in High Heels -- Gemma Halliday
6. Undercover in High Heels -- Gemma Halliday
7. Alibi in High Heels -- Gemma Halliday
8. Ellen Foster -- Kaye Gibbons
9. The Last Dragonslayer -- Jasper Fforde
10. The ( Read more... )